Software & Gaming

If Minecraft is a digital lego alternative that can teach kids how to be creative, how to design and cooperate with others, Kerbal Space Program (KSP) has the potential to improve their mathematics, forward thinking and functional construction skills. Which is why it's so great that an educational version is …

This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a caption to a scene from Battlefield 4 on the PC. It means you can …

Garry Newman, the man behind the popular sandbox game ‘Garry's Mod' has been working on something new this year. In a departure from his original game which now houses a series of fun game modes and modded mini games, Garry along with his company, ‘Facepunch Studios', is moving on to …

Update: We received this response from Microsoft's Xbox Support twitter account: “Pricing for select digital content in some markets has changed since launch. Digital content pricing is subject to change.” Three of Microsoft's big launch titles on the Xbox One have inexplicably had their price increased by a £5 on the …

If you've been waiting for Rockstar to give you a reason to pop back into Los Santos then this could be your week, as Grand Theft Auto V's online creator beta will be launching any day now, so keep an eye out. Online players will now be able to create …

If you've been following the recent Fallout 4 rumours, then chances are you've come across the ‘survivor2299' website. Unfortunately, it turns out that the whole thing was fake but in an interesting turn of events, the site's creator has come out to explain why he did it. The page has …

British online retailer Zavvi.com, the relaunched arm of Zavvi, the bankrupt, previously Virgin Megastore chain, has threatened its customers with legal action, after it accidentally sent them free PS Vitas. In a letter to those affected by this fortunate circumstance, it threatened to take “all legal remedies available,” if they …

When long term Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners found out that the new consoles weren't going to have backwards compatibility, many were pretty disappointed. Unfortunately though, some Xbox One owners didn't want to accept that and have now bricked their consoles through messing with the developer settings. help writing …

One of the biggest problems the Wii U has at the moment, is that much of its potential market – the seriously casual – don't even know that it's a new system, they assume it's a Wii accessory or a simple upgrade. Something tells me if Nintendo had stuck to …

Assassin's Creed may have started off following the life of one robed Assassin' and one casually clothed future-man, but today we've covered five different protagonists over a series of different games, on a variety of different platforms and the garments these men (and one woman) choose to clothe themselves in …

A couple of weeks ago a PS4 version of 2013's Tomb Raider reboot surfaced. It was called Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition and was spotted on Amazon. At the time we updated the story as we weren't sure if it was just Amazon  or retail partner trying to get some attention, …

The studio behind the popular Walking Dead point and click game, Telltale Games  is on a roll at the moment. Not only does it have Season 2 of that franchise on the way, but it has just announced that it will create two new series: Game of Thrones and Borderlands. We …

We're all a bit jaded on Alien games at the moment, I understand that. Aliens: Colonial Marines was such a colossal disappointment, it's either stupidity or bravery that has Creative Assembly taking that horse away from Gearbox and clambering back on it this soon after release. Which is perhaps why …

After trying one for the second time at the i50 LAN festival recently, I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an Oculus Rift. Powering my way through the relatively short adjustment period, I've come out the other side Rifting my way into alienation from my wife and I've …

At the VGX awards ceremony over the weekend, footage was shown from an upcoming game being developed by a small team over at Hello Games and it completely stole the show. It's a procedurally generated, open sandbox title that features hundreds of planets, suns and solar systems, giving the player …

This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a caption to a scene from Call Of Duty GHOSTS on the PC. It means …

Sony is sending out emails to users across the world recommending that they change their passwords. Two members of staff at The Verge received these warning emails, which included the following statement from Sony: “The Sony Entertainment Network team routinely monitors for any irregular activity, and if such activity is …

Last week we put out an article on the Xbox One day one edition boxes being sold for as much as the console on eBay but this week's story definitely takes the cake. A 19 year old from Nottingham has paid £450 for a badly printed photo of a day …

The overreaching of the US government's domestic and international spy programs continues to be theorised in the latest revelations from Kim Dotcom's extradition trial, with the Megaupload founder and expert witnesses suggesting that the FBI may have used a fake mobile phone tower to record his phone calls, as late …

When Valve announced the Steam Machines earlier this year, I think a lot of people were expecting console sized PC boxes similar to Valve's prototype. While this was true for the first Steam Machine to be revealed, the London based company Piixl has come up with something quite different. You …

Digital downloads will be a huge part of console gaming this generation but Electronic Arts CFO, Blake Jorgensen, doesn't see EA going all digital any time soon. There is a good reason for this though: digital makes up less than 30% of the publisher's sales. During the Credit Suisse 2013 …

Whenever talk of the Oculus Rift comes up, you often hear about people converting already popular games over to it, like Mirror's Edge, or Skyrim or one of the F1 racing titles. Either that, or one of the very popular, rollercoaster demos that hit earlier this year. What I've found …

Despite the fact that it only announced an expansion of the Canadian based Victoria development studio last year, Microsoft has announced that it'll be shuttering it. While a large expansion was announced and planned in 2012, ultimately growth wasn't quite as high as expected, though this will still leave around …

As bitcoin continues its latest struggle to decide if it wants to be worth more than a thousand dollars or not, companies around the world continue to accept it. Now, you can buy games for your little Android Ouya console using the digital currency through the Ouya store, just like …

We covered Terrible Things a while back, a humiliating and abominable game that looks as much to play as it is to deride, but unfortunately due to problems with its name it's not going to make it to people for Christmas. Something that looks like it might though, is Deck …

Battlefield 4 is in pretty bad shape right now and it seems that there are so many issues that DICE needs to put a stop to all other projects including future games and expansions to finally fix Battlefield 4 once and for all. EA gave the following statement announcing DICE's …

If you'd said a decade ago that there would be not only gamers like Fatal1ty making the big bucks by being a professional at it, but that teams of people would be able to do it for a living too – some pulling in as much as a million a …

If you didn't know I'm sorry to break the news to you, but the next Gran Turismo game is going to have micro-transactions. That's right if you want to you can play the game as usual and earn your way to the newer cars, or you can just pay to …

While the Humble Bundle seems a little less special these days, due to its increased frequency, the Humble Weekly Sale and the constantly open and selling Humble Store, that doesn't mean that a new bundle isn't cause for celebration, especially when it's packed with as much cooperative action as this …

The Xbox One has been out for a couple of weeks now meaning that players and Indie developers alike have the console in their hands. One of the things Microsoft did to try and win gamers over was announce its self publishing program for Indie developers and today, Chris Charla, Director …