How Ark: Survival Evolved and Twitch are breathing new life into roleplaying

Online roleplaying has been around since the dawn of the internet. Since 1975, in fact, when the first primitive Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) were created. In recent years, our understanding of…

Titanfall 2 Video Explains How It Will Avoid Server Launch Failures

Jon Shiring, lead engineer at Respawn Entertainment, reveals how the developer is planning to prevent server connection issues for Titanfall 2 on launch day. Online games are judged quickly based…

How to Make the Most of LinkedIn’s “Social Selling Index” Score

With a net worth of close to $5 billion, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman credits much of his entrepreneurial success to playing strategy games. “Business is the systematic playing of games,” he's fond of…

How Today’s Businesses Are Protecting Themselves From Data Loss

The use of computers leads to the creation of data. That data is often vital for the businesses that collect and produce it. If the data is lost or stolen…

We need to stop talking about how difficult Dark Souls is

Be warned, light spoilers for the Dark Souls series below. If there’s anything we need to ‘git gud’ at, it’s treating Dark Souls as something more than a vessel for…

How it feels to manage spreadsheets in VR

My monitors are floating in a starfield in front of me, curved around my head. If I look down and lean in, I can see green outlines of my hands…

How to make the most of the Steam Controller: a comprehensive guide

The Steam controller is intimidating. It’s not the keyboard and mouse we’ve been using as PC gamers for years and years, but it’s not a regular gamepad, either. The shape…

Destiny April Update: How to Get the Taken Armor Set and Emote

Guardians struggling to find the Taken armor set and its complimenting emote in Destiny‘s April Update should look no further, as we show fans how to get them. As many…

60 Seconds to Success: How to Use Instagram’s New 60-Second Video Option

  ​Instagram certainly rocked the social marketing boat these last couple of weeks with their announcement that your feed will soon be curated by an algorithm instead of by which accounts you follow…

How Intel’s acquisition of Altera could transform IoT and the data centre

After a relatively quiet transaction that began on June 1 2015, in December Intel officially acquired the Altera Corporation and reformed it as an internal department dubbed “Intel Programmable Solutions…