It's the second delay for Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. However the company's placing security at the heart of its new strategy and so wants the alteration to be absolutely right. At the time of writing of course this delay ranges from a...

Building on a successful brand, the next Splinter Cell game, subtitled Chaos Theory, will arrive on the Xbox and PC in time for Christmas, Ubi Soft told us today. Other platforms including Nokia's N-gage will see their versions arrive in the first quarter...

When it comes to Rally Games, Europress were in charge with the Rally Championship games in the mid-1990s, marked out by their trademark dance-influenced music soundtracks before Codemasters with the then-up-and-coming Colin McRrae and Nicky Grist arrived...

According to a new study by the Business Software Alliance 29% of software on the UK's computers is pirated.

However Eastern Europe's figures spike first to 50% and then to 71% in places. That means the average across all surveyed regions is...

Usually it's PC owners waiting for months and sometimes years on end for the hot console favourites to reach the home computer. Usually there's the constant worry that the end result will be a lazy port that hardly works instead of a refined design making...

Illustrating why McAfee have decided to concentrate on internet security products, writers of the Bagle virus have decided, now that it's in its 30th variant, to release it for anybody to have a go.

Bagle-AD is a mass-mailing worm ZIPped into...

How many did you own? Sony's Walkman reached its 25th birthday today. Thankfully not renamed the Soundabout as it nearly was outside Japan, even if you somehow managed to not end up with a Walkman, you knew someone who was showing off the great new tape...

UPDATED 5th JULY 2004 - A mass email was sent to Hotmail users in the UK over the past weekend, properly announcing the changes as detailed in our update below, promising to outline the timetable within a fortnight. When we know Microsoft's roadmap, we'll...

It's not the political general election that really matters to us gamers next year, but rather which games console after this current generation will be first past the post- as the platform with the head start usually dominates for a considerable period...

UPDATE:Since the weekend details have emerged regard Doom III's release- in a reversal of the staggered release dates of, for example, the Lord Of The Rings movies on DVD, the August release is to be a special edition. Contents are rumoured to be a Doom...

We knew that a counter-offering to Google's Gmail service offering a minimum of a gigabyte was due in summer. Users who paid to expand their mailboxes received a pleasant announcement in the last 24 hours from Yahoo - If you had a 25Mb mailbox before,...

Last Autumn SCI rewarded the fans of the bestselling Conflict: Desert Storm with a sequel. The next game, like many other developers, opens up a new front and franchise in the shape of Conflict: Vietnam.

It's early from the announcement but...

The conventional wisdom is that no-one wants to play games in summer, so for years the industry created a self-imposed release drought from the end of June up to the August Bank Holiday. In the case of Tron 2.0, the delay went on for a whole extra month...

Valve is full of surprises, and thanks to the theft of Half-Life 2 source code, not all of them are of its own making. However it was certainly a surprise to hear that the original Half Life, probably now past its third million in sales thanks to the...

A single screenshot (see right) made up of shattered glass and gunfire spraying everywhere raised much speculation as the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) progressed this week.

However the formal announcement arrived that the game is not...

Some of the oldest security flaws in Windows- up to seven months old- were patched in a sweeping Easter bulletin from Microsoft, culminating in a set of 20 Windows updates measuring just under four megabytes.

Sadly the weight of worldwide traffic...

Google is launching GMail later this year, and the monolithic search engine kings, cash-rich and looking for other revenue streams, seem to be following the Yahoo! road and choosing Email as its next venture.

The difference is, they have...

Fifa 2004 was released last week (ending 25th October 2003) and the combined versions sent the title went straight to number one in the All formats chart, with its best showing on Playstation 2 (no.1 again). It only relegated Pro Evolution Soccer (PES)...

There were two bonus map sets from Epic and Digital Extremes and then the Ownage Compilation of maps handpicked by the lead designer Cliff Bleszinski. Now the map making community have released another pack of dangerously well polished maps and with Epic...

Underestimating a core fanbase and TV advertising- and sponsorship- means playing into the hands of Electronic Arts. After just a fortnight Mr Woods' latest incarnation is top of the all format charts (week ending 4th October 2003). Another easy million...

It's always dangerous making a mod based on existing copyright such as Star Wars, Trek or Harry Potter as the makers of the Stargate Mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 found out. This was the message from moddb.com;

“This mod will get shut down.

The retro dollar is not to be sniffed at. The Thirtysomething generation wanting a passable driving game for their kids, or who wanted to relive this venerable TV show, bought the game in sufficient numbers (unrev

This time you'll be able to...

t's a moment many have waited for, but finally EA's love it or hate it management game The Sims was at number ten in its anniversary week in the ELSPA charts in the final week of September. While it's newsworthy it's to be expected when The Sims 2 is...

The Sober Virus attacks any platform and is the newest thread to Windows. This time Windows 95 and 98 users do not escape as they did with the globally famous Blaster worm. All retail virus clients will have updated by now and free clients such as Antivir...

One month and counting until a regular milestone event in the software industry calendar: The unveiling of the newest version of Microsoft Office. Whether it has this year's or next year's name as a suffix, when it's fully revealed we'll bring you the...