Software & Gaming

Over the weekend, EA confirmed plans to officially unveil Star Wars Squadrons. Now, the reveal trailer is live and we have proper details on EA Motive's first Star Wars title. As the name suggests, this is a space combat game and will include a single-player campaign as well as multiplayer.  …

Many of you will remember the BloodRayne series from the original Xbox, PS2 and Nintendo GameCube in the early-mid 2000s. The series has remained dormant for quite some time, but that will change soon, as a new publisher has picked up the rights to the series.  Ziggurat Interactive has purchased …

It has been six months since The Witcher landed on Netflix with its first season. Since then, work on season 2 has been well underway and details about the next season have begun trickling out, including confirmation on the fact that the show will streamline the story by doing away …

ASUS has become the latest in a long line of companies to announce a form of noise-cancelling technology. The Taiwanese giant has unveiled noise-cancelling tech for its microphones and said that its “smart mic reduces distracting chatter, keyboard clatter and mouse clicks by up to 95%”. Over the past year, more …

Each year, the State of Online Gaming research report looks into the habits and opinions of those who play video games. Recently, the 2020 edition of the report was released. Of particular note was the fact that over one third (38%) of all those who play video games would want …

Traditionally, when a new console is released, it arrives with an entirely new and updated user interface. Just as the hardware is changed and improved, so too is the software. It would appear however that the Xbox Series X, Microsoft’s upcoming next-gen console will share the same dashboard as that …

Ubisoft is one of the biggest video game companies in the world. With dozens of studios spanning across multiple continents, the publisher is responsible for producing a wide plethora of gaming experiences. In a recent blog update, the publisher announced that it has opened a brand new studio in Vietnam …

Dean Hall is mostly known for his work on the DayZ mod for Arma 2, and the DayZ standalone game. After stepping away from the development of DayZ, Dean Hall founded Rocketwerkz studio, which is now developing a new free-to-play survival game called Icarus. The game was shown to the …

Based on what we know, Cloud Imperium Games has raised roughly $363 million for Star Citizen...

During the Guerilla Collective Showcase, Larian Studios shared the release date window for Baldur's Gate 3 to hit Early Access, alongside a new trailer highlighting some aspects of the game, and a new community update where Swen Vinke provided details on the current state of development. We previously reported that more details …

Late last year, developers at Red Barrels Studio began teasing what was next for the Outlast series, with The Outlast Trials set to be an interesting departure from single-player survival horror and taking things into the multi-player co-op space. Now six months later, Outlast Trials has been properly unveiled with …

Take-Two, Activision and EA reportedly interested in buying...

Persona 4 Golden is now officially available on PC following on from some rumours earlier this week. The enhanced version of Persona 4 originally released for the PlayStation Vita back in 2012 but it is now available on another platform for the first time.  Persona 4 Golden went on to …

From Software didn't just become a fan favourite developer over the last decade, the studio successfully managed to create its own genre, changing ‘action-RPGs' as we know them. This journey started off with Demon's Souls in 2009, utilising the PS3's now outdated hardware. Now in preparation for the PlayStation 5, …

One of the big reveals from Sony's PS5 event earlier this week was Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which had a short announcement trailer. Unfortunately, there was quick confusion, as Sony didn't clarify if this was a sequel, a spin-off, or an expansion to the 2018 Spider-Man game.  On Friday, one Sony …

Back in March, details about a surprise EA Star Wars game began to leak. At the time, we knew this game under the codename ‘Project Maverick' but now, EA has confirmed it, with a reveal for Star Wars: Squadrons set to come in a few days time.  Initially, Squadrons released …

With the upcoming release of the PlayStation 5, one of the headlining features is the console’s SSD which is said to nearly completely remove all loading screens. The hardware capabilities were put to the test in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart at yesterday’s event. Following that it has been confirmed …

When the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X launch later this year, both consoles will have backwards compatibility support for its previous generation of games. Even so, many titles are promising to give some form of upgrade come the next generation – and not just rudimentary support. Now, it’s officially …

The PS5’s recent reveal event featured over two dozen titles coming to the upcoming console after it releases later this year. That being said, while a number of games revealed were PlayStation 5 exclusives, over half of the games shown off have been announced to also be coming to PC …

There's no denying that Sony has done well with the PlayStation 4. From the get go, the console manufacturer opted to focus its greatest attention on games – more specifically console exclusives. Over the last 7 years, this has paid off in spades. Even so, PlayStation has appeared to once …

The release date for the remake of XIII has been set for November 10. Amazon Spain initially leaked the release date that was later confirmed as an official gameplay trailer launched on YouTube. The remake will be available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, and Mac, and a …

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Play testers have an important role in the development of every video game. Generally, these play testers would offer feedback primarily on gameplay aspects and the overall experience. Interestingly however, for the upcoming PlayStation exclusive, The Last of Us Part II, Naughty Dog filmed and analysed the facial reactions of …

While Halo: Reach arrived on the Master Chief Collection with its Firefight mode present, the same can't be said for Halo 3: ODST, which only arrived as campaign DLC for the collection a couple of years ago. That is finally changing in the next few months, with the MCC version …

Thursday has quickly become GeForce Now update day, with Nvidia announcing new games coming to its cloud servers each week. We don't just have new games this week though, there is also an update on GeForce Now Founder's memberships in Europe and a few other platform-related tidbits. A while back, …

We are still a few hours away from Sony's first PS5 games reveal event but it looks like we already have some pretty big hints at what's to come. We already heard rumours that Horizon Zero Dawn 2 was set to be announced, but thanks to some additional teasing from …

A few weeks ago, the upcoming free titles offered by the Epic Games Store on a weekly basis was leaked. Last week’s offering was said to be Ark: Survival Evolved, however the game on offer was in fact Overcooked! Now, one week later than expected, Ark: Survival Evolved has been …

In just over a month, we'll be getting our first official look at Sony's first-party Decima Engine running on PC thanks to the release of Death Stranding. The engine produced incredible graphics on PS4 consoles and now we know what sort of hardware it is going to take too produce …

ASUS' new ZenWiFi AX Mini is designed to bring faster speeds and better coverage for your home Wi-Fi network. This trio networking devices from ASUS are capable of streaming 8K video and can cover an area of 4800 square feet (ca. 446 square metres). The ZenWiFi AX Mini system consists …

Usually Google releases each new iteration of the Android operating system at the annual Google I/O. However, this year Google I/O was completely scrapped and after a couple of delays, Android 11 has finally been released, albeit in the form of a developer preview. That means, so far, Android 11 is …