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Steam Big Picture officially launched
Steam Big Picture is a new part of Steam that makes it easier for PC gamers to play on a TV with a controller. Games are categorised into two sections: Full controller support - “Games with Full Controller Support will work without a keyboard and mouse on hand, from installation to play and beyond. “ Partial controller support - “Games with Partial Controller Support may require a ...read more
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Crysis 3 minimum specs officially announced
EA have officially announced the minimum specs required to run Crysis 3. Crysis is famous among PC owner's for being the sole reason they've had to upgrade their PC, being one of the most graphically advanced PC games series ever. The system requirements will be hard for some to swallow as Windows XP will not be supported, users must be running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. The reason ...read more
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Far Cry 3 suffers immediate server issues
One of the biggest PC game launches this year is already suffering from server issues that are stopping some players being able to play the game at all. The problem is reportedly down to Ubisoft's Uplay service, which is required to play the game single or multiplayer. Ubisoft have tweeted out to players: “We’re very sorry for the server issues affecting Far Cry 3 on PC and are working as ...read more
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GAME and Steam join forces
GAME the UK's biggest retailer for gaming content has partnered up with Steam and will now be selling Steam Wallet Codes for the values of £5, £10, £20 and £50 in store. One of the biggest surprises of this partnership is that GAME will be offering an extra 33% trade-in value on certain games when traded in for Steam Wallet Codes. Although its currently unknown how much money GAME will be ...read more
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Microsoft confirm price and spec for Surface Pro
Microsoft's new Surface Pro has been announced and will come with a starting price of $899 for the 64GB version and $999 for the 128GB. Although that price does not include the cover/keyboard accessory which will cost a further $120 for the touch version and $130 for the type version. But both models are said to include a Surface Pen. Surface Pro differs from the previous version by including ...read more
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Microsoft pleased with Windows 8 sales.
Four days after the launch of Windows 8 on the 26th of October, Microsoft announced that they had already sold of 4 million copies. Now 32 days later Microsoft have announced that they have now sold over 40 million licenses of Windows 8. Unfortunately they didn't specify how many of these were brought as upgrades for existing Windows OS's and how many came bundled with newly sold PC systems. ...read more
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Petition for PC version of GTA:V collects over 47,000 signatures.
Earlier in the month Rockstar announced that the new GTA:V game would not be launching on the PC or Wii U platforms. This clearly angered the PC community for whom GTA modding is a huge part of the games appeal to them. So if you really want GTA:V to come to the PC platform then you should probably head over to: http://www.change.org/petitions/rockstar-release-gta-v-on-pc Where you can ...read more
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Minecraft v1.5 “The Redstone update” coming to PC soon.
MINECON 2012 is under way, and we have our first bit of good news. The Minecraft team are now promising a big update will be released every two months. Starting with the release of v1.5 in the New Year/January time. The PC version of Minecraft will soon be getting a big update to the way redstone behaves. Mojang are updating the system to have a variable signal strength which they are calling ...read more
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Call of Duty Elite app gets Black Ops 2 support on iOS, Android
The Call of Duty Elite app has been updated on iOS and Android to support this week's monolithic debut, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. You can use the app to check your career stats and recent match performances, edit your classes, and search for and apply to Clans – pretty much the same stuff you can do with the app via Modern Warfare 3. You can also use it to stream Call of Duty Elite TV, ...read more
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Microsoft fixes Skype account hijack issue
As we reported previously, a major security flaw was discovered earlier this morning on Microsoft's Skype VoIP service, which allowed anyone to obtain a Skype account password via email, and thus hijack any Skype account. Microsoft has now announced this issue has now been fixed. In a post on the Skype Heartbeat blog, the company's Leonas Sendrauskas stated: Early this morning we were ...read more
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