Software & Gaming

When Sony Corp. unveiled its project Morpheus early last year, it was clear that the company was very serious about equipping its PlayStation 4 video game console with a virtual reality head-mounted display. The PlayStation VR device will finally hit the market in 2016 and will be accompanied by a …

It looks like some publishers are starting to catch on as Ubisoft has announced that all future maps for Rainbow Six Siege will be free, rather than packaged and sold as DLC map packs. We also know exactly how many maps will be available for the multiplayer game at launch. …

Much like the new Zelda Wii U game, Nintendo has now also delayed Star Fox Zero until next year after Shigeru Miyamoto decided on some changes, just ahead of the planned November release. Star Fox Zero has been shown off in detail this year already at trade shows like E3 …

Persona 5 has been delayed until the summer of next year, according to a new trailer for the game that launched today. The game will now hit the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in 2016, though publisher, Atlus, originally expected the game to release before the end of this year. …

Over the last two years, some of the larger publishers have attempted to break in to the MOBA market with their own games inspired by either Dota 2 or League of Legends. One of those publishers was Deep Silver, which launched Dead Island: Epidemic, which has been available as a …

DICE recently announced the Star Wars Battlefront beta for October, though at the time some of the finer details were left out. Now, we know quite a bit more about the beta, for starters, it will be open to everyone on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It will …

Another game has been added to the busy October release line-up. This time it's TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode, which was announced earlier this year. The game will be similar to TellTale's other titles in that it will also be a point and click adventure. The game is launching on the …

Being designed primarily for video games, virtual reality headsets will unlikely become popular overnight after they hit the market in 2016, but several years down the road their installed base will approach that of certain game consoles, according to a study from Juniper Research. Analysts from Juniper Research predict that …

We seem to be learning more about Fallout 4 by the week as we get closer and closer to launch. While Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas had fairly unexceptional gun-play, Bethesda has taken a different approach with Fallout 4 and brought Doom developer, id Software, in on the project …

All the KitGuru staff are playing the awesome Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain this week and if you want to win a copy tonight then be sure to enter our simple little caption competition on Facebook. Head to this post on our Facebook page and enter your submission, either …

One of the biggest gripes players have had with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive up to now has been the hitboxes. The problem was made really apparent a few months back when someone made a gif of a crouched player being shot repeatedly at point-blank range and yet, taking no damage. At …

Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 system is the fastest selling game console in history. Sales dynamics of Sony’s PS4 suggests that it does not need a price-cut to remain popular. Nonetheless, the company announced plans to reduce the price of its PlayStation 4 starting from the 1st of October. The …

Halo 5: Guardians is on the way next month from 343 Industries. It's set to be Microsoft's biggest exclusive launch of the year however, some compromises have had to be made throughout development. At first, local co-op was cut from the game in order to maintain 60 frames per second …

Ubisoft is back with another Assassin's Creed game this year, though this time it will be set in London, which opens up quite a few possibilities for potential DLC. One of these DLC packs will focus on Jack the Ripper, Ubisoft announced on Sony's stage at the Tokyo Game Show …

Data miners snooping around the Metal Gear Solid V files on the PC have discovered evidence that a third chapter for the game was planned but for some reason was cut from the game. The extra chapter for the game would have been called ‘Peace', apparently this part of the …

Update: Minutes after this news story was initially published, EA and Ghost Games officially announced that Need for Speed for the PC has been delayed until ‘Spring 2016'. The delay has been partially attributed to unlocking the frame rate.  Ever since Battlefield 4, EA has been giving its upcoming games more betas. …

Microsoft recently released its digital assistant, Cortana, for Android as a standalone app. However, Cyanogen has some bigger plans in mind, mulling over the possibility of deeply integrating Cortana with Cyanogen OS in order to access functions similar to those you would find on Cortana for Windows Phone or Siri on …

Sadly, earlier this year Nintendo's former president, Satoru Iwata passed away. Since then, the creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto and Wii architect, Genyo Takeda, have been taking care of the company but now it is time for the new company president to be officially named. Nintendo's Tatsumi Kimishima has been …

Blizzard has been beta testing its next expansion for Starcraft 2 for quite some time now and soon, we will get to play it for ourselves as the release date for Legacy of the Void has been announced. In addition to the release date, Blizzard also released the opening cinematic. …

Dark Souls 3 is on the way, with many having already seen and played the game at trade shows this year. However, now we have our first release date for the game, though it only applies to Japan for now. Dark Souls 3 is set to launch on the 24th …

A team of Minecraft players have banded together over the last year to recreate The Shire from Lord of the Rings. This could be one of the best large-scale building projects ever undertaken in the game, with 25 people contributing to it overall. Images of the map were uploaded to …

The Xbox One is set to get some huge updates in November. Not only is backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games coming to the console, but the entire user interface is getting an overhaul, with a brand new dashboard, powered by Windows 10. Microsoft has been showing it off for …

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is continuing to dominate over on Kickstarter, with most of the previously announced stretch goals being reached. Now, Larian Studios has added a few more to the mix to encourage extra funding. Now, the stretch goals run up to the $2 million mark. Right now, the …

Less than a month ago, Twitch launched ‘Twitch Plays Dark Souls'. Nobody expected the Twitch chat to get very far in the game but after a few changes to the way Twitch Plays operates, things have been going pretty smoothly, with the community managing to take down Ornstein and Smough. …

Rockstar recently announced the next update for Grand Theft Auto Online, unfortunately, it seems that the game's multiplayer updates are the only thing the studio is working on. While many have been hoping for some single player DLC for Grand Theft Auto V for a while now, the core team …

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win MAD MAX on the PC. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to the image. We announce the winner on Monday morning.   It means …

The topic of China and its continued tug of war with the United States on the digital battleground is a hot one at the moment. With Chinese president Xi Jinping set to meet with President Obama to discuss hacking and digital defences, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper has …

SOMA is another atmospheric horror title from the maker of Amnesia Dark Descent, Frictional Games. It's been described as not quite as pure horror as its earlier work, but that doesn't mean it isn't scary or dangerous deep under the sea. In-fact there are lots of monsters and creatures that …

If you have been ignoring the little upgrade to Windows 10 prompt since the OS launched at the end of July, you may actually find that it has already downloaded and stored itself on to your system to save time, just in-case you decide to make the jump. If you …

While Metal Gear Solid V has launched to great acclaim from fans and critics alike, it isn't entirely perfect. It seems that a save corrupting bug has been discovered in the game, though Konami is now working on fixing it as fast as possible. The bug affects the game on …