Software & Gaming

We've heard a lot of game developers attack Microsoft's game update policies in the past few years, with indie developers lining up alongside the big developers to do so. They've trashed the long Q&A process and the fees involved and Wargaming.net is no different. However, it's also said that it's …

Apple's developer website which was down for quite some time last week, may have been hacked according to the latest reports to surface. Apple have released the information in an email to registered developers saying that sensitive emails, physical addresses and names may have been compromised. Apple took down the …

After years of worms and trojans acting as the pervading forms of PC malware, evidence suggests viruses are making a comeback. Recent research from TuneUp has shown just how severely viruses can affect the performance of PC speeds, with infected devices taking up to nine times as long to perform …

While it's been a few weeks now since The War Z, changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories (ISS), because of a confliction with the upcoming movie, World War Z adapted from Max Brooks' novel, that doesn't mean the drama over that buggy, ban happy, pay-to-win game is over with. …

Valve's item system for Team Fortress 2 has been a resounding success, but it's seen an unscrupulous few, idle in games simply to get their hands on new ones. No longer though, as Valve has updated the game, meaning you have to be actively playing in order to receive the …

The internet might often be considered a hateful place but there's a lot of love there too. It loves babies doing dumb things, cats and Joss Whedon's Firefly series. Unfortunately, the space-faring TV show only ran for one season and one feature length movie, with fans left with nothing to …

Whatsapp, one of the world's most popular communication platform – the owners even claim it has more messages and regular users than Twitter – has announced it is finally going free on iOS – at least for the first year. After that, you'll need to cough up the princely sum …

Google have updated their MAPS application for iOS just after they the company updated it for Android. The latest version of Google Maps for iOS now includes almost all the features that Android using have been enjoying for a week. The new iOS version can be downloaded now and it …

While it's still got a way to go to topple the current player-numbers king of MOBAs, League of Legends, with its 30 million or so monthly players, DotA 2 had a big upsurge in the wake of its official release, seeing a new record of four million monthly total players …

League of Legends pro team, Evil Geniuses, has announced a big changeup in its roster of players, after finding itself at the bottom of the rankings in this current season's Championship Series, a far fall from the lofty heights of one of the world's best teams last year. The first …

Microsoft's chief product officer for the Xbox One, Marc Whitten, has spoken out in an interview with IGN, about how he feels Microsoft failed to communicate the real message of its next-gen console and that that's the reason for the flip-flopping behaviour of the company. ““I think it’s pretty simple. …

For those that don't know, Nintendo attempted to ban all streams of its console brawler, Super Smash Bros Melee, from the latest EVO fighting games tournament. It's a good thing it went back on that pledge however, because it became the biggest stream that the competition has ever had. In …

Have you ever wanted to visit the American colonies but found yourself restricted to a short term stay? Fancy staying for as much as five years at a time? Well now you can, as long as you get good enough to be considered a professional League of Legends player, as …

Rumour has it that Microsoft may be planning a hardware upgrade for the Xbox one, to compete better against the more powerful Sony Playstation 4. An anonymous source spoke to The Examiner and it would appear that Microsoft may be looking to increase the Xbox One processor speed. The processor …

We all know companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and others, have been sharing information with the authorities in the US for quite some time, but now it's come to light that Microsoft even allowed the NSA to record video conversations people were having using the VOIP service, Skype. This …

ARMA I, II and III, developer Bohemia Interactive, has announced that its website was hit by hackers and that some personal information may have been copied out from its user database. As a safety precaution, it has announced that all passwords will be reset. “We have unfortunately discovered that an …

League of Legends is a popular game in its own right, but it's also a flagship competitive esports title and that means the best teams in the world get a lot of support. To help improve that, Riot Games has now introduced team badges for average Joes, meaning you and …

All our polls show the opposite, but PC World and Currys are predicting that the Microsoft Xbox One will be the UK's best selling tech gift at Christmas this year. DSG, the parent group of both PC World and Currys were accurate with their predictions last year. They said that …

Poor Hideo, he's all excited about the release of the Metal Gear Solid Legacy edition (his legacy, if you think about it) and then he goes and watches the trailer for Rockstar's next instalment in the GTA series and it looked so good it got him all depressed. “GTA V” …

While it's less of a hot topic now than it was a couple of weeks ago, the NSA's PRISM scheme (and to a lesser extent, the UK's Tempora) freaked people out. Cloud providers in the US and UK saw their business fleeing to more privacy protected Europe and articles have …

The new Splinter Cell BlackList is due to be released on the 23rd Of August 2013 in the United Kingdom and Kitguru has partnered up with NVIDIA to give away not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but 5 game codes to lucky Kitguru readers! NVIDIA announced it is …

With all that focus on the Xbox One's connectivity and features recently, it's not surprising that Sony is playing a bit of “look-at-me,” right now. However, this newly announced feature should capture gamers' imaginations, since it's one of the ones that Microsoft initially promised but then withdrew – playing your …

Instaburst, a small team of not-for-profit developers, has announced that it's producing a League of Legends inspired fighting game, known as League of Fighters. It's designed to pit characters from the MOBA title against one another in a 2D beat 'em up – and there's a new trailer out to …

Remember when Microsoft announced all those features earlier this year for the Xbox One? TV viewing, cloud saves, cloud computing, game lending, family sharing – and a little thing called every-24-hour activations? Of course you do, because you screamed in the software giant's face to have it ditch all of …

Sony has updated both its Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the image below and text that reads, “When World's Collide.” Much speculation and guessing has taken place in the hours since its release, but what do you guys think? Some have pointed to a similar looking image in the PS3 …

No this isn't some car-boot sale where someone just got lucky with some carts, but a genuine company rights purchase of over 300 different Amiga games, which could see some of the systems' classics being re-released to a contemporary audience. The company with the now impressive library, is Writers' Group …

While there have been a lot of relatively unbelievable stories about United States federal authorities as of late, with the revelation of PRISM's tech privacy destroying policies, today we have a similarly ridiculous tale to tell, though this time it's more about costing the tax payer money than it is …

You know what's great for making it obvious how silly the whole console wars thing is? Singing about it, like we're gangs from some sort of camp street war – and that's exactly what the guys at AVbyte have done. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_xHueP7bQ0′] They catch a lot of the different arguments …

Hey man, you looking for some cheap games? You are? That's good man, that's real good. You come to the right place, or at least, you will have once you head over to Green Man Gaming, which for the next day or so, is offering all of its previous 666 …

League of Legends is exploding in the world of esports. In just a few short years, it's easily eclipsed its Warcraft III map inspiration and has become not only the most popular esports title, but one of the highest earning games for professional players the world over. Unfortunately though, when …