Software & Gaming

Over the last year or so, Starbreeze has been in a rough financial position, leading to the loss of The Walking Dead video game license, a publisher restructuring and the dropping of StarVR. Prior to this, Payday 2 development had officially ended, but Overkill will be returning to the co-op …

Obsidian’s return to modern, first-person RPGs seems to be off to a good start with The Outer Worlds garnering plenty of positive reviews this week. Unfortunately, it isn’t all great news. While this seems to be one of the least buggy Obsidian game launches to date, the game is a …

Back in June, around the time of E3, Google held a Stadia Connect event where it revealed the “Stadia Founder’s Edition”. It was announced that this founder’s pack would be in limited supply, and it seems like it has now been sold out. If you only preordered it recently however, …

Earlier this week, Nvidia began rolling out a new GeForce driver with optimisations for this weekend's big game releases- The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, those equipped with a Radeon GPU also have a day-one driver available to install, which should grant some notable performance boosts. …

2K’s latest entry in the WWE franchise is being review bombed by fans after claims that the game launched in a buggy and unfinished state. Amid all these complaints, PlayStation has reportedly been issuing refunds to those who request it on their digital store, a move which is uncommon for …

Twitch’s second biggest streamer, Shroud, announced yesterday that he was moving to Mixer. The streamer has left his 7 million followers on Twitch, to pursue his next chapter on Microsoft’s streaming platform. This comes just 3 months after Ninja left Twitch for the same reason. Announcing the move on Twitter, …

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launching today, you might have noticed that one of its core new features is missing – namely, night maps. Infinity Ward have removed all the night time maps from rotation temporarily for the sake of cohesion and will be adding them back, in a …

Update (25.10.19): Naughty Dog has now confirmed that The Last of Us Part II has been delayed. While the February release date was announced just four weeks ago, the developer team has since realised that there is more work left to do than initially anticipated. As a result, the game …

Ever since the poor launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Ubisoft has been turning a new leaf by giving developers more time and remaining open to game delays. Today, Ubisoft held its quarterly earnings report, going over how The Division 2 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint under-performed and reassessing the release dates …

Suda51 and Swery65 announced yesterday that they would be collaborating on an indie horror game, titled “Hotel Barcelona”. Hosted by IGN Japan, the livestream provided a list of details, as well as a few memorable moments. The livestream, which lasted approximately 2 and a half hours, revealed to fans the …

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the popularity of Fortnite. The third person Battle Royale phenomenon recently sucked its entire world into a black hole at the conclusion of season X, and was consequently watched by over 7 million people across Twitch, Twitter, and Youtube. On the 13th …

Over the years, we have seen an increasing number of large video game publishers taking legal action against cheat makers for harming the integrity of an online multiplayer game. Recently, the BBC released a video interviewing a masked teenager who claims to have developed cheats for Rainbow Six Siege. Now, …

The Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent acquired a 51.2% stake of the consortium that has major control over Supercell, the Finnish studio behind Clash Royale and Clash of Clans. The Chinese giant Tencent has been on a buying spree for a long time. In the gaming industry only, companies like Riot …

A lot of the executives at Microsoft have spent many years working their way up. Mike Ybarra for instance had a storied, two-decade career on the Xbox team, helping to deliver games across multiple IP, while also taking lead on Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass and Mixer. After 20 years …

It has been almost ten years since Left 4 Dead 2 first came out but the franchise continues to be popular despite a lack of newer releases. Now, Left 4 Dead 2 is enjoying some renewed time in the spotlight, as a Dying Light crossover event is on the way. …

Superdata's worldwide digital games market report for September has released, and with it some new games on the top-grossing titles. But there was something unexpected: Fortnite had its worst month since November 2017. Just before the epic finale of Fortnite's season 10, and the release of “Chapter 2”, Fortnite had …

Despite being absent from the platform since 2011, when it launched its own store and launcher, it seems like EA might be gearing up to return to Steam, removing the exclusivity of its IP from its own EA Origin store, if rumours and recent discoveries are to be believed. Twitter …

In the run up to the release of the much anticipated PlayStation exclusive ‘Death Stranding’, PlayStation UK is hosting “The Death Stranding Experience” in London, giving fans the opportunity to meet the game’s creator, Hideo Kojima, and learn more about the game. Occurring during the lead up to and release of …

Last year, Microsoft began rapidly expanding its number of first-party studios, with Ninja Theory being one of the biggest and most surprising acquisitions. Ninja Theory has a bunch of different projects going on at the moment, one of which is ‘Bleeding Edge’, a brand new multiplayer PvP game. Xbox Insider …

While Google's initial Stadia cloud gaming pitch made grand promises of playing on any screen at any time with minimal fuss, the reality is that there will be some restrictions at launch. Those that forked out the money for a Stadia wireless controller for instance will need to use a …

Samsung Galaxy S10 users in the UK may find themselves unable to log in to their banking apps using the phone's fingerprint scanner for a while. This week, some UK banks began disabling the feature in their apps due to an issue with the fingerprint sensor, leading to false-positive readings.  …

BioWare has kept SWTOR running strong for eight years now, with content updates and story-focused expansions bringing players back periodically. This week, the MMO’s next big story expansion has launched, with ‘Onslaught’ bumping the level cap up to 75 and adding a new story that will send you on a …

Despite controversies and poor critical reception, there is still a rather large group of dedicated players remaining active on Fallout 76. With some big content updates regenerating interest in the game, Bethesda appears to be looking to capitalise with a monthly/yearly subscription service that grants in-game benefits, access to private …

It seems like the ‘Epic Games Store vs Steam' debate isn’t going away any time soon. With that in mind, the senior level designer at MachineGames, Kristoffer Kindh, has provided his perspective on the matter, claiming that “people don’t really appreciate it (the competition)”. Speaking to PCGamesN, the Wolfenstein developer …

Back in May, Microsoft revamped the Xbox Game Bar with a new UI, Spotify integration, and social and streaming features. Now, to complement the overlay, Microsoft's dropping the October 2019 Xbox Game Bar Update adding a customisable performance monitor and achievement tracking tools. These features were added based on the Xbox and Windows …

The Pokémon Go team announced yesterday on their blog that the PvP element of Pokémon Go would be evolving in 2020. Dubbed ‘GO Battle League’, the new feature will build upon the already pre-existing Trainer Battles, creating a league which will require certain conditions to enter and compete. One of the …

Google has begun to enforce its rules regarding donation buttons in apps, and the specificities surrounding them. Until now, Google has been relatively laissez-faire with regards to its rules on donation buttons. While the terms and conditions for developers has always stated that in order to include a donation button in its …

THQ Nordic announced yesterday that it was expanding its operations to the Japanese market. The subsidiary, THQ Nordic Japan KK, will be responsible for distribution, PR and marketing of both THQ Nordic, and HandyGames’ line up of video game experiences in the Japanese market. This makes the newly founded entity …

We have two major game launches heading our way this Friday. Not only is Obsidian returning to first-person, New Vegas style RPGs with The Outer Worlds, but Infinity Ward is back in the saddle with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.  Both games are coming on the 25th of October and …

Less than two weeks ago, Steam announced that players would be able to force couch co-op games to work online through a feature it called “Remote Play Together”. The feature is now available to all in beta form. Announced in a blog post, Steam has detailed the exact specifics of …