Former Director of Business at Valve, Jason Holtman, has left Microsoft after just six months at the company. Holtman originally left Valve to focus on making Windows a better platform for gaming and interactive media but by the looks of his LinkedIn profile, he has given that up. While at …

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 …

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 …

If you've been paying attention to the MSI UK Facebook page over the last couple of weeks then you might have noticed that a few teasers have been posted for an upcoming ‘Gaming series' product, due t0 release next month. So far very little information is available aside from one …

Flappy Bird has certainly made a name for itself over the last couple of weeks, from its rise to the top of app store charts right until its own creator pulled the plug on his creation, but why exactly did indie developer, Dong Nguyen, decide to take down the app that …

Nokia is set to reveal its low end Android powered smartphone at the Mobile World Congress this month according to the Wall Street Journal. The publication cited sources “familiar with the matter”, the phone is said to be code named the Nokia Normandy and will appear at the Barcelona based …

The hugely popular game streaming platform, Twitch, has produced more peak network traffic in the US than a few of the most popular sites in the world only being beat out by Google, Netflix and Apple. Sites left in Twitch's dust include Hulu, Facebook, Valve/Steam, Amazon and Tumblr. This was …

Batman Arkham Origins developer, Warner Bros Montreal, has announced that it has no plans to further patch the game despite acknowledging that game breaking bugs still exist. What's the team doing instead of fixing the game? Making DLC of course. When the latest Arkham game released, it was riddled with …

In an effort to further hype Bungie's upcoming game Destiny, Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, has announced that he thinks the game will become the “best-selling new video game IP in history.”, during an Activision earnings call on Thursday- which certainly sets the bar pretty high. Activision Publishing CEO, Eric Hirshberg, pointed …

When Dungeon Keeper arrived on mobile devices, many fans of the original games branded it as a micro-transaction greed fest, not many people like the game at all. So you might be wondering, if so many people hate the game, why does it have such a high rating on the …

It looks like HTC is gearing up to join the wearable tech market this year as the Taiwanese phone maker has hinted that it is making its own Android powered Smartwatch, which could compete against the Samsung's Galaxy Gear. During an interview with Bloomberg, company co-founder, Cher Wang, admitted that …

If you were hoping to see some competitive or co-operative multiplayer included in The Order 1886 after seeing the launch trailer, then you're going to be disappointed as Ready At Dawn studio founder, Andrea Pessino, has confirmed that the game will be void of any multiplayer modes. A curious gamer tweeted …

UK retailer, GAME, has announced that it will start converting some of its existing stores in to pre-owned only shops under a new name: ‘Gametronics'. The gaming chain aims to kick off its new brand in Lincoln and Cambridge and if all goes well, it will expand to other cities …

When id Software founder and Doom programmer, John Carmack, originally left his former studio late last year to work on the Oculus Rift, the studio's parent company, Zenimax, merely said that Carmack was interested in “focusing on things other than game development at id.”, but it turns out that there's a …

Free to play multiplayer mech shooter, Hawken,  is moving to the Steam platform, developer, Adhesive Games, has just announced on the company's blog. The existing launcher will move to Valve's platform and Adhesive is hoping that all of the game's current players will make the switch in time for the upcoming …

Ten thousand developers signed up to make apps for Razer's upcoming smartband, ‘Nabu', just 24 hours after it was unveiled at CES last month. Razer is taking a detour from its usual line of gaming peripherals and laptops to create its own piece of wearable tech, it's not just developers …

Nintendo's latest quarterly financial results came in just last week adding to the company's recent string of losses but Sony UK boss, Fergal Gara, feels that if the gaming giant falls it could be “detrimental to the market”. Talking to Trusted Reviews, the Sony executive explained that no other major …

Watch Dogs was set to be one of the most anticipated games to come out last year, unfortunately just a month before its scheduled release, the game was delayed. Since then, there have been a lot of rumours flying around about the state of the game- as you can imagine, Ubisoft …

Apple's long rumoured iWatch could feature solar-powered, wireless or even kinetic based charging if a report from The New York Times is to be believed. Early last year The Verge reported that Apple was apparently having trouble with battery life on the upcoming wearable device, so it is possible that …

It can be hard to find a game for your phone or tablet that doesn't feature micro-transactions these days, the IOS app store does give you clear warning but its usually harder to tell on Google Play without downloading and finding out for yourself. Fortunately, Honest Android Games has arrived …

NeoGAF user ‘Ntkrnl' turned the forum in to a dumping ground for Xbox One rumours last night claiming to have inside information on release dates, upcoming games and even a cheaper but disc less Xbox One console. To make matters interesting, there might be some credit to a few of …

While Google's fourth quarter earnings fell just short of analyst expectations on Thursday, the firm did manage to post strong Nexus 5, Chromecast and Google Play sales. Wall Street expected Google to generate $16.75 billion in revenue,  and while it did manage to surpass that, generating $16.86 billion, share prices …

Tesco Mobile has announced today that the company won't be charging its customers a premium for using the 4G network, which is based of off O2's infrastructure. Tesco used to charge customers £2.50 premium but decided to drop the charge in order to compete with the network, Three, which will …

The Mantle patch for Battlefield 4 has finally arrived along with AMD's accompanying beta driver, in addition to the news, DICE has gone ahead and posted some performance numbers along with details of what system configuration the team was using in order to give users an idea of what they …

The Playstation 4 might get some local backwards compatibility after all, according to Eurogamer, someone working on Sony's upcoming streaming service, Playstation Now, has revealed that while Playstation 3 games will still only work via streaming, Playstation 1 and 2 games are going to be emulated locally on the console. …

Google and Lego have partnered up to release a chrome app that allows users to play with virtual Lego bricks. ‘Build with Chrome' was first unveiled in 2012 as an experiment but now two years later, it is open to everyone and anyone who wants to get a little nostalgic. …

Apple seems to be gearing up for an overhaul of the Apple TV, recent changes to the company's main website would suggest. The set top box device is now being promoted as a full product line alongside Macs, iPods and iPhones when previously, the Apple TV didn't even have its …

When the poor condition but still incredibly rare Nintendo World Championship NES cartridge hit eBay last week, word spread through the Internet quickly and unfortunately for the seller, that resulted in a series of not so serious bids which were swiftly met with retractions: The winning bid totalled in at $99,902, …

After a week or so of speculation we finally have confirmation that gamers will have a chance to beta test Titanfall on both the Xbox One and PC sometime soon. Respawn co-founder, Vince Zampella announced the beta earlier today on Twitter: “I'm sure no one has been able to guess from …

Samsung has officially set a new record as it has been revealed that the manufacturer managed to ship 320 million smartphones throughout last year, the largest ever achieved by a single vendor. Collectively, phone makers managed to sell 990 million smartphones world wide which is a 41 per cent increase …