Software & Gaming

While you may not be able to legally play Pokémon games on your PC, soon you’ll be able to explore one of the biggest and newest features from the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield. Unveiled by Famitsu, “Pokémon Wild Area Search” is an upcoming, limited time web app that will …

There has been more fallout from the ‘blitzchung’ Hearthstone saga. An American University collegiate Hearthstone team has received a belated suspension after holding up a banner in support to the Hong Kong democracy protests and fellow Hearthstone player ‘blitzchung’. The banner held up by the US Hearthstone collegiate team during the …

There's another battle royale game besides Fortnite starting a new season, as PUBG is getting ready to drop its 5.1 Update, currently live on the test server. With PUBG's fourth season ending, the beginning of a new one comes. PUBG Season 5 starts later this month together with the new …

Earlier today, Riot held a special anniversary stream, celebrating 10 years since League of Legends launched. The livestream contained news on many new projects Riot is currently working on. Of the long list of announcements, three stood out: Arcane, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and a mysterious Project L. League …

Only a week ago, Blizzard announced a special event to mark the launch of Overwatch Legendary Edition on the Nintendo Switch, which was due to take place today. However, the event has been cancelled in the wake of the Hong Kong democracy protests. A launch event to celebrate the release …

Missed Google's big event yesterday? Here's everything that was announced

After Fortnite's “The End” event, the game greeted players who logged in with a black hole, but after a day and a half, the game has gone live with a new chapter and season. Fortnite has proved immensely popular since its launch, two years ago. One of those reasons has …

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that microtransactions won’t be present in its upcoming RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. Instead, the developer has opted to continue the DLC strategy it used with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Recently at PAX Australia, where over an hour of Cyberpunk 2077 footage was being shown off, …

According to an official statement from Infinity Ward, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will not include loot boxes or a supply drop system on launch. Although it wasn’t confirmed that loot boxes are out of the game for good. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Art Direct published a statement on …

Back in August, Nvidia announced it would be launching GeForce Now on Android mobile devices. That rollout has now started. However, users in South Korea are the only ones able to install GeForce Now on Android, but the app should be coming to other regions soon. GeForce Now is a …

Apex Legends is about to get a big update which will include an improved training mode where players can test out all the weapons and other gear to tailor their Battle Royale Skills. Respawn says the update will be coming soon. It can be a daunting prospect jumping into a …

Registration for the first stage of Microsoft Flight Simulator testing is due to end this week, with the Alpha versions of the sim being available in two stages between 24th October until the end of November. Alpha testing is due to commence on 24th October, with a further round of …

Fortnite season 10 ended last night with a bang quite literally, the whole map was gobbled up by a Black Hole with the game’s servers going down soon after, leaving Fortnite players thinking the world has ended. The huge ending to Fortnite season 10 went down yesterday and marked a …

Nvidia Lightspeed Studios is planning to remaster more classic PC game titles from the past decades with ray-tracing effects, after the Quake II RTX-enabled makeover they did earlier this year was a success. According to a new job listing by Nvidia Lightspeed Studios, which was picked up by DSOGaming , …

An apparent leak by Apple seem to suggest Fortnite “Chapter 2” could be on its way. However, the game's developer is yet to confirm the release date of season 11 for the popular Battle Royal shooter. A leak from Apple’s Italian App Store suggests some huge changes to the battle …

Call of Duty Mobile has had the most popular mobile game launch in history, with over 100 million downloads of the game taking place in the first week after launch, beating huge titles such as Fortnite and PUBG Mobile. According to mobile app analytics experts Sensor Tower, Call of Duty …

An update for DOTA 2 has been released centred around improving the matchmaking system and focusing on fixing issues that arose from the previous patch, which was released in September. DOTA 2 developer Valve understands that some players have been experiencing a significant drop in the quality of matchmaking. As …

League of Legends developer, Riot Games is planning birthday celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the game, with a “digital event”, in-person activities at regional Riot offices and a special edition of Riot Pls that will be streamed live. The 10th anniversary of League of Legends will soon be …

Even though none of AMD's current generation of graphics cards officially support Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR), according to recent reports, it seems AMD has been putting code in its GPU drivers since July this year. As reported by PCGamesN, recent images from AMD’s China partner summit event, which were shared …

A man from Washington DC has been charged with breaking into Valve’s offices and walking away with over $40,000 worth of stolen goods in a wheelie bin, including games and equipment. As reported by Washington news station KIRO 7, a man named by Washington detectives as 32-year-old Shawn Shaputi, broke …

After the surprise announcement last week that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be coming to PC sooner than some might have thought, Rockstar Games has now announced the minimum and recommended systems that will be required to play the game on PC. Not long after that, the pre-order system went live on the Rockstar Games Launcher.

Google has claimed that its upcoming game streaming platform Stadia, will be faster and more responsive than local gaming hardware within a “year or two” after launch. According to the Vice President of engineering, Madj Bakar, Google believes its Stadia gaming platform will be faster than traditional gaming systems of …

Atari’s new VCS console project may be in trouble after its lead architect and former Xbox team member quits his role at the company, claiming non-payment of invoices to be the issue. The crowdfunded Atari VCS console was supposed to be launched in June, that date was delayed and the …

Activision has revealed detailed PC minimum and recommended requirements for the upcoming Modern Warfare reboot, along with discussing what’s to come in the returning co-operative Special Ops game mode. PC system requirements for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been revealed on Blizzard’s Battle.net website. Both the …

As part of its Battlefest celebrations, EA will be hosting a series of Free Weekend Trials of its popular WWII shooter. Gamers who have been curious to try out Battlefield V will get the chance to jump in on the action for a few days at a time for free! …

Microsoft recently released a cumulative update to Windows 10 to address problems with printing caused by the previous update. However, it seems that has not quite gone to plan with users reporting that something else has broken. It looks like Microsoft has its work cut out with many recent updates …

In an update released yesterday, Microsoft has changed the intensity of flashbangs in Gears 5 following player feedback. An additional update will make further changes later this month. Announced as part of Microsoft's ‘Whats Up' update for Gears 5, as reported by GameSpot, Microsoft said community feedback around flashbangs is …

Back in June we got the news that id Software would be releasing Doom Eternal, the sequel to 2016's Doom, on November 22. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case as the company has taken to Twitter to release a statement pushing back the release date until 2020. Despite being …

Console gaming fans will be happy to hear that Sony has confirmed in an official statement, its next-generation console, the PlayStation 5 will be out next year with a launch date at the end of 2020. Additionally, there will be other big changes to the PlayStation 5 controller. The old …

The new Borderlands 3 patch has been released to improve stability while addressing a number of concerns, including hotfixes and general improvements to the game such as tuning some enemies and bosses. The latest patch focuses on a reported stability issue where an infinite loop could occur when hitting the …