Software & Gaming

Just several days ahead of of the PlayStation 4 launch in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that global sales of the PS4 had surpassed 5.3 million units. The new number exceeds the amount of the latest consoles that Sony originally planned to sell during the fiscal year 2014 and underlines …

Developed initially for desktop personal computers, Windows operating system is now used on laptops, tablets, 2-in-1s and smartphones. Microsoft Corp. claims that it will not stop evolving its OS and eventually there will be Windows for ultra-small devices. The OS will be specifically tailored for the best user experience on …

The year of Luigi is officially coming to an end on the 18th of March, giving the green plumber a 397 day long sprint in the spotlight. Luigi starred in a few games this year, including Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Super Luigi U and Mario and Luigi Dream Team. Miyamoto …

Peter Molyneux led studio, 22Cans, upcoming game Godus, is said to feature a new kind of monetization system that “hasn't existed before” in traditional free to play games. Users who play Godus won't have access to the in-game store until they are deemed ready. Molyneux gave a pretty good description …

Microsoft is having an Xbox 360 sale today, with digital games priced down significantly. Almost everything up for grabs is at least two thirds off, with everything from AAA critically lauded titles like Dishonored and Portal 2, to Xbox Live Arcade games like Bastion and Guardians of Middle Earth. Announced …

Nintendo UK has launched a new Youtube channel called Nintendo Girl's Club. It's an “official Nintendo UK YouTube channel made especially for girls,” meaning it features female presenters and content geared specifically for women Nintendo gamers. So far the dominant content on the channel is trailers for upcoming Nintendo games, …

Tizen Association, an industry consortium that supports the development of an open source Tizen software platform and operating system, last week announced that it had been joined by 15 new members. The expansion of the Tizen team will likely speed up its adoption and will make the platform more competitive …

Since King of Kong was released back in 2007 to critical acclaim, retro gaming has seen a bump to its resurgence, but none of those 30+ year old games more than Donkey Kong. While Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe may have gone head to head virtually alone (save for Tim Sczerby), today …

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and founder of Mega.co.nz, has announced his official retirement from online Call of Duty play after reaching 100,000 kills, just beating out fellow high level players by a few thousand. However that doesn't mean Dotcom is done with gaming, he's already gearing up for Titanfall. Announced …

Since Sony's PlayStation 4 was released here back in November last year and even earlier in some parts of the world, it's easy to forget that elsewhere, like Japan, the home country of the console's maker, it's still not out yet. Soon though, that will no longer be the case. …

Galactic Princess is a game we first heard about back in early December. For a game that hadn't launched its Kickstarter, or applied for Greenlighting on Steam, there was a lot of information on it – plenty of screenshots, a video of gameplay action, fleshed out backgrounds for races and …

Former Left 4 Dead developer, Turtle Rock, was mulling over the idea of making its upcoming title, Evolve, a free to play game at one point while still under THQ. The business model was suggested by THQ President, Jason Rubin, but the idea was dropped once 2K purchased the title, that …

The Titanfall beta went live on Friday and after overcoming some early server issues, many players have received beta codes for both the Xbox One and PC but if you were like me and didn't manage to get a code, then there might still be hope as access has opened …

Popular crowd funding site, Kickstarter, was hacked last week and the attackers managed to get away with some of the company's customer data although no payment information was compromised. However, during the breach, some passwords, phone numbers and email addresses were taken. The company was very open and honest about the …

Gamers spent whopping $15.39 billion (£9.1894 billion) on PC and console video games in the U.S. last year, according to a new report from NPD Group, a leading market tracker. Due to changes of the ways people get new content, the overall market grew just 1% annually amid increasing interest …

An executive from Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that the software giant has sold over 200 million Windows 8 licenses in the first 15 months of the operating system’s general availability. While the number is high and is definitely important to Microsoft and its investors, it does not mean that …

You may have noticed that EA released a mobile version of an old but much loved franchise, Dungeon Keeper, a couple of weeks ago. Following the game's release, the publisher instantly felt backlash as the internet ripped the game apart, branding it as a scam and nothing more than a …

The Titanfall beta is live for those of you who were lucky enough to get a beta key but for Xbox One users the game seems to be running at a pretty weird resolution. The Titanfall beta is currently running at 1408×792 or 792p, Respawn has confirmed. Eurogamer was the …

Nintendo has a tough year ahead of it. With low sales of the Wii U over the last twelve months and new competition from the likes of Sony and Microsoft with their new systems, the Japanese console maker is going to have to do something extra special to win over …

Sony executives will be happy to hear this news so early on in the year. According to a report from market advisory group, NPD Group, while overall software sales are a little down for January year on year, Microsoftt and Sony are selling a lot of hardware – though the …

Not really, but you get god powers at least, with the introduction of a new DLC package known as Zeus, that opens up all sorts of backend functions, letting the games master introduce new objectives, throw lightning bolts and just generally swan about with the infinite power of a deity. …

Despite of all the efforts Nvidia Corp. has put into promotion of its Shield video game console introduced at the CES 2013, the system just did not sell well. While the exact number of Shield units sold is unknown, Nvidia admits that it is not high. Still the company claims …

Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 2 remained on the market for 12 long years, a record that was only beaten by Nintendo’s NES and SNES game consoles which were available for 20 and 13 years on the Japanese market, respectively. Sony now claims that its aging PlayStation 3 could also live on …

Last week it was revealed that Resident Evil's famous deaf composer, Mamoru Samuragoch, ‘Japan's Beethoven' isn't actually deaf and it turns out that Capcom may have known about this for some time. Over the last 18 years, Samuragoch has used a ghost writer, a music professor named Takashi Niigaki. The composer was completely …

With the recent news ‘sensation' surrounding the developer of hugely popular casual gaming app, Flappy Bird and how he took it down from the app stores because of multiple claimed reasons, it's no wonder people have been making tribute games. In-fact, as part of “Flappy Jam,” a game jam that …

Valve has added a new feature to its Steam software, that lets you label and group games by tag, making it much easier to find the types of games you want. But it's not limited to genres or other ways we've grouped games before, as these tags are created by …

South Park: The Stick of Truth has had a troubled development life. It was being handled by THQ for some time, but faced delays as that long-time publishing house slowly fell to pieces and then when it was picked up by Ubisoft more delays were announced, pushing it to December …

Evidently the lawyers for Candy Crush Saga developer King, have been a bit bored lately, as they've been allowed to get a bit trigger happy with their trademark infringement claims. First they went after Stoic Games, simply because its latest game, Banner Saga, had the word “saga” in it and …

Microsoft Corp. has mostly concentrated on Xbox video games throughout the last decade or so. While the software giant has continued to advance DirectX, a multimedia application programming interface for PCs, the first party titles from Microsoft Studios have been designed primarily for the Xbox platform. Nonetheless, Microsoft promises that …

Clash of Clans and Hay Day developer, Supercell, decided to let everyone know just how much money its two mobile games made last year, spoiler alert- it's a lot. 2013 scored the Finnish developer $892 million in revenue which has led to work on a new title due to release …