Whatever your thoughts on Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines, one thing they did get right with it, was the sounds of the assault rifles and that's commendable, even if the rest of the game isn't. And that's because sound in the Alien universe is incredibly important. The original film's orchestral score …

Cooler Master has announced a new miniature keyboard design, with a standard layout (minus the numpad extras) and mechanical switches. But the real selling point, is the fancy LED effects it can put out thanks to its onboard, 32bit ARM processor. Unfortunately beyond a little mouse-over light show on this …

Following on from news that Xbox has a new boss, Phil Spencer, with plans to merge multiple departments together, including Microsoft Studios, the game development arm of the software giant is being hit by layoffs, with several staffers posting confirmation on Twitter; some of them, with links to their new …

When the NSA spying revelations were first revealed, it was clear American metadata was being used when it came to tracking down terrorists – though it wasn't particularly useful – but Obama and others made bold statements that suggested “nobody [at the NSA] is listening to [American] telepohone calls.” However now …

One of the most horrifying parts of The Matrix, wasn't that we were being grown and harvested like cattle, in a situation that makes you wonder, “why not just use cattle?” but that if you gave the robots any problems, the agents would impregnate you with a little, belly button …

Age of Mythology (AoM), while not quite as well remembered as Age of Empires, is one of the PC's classic RTS titles, and like Empires, it's getting a re-release on Steam. However, as well as being updated for modern PC compatibility, it's also getting a few tweaks to make it …

Beyond the obvious racism of the Lord of the Rings, the protagonist for upcoming Assassin's Creed, Tolkein mashup, Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor, has a very good reason for killing the Elvish abominations, which we get to see first hand in the latest trailer for the Monolith developed game. [yframe …

There's a lot of talk of Virtual Reality at the moment, with the announcement of Facebook's Oculus acquisition, Sony's debut of the Morpheus prototype and the news that there's a new kid on the block, the next year is looking quite exciting for VR enthusiasts. However, not everyone thinks the …

We broke the story recently that the sorry tale of Twin Galaxies was shadier than anyone had imagined, with the ownership of the company in question and several parties fighting it out, ultimately resulting in the fans of the long-time video game score keeping organisation getting hit worst of all. …

Considering how successful the Oculus Rift has been already, it's a wonder it took anyone almost two years to reveal a competitor. We finally got that last month with Sony's Morpheus, though only just before Oculus fired back with a Facebook takeover and Devkit 2 pre-orders. However, now there's another …

Net Neutrality is quite a hot topic around the internet based world at the moment, as it seems America and other countries may see the future as a gated community of permissions and access hierarchy and a lot of people aren't happy with it. Similarly, not many people are happy …

There's been a lot of controversy over Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, mostly around graphics. While the 2012 version looked stunning for the time and still, the latest trailers have fallen a bit flat and look like everything in the game world has been scaled back. Ubisoft maintains that that's just for …

While every other site out there is spending its April fools' day trying to make you feel like a dummy for hitting that share button, we don't play that kind of game here at KitGuru. Instead, we're launching another Steam community group competition, where you can win the Steam game …

Plastic is a big issue. Just watch that Vice documentary on the island of floating rubbish in the Pacific. It's a big problem. Recycling is a great effort and there's ideas for fixing the island (Boyan Slat's seems doable), but a really sustainable solution would be to replace all our …

Even though most seem to have come around to the idea, there's still a few of you that are pissed Oculus VR was bought out by Facebook. But what if other beloved companies, like the one behind Star Citizen was also bought out by the social network? Don't worry, it won't. …

Popular dating and matchmaking site OkCupid has taken a bold stance against Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, after it came out that he gave financial support to Proposition 8 in 2008, which tried to overturn the right for gay people to marry in California. Now the dating site has essentially …

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that KG readers aren't the biggest reality TV watchers. Perhaps though, one that was available exclusively online and showed some of the world's most beloved indie developers building new titles in-front of our very eyes, while competing with each other …

If you're working at Microsoft at the moment, it's questionable whether you'll be able to read this story at all, just because it mentions piracy. At least that's what's happening with TorrentFreak, which has been informed by a secretive Microsoft employee, that visiting its torrent news site shows up a …

The Wii U is in a tough position at the moment, with a game library that's still failing to excite enough people to help bolster the console's relatively meagre usebase, and hardware that seems less impressive than ever in the wake of the Xbox One and PS4's release (even if …

Riot Games recently launched its new League of Legends Team Builder, which allowed players to pre-emptively select the position, role and character they wanted to play, thereby only matching with people that wanted to do different things and therefore securing a much more in-fighting free game experience. However, the problem …

There's a big anti-pornography campaign going on in the UK at the moment, with David Cameron using it as a way to curry favour with Chinese investors, media lobbies as a way to get more proxies and pirate sites blocked and the cries of “think of the children,” being used once …

British authorities are hoping to go after pirate websites' sources of revenue, in a continued bid to make them less profitable and less popular. The initiative will see the creation of a list of classified “illegal” websites, known as the Infringing Website List, which will then be distributed to companies …

If there was any doubt that the next Call of Duty: Ghosts content pack, Devastation, would have a Predator involved somehow – the stealthed reveal seemed pretty obvious – that has now been dispelled with the trailer for the DLC, which actually shows us the alien hunting alien, in the …

If you're a media lobby group like the BPI, MPAA, RIAA, FACT or any of the numerous others dotted about the globe, then you get the majority of your funding from studios paying you to be their digital piracy watchdogs. However, there's another method of drumming up the Christmas bonuses …

Kim Dotcom is an outspoken man, one quick glance at his Twitter or any of the news coverage he's had here at KitGuru will tell you that, but the courts in New Zealand don't like it and want him to stop tweeting any mention of his upcoming extradition trial altogether, …

You know what the problem with the Olympics is? Not enough robotics. Fortunately the Swiss hosted Cybathlon in 2016, is going to fix that, by allowing parathletes with certain disabilities, to compete in physical trials using whatever advanced robotics, powered suits or electrically stimulated muscles they want. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKHrDXvUsM'] Throughout …

Despite once long ago saying that it wouldn't offer game sales, EA has now made the original Dead Space entirely free on its Origin download platform for a limited time, as part of a new scheme it's launched called “On the House.” In this new system, EA will offer up …

Teased and talked about for several months, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's Internet Party political group has now been officially launched, putting its policies out there for the first time and asking for member registrations. On the newly launched website, Dotcom himself introduces the party (along with a parodied special guest) …

3D printing might have started off as a potential game changer for the war gaming miniature industry, but as time has gone on its become apparent that making 3D objects out of plastic without a mould, isn't only awesome, but very versatile too. Case in point, a Dutch woman has …

In case you've been living under a virtual rock for the past 48 hours, you couldn't have failed to miss the news that Facebook bought out Oculus VR, makers of the Rift headset. While this saddened, angered and confused many, as people calm down, they're starting to realise this might …