Instant messaging applications on smartphones such as WhatsApp and Viber have overtaken the SMS market for the first time ever according to research firm Informa. Informa’s research suggests that 19 billion messages were set each day on chat apps, compared to 17.6 billion SMS messages in 2012. Another research company, … [Read More]
Lookout, a mobile security provider, has revealed that they have found no less than 32 apps on the Android Google Play Store, that are infected with a new strain of malware known as BadNews. According to statistics on the Google Play store, the combined affected applications have been downloaded … [Read More]
Adam Orth, a Microsoft Games Studios creative director who caused a massive row on Twitter, Neogaf and several other gaming websites when he dismissed ‘Always Online’ DRM as a major issue in gaming, has now not only protected his tweets on Twitter, but has also removed his account from … [Read More]
Adam Orth, a Creative Director at Microsoft Studios, has suggested that the next Xbox, commonly known as Durango or Xbox 720, will require users to be always online whilst playing games or running apps. In an ill-thought out Twitter tirade with Senior gameplay designer at BioWare, Manveer Heir, Orth posted … [Read More]
During the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this year, Epic Games unveiled an Unreal Engine 4 demonstration running in real-time for the PlayStation 4. This Elemental demo was also shown last year running on PC, and we were very impressed at the time, so we decided to make a quick split-screen … [Read More]
One of the big rumours that’s hit the internet recently is that the next Xbox, often referred to as the Xbox 720, will force users to install all the games that they buy to the hard drive, and will not require the game to be in the drive once they … [Read More]
The UK’s 36th Apple Retail Store has today opened for business in Leeds. The shop is located at Trinity Leeds Shopping Centre in Leeds, so you can learn all about the Mac and iPod, check out an iPad and see everything an iPhone can do. And if you find something … [Read More]
eBay has announced that it will be lowering seller fees on its popular auction website, in order to better compete with rival Amazon. The company will be simplifying it’s final value fee system, which will now be determined by product categories rather than a percentage fee based on the item’s … [Read More]
Google has recently decided to remove all ad-blocking applications for Android operating systems from it’s Google Play store, citing a line from their terms and conditions as the reason. As such Adblock Plus has been removed from the store, as well as several other popular ad-blocking apps which required the … [Read More]
Motorola has released a Jelly Bean update for it’s Intel Atom-powered smartphone, the RAZR i. We reviewed the RAZR i late last year and found it to be a good all-round phone, providing great performance at a very reasonable price. However, at that point in time, the phone was running … [Read More]
Valve has announced that the first game to officially support John Carmack’s Oculus Rift, will be their free-to-play multiplayer title, Team Fortress 2. Whilst it may look like Nintendo Virtual Boy 2.0, it is the next step in gaming, a cutting edge virtual reality headset that started on Kickstarter, … [Read More]
Following through on its product introductions in January at CES 2013, Sony today announced the arrival of its new core 2013 BRAVIA HDTV line-up, including the debut of two new series of LED TVs created for viewers looking for an amazing high definition entertainment experience. The new models in the … [Read More]
On Thursday 14th March, Samsung announced a new entry in its flagship Galaxy S series of smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S4. Those of you who own the S3 will probably be looking at the image above and noticing that it looks incredibly similar, and that definitely is the case. So … [Read More]
The Wii U is off to a rocky start, but things are about to get worse as developers continue to ignore the system when it comes to core third party titles. This week, Deep Silver have confirmed that Saints Row IV and Dead Island: Riptide will not be available for … [Read More]
That’s possibly a title that makes a lot of gamers’ hairs stand on end, but I’m here to convince you why you should want more micro-transactions in your game, and why Electronics Arts isn’t the bad guy when it says it will make micro-transactions part of every one of its … [Read More]
