Category: Gaming
Nigel Farage game upsets UKIP
Top marks to some enterprising school kids - their anti-UKIP game has outraged Nigel Farage. According to The Telegraph, the game - called 'Ukik' - sees the player tasked with kicking immigrants as far away from the cliffs of dover as possible. A twist on an old classic, often found on pub quiz machines (so…
Does this mean The Last Of Us 2 is… confirmed?
Let's face it, Sony would be mad if it wasn't working on a follow-up to The Last Of Us - but it seems as though we've got something resembling the first piece of evidence that the game is actually being made. According to All Games Beta, the LinkedIn profile of former Naughty Dog character artist…
WATCH: Notch’s new $70m mansion recreated in Minecraft
Last week we heard the news that Markus "Notch" Persson, the brain behind Minecraft had spent some of his $2bn fortune on a gigantic house in trendy Beverly Hills. Hours later the inevitable happened - and some fans recreated it in Minecraft itself. The mansion itself has 8 bedrooms, a pool (with a 54ft glass…
The Digest: Apple ‘failing to protect workers’… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers' | BBC News "Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken. It found standards on workers' hours, ID…
GTA Online gives players a “Festive Surprise”
Rockstar has announced the latest update to Grand Theft Auto Online, which should make murdering people in a virtual city seem a little bit more... festive. In addition to bug fixes and a boost in the number of properties you can now own, the here's what Rockstar says is being added: "EXPLOSIVE STOCKING STUFFERS Brand…
Ubisoft releases gigantic patch for Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Good news! One month on and Assassin's Creed: Unity might finally be playable... as long as you download a gigantic patch. According to Eurogamer, the patch for the PS4 version is 6.7GB big. It's almost though the notoriously bugged game wasn't actually finished. Worse still, for Xbox One players the 'patch' clocks in at 40GB…
Is Nintendo working on a “doughnut” shaped device?!
Reports suggest that Nintendo is working on a device with a screen that will have a hole in the middle. Why? We've no idea. The news comes courtesy of the Japan Times, which reports that Nintendo will be using Sharp's "Free-Form LCDs", which apparently can be manufactured in any shape the client wants - and…
PS4 Remote Play unofficially ported to non-Xperia smartphones
Ever wanted to play Far Cry 4 or The Last Of Us on the go? If you're an Android user and you have a PS4, you might just be in luck thanks to a new port. The Droid Guy reports that a coder called TheScriptKitty has managed to port over Sony's Remote Play app to…
Is Microsoft building an Xbox game streaming service?
Could you soon be playing Xbox One games on your phone, tablet or PC? Sounds crazy but it just might happen, if rumours are to be believed. The muttering comes via ZDNet which reports that Microsoft is building a new "streaming app and game service", code name Arcadia. The suggestion is that such a technology…
Is Advanced Warfare not selling as well as Ghosts?
Oh dear - despite stepping things up a notch critically, it seems that this year's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare isn't performing as well as last year's Ghosts. The conventional thinking had been that AW is an an improvement on Call of Duty: Ghosts, and critically it does seem to be (thanks, Kevin Spacey) -…
