Software & Gaming

The are plenty of ways to measure value in a given market – and each industry has its own quirks – but two offers landed in the KitGuru spam-sack this morning that, side-by-side, gave us pause. Even with the constant improvements to hard drive production cost efficiency, does this pairing …

We have given away around 70 codes in the last month for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for Crysis 3 and BioShock Infinite, meaning you can …

I should have done a news story when this launched, but they always come at such unsociable hours for us Brits. Yes, a new Humble Bundle is out there for you to pay what you want for and it's all based around Double Fine, that Tim Schafer helmed ship of …

Kim Dotcom's Mega has been a big news item for us tech journos in the past year. We've got to bring up his legal issues and the relaunching of a cloud platform backed by the internet mogul, speculating whether it would last with his extradition still up in the air. …

We hear about game licensing quite often with certain titles. The Fifa games have the license to use real player names, the Gran Turismo games (among others) can use the real names and likenesses of cars and so on. One you don't often think about though, is the licensing deals FPS developers …

Scientists in Nottingham have been working with i-BiT, a research project who want to target lazy eye with video games and specially created 3D Glasses. Sony have given the project their backing and will adapt some key Playstation 3 titles. Lazy eye (or amblyopia) is a problem for many keys …

Windows 8 has been the operating system to split opinion. While many people hate the interface changes, there are a select audience who claim it was a good move forward for Microsoft. Sadly sales figures have verified the poor response from the end user and the operating system has failed …

Remember Windows ME? Windows Vista? Windows 8? Microsoft would rather you didn't and to help brush your memory of the last one further under the mat, it's already planning the release of the sequel. It's called Windows Blue and it's coming later this year. It's not a complete overhaul like you might …

Disney, the new owners of the Star Wars franchise, has already farmed out the license for video game development to a new company and guess who it is? Everyone's favourite always-on publisher, Electronic Arts! Hurray… right? This license is pretty all encompassing too, giving EA the right to develop games across …

One of the biggest features showcased by Sony during its PS4 unveiling earlier this year, was the share button. It's on the controllers themselves and lets you instantly share footage of your gameplay with the world. This could be pre-recorded action, live let's-plays, or just a simple linkup with friends …

Ever downloaded an app that didn't work? Paid for a streaming movie that kept getting stuck? Couldn't get a new song to play on your phone? Well soon you'll be legally entitled to a refund thanks to an update of the consumer bill of rights. As it stands, there are …

While the Netherlands is known for a lot of things: waterways, windmills, clogs and some sort of plant material, it's not often that it makes a splash in the realm of internet security. However the Dutch government is keen to rectify that, with the potential implementation of a law that …

For a lot of people out there, Dead Island won't mean anything. For the games industry though, its launch was one of the more protracted in the market. While not exactly in the same league as Duke Nukem, there was a definite 5 year gap between Dead Island's E3 announcement …

US government officials could be the next poster boys and girls for the Samsung Galaxy S4, after the Pentagon gave the nod of approval for its Knox security software – meaning the S4 handset will soon be getting access to some of the world's most secretive information. Approval from the …

Yesterday we reported on how once again, ASDA was leading the way in Wii U price cuts,bringing it down to an impressively low £149.99 for the basic pack and £199.99 for the premium pack. Now everyone else has followed suit, with other big retailers dropping their prices in line with …

Google has hired a veteran of the videogame industry, Noah Falstein, to head up its Game Design division, presumably to work on a new Android title/platform/series – maybe even something that will run on Google Glass headwear. Falstein has been in games design since the 80s, becoming one of the …

If, like me you get sick reading about how computer games make us ‘more violent', then positive research completed by the University of Iowa will be a welcome change. They have proved that playing games will slow down the decline of cognitive skills as we get older. As we get …

ASDA has announced new price cuts for Wii U hardware and accessories, bringing the basic and premium packs down to £149.99 and £199.99 respectively. Controllers are also slashed by a third, bringing them to just over £26 and several games have been reduced too. This price drop makes ASDA the cheapest place …

Remember Peter Molyneux's high concept social game? Curosity? You know the one with all the cubes? Well when it was launched, there was a big furore over what was at the centre of the cube. Molyneux said it would be life changing and for a while, a lot of sites …

Yesterday we reported on how the anti-cheat, esports organisation, ESEA, had somehow managed to setup GPU bitcoin mining processes alongside its server software. Initially they blamed a server restart for implementing what they claimed was an “April fools” gag, but now they're pointing the finger at an unnamed employee. The …

As our recent research has highlighted, Windows 8 is still proving very unpopular with the enthusiast audience. Our last poll for instance showed a 82% result in favour of Windows 7. The Kitguru audience however are generally more experienced, knowledgeable people, well above the average punter walking into PCworld in …

LoveFilm, a former Amazon company was bought up by the retail giant once again after it started doing very well in the DVD rental game. Today though it's all about online streaming, and in that department (especially on the PS3) LoveFilm just wasn't as fancy as its main competitor, Netflix. …

Star Citizen, the biggest gaming crowd funding success story, has now tipped the scales at over $9 million (£5.8 million). However only a small portion of that came from Kickstarter, the rest has slowly ticked up on the official site, half making you wonder if Kickstarter is even necessary any …

The ESEA server client is designed to prevent cheaters, hackers and griefers in competitive online games like Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2. However recently it was discovered that for the past couple of weeks, the software had actually been home to a Bitcoin mining piece of malware too. The …

I imagine most of us play shooters with the keyboard in-front of us, slightly over to the left perhaps, whilst the right hand sits on top of the mouse and we're two to three feet from the screen we're staring intently at. Apparently that's not a method everone enjoys though. This image …

Let's crank out the rumour mill on this Tuesday morning, because it's time to speculate on the next-gen. According to some reliable sources over at Kotaku, the next-generation Xbox console from Microsoft, is as much as six months behind in its development cycle. On top of that, a handful of …

Most people would agree at this point, that piracy doesn't equal stealing. We also know, that packaging your game up with DRM doesn't really stop piracy. What serves far better, is reminding gamers that by not paying for a game you make it harder for the developers (especially the smaller …

According to reports circulating online, Tesco have leaked a report on the next Call of Duty Game. The game is expected to be called ‘Call Of Duty: Ghosts', information leaked earlier by Tesco. The latest report says that the upcoming COD title will be ‘powered by a new next generation …

Spain have issued a news report to say that they have arrested a Dutch citizen. The authorities say that the suspect may have launched the biggest cyberattack from a bunker, and that he had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country. The hacker apparently traveled in …

Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of security firm Kaspersky lab has spoken out to say that all businesses are victims or cyber attacks ‘whether they know it or not'. Kaspersky made a speech at the Infosecurity Europe 2013 conference in London. He said that organisations should be doing everything they can …