Software & Gaming

Planetary Annihilation, the Kickstarter success, is due to be fully released and come out of Early Access next week. The game raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and now just under two years later, we'll get to see the final product. For those of you who aren't familiar with Planetary Annihilation, …

If you picked up a cheap 12GB PS3 just to play Grand Theft Auto V last September then you may find yourself unable to play online soon as Rockstar has warned that GTA Online updates will soon take up all of the space available on the console- forcing users to …

Last night, Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson, was arrested by a SWAT team while live streaming Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The police had received a hoax phone call claiming that Mathewson had shot two co-workers and was holding the rest hostage. The caller also stated that the live streamer would shoot at the …

Once upon a time, protecting your home with security cameras was a pipe dream for the paranoid. It was not just seen as unnecessary, but impractical, ungodly expensive and even if you did set up a network, where would you store the low quality recorded footage? Today, with the advent …

Quake live has received a few divisive changes recently alongside the game's launch on Steam and it looks like they are here to stay as id Software is attempting to bring the game to a wider audience by making it “closer to a modern shooter”. New changes to the game …

After Microsoft Corp. began selling its Xbox One video game system without Kinect, sales of the console increased rather significantly thank to lower price. The software giant naturally does not want to completely give up its motion sensor, so, starting from October it will offer Kinect separately to those, who …

Intel Corp. has introduced what it claims to be the world’s smallest 3G modem. The Intel XMM 6255 is designed for wearables, security devices and industrial equipment as well as the upcoming devices that belong to the Internet-of-Things market. The new modem from Intel supports dual band HSPA with 7.2Mb/s …

Political parties might fight back and forth over the merits of a nationalised healthcare system, but the fact that anyone can get free healthcare in the UK is something quite extraordinary, especially when you look at other parts of the world where even if facilities may be better, access certainly …

Razer is re-branding its Game Booster software and giving it price comparison capabilities. Razer Cortex will compare prices from reputable digital game outlets, such as Steam, Green Man Gaming, GOG and Gamers Gate to show you the cheapest price available. In addition, the software's ‘game booster' section will allow you …

EA's huge catalogue of DLC is expected to rake in $1 billion for the publisher this financial year, company spokesperson, John Reseburg has said. It was also revealed that a large portion of that revenue will supposedly be generated by EA's sports franchises, such as NFL and Fifa. Speaking with …

I think we all knew that Linsey Lohan's attempt to sue Rockstar Games over what she claims is an unlicensed usage of her likeness, was a bit ridiculous and now it seems both the GTA V developer and its publisher Take Two have stated that in court. In papers filed at …

There were some that weren't particularly pleased with Nintendo's recent announcement of the Mercedes Benz DLC for Mario Kart 8, adding several classic cars from the company's history to the roster of available “karts” in the game. However it seems likely that fans will much prefer the next batch of …

Inspur, a leading server maker from China, and IBM have agreed to jointly develop servers featuring IBM software and Power microprocessors. In particular, the two companies ported IBM DB2 and IBM WebSphere application server software to operate on Inspur TSK1 mission-critical servers. “Inspur looks forward to teaming with IBM to …

Bandai Namco's Tekken development team is making a new fighting game based on the Pokemon series for Japanese arcades. The game is called Pokken and there is currently no word on whether or not the game will make its way to the Wii U or 3DS in Japan or the …

In a slightly disappointing turn of events it seems that Ubisoft has imposed a 30 frames per second lock on The Crew beta, which launched today on PC and will end on Friday. Much like Need for Speed Rivals, the frame rate cap can be bumped up to 60 via a …

KitGuru might have a strong and bustling Facebook community – which you should check out if you haven't already – but we must admit, we've been lacking in one key area for a while now: we've had no app for your smartphones. Now though, we do, but not because of …

Huawei is one of the fastest-growing smartphone vendor in the world. Last year the company shipped 52 million smartphones and this year it aims to sell 80 million units. At present the company only sells phones based on Google Android operating system and despite obvious risks the firm has no …

Crystal Dynamics has released a new Rise of the Tomb Raider FAQ on its Tumblr account, aiming to clear up all of the confusion it caused by announcing that the sequel to 2013's Tomb Raider reboot would be coming “holiday 2015 exclusively to Xbox“. We already know that the title …

Zenimax is making an effort to keep current and former Elder Scrolls Online subscribers coming back for more by announcing a loyalty program, which will reward those who continue to subscribe for longer than three months. Starting from September, subs that have stuck around for three months will receive a …

Nintendo made an interesting decision lately, to add Mercedes Benz cars to its Mario Kart 8 racer via a free DLC pack, presumably though some sort of joint promotion. Clearly someone at Ubisoft thought this was dumb, as the official twitter account of the publisher informed the world so, before the message …

Unity Technologies this week said it will add native support for Intel Corp.’s x86 microprocessors and system on chips to its Unity game engine for the Android operating system, which is used by loads of video games. The move will improve performance of games on devices based on Intel’s x86 …

The developer behind The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red, has responded to reports suggesting that the game won't hit the 1080p mark on either the Xbox One or the Playstation 4. Tomasz Tinc, the company's Marketing Manager has explained that there is still a good six months to …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from GTA5. It means you can put all your …

Season 2 of TellTale's Walking Dead series is coming to an end, the fifth and final episode has a release date, along with a new trailer but be warned- it does contain spoilers for season one and earlier episodes of season 2. Last year's Walking Dead Season One game was a …

Are you in need of something to play this weekend? Valve has you covered as Borderlands 2 and Dishonoured are both free on Steam for the next few days. In addition, 2K Games is having a publisher sale, you can pick up Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition at 75 …

It looks like Microsoft might be planning on launching a new promotion, it will reportedly be called “Free Play Day with Gold” and will give Xbox Live Gold subscribers 24 hours of access to selected titles. This yet to be officially announced feature should beef up the perceived value of an …

New reports are suggesting that we could see Windows 9 revealed at the end of September, the OS is supposedly codenamed ‘Threshold' and will hopefully have a smoother launch than Windows 8, which many PC users still refuse to upgrade to, despite the improvements it brings. This news came from The …

Do you happen to have a spare £35,000 to spend on old video games? Then you might want to take a look at this listing currently up on eBay. It might not be quite as big as the largest video game collection in the world, which was sold just a …

The recent Destiny public beta test managed to rake in 4.8 million players, giving Bungie plenty of feedback on things to tweak before the game's full release next month and now, the developer is ready to talk about some of the changes it has been working hard to implement. During an …

Amazon has revealed how the announcements made at Gamescom affected pre-orders, revealing some interesting statistics. Overall, Wii U games rose the most despite Nintendo not holding a major press conference at the event, while one of the biggest games there, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, doesn't even make an appearance on …