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Often the easiest way to introduce more traditional board gamers or non-gamers to more in-depth tabletop experiences like RPGs, is through “lite” versions, like Heroquest, or Castle Ravenloft, but these games can still be overly complicated for younger players, with a lot of options and counters to keep track of. …

If you've been keeping a track of game trailers and teases for the past few months, chances are you've stumbled across Evolve, an upcoming game from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock, featuring rampaging alien monsters, treacherous local wildlife and hardened, veteran hunters with an impressive arsenal of varied weaponry. …

When Sony announced its upcoming PC and PS4 zombie apocalypse, survival MMO, H1Z1, many people understandably drew comparisons with DayZ. Far from unaware of the similarities and inspiration drawn from the iconic game, Sony's president John Smedley praised Dean Hall's creation, but suggested that his company's title would be very …

Advanced Micro Devices this week demonstrated its next-generation AMD Opteron X-series accelerated processing unit code-named “Berlin” running Fedora Linux operating system. The new APU is projected to significantly boost performance of servers running APUs and bring heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) capabilities to servers. AMD Opteron X-series “Berlin” APU in many …

Toshiba Corp. this week unveiled the industry’s first 15.6” laptop with ultra-high-definition display that has earned Technicolor colour certification. The laptop is designed for both creative professionals as well as multimedia enthusiasts who want to enjoy video, photos and applications in resolution never available before on laptops. The new Toshiba …

Candy Crush might be the name we all associate with that game our aunts play, and abuse of the trademark system, but China doesn't know the wonders of its Candy Swipe rip-off gameplay just yet. However that's about to change, as King has now teamed up with publishing giant Tencent …

Twitch might have solidified itself as a solid way for pro-gamers to make money, by simply streaming their practice sessions, but the service itself is looking to diversify its income beyond advertising. It's now begun selling games and is looking to help fund future projects. Indie title Nuclear Throne is …

Two of the biggest cooperative, class based shooters to come out this year are undoubtedly Turtle Rock Studios' Evolve and Epic Games' Fortnite. While we don't know everything about each game yet, information is starting to trickle out about both and it seems one common thread they share, is that …

Fans of the Rift might still be reeling somewhat from the recent Facebook acquisition news, but that doesn't mean the VR enthusiasts at Oculus have been sitting on the laurels. Today they announced the release of a new version of the software development kit, 0.3.1. This update, though good to …

Watch Dogs has taken a lot of flak over the last few months, as despite blowing away fans in its 2012 reveal trailer, its latest ones haven't been remotely comparable. Some of the reason for that is that the PS4 version's detailing has had to be dialled back (it's not …

Qualcomm has announced its new family of Wi-Fi chips that could improve performance of wireless local area networks by several times. The new Qualcomm Atheros Vive chips (and select Snapdragon application processors) for routers, gateways as well as client devices support multi-stream 802.11ac Wi-Fi with multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) technology that …

If you were excited by the idea of playing as Mega Man, Villager, Wii Fit Trainer or Little Mac in the upcoming Wii U and 3DS Super Smash Bros game, then you'll probably be interested to learn that they aren't the only newcomers to the party. Both Charizard and Greninja …

Fortnite is a game that Epic has been developing for many years at this point but apart from its orginal reveal a couple of years ago and the odd rumbling, we haven't heard anything until this week. Two days ago Fortnite got a teaser site with a single image on …

Get that pinch of salt ready people, as the rumour mill just pumped out a doozy: 2K Australia – of The Bureau fame – is working on another Borderlands game, not a sequel, or a prequel, but a pre-sequel, set between the two games and with players gunning their way …

With MMO character creators, the most you can usually expect when it comes to customisation are a few options for different beards, perhaps a handful of idle animations and a choice of weapon. However there are some that can be held up as shining examples of avatar generation  and Korean …

UPDATE: The initial news-story contained an image of an SK Hynix memory module which did not feature 128GB capacity. As SK Hynix has released the correct images of its new memory modules, we can now publish the photos of 128GB DDR4 memory sticks. SK Hynix on Monday unveiled the industry’s …

Each new successive generation of graphics, we often hear a lot about Epic's new engine, or Crytek's new one and Unity gets a lot of press for its multi-platform outputs, but Bravely Default developer, Silicon Studio, shouldn't get left out, as its new engine tech demo is incredibly pretty – …

Very little has been heard about Fortnite since its initial trailer back in December 2011, with only the odd screenshot release and teaser-like update to the official Facebook page. Back then the concept of a base building, zombie survival title in a decent engine was fresh, but today we have …

Microsoft Corp. has announced that its Office applications for Apple iPad were downloaded more than 12 million times in just one week. At present, the Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint applications are top free apps in Apple’s AppStore. But is 12 million really a lot? “More than 12 million downloads …

Whatever your thoughts on Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines, one thing they did get right with it, was the sounds of the assault rifles and that's commendable, even if the rest of the game isn't. And that's because sound in the Alien universe is incredibly important. The original film's orchestral score …

Beyond the obvious racism of the Lord of the Rings, the protagonist for upcoming Assassin's Creed, Tolkein mashup, Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor, has a very good reason for killing the Elvish abominations, which we get to see first hand in the latest trailer for the Monolith developed game. [yframe …

Micron Technology, one of the world’s leading makers of dynamic random access memory, said Wednesday that it had started to produce next-generation DDR4 memory in volume. The company and its partners will begin to officially ship servers featuring Intel Corp.’s Xeon E5-2600 v3 and Micron’s DDR4 memory in the second …

What do smartwatches, intelligent coffee mugs, robots and smart goggles have in common? It looks like Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have an answer: Intel chips and Windows software inside. At the Build 2014 conference, the two companies indicated they would team up for wearable devices, tiny intelligent electronics, robots …

Amazon on Wednesday introduced its first set-top-box, the Amazon Fire TV. The new STB combines powerful hardware with one of the world’s richest collections of digital content and video games. The STB supports an external gamepad controller to make it more appealing to gamers. The novelty will cost $99 in …

There's a lot of talk of Virtual Reality at the moment, with the announcement of Facebook's Oculus acquisition, Sony's debut of the Morpheus prototype and the news that there's a new kid on the block, the next year is looking quite exciting for VR enthusiasts. However, not everyone thinks the …

There's been a lot of controversy over Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, mostly around graphics. While the 2012 version looked stunning for the time and still, the latest trailers have fallen a bit flat and look like everything in the game world has been scaled back. Ubisoft maintains that that's just for …

Tim Sweeney, a legendary game developer, said in an interview that virtual reality technologies will have higher influence on video games than the smartphones had. At present the VR technology is mostly aimed at game developers, researchers, enthusiasts and early adopters, but eventually it will not only appeal to loads …

Microsoft is starting to make moves in the wearable tech and virtual reality space as it has reportedly spent $150 million on augmented reality and head-mounted computing technology patents. The intellectual properties and patents were bought from Osterhout Design Group, a not so well known tech company that worked with industrial …

Even though most seem to have come around to the idea, there's still a few of you that are pissed Oculus VR was bought out by Facebook. But what if other beloved companies, like the one behind Star Citizen was also bought out by the social network? Don't worry, it won't. …

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that KG readers aren't the biggest reality TV watchers. Perhaps though, one that was available exclusively online and showed some of the world's most beloved indie developers building new titles in-front of our very eyes, while competing with each other …