Tag Archives: games

Valve is set to head to court in Europe once again, after another consumer group announced it was suing the Steam owner for not providing its users the ability to resell games that they had previously purchased. This time though, the group is French and they're annoyed at other things …

Have you ever felt that the endless bundle and impulse buys during sales have left your Steam library cluttered and full of games you are never likely to play? Although organising them into categories can help, some would rather just do away with the games altogether, and now you can, …

Although SSDs have turned some of gaming's loading screens into frustrating exercises in speed reading the quickly shown tips, not every one is quite so snappy. So perhaps it's good that an old Namco Bandai patent is about to run its course, as it might mean that developers decide to …

Two of the most successful schemes ever pushed by console makers have been Microsoft's Games for Gold and Sony's PlayStation Plus. Both give subscribers ‘free' games every month for them to enjoy, meaning that even if you don't buy your own preferences every now and again, there will always be …

With this generation of consoles, Sony and Microsoft increased its emphasis on digital downloads in an attempt to push the industry forward from physical discs. However, despite the fact that digital games are cheaper for publishers to release in the long run, we often see digital copies remaining fairly expensive …

Despite not having quite the visual pedigree of the Unreal Engine or CryEngine series of developmental tools, Unity is a world wide respected piece of software that has been used by millions to create thousands of games. However, according to the company's CEO John Riccitiello, the fact that so many people …

It wasn't that long ago that a long haul flight with a built in headrest TV was quite the luxury. Being able to choose your own film watching schedule during those many hours in a fart filled tube was a real treat, but today with smartphones and tablets with HD …

It's been a long time coming, but Valve has updated the terms of its Steam digital distribution platform to allow gamers to return games they don't want. There are some conditions that must be met: the games can't have been played for more than two hours and they must have been …

With all of the problems AAA games have had in the past six months, it would be easy to remember the past through rose tinted glasses, whereby all of our games worked perfectly. “We didn't need day one patches back in my day,” we say in comment threads and in …

One of the wonderful things about the Steam platform is that it is incredibly open with its statistics, showing how many people are playing different games and how many users are online at all times. This is something that is pretty unique amount digital distribution platforms and it allows us to …

The marketing for all iOS games in the future may be set to become incredibly cutesy, as Apple is said to be rejecting games from the store if they show any sort of guns or violence. Several developers have now had to revise marketing imagery for their games to avoid even …

Peter Molyneux's Curiosity game that had thousands tapping away at big cube for months during 2013 trying desperately to reach the center and the final tap. In the end a young chap from Edinburgh called Bryan Henderson tapped the final block out of existence and was destined to receive the …

When you think of the classic Atari game Asteroids, you might imagine that is about as far from any current MMO as one can go in a spectrum of PC games, but that's not what Atari think. Enter a new title bearing the original games name, Asteroids: Outpost, a PC …

343 Industries have announced in a blog post today that they will soon be giving selected participants within the Xbox One Preview program, a chance to help test the next big update to the Halo: The Master Chief Collection. However this will only be available to Xbox One owners in North America, who have …

Sid Meier is apparently not happy with just going beyond earth and will soon be launching an all out assault on the stars, with 2K and Firaxis announcing their new game, Sid Meier's Starships. Taking to space with a new interstellar strategy game that is set in the same universe as Civilization: Beyond Earth, it should …

Australia has a bit of a history of being sensitive about games. Until not too long ago, the maximum age rating it had for any game was 15, which meant if anything was considered inappropriate for someone in their mid-teens, the game wasn't going on sale. Despite the implementation of …

Although it had a 2012 reboot as a first person shooter, technically it's been nearly two decades since the last ‘proper' Syndicate game was launched back on DOS and the PlayStation. Satellite Reign however looks far more like the original and could easily be considered a spiritual sequel. It's a a real-time, top-down, class-based …

While you should all know that the Steam sale is going to be gracing us on the 18th of December, as Matthew let us know a few hours ago, Valve also has something else in it's Christmas stocking to keep us off the naughty list. Starting this Monday the 15th of December, you will …

Dovetail games has announced its plan to release “Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition” on Steam on 18th December, finally bringing the much loved franchise to Valve's distribution platform, along with some promised DLC next year. Microsoft Flight Simulator X was first released in 2006, and at the time it seemed …

One of the best and worst aspects of the Oculus Rift and virtual reality as a whole at the moment, is that it is quite hit and miss. It's in a very experimental stage of its life, with lots of developers, many of them first timers, all looking to get …

Last year Nintendo reorganized its hardware development teams and now has one big group that conducts R&D operations for both home and portable consoles. While the move greatly strengthens the company’s hardware development organization, the company thinks that eventually it could also unify mobile and home console games, at least …

More than half of all the games ever bought on Steam have only been played for an hour or less. That's according to new stats unearthed by Ars Technica when it did some digging into player profiles, also discovering some other surprising facts about our Steam buying (and playing) habits. …

If you're a maker of applications with in-app purchases, you have the next 60 days to implement a laundry list of changes that are designed to offer the consumer more information about what they're spending their money on and to make it harder for children to ‘accidentally' run up thousands …

Nintendo has previously stated that it won't resort to mobile game production in the wake of continued poor Wii U sales, but it looks like its already done an about turn on that plan. In an (admittedly unconfirmed) report from Niekkei (via Kotaku), Nintendo said it has plans to release …

Valve Software has added experimental support for Oculus Rift and other virtual reality (VR) headsets to Steam digital video game distribution platform. Owners of the VR gear can discover games that support virtual reality helmets in Big Picture VR mode. While at present the support poses interest only to select …

Nintendo held a direct conference today, showing off some new games and updates for the Wii U and 3DS. The stream lasted about 30 minutes showing off trailers for all of the new games announced and some game-play. First up on the agenda were the Wii U announcements, starting off …

If you're one of the few out there that thinks the Xbox One is great, or you're one of the larger group that aren't fans, you have to admit, the ability to share and lend games with your Xbox “family” is a pretty cool feature. Fortunately, it seems Valve did …

Microsoft has announced that it will have 15 exclusive games during the Xbox One's first year, with eight of those being brand new IPs. It's also said that its upcoming E3 presentation, will be all about games and understandably so, as it's apparently going to be spending around a billion …

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 …

If like me you're sat here feeling rather jealous that you can't afford or don't have the connections to get yourself a set of Google's Glass eyewear, you're about to get even more so – as there's potential there for multiplayer gaming via the little device. Ron Amadeo over at …