Uncharted 2 is the definitive Game of the Year title for 2009 with more industry awards than you can shake a stick at it. Sony recently announced a major milestone for the title in sales and awards. There is no arguing it; Uncharted 2 is the Game of the year 2009, far overshadowing any of its competitors for receiving the prestigious award across the majority of the...

2K’s creepy shooter Bioshock 2 has soared to the top of the PC weekly chart within its first week of release. Football Manager 2010 once again remains second, above The Sims 3 which climbs two places to third. Last week’s number one Star Trek Online falls four places to fifth, above another former number one Mass Effect 2, which falls from third to sixth.

Microsoft’s web browser has come under fire from both the German and French governments, who have issued advisories not to use it. The move comes after it emerged that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was the root of the Chinese hacking attacks aimed at Google (and other companies) last week. Both governments have recommended that citizens switch to an alternative...

The news isn’t good for fans of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, as the company has announced a further delay. The next version of Windows Mobile, which was supposed to be out originally in 2008, has been put back until the fourth quarter of next year. The delay was announced by Microsoft’s UK Head of Mobility Phil Moore at a recent conference. Ars Technica quoted...

Parents should not “look down” on comics as they are just as good for children as reading books, a new study claims. Researchers believe they can benefit from tales about the caped crusader, Superman and even Dennis the Menace in the same way they can from reading other types of literature, despite teachers and parents often being snooty about comics, experts...

Mozilla Labs has announced an experimental messaging aggregator called Raindrop. The project aims to sift multiple online communication sources and prioritise messages for the user. “Today people use so many messaging tools, it’s honestly hard to keep track of them all,” said Bryan Clark, Mozilla messaging lead, in a video to introduce the project. “Raindrop...

NEW YORK  — In case you’ve been living in a cave, the big news today is that Windows 7 officially debuts. It’s supposedly a vast improvement over the Vista operating system, and it’s gotten pretty good early reviews so far. Microsoft is banking on Windows 7 to breathe new life into a PC world where most computer users are running XP — an...

On Tuesday, Microsoft released the biggest record patch of their company related to Windows, Internet Explorer, Silver Light, Office and other products to fix security related issues including their yet to be released Windows 7 operating system. The software development corporation widely popular in the world release their monthly list of patches including 13 security...

New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS One today. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, say the software will also enable members of the public to act as ‘citizen...

Corporate experts feel that the war between the corporate giants, Google which tries to compete a bid with Microsoft’s operating system may lower the prices of the personal computers where prices are already being pinched by inexpensive net books. It is to be noted that Google is all set to release its new Chrome Operating System in mid 2010. Now Google has announced...