11:30 AM EST 2/5/2015
Software engineers, developers, designers, coders, hackers and techies are being invited by a grant-making group for a 'hackathon' event, dubbed Code4GoodPBC, on March 28-29 aimed at creating technology solutions for local non-profits, reports the Sun-Sentinel.Read more
11:15 AM EST 2/5/2015
Project Tango, Google’s 3D-scanning camera, has graduated from the experimental lab and is on its way to the real world. It has been moved out of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division and into the company proper. In a Google+ post announcing the move, ATAP said: “After two fast-paced years in ATAP, and many technical successes, the Tango team is transitioning from ATAP to a new home within Google. We're excited about the continued commitment to developing the technology for our users — we wish our fellow pirates fair winds and following seas.”Read more
6:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Ubisoft’s sequel to the #1 rated first-person shooter game of 2012, Far Cry 4, will be getting its update 5 today according to a report by Softpedia.Title Update 5, said the site, has been confirmed to bring some multiplayer-related improvements, as well as some bug fixes to matchmaking and load and save files.Read more
5:40 PM EST 2/4/2015
Resident Evil 6: The Final Chapter confirmed to be filming this year.Read more
5:20 PM EST 2/4/2015
Phoenix Online Publishing in partnership with developer Red Herring Labs has just announced the forthcoming release of Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock, a first-person point-and-click sci-fi action-adventure game set in a chillingly alien and atmospheric world.Read more
5:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto V is still riding a sales wave almost a year and a half after its initial release 17 months ago. According to its distributor, Take-Two Interactive, the game performed well into the holidays with 45 million total units sold worldwide.Read more
4:10 PM EST 2/4/2015
The notorious piracy site The Pirate Bay is back online since Saturday, seven weeks after Swedish law enforcement officials shut it down and seized the group's previous servers in a raid on December 9 last year.Read more
3:50 PM EST 2/4/2015
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare players are facing bans for “reverse boosting,” the practice of killing yourself during multiplayer matches in order to lower stats and be paired with lesser players during the games that follow.Read more
3:29 PM EST 2/4/2015
Sony announced that a 'Bloodborne Limited Edition' PlayStation 4 console bundle will be coming out on the same day as the game, which in Japan will be on March 26. According to Softpedia, the company has confirmed that the limited edition bundle special offer will also be available in Europe where Bloodborne will be coming out on March 25. To date, nothing has been said as to whether same offer stands for USA and the other territories where the game is scheduled to be officially launched.Read more
3:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Bethesda Softworks' The Evil Within' s first downloadable content (DLC), titled “The Assignment,” will be released in early 2015, reports IGN. The DLCs for “The Consequence” and “The Keeper” will launch later in the year, the site adds. “The Assignment” is the first of a two-part story centered around Detective Sebastian Castellanos’ partner, Juli Kidman, with part two of her story being continued in “The Consequence.”Read more
2:50 PM EST 2/4/2015
Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for mobile devices using the 32-bit ARM architecture that was launched in October 2012, may just yet be quietly phased out after it was learned that Microsoft will no longer be building the Lumia 2520, the last remaining ARM-tablet that runs on the RT operating system, according to Dutch tech news site PCM. The company itself last week already confirmed that it has halted the production of its own Surface 2 ARM-tablets.Read more
2:40 PM EST 2/4/2015
A report from Bloomberg says that Uber, the app-based transportation network and taxi company, and Google, one its own biggest investors, “are going to war over self-driving taxis.” The two companies are reportedly now moving into each other's territories, with Google working on a ride-sharing app while Uber is developing its own self-driving car technology.Read more
2:20 PM EST 2/4/2015
Back in May 2006, Valve's Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode Three, has been announced as the third and final installment in the series of episodic expansions, the last episode in the story arc that began on November 19, 1998, when the first Half-Life game was launched. Since making that announcement, nothing much has been heard about the concluding final chapter to the Half-Life saga. Instead, Valve Corporation has released sequels to as well as original new games, including Dota 2, Alien Swarm, The Orange Box, Ricochet, Deathmatch Classic, Left for Dead 2, Portal 2, Portal, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive.Read more
2:10 PM EST 2/4/2015
EA's Titanfall, an online multi-player first-person shooter game for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows which was released March of last year, is now on sale, along with other select EA titles, exclusive to Xbox LIVE Gold members according to a post at a gaming forum by NeoGAF.Read more
2:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Lords of the Fallen's announced next planned downloadable content (DLC), titled “Ancient Labyrinth,” has been delayed until developer Deck 13 Interactive finishes work on the next patch for the base game, reports Softpedia.Read more