Software & Gaming

When Apple announced its music streaming platform, Apple Music earlier this year, many thought it might struggle, as it was entering an already saturated space. While iTunes was once the darling of the listening world, it had fallen behind the times and industry giants like Spotify and Pandora stomped around …

Although in the history of gaming there have been a number of bizarre controllers, from the Intellivision's turn wheel and numpad, to the N64's need for three hands, things have settled down in recent years. Sure we may be talking touch controls for VR, but for the most part, gamepads …

While The Witcher 3 is a fantastic game, CD Projekt Red did earn itself some flack for its ModKit announcement earlier this year. Back in 2014, CDPR promised a new version of the REDKit for The Witcher 3, which would be an advanced set of modding tools, unfortunately we ended …

Twelve Starcraft 2 players have been found guilty of match fixing in the Korean professional scene, resulting in arrests and permanent bans from the game. The Korean eSports Association has named two of the players as Gerrard and YoDa, who face extra legal action, several people linked to organized crime …

In recent years, major publishers like EA and Ubisoft have broken away from Steam to launch their own platforms for digital PC games. Ubisoft has been forcing uPlay on us all for some time but now it looks like things are going to get more complicated with the announcement of …

Valve has caught plenty of flack over the years for Steam's poor customer service. Things have improved this year with the introduction of Steam Refunds but there are still some issues when it comes to opening support tickets and actually getting help. However, Valve apparently has a plan to improve …

As much as countries, governments and their intelligence agencies put huge counter measures and monetary backing into protecting their digital assets, it often only takes one individual slipping up to a phishing or social engineering scam to make an entire system vulnerable. That is especially easy today where there are …

Although the visit was a little tense at times, President Obama's meeting with the Chinese president Xi Jingping in September did achieve one thing: an agreement that neither the United States or China would use their digital assets to hack one another to steal corporate secrets and prop up domestic …

As much as pre-order bonuses for games aren't exactly the most popular industry standard and retailer exclusive bonuses aren't well loved either, at least most of the time they don't tend to break immersion. That's what seems to be happening in the Rise of the Tomb Raider “Holy Fire Card …

A lot of game companies seem to be pumping out ‘HD remakes' at the moment and while some titles could definitely do with the update, there have been a few questionable releases, the most recent example being the Prototype collection from Activision. However, EA has yet to jump on the …

Adobe has issued another update for the Flash Player this week as another day zero exploit has been discovered. The new update addresses “critical” security vulnerabilities, which if exploited would have allowed malicious native-code to run without the user even being aware. The new patch was released on Tuesday and …

Warner Bros has finally got performance of the PC version of Arkham Knight up to an acceptable standard, though we are still waiting on one final patch. To go along with that, the publisher has also announced the final batch of DLC for the game's season pass, it's mostly just …

The Kinect has never been all that popular. The peripheral didn't perform all that well back when it first launched on the Xbox 360 and even now on the Xbox One, the Kinect can still be very hit and miss. Microsoft made the popular decision to unbundle the Kinect from …

A while back, Yahoo began its move away from traditional passwords by offering users single-use SMS codes to log in to their accounts. Now, things have progressed further, with Yahoo introducing what is called the ‘Account Key', which allows mail users to log in using push notifications on their smartphone, …

You wouldn't be wrong to think that Techland jumped the gun a little bit by announcing its new expansion to Dying Light, The Following, a few months back. We've had a trailer and we do know a few small details about the new story and new map however, the game …

Nintendo isn't going to officially talk about its upcoming console, the Nintendo NX, until next year. However, that isn't stopping early information from circulating the web, we've already got a look at a few newly filed patents and now current reports are suggesting that the NX will be a console-handheld …

Payday 2 developers, Overkill Studios, have angered their community by implementing stat-changing microtransactions in to the heist shooter, despite previously saying that they wouldn't. People were a little worried that Payday would go down this road a while back, though at the time the game's producer reassured players that this …

The writing is on the wall at this point: virtual reality is happening. Enough people have tried early Oculus hardware, there's enough money behind it and there's enough developers for at least one generation of consumer hardware and from there the sky's the limit. The main graphics card players, Nvidia …

Black Desert, the hugely popular Korean MMO is finally making its way over to the west. Over in the US and EU, the game will be known as Black Desert Online, with closed alpha testing set to begin pretty soon. There is also a new trailer for the game to …

A French government-funded security firm has found a bug within Siri and Google Now that would enable a hacker to take control of the virtual assistants remotely. The hack uses radio waves to trigger what should have been a human instruction, it would take some old-fashioned spy work to implement …

Nvidia is giving the GeForce Experience a pretty significant update soon, beefing up two of the software's big features, along with how it handles driver updates. For a start, early adopters of 4K displays will soon be able to stream their games in 4K at 60 frames per second along …

The Overwatch beta is finally arriving on the 27th of October, almost a year after Blizzard first announced the brand new title. People are understandably excited, after all, this is the studio's first brand new IP in years, additionally, those who have played the game at trade shows like E3 …

For the next couple of days we are running a competition exclusively on our Facebook page – to win a copy of The Witcher 3, alongside the full expansion pass – worth £79.99! All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption …

Uber has gone ahead and exposed the personal data of hundreds of its own drivers, putting out social security numbers, pictures of drivers licenses, vehicle registration numbers, along with other pertinent information. The leak was accidental and was first noticed on Tuesday by drivers registered with the company. Reports quickly …

The Witcher 3 is arguably one of the best games to launch so far this year, it is also one of the few games this year to be so packed with content that many gamers were actually looking forward to the season/expansion pass content. The first Witcher expansion, Hearts of …

Bethesda is gearing up for Fallout 4 in a few weeks time and in order to keep the hype train going, the company kicked off a new video series a short while back, with the goal of providing an entertaining look at how the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat system works in the …

Although clearly not the case, it sometimes feels like hackers hate Adobe Flash. Despite the fact that it represents a simple path to exploit user's systems, every time it gets found to be insecure, it dies a little more. That slip into obscurity looks likely to continue, as yet another …

Much like how you can skip through scenes on a DVD, Treyarch will be giving gamers the option to play through the Black Ops 3 campaign in any order they choose. From the very beginning, the campaign will be fully unlocked, allowing players to either make their way through chronologically, or …

DICE wrapped up the Star Wars Battlefront open beta late this afternoon, so the team is now moving on to preparing for the game's release in just a few weeks time. Once the servers closed down to the public, DICE and EA revealed some interesting tidbits, including the fact that …

Passport, no liquids over a certain size, no luggage over a certain weight – those are the main considerations when heading on to a plane in a contemporary airport. Although some may point out the many flaws in current pre-flight safety checks of passengers and their right to fly, none …