Tag: Games
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Hatch App – Cloud Gaming For Free
Hatch app is now released for trial in U.K. and welcome to cloud gaming! What is Hatch though? Hatch is a mobile cloud gaming platform that has fully integrated social features. It also has over 100 mobile games to play instantly, all you need do is set up an account, oh, and its free! Hatch…
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No Man’s Sky Devs Seemingly Abandon Office After Game Flops
You may have already heard how procedurally generated title No Man’s Sky was released a few months ago – but did you hear about what happened next? Gamers and fans alike were enchanted by the visual excellence and seemingly smooth and polished worlds teased in trailers, with a hype train seemingly on an unstoppable course towards…
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Gaming Weekly 10/06/2016 – Dead Rising 4, Watch Dogs 2, XCOM 2, Injustice 2
The Gadget Helpline’s GAMING WEEKLY has returned! Each week our dedicated team of gamers will gather some of the top gaming news and announcements from the last seven days and deliver them here to you, our fellow players! It’s our penultimate issue before the gaming world goes E3 crazy, and this week we have new…
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Gaming Weekly 13/05/2016 – Pokémon Sun & Moon, Last Of Us 2, Overwatch Beta
The Gadget Helpline’s GAMING WEEKLY has returned! Each week our dedicated team of gamers will gather some of the top gaming news and announcements from the last seven days and deliver them here to you, our fellow players! This week we have a line-up including new characters from the upcoming Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon,…
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First Xbox 360 Games That Work On Xbox One Revealed
Xbox One backwards compatibility was announced at E3 this year, with gamers expected to be able to play an entire range of titles from the Xbox 360. If you’ve still got your old Xbox 36 discs you should find that the titles listed below work on the Xbox One. SEE ALSO: Amazon Opens Real-Life Book…
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Steam Sections Arriving In GAME This Autumn
Steam is where it’s at for gaming on the PC, but did you know that soon Steam is going to make the transition over to the less complex and more affordable console market? We’ve been hearing about Steam Boxes, Steam Controllers and Steam console operating systems for years now, and true to their word Valve…
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Steam Starts Offering Refunds
Steam is finally getting a proper refund system. Starting this month, users of Valve’s PC platform will be able to get a full refund on any game for any reason, provided it’s been less than 14 days since purchase and they’ve spent less than two hours playing the game. Seems pretty reasonable, you’ll be able…
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VR App ‘Saves’ People For Memorial
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There are a tremendous amount of uses for virtual reality that we’re only just discovering. Facebook is giving the users to share video using virtual reality, and app developers across the world are already their own forays into the technology. VR allows objects to be shown much more clearly than on a display, giving the…
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How Long Does It Take to Download an Xbox One Game?
At the Gadget Helpline we receive quite a few calls from frustrated Xbox One gamers who are desperately waiting to play their latest digital purchase but are experiencing a seemingly endless wait for the game download to complete. There are various factors which can affect download times including your network connection speed and the status…
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Valve Offering Vive VR Developer Kits Free
Valve are working with HTC to bring their own Vive VR headset onto the market in direct competition with Oculus Rift. The headset will offer competitive features and of course work with HTC devices as well as Valve’s Steam. However, the difference between Vive and Rift is a matter of price – a large sum…
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Virus Holds Video Games To Ransom
A tricky computer virus has been discovered which amazingly manages to hold people’s video games at ransom in exchange for extortionate amounts of money. The virus is a variant of crypto-ransom software TeslaCrypt, which notoriously hold people’s computers to ransom for massive amounts of money by locking out their programs. File extensions associated with games,…
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Windows 10 Xbox App Updated
The app for Windows 10 that interacts with the Xbox one has recently been given a fresh set of upgrades, plus the speculation continues on just what cross compatibility features will be coming next for the console and the operating system. Already we’ve learned that games from the Xbox will be playable on the PC,…