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I'm so confident the question on your lips after reading this will be, “why didn't they release this before Christmas?” that I'm opening the article with it. That's right, Lego, the makers of real-world Minecraft blocks, has announced plans to launch a 1:20 scale lego model of the Mars Curiosity …

The two supplementary software applications Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter, which have been available to Eastern gamers for some time and provided them with the ability to store their beloved pocket monsters in the cloud and transfer them between previous editions of the Pokémon games, have had their Western releases delayed due to …

Christmas time is always incredibly busy for retailers but when it comes to online retailers, there's a lot more people in the shop at once. Amazon has just proven this as it revealed that in the weeks leading up to the 25th of December, it started to sell 426 items …

The Tomb Raider series and its hero Lara Croft, hasn't been at its peak since the 90s, but has seen nice jumps in critical acclaim and popularity with the release of certain games, perhaps most notably the latest one. Even though Square Enix didn't feel like it made enough, most …

Christmas is a time for hanging out with families, drinking and eating too much and more often than not, breaking out a game or two. Usually these are simple affairs like Scrabble, Monopoly or perhaps something without a board and dice, like charades. However, this being a site of tech …

Sony is going to start shutting down online support for a few of its older first party Playstation 3 titles throughout 2014. Starting on the 28th of January, MAG along with two PlayStation 3 SOCOM games, Special Forces and Confrontation, will be the first titles to go and since neither MAG or SOCOM have offline …

Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good …

If you managed to score yourself a shiny new Nintendo system this Christmas, you might have noticed that the online functions aren't working. This is because Nintendo has been suffering from a long series of server issues since Christmas morning. how to make counterfeit money The issue is affecting those …

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to help support Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard with Stage 4 colon cancer whose short term disability insurance recently ended. Nakada was diagnosed six months ago which was early in to his first year of marriage, since the diagnosis he has …

Apple has been fined 20 million New Taiwan Dollars after the country's Fair Trade Commission found that the company was illegally interfering with price plans on phone networks. The commission found out through a series of emails that the country's three biggest phone networks, Chunghwa Telecom Co, Far Eastone Telecommunication Co …

The UK's main BMW dealer is located in Park Lane in the heart of London's West End. If you find yourself down town for the sales (either of your own volition – or propelled by your other half and an insatiable need to max out the credit card), then maybe …

If you've been following digital currencies recently then you might have heard of Dogecoin, it started off as a joke currency which takes its name from the ‘doge' meme but it has started to pick up some steam recently. The currency is only worth a fraction of what Bitcoin is …

Users of the Redtube streaming porn site – who number in their millions at this point, since Redtube is one of the world's most popular websites – can continue browsing without worry now, as the site's owners have secured an injunction against the copyright troll that recently found a way …

It seems like at this point, everyone that's going to play Minecraft, probably owns a copy of it. It's available everywhere from its humble PC beginnings, on consoles and smartphones, but now it might be hitting the Wii U too, with an emphasis on using the Gamepad to construct and …

Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has just taken over from Judith L. Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, on Disney's board of Directors. Estrin had to move aside as she had already served the maximum 15 years allowed on the board. Disney announced its latest board member at a press …

Things haven't been looking good over at Blackberry for a while now and the company might not be able to bounce back at all this time. The phone maker has not only cancelled its yearly conference but it has also pulled the plug on two phones it had in development …

Dark Souls developer, From Software, turned down a mobile version of its action RPG as it would mean heavily changing the controls. This is according to Alex Adjaj, Director of Global Strategy for Mobile at Publisher, Namco Bandai. In an interview with Digital Spy, Adjaj admitted that the publisher was interested …

When the Steam Machine beta units first shipped to testers, we saw a few first looks and unboxings of the system but now one YouTuber by the name of Trial By Game, has made some pretty decent lets play videos which document his experiences with the new Steam Controller. His …

CyanogenMod has just surpassed the 10 million user mark, further proving that Android users want the barebones operating system, free of ugly skins coupled with fast updates. The custom rom has certainly set itself out from the crowd too, with its over the air updates as well nightly and stable …

Tim Cook has hinted at Apple's big plans for 2014 in a letter to employees, the letter also praised the ‘innovation' that went in to the new Mac Pro, IOS 7 as well as the iPhone 5s. buy a essay online Employees have revealed the email to 9to5Mac and it …

Late last week, 10 men from a hacking group responsible for stealing and defrauding 10,000 World of Warcraft accounts, were found guilty and dealt sentences as high as two years in a Chinese prison. The first five to be arrested were named Chen, Ma, Zhu, Zhi, and Wang. The operation started off …

Lets face it, it was only a matter of time before this happened- A Chrome extension that goes by the name of ‘Go Away Cameron' has been released. It's a handy little tool that disarms the ISP filters that UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has forced the likes of Sky, …

If you were worried that all that family time, good food and present opening would take time away from racking up IP on the Summoner's Rift, then don't fret, Riot games has you covered. It's announced in a new post that there will be some specific technology in place to …

The be quiet! and Kitguru advent calendar competition has been running for a few weeks now offering up great prizes from PSUs, to t-shirts, but now we're in the last week so that means it's your last chance to enter and get yourself a new SLI enabled motherboard, a high …

One of the biggest complaints any Nintendo fan will have of the Wii U marketing strategy, is that most of it's target audience (Wii owners) don't realise it's a new console. This isn't too surprising considering what the Wii U is called and what it looks like, but most importantly, …

It seems like only a month ago that were were talking about how Star Citizen had broken its latest monetary milestone (less than, actually) but today we're doing practically the same story, as the game from Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame, has now hit its next crowd funded stretch …

Ross Ulbricht might be the alleged captain of the now sunken ship that is the Silk Road drugs marketplace (well, there is version 2.0) but he wasn't the only one that worked on it. Now another three have been linked with Ulbricht and have been charged with money laundering. The …

Lara Croft isn't a character I'd easily associate with a social card game on a mobile platform, but that's exactly what's in store for the long standing gaming heroine in her next adventure. In Tomb Raider Reflections, you'll go on quests, collect artefacts and battle other players, all through the …

The PS4 might have won the first round of the worldwide console wars, but the Xbox One sold very well as well. So well in-fact that there's been somewhat of a shortage as of late, but never fear if you wanted to get one by Christmas, as GAME has now …

One of the producers at From Software, the developer of Dark Souls, has been speaking about the original, frustration testing, RPG and it's upcoming sequel. At one point in the interview though, he said something you won't hear from the mouth of any other developer out there at the moment: …