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We're all a bit jaded on Alien games at the moment, I understand that. Aliens: Colonial Marines was such a colossal disappointment, it's either stupidity or bravery that has Creative Assembly taking that horse away from Gearbox and clambering back on it this soon after release. Which is perhaps why …

British nerd rapper Dan Bull has always been a fan of file lockers. Sites like Megaupload helped him distribute his first album – until it was taken down in early 2012. Fortunately for him and for the rest of us, Kim Dotcom went on to launch Mega, a similar cloud …

After trying one for the second time at the i50 LAN festival recently, I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an Oculus Rift. Powering my way through the relatively short adjustment period, I've come out the other side Rifting my way into alienation from my wife and I've …

At the VGX awards ceremony over the weekend, footage was shown from an upcoming game being developed by a small team over at Hello Games and it completely stole the show. It's a procedurally generated, open sandbox title that features hundreds of planets, suns and solar systems, giving the player …

Continuing its refresh of the 7 series generation of GPUs, AMD (and specifically Sapphire) has unveiled another, this time switching out the 7790 OC for its fresh faced alternative, the R7 260X. Performance is likely to be mostly comparable as it was in our reference review, but the cooler has …

This week 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 funny Facebook comment thread and place a caption to a scene from Call Of Duty GHOSTS on the PC. It means …

Sony is sending out emails to users across the world recommending that they change their passwords. Two members of staff at The Verge received these warning emails, which included the following statement from Sony: “The Sony Entertainment Network team routinely monitors for any irregular activity, and if such activity is …

Last week we put out an article on the Xbox One day one edition boxes being sold for as much as the console on eBay but this week's story definitely takes the cake. A 19 year old from Nottingham has paid £450 for a badly printed photo of a day …

The overreaching of the US government's domestic and international spy programs continues to be theorised in the latest revelations from Kim Dotcom's extradition trial, with the Megaupload founder and expert witnesses suggesting that the FBI may have used a fake mobile phone tower to record his phone calls, as late …

When Valve announced the Steam Machines earlier this year, I think a lot of people were expecting console sized PC boxes similar to Valve's prototype. While this was true for the first Steam Machine to be revealed, the London based company Piixl has come up with something quite different. You …

Digital downloads will be a huge part of console gaming this generation but Electronic Arts CFO, Blake Jorgensen, doesn't see EA going all digital any time soon. There is a good reason for this though: digital makes up less than 30% of the publisher's sales. During the Credit Suisse 2013 …

Whenever talk of the Oculus Rift comes up, you often hear about people converting already popular games over to it, like Mirror's Edge, or Skyrim or one of the F1 racing titles. Either that, or one of the very popular, rollercoaster demos that hit earlier this year. What I've found …

Despite the fact that it only announced an expansion of the Canadian based Victoria development studio last year, Microsoft has announced that it'll be shuttering it. While a large expansion was announced and planned in 2012, ultimately growth wasn't quite as high as expected, though this will still leave around …

As bitcoin continues its latest struggle to decide if it wants to be worth more than a thousand dollars or not, companies around the world continue to accept it. Now, you can buy games for your little Android Ouya console using the digital currency through the Ouya store, just like …

We covered Terrible Things a while back, a humiliating and abominable game that looks as much to play as it is to deride, but unfortunately due to problems with its name it's not going to make it to people for Christmas. Something that looks like it might though, is Deck …

We all had a good laugh and a think about Amazon's recent announcement that it was working on drone delivery to help reduce the time some products get to your doorstep and giggled again when Waterstones jokingly said that it would start delivering books via owl. However this might not …

Battlefield 4 is in pretty bad shape right now and it seems that there are so many issues that DICE needs to put a stop to all other projects including future games and expansions to finally fix Battlefield 4 once and for all. EA gave the following statement announcing DICE's …

If you'd said a decade ago that there would be not only gamers like Fatal1ty making the big bucks by being a professional at it, but that teams of people would be able to do it for a living too – some pulling in as much as a million a …

Hewlett Packard has announced that the new year will see another large number of its UK employees let go from the company. In total as many as 1,124 will be made redundant by the end of March 2014. According to union leaders (via the Guardian), the unlucky number will be …

Today we close our Phanteks competition, and boy did we have a ton of entries for this one, around 8,000 people wanted this case, badly! We were one of the first publications in the world to review the Phanteks Enthoo Primo chassis – way back in August 2013. It earned …

If you didn't know I'm sorry to break the news to you, but the next Gran Turismo game is going to have micro-transactions. That's right if you want to you can play the game as usual and earn your way to the newer cars, or you can just pay to …

Our PCWORLD £250 gift voucher competition was popular – we had many thousands of entries from readers wanting a chance to buy some tasty new goodies before Christmas. buy autocad online Sadly we can only pick one winner – and the prize goes to reader Nelia Freitas from Norfolk in …

While the Humble Bundle seems a little less special these days, due to its increased frequency, the Humble Weekly Sale and the constantly open and selling Humble Store, that doesn't mean that a new bundle isn't cause for celebration, especially when it's packed with as much cooperative action as this …

Two days ago, KitGuru Lab staff cast their eyes over a photo of a brand new product. It looked amazing and seemed to offer a level of flexibility in LN2 cooling that you don't often see. That product is the EK-SF3D Critical Point. We have been lucky enough to get …

The Xbox One has been out for a couple of weeks now meaning that players and Indie developers alike have the console in their hands. One of the things Microsoft did to try and win gamers over was announce its self publishing program for Indie developers and today, Chris Charla, Director …

A few weeks ago we posted an article on the Nokia VS HTC Patent case but yesterday it took a turn for the worse with the HTC One Mini being banned in the UK. This led to the HTC One successor being discussed in court. In the official ruling, Judge Richard …

This week we are running another little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a caption to a scene from Assassins Creed BlackFlag on the PC. It means you …

Are any of you guys looking for a 4K display? You might want to wait a while because Dell is about to bring the price of 4K down again with its new monitors. The Ultra HD resolution has been pushed hard this year with prices coming down from $35,000 to …

Anti-malware firm, Kapersky Labs, has released some new data on a survey it conducted that suggests the average user that is hit by an encryption scam malware attack, will face losing around £255 worth of media – and that's if they don'y pay. If they did, it could end up …

Big data is often a topic of conversation in the tech world these days, especially in enterprise forums, but standard data can be just as exciting, if not beautiful in the right context. Take for example Martin Robertson's method of using website links to create these stunning formations. These images …