You know what I love more than a great video game? A great board game. Not only do I get the similar depth of gameplay, but I also get to look across the table at my friends and family and bust their balls as I beat them. Which is why …

One of the big problems with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift at the moment, is the same one that's plagued every other bit of revolutionary tech ever made – the chicken and egg scenario. In this instance, you don't want to develop a game for hardware that not …

A couple of days ago, the House of Lords did something wonderful: it defeated a bill that would have made it illegal to “annoy,” or cause “nuisance,” to someone else. If that definition sounds incredibly loose to you, that's because it is, but that doesn't mean the government didn't want …

The British government seems to have finally decided that this old internet fad isn't going away and it could actually help speed up and simplify some of the more stuffy, traditional activities that citizens are forced to drudge through, like renewing car insurance. Along with 20+ other services, driver records …

Think your case is customisable? Think again. The new range of Genesis and Millenium chassis and builds from Origin PC are a whole new ball game. Ever wanted to mount your monitor at 90 degrees from the normal? Flip it round? Rotate it? You can if you give these guys …

Here in the UK University sports aren't something many people care about. Indeed the institution of the Oxford vs Cambridge rowing race is barely interesting enough for most people to raise an eyebrow, let alone tune in for. But over with our colony-cousins in the US, they love the stuff. …

Are you 100 per cent happy with your security? According to a recent Kaspersky survey most people are, usually because anyone that's aware of a problem with their system gets it fixed or shored up. It's the ignorant among us that need to be given a backhand and a quick …

As with almost every big show since its debut early last year, one of the most hotly anticipated technologies at CES was the Oculus Rift. We all knew the new prototype was going to be a higher resolution and have head tracking and it didn't disappoint, even if it didn't …

Digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is often at the forefront of defending consumer rights and the privacy of individuals online, so it's no surprise that in the wake of increasing NSA snooping revelations and the ongoing lack of consequences for those actions, it's calling for a full scale …

We had a lot of competitions running over the Christmas period, but now that the festivities are over, you might think that it's back to normal. It is, get back to work. But before you do, check this list and see if your name came up in the list of …

Alright guys, let's do this. We've seen teases, heard rumours and glanced upon leaked box art but now finally, Sega has unveiled not only details on the game, but our first look at Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley's daughter and a devblog that explains some of the motivations behind the game's …

I'm sure I don't have to tell you guys, that Kitguru has come a long way in the past few years, ultimately becoming one of the biggest independent review sites around and that's thanks to you guys as much as it is us, with our fine, fine content. In-fact if …

Hydrogen fuel cells have always been seen as the big future tech that's vaguely going to come about some time in the next few decades and it's been that way for a long time. Whether you're remembering Keanu and Mr Freeman's Chain Reaction, or have ever read into the complexity …

There's going to be a lot of new tech on show for the next few days thanks to CES, but not all of it is applicable to a gaming, enthusiast audience like yourselves. Fortunately though, some of it is and one piece of tech that's caught out eye is the …

If you've been living in China for the past near decade and a half, you'll have been restricted to PC gaming as your main source of video-game entertainment, since console sales were completely illegal. However it now looks like – temporarily at least – China has lifted its ban on …

Japanese camera manufacturer, Nikon, has announced a new range of picture boxes to steal your souls, known as COOLPIX. It'll encompass a wide range of different cameras, including the top end, high megapixel, super zoom range, the more style focused mid-range and a couple of Wi-Fi enabled , networked ones …

The next Sega stab at publishing a game based on the Alien franchise has a lot to live up to after the debacle that was Aliens: Colonial Marines, which is why everyone held their breath when it became clear it was pushing one out as soon as mid 2014. However …

The 3Ds might have had a slow start, but over the past year it's been selling incredibly well, with over 40 million units sold since it was released in early 2011. Now though, Nintendo may be wishing it hadn't done quite as well, since the courts have ruled in creating …

The Pirate Bay has been shaking up the internet for over a decade at this point, first by helping popularise torrents, then by its founders continually fighting charges that they're responsible for what their user base does and most recently for releasing the Pirate Browser, which helped people circumvent the …

Hundreds of university researchers, lecturers, professors have come together to sign the Academics Against Surveillance charter, which demands that governments around the world provide better online protection for their citizens' right to privacy, which they say has been eroded by the actions of organisations like the NSA, GCHQ and GCSB. …

If you've been reading much of Kitguru in the past month or so, you'll know I've been spending a fair bit of time playing around with my newly purchased Oculus Rift. I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm blown away, it's fun – though it does have some …

Evidently fed up of parents contacting it to say that their kids have taken their credit card and run up hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their behalf, Blizzard has now enacted a new policy, whereby all Battle.net accounts that have parental controls enabled, will have the ability for …

If you thought Elysium was dull, overlong and had only one (barely) passable feature – the super power making exoskeleton – you'd be right. But if you also thought that it'll be a long time before we're able to put together that sort of technology, you'd be wrong. At the …

Vice has become one of the most interesting but down to earth, documentary machines in the past few years, pumping out everything from look-ins at North Korean slave labour camps in Siberia, to hanging out with General Butt Naked. But it's not all warlords and despots on their radar, sometimes …

The be quiet! Christmas competition has now come to a close and the winners have begun to be announced. If you were one of the near 10,000 strong number of entrants, then it's worth heading over to the be quiet! competition page to see if you're one of the lucky …

A man has been arrested and charged with theft (among other offences) after he was caught in a sting operation, trying to sell brains to a middleman that he had previously stolen from a a range of over 2,000 patients' organs in the Indiana Medical History museum. The specimens range …

Think what you will of the guys behind Penny Arcade with all their dickwolf antics, the Child's Play charity they set up back in 2003 has been a resounding success. Not only has it become a household name in the gaming scene, especially thanks to its cooperation with sites like …

Anyone that's been reading TorrentFreak for some time, or indeed our own news stories on the matter, will know that despite all the bluster from the media industry and its copyright lobbyists, file sharing looks like it helps media sales rather than hampering them. This idea is further backed up …

Remember Looper? The big critic quote that was circulated around a lot near its release was “this decade's Matrix,” which for any uber nerd and action film fan is about as crack-like as testimonials go. Unfortunately what we got wasn't even close to that, with some poorly executed plot points …

Despite the glut of gaming no doubt going on in the wake of all the winter and Christmas sales most game distribution channels have been offering for the past couple of weeks, the last few days haven't been an easy time to be a PC gamer. Just a few days …