While the internet has let us do many things in the last couple of decades, one of its overarching achievements has been bringing people from around the world together and humanising them. In an effort to continue this trend, muslims and christians from the Philippines on either side of a forty year conflict are …

THQ hasn't had a good run of things in the past year, with stock price problems, studio firings, game sales below expectations and more. However, one bright spot in the murky waters has been the new Humble THQ Bundle, which has seen over $3 million generated in the past few …

Wolfire Games, the original creators of the Humble Bundle indi funding initiative, has released a new game that shows just how board games should be played online: with far less rules and real time players. One of the problems with online board gaming – and card games to a similar …

A new patent has been published, that seems to suggest Sony is looking to create a new type of controller that combines its traditional dual analogue stick setup, with twin motion move peripherals. While functionally it could be interesting, it looks pretty dumb. It seems like the controller will be …

Already dominating book sales around the world and even more so in the Ebook industry, Amazon is set to expand its own publishing business into Europe as early as next year. Based out of its Luxembourg, EU HQ, Amazon will be initially looking for English language authors. While it seems …

Since The Pirate Bay (TPB) was blocked by the major ISPs in the UK earlier this year, the Pirate Party has been running a proxy to allow people to easily circumvent the block. Now though, the British Phonographic Organisation (BPI) has sent a request, asking that it be removed. Of …

Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 has shut down, over a year after a court order forced the UK's biggest ISPs to block it and following continued action by copyright lobbyists to prevent it from operating in a fashion that was possible for the admins to continue. “For a long time we …

While it's not certain at the moment, it's being suggested by some sources that the Liberal Democrats could be pushing to have the Communications Data Bill – one that would give police increased powers to monitor email and internet usage – squashed. According to the BBC, the Home Office is …

One of the big selling points of a streaming library is the sheer number of films and TV shows it offers. Today Lovefilm's total dropped by more than 60, as it axed Doctor Who and a plethora of other shows. This marks an about face by Lovefilm – once owned …

Google's social vice president Bradley Horowitz has taken a few swings at Facebook, as part of his suggestion that the time is ripe for Google's + service to become the dominant social network, citing what he considers to be a general distaste for Facebook's advertising practises as a major reason …

Sony is looking likely to sell its battery business, after reports emerged that up to three different parties could be interested in its purchase, all of them investment banks. This move would see the production of li-ion batteries for laptops and smartphones being completely sold off to another firm. Like …

Everything Everywhere – previously Orange and T-Mobile – has increased its data allowance for all 4G packages by as much as 60 per cent, though it still fails to offer an exploitable unlimited package to consumers. Existing customers of EE will have their current packages upgraded for free and anyone …

The long standing fight to keep the creator of streaming website TVShack, Richard O'Dwyer, from being extradited to the US has come to fruition, with the man managing to avoid trial overseas, with perhaps a small fine as his only recompense. O'Dwyer will still need to visit the US as …

Up until recently, if you were on a British Airways flight you'd have to wait until you were well in the air before switching on the in-flight entertainment. Now though, the firm has cleared its usage during take off and landings. This has been in the works for some time, …

Valve's ‘economist in residence' Yanis Varoufakis, has opened up in a blog post translated by Neogaf user alexanderos, that gives us a little more information on Valve's hardware developments, including the reasoning behind them. “At the time period between March till June I went back to Valve and we begun …

While it's still considered as a rumour for now, there are reports abound suggesting that Foxconn – yes the same Foxconn that employed children – could be set to manufacture the smartphones of both Microsoft and Amazon in the coming year. Taking this with a pinch of salt, we have …

Every six months or so, a lot of Facebook users that haven't done so before, copy and paste legalise onto their wall, thinking that it will protect their content from use by Facebook in advertising and marketing – unfortunately for those involved, it doesn't make any difference. The legal sounding notice purports …

We've posted a lot of hate here for Microsoft's latest Windows operating system in the past few weeks, about sales numbers, how some people think its misguided, that it's not that fast for gaming – and of course there's been talk from Gabe Newell and Markus Persson about how it's …

Starting in mid December, anyone wanting to take part in trading items on Valve's Steam, will need to have Steam Guard activated. This currently optional layer of protection is being implemented, presumably to prevent hackers taking advantage of the system. This news was spotted by a Redditor, with other commenters …

While our technologically minded cousins across the pond might have their Dr Pepper, their Mountain Dew and their “caw-fee,” our little island nation is more content to sip contentedly on a cup of fine chai. However, while coffee brewing has become heavily mechanised in the past couple of decades, with …

In what sounds like the creation for the perfect tech, buddy movie, dream team, philosopher Huw Price, astrophysicist Martin Rees and co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, have come together to work out the chances of technology turning on its masters and doing a Matrix on us. “In the case of …

It's been almost a year since Valve announced that it had hit five million concurrent gamers on its Steam digital download platform and now it's crested that wave, reaching the lofty heights of six million gamers at one time. Perhaps what's more impressive about this stat, is that there wasn't …

Samsung and Apple have been at each other's throats for some time now, across the business landscape and in the courtrooms. Despite all this they've been cooperating on certain aspects of their products, one such way being that Apple's iPad and MacBook lines used Samsung batteries. Now however, Apple has …

Update: The discount has now dropped to 98 per cent, so it's still only a couple of dollars. Well worth it. Crashplan data backup has announced a deal on its Twitter for 100 per cent free account creation for two hours only. You'll need to be fast to get in …

People wondered where copyright lobbyist pandering would get us and while we don't necessarily know the destination, the direction is certainly clear. Finnish police have confiscated the Winnie the Pooh adorned laptop of a nine year old girl, accusing her of piracy. According to Torrentfreak, the story begins back in 2011, when …

Nintendo has announced that when its new console, the Wii U, launches in the UK, it will be at a partnered HMV store on London's Oxford Street. It will officially begin at 12am, but doors will actually open an hour before, with the first 100 people awarded a free game. …

If you've been wanting to buy up some Razer gear for a while but haven't quite had the funds to do so, now might be the right time to invest, as Razer has just dropped the prices on some of its products for the weekend – offering free shipping with …

While this sort of piece normally belongs in the games section of KitGuru, it's hard to resist when some of your earliest gaming memories come back in full Kickstarter style. Dizzy Returns has been announced by the Oliver twins, the original creative minds behind the boxing gloved handed, egg shelled …

While Windows 8 might not be selling well, some might call it a misguided product and we know it isn't all that fast for gaming, not everyone is quite so negative. The new VP of Microsoft Game Studios, Phil Harrison, is planning dedicated development for the new OS. “We are …

We know Google isn't the only one working on a glasses based, heads up display, but now we can add one more name to that list, with a published Microsoft patent showing that it too is keen to get in on the emerging scene. However the software giant's offering appears …