Although Attack on Titan could be pegged as just an alternate take on the tired zombie formula, its the size and grinning faces of the titans that makes it so unnerving. That and they're enormous and much harder to kill than your average head-shot deaddite. Still, that doesn't mean people …

Although NASA has continued to wow the world with its efforts in sending robots to Mars and planet discovery, it's Elon Musk's Space X that has captured many people's imaginations this year, with the continued push for a re-usable first-stage Falcon rocket using an automated drone platform. While the last effort didn't …

Posting nude or compromising photos or videos of individuals without their permission is set to become a criminal offence in England and Wales, making the practice of posting “revenge porn,” online, illegal. This falls in line with other parts of the world, like Victoria in Australia, which banned the practice …

Even though sites like Facebook have encouraged the use of our real names online, most of us have been gaming and chatting under pseudonyms for much of our internet based lives. Often we go through several different ones before something sticks and once it does, that name can have a …

Dovetail Games, the developer behind the true DLC monster that is the Train Simulator series of games, had a special visitor yesterday: British Prime Minister David Cameron. While there, he praised the company's efforts in developing new business for the UK and used the trip as a platform to announce his …

If you have been using the same password for years, then perhaps this will encourage you not to. A researcher by the name of Mark Burnett, has released a list of over 10 million passwords and usernames which he was able to harvest in clear text from various websites and …

One of the saddest cases of a developer's projects turning South was Rare, a company well known for some of the '90s and early '00s most beloved games. Titles like Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Donkey Kong Country and of course, Banjo Kazooie. While it would go …

Copyright protection is there for a reason, we're always told. It's there to protect the rights of artists to benefit from their hard work and creativity – and to an extent, that's true. Governments usually agree on this too, which is why copyright law has been a major component in …

Considering how relatively close – in space terms – the Moon is, you would think that getting a look at the back of it wouldn't be that complicated – especially since it spends all of its time rotating around us. However due to tidal-locking, looking up into the night's sky …

In 2013, the United States riled up a lot of people, as Edward Snowden released a bevy of classified NSA documents to the press, which revealed the extent of the spying perpetrated by the NSA and its international contemporaries. However one person it really angered was German chancellor, Angela Merkel, …

The once upon a time head of the MegaUpload file locker's software development division, Andrus Nomm, has been arrested in the USA on charges of copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit racketeering. While the Estonian national was once named as a major player in the development of the defunct file …

As fun as esports can be, they are have a dangerous combination of young players and big money, which means people are going to try and exploit their lack of experience. That's what looks to have happened in the case of Meet Your Makers League of Legends mid-laner Marcin “Kori” Wolski, …

The hacktivist movement Anonymous has made good on its promises to target those associated with the violent extremist organisation, ISIS, by taking over and knocking out hundreds of websites and social media accounts that help promote the organisation and encourage recruitment from new members. Apparently though, this is just the …

If you own a voice activated smart TV from Samsung, there's a good chance it's recorded conversations you've had with people in the same room, whether it was turned on or not. The worst part of that privacy invasion however, is that Samsung has been sending that information to third …

Last year was a disastrous one for AAA releases. So many released with reams of bugs, flaws and issues that made them practically unplayable for a number of players. Much of this was laid at the feet of pushy publishers rushing to hit release targets and Ubisoft was one of …

For the first time in the history of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – a court designed specifically to look into complaints against Britain's intelligence agencies – it has found the actions of GCHQ unlawful in its dealings with the NSA and how it spied on British citizens for many years, hoovering …

The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into anti-semitism, has made a formal request that politicians make it possible to ban racists from social networks in their entirety, much like sex offenders can have their internet access restricted. This comes after the group's recent report found that anti-semitism was on the rise on …

Silicon Studios' beautiful piece of rendering tech, the Mizuchi Engine, that we first saw early last year, is set to be playable for the first time in just under a month, at this year's Game Developers' Conference. Along with it however will be the equally impressive post-effects middleware “YEBIS 3,” the …

It should come as no surprise that Turtle Rock's upcoming monster hunting cat and mouse title, Evolve, was going to have a big day one patch. We heard that the game had gone gold in early January, just over a week before the big Beta test that saw Xbox One, PC …

Having recently spent a good week putting the Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM bluetooth speaker through its paces, I half expected never to see one again – on to the next news and reviews. However UE had different plans and invited KitGuru and a number of other journalists to Milton Keynes last …

For anyone that's tried an Oculus Rift DK1, DK2 or better yet, a Crescent Bay prototype, one of the most common questions on their lips is: “when will the consumer version be released?” As if dangling a golden VR carrot in-front of our face, Oculus Story Studio's supervision technical director, …

Popular smartphone fitness tracking application, MyFitnessPal, has now been acquired by US based sports clothing company Under Armour for $475 (£311) million . This brings it into the fold of workout related apps like MapMyFitness and EndoMondo, creating a unified platform for keeping an eye on how you performed in …

British Telecom has announced that for a staggering £12.5 billion, it will be purchasing mobile provider Everything Everywhere (EE), creating one of the largest telecoms companies in the world. The deal will see existing shareholders Deutsche Telecom and Orange sell their current stakes in the business, but receive a small …

It seems Games Workshop has finally realised that it's sitting on a goldmine of an IP, as the last six months have seen more Warhammer games announced than the franchise has had released in its entire history. To continue that trend, another game based in the Warhammer: Fantasy universe  has …

For media groups, the war on piratcy is one that will never be won, but there are battles that can be fought and contested and one of the ones they like fight the most, is send letters out to allegedly infringing internet users demanding money. However, they can't do that …

With all of the DLC controversy that's surrounded Turtle Rock's monster hunting shooter, Evolve, it's worth remembering that the game does feature a lot of unlockable content too. Yes, no one is particularly happy with the monster pricing nudge to pre-order, but there is still a lot of non-DLC content. …

If like me you've wheeled up to LAN events like Multiplay's iSeries with your PC in tow, only to sit down on their bog-standard chairs and stare enviously at those in large, plush arm chairs and racing seats, then this week may be the best time to remedy that, as …

Twitter, unlike its main social networking rival, Facebook, has always had a bit of a problem with monetisation. The users have always been there and the platform produces a lot of ‘content,' but figuring out how to make money from it has been much harder than it has been for …

Failbetter Games' Sunless Sea has been available as an early access title for a while. During that period it's gone through big overhauls of the combat system and has seen the map expand far beyond its initial boundaries. Finally though, it's nearing an official launch, so to celebrate and tempt …

The Motion Picture Association of America recently released a statement claiming that complaining about availability with movies was ridiculous, as clearly there are many legal avenues to go down when it comes to buying and renting movies in your own home. However research suggests that most of the top-torrented films …