Software & Gaming

Chatbots of the future might be the customer support representatives we deal with the most, but we might be able to fight back with AI conversationalists of our own. The Do Not Pay bot, created by a British programmer has been used by more than 160,000 people to challenge parking …

Godus is the game that time and seemingly 22 Cans, Peter Molyneux's developer, forgot. Despite being re-released earlier this year as Godus Wars, the god sim that was supposed to reinvent the genre is still being developed (apparently) and according to staff, it's still got a long way to go. …

We have been hearing reports of PCs upgrading themselves to Windows 10 without the owner's knowledge for a while now and for businesses in particular, this can be a big problem. Teri Goldstein, a California based business owner had this happen, and in response she sued Microsoft for $10,000 and …

If the issues with The Division haven't scared you off yet and you have been sticking it out to check out the paid DLCs, then you might want to log in to uPlay this week as the Underground expansion is now live. Underground is The Division's first paid DLC and …

Over the past couple of years, the age old dominance of adware, spyware and trojans has begun to die off in favour of something new and far more malicious: ransomware. The evolution continues to this day, with the latest version of the CryptXXX ransomware bringing in over £34,000 in the …

It has been quite the week for G2A, who had something of a PR nightmare when indie developer TinyBuild put up a blog post criticising the company's business practises. However, it seems that G2A is willing to make some changes in order to be more developer friendly going forward, this …

With the season finale of Game of Thrones now complete and the world struggling to come to terms with what happened (and that we need to wait another nine months to find out what happens next), Microsoft is hoping to ease that pain with some special hardware: a Game of …

Blizzard has been paying close attention to feedback on Overwatch since its launch in order to prepare any balancing changes. However, given the different play styles between PC and console, sometimes changes need to be made on a platform by platform basis, which is why in July, Torbjorn will be …

Superhot impressed many when it launched earlier this year, taking what people loved about the original browser demo and improving on it all while adding a compelling story. If you have been wanting to dive back in to the game, then you will probably be happy to hear some new details about …

Following the surprising move late last week that saw Oculus VR remove headset checks from its DRM, the developer of the Revive driver which makes it possible to play Rift games on the HTC Vive, has been able to get back to improving compatibility. They've been working fast too, as …

One of the core elements to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's success is the item skin trading system. People buy keys to crates, sell old skins and buy new ones on the Steam marketplace constantly but there is also a vert successful, though unofficial, gambling scene for CS:GO. Valve is pretty hands-off …

Microsoft has revealed that it plans to stop manufacturing its current entry-level Surface device by the end of the year. The Surface 3 first launched in May of last year at a lower price point to try and capture those who want a tablet that could also act as a …

The Steam Summer sale kicked off last night and there are plenty of great discounts going around. However, some people use opportunities like this to stock up on certain games to gift to alternate accounts and in the case of CS:GO, people doing this usually do so with the intention …

This has been quite a week for the indie developer Tinybuild, after the studio's blog post on G2A's grey market practises spread widely across the web. This isn't the first time that sites like G2A have been called into question but in this case, Tinybuild lost out on $450,000 worth of …

If you have a HTC Vive headset and want to continue playing those games Oculus has popped behind its storefront wall, you can do so with the latest version of the Revive driver. It's not a bad time to download it either, as Oculus is discounting a bunch of its …

Ark: Survival Evolved is a game all about monstrous dinosaurs stomping around a mixed-tech island with a few humans running between their feet, but it turns out they were all just an appetiser. In its latest update, developer Wildcard has added the Titanosaurus, the largest dinosaur in Ark and very …

Let's face it, Fallout 4 was a bit of a letdown when it comes to its RPG elements. Fortunately, we still have some excellent older titles in the series to turn to for our RPG fix, with one of the best being Obsidian's Fallout New Vegas. If you happened to …

We may have had the heads up way in advance but in-case you didn't notice, the Steam Summer Sale is now live. This year, Valve is calling it the ‘Summer Picnic Sale', running from today until the 4th of July. Daily deals and community choice are still not present but …

This year saw the unexpected closure of Lionhead Studios along with the cancellation of Fable Legends. However, it turns out that some of the folks at Lionhead were also working on something called Fable Fortune, a card game that the team wasn't ready to give up on yet. Those working …

TinyBuild, the publisher and developer of games like The Last Station and Speed Runners, has accused game key seller G2A of selling pirated keys for its latest title, Punch Club. G2A requested that TinyBuild send it examples of the pirated keys in question, but claims that the publisher never came …

This generation of consoles has gotten pretty interesting recently, with both Sony and Microsoft now planning to launch significantly more powerful mid-generation consoles that offer full backwards compatibility with what is currently out there. While having a more powerful PS4 on the market might be cause for concern for original …

Ubisoft seems to have a pretty standard formula when it comes to its open-world franchises these days and one of the most repeated core mechanics has been towers, which you find to unlock more of the map. Ubisoft likes its towers so much that it even found a way to …

One of the biggest debacles of the last-generation of consoles was the way Sony handled its Other-OS feature. After cracks were found in the console's security, it pulled the feature entirely, leading to a lawsuit that has lasted six years. Now though it's coming to a close and if the …

If you have signed up to be part of any upcoming play tests for Battlefield 1, then you might want to keep an eye on your emails this week as apparently there may be a closed alpha happening at some point. The closed alpha test was referenced in a (now …

Twitter might have helped push the livestreaming model forward with its Periscope platform, but it's brought us more vertical, shaky video than perhaps any source gone before. That may change in the future though, as it's just acquired a London start up which could help clean up terrible quality footage …

Bethesda set out to bring mods to consoles with Fallout 4 and earlier this year, the console mod system launched. Unfortunately though, people have been abusing the system and re-uploading other people's creations from Nexus Mods to Bethesda Net without permission and it has caused quite a stir, to the …

At this point, Sony has officially confirmed the existence of the PlayStation 4 Neo, a more powerful console aimed to drive better PlayStation VR experiences and while many were expecting the console to show up at E3, it was nowhere to be seen. However, according to sources speaking out this …

Back in 2014, Marvel pledged to start stepping up its video game efforts and now, at E3 2016, we are finally seeing that come to fruition with the announcement of Insomniac's upcoming Spiderman title for the PS4. There is plenty more to come as well, but Marvel will only be working …

The Investigatory Powers Bill is something that almost no one has approved of since its first announcement, with repeated debates and analysis heralding many concerns and problems, few of which have been rectified. Now the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has raised its own issues with the bill, citing …

While Bethesda has been putting a lot of effort into publishing games recently, it has also been working on plenty of projects of its own in-house. With Fallout 4 out of the way, there has been a lot of talk about when the next Elder Scrolls game will come out …