The development of a real, thinking AI, will perhaps be – when achieved – mankind's most crowning achievement. The true creation of an artificial life form. While we're still a way off from that, development of something akin to what we see in any of the many new and upcoming movies …

If like me you're counting the hours until the Evolve beta goes live on PC later today, then chances are you need something to tide you over until this evening. What better way to pass the time then, than by watching some test footage of the game's fourth and largest …

One of this year's big announcements from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – as well as crowd-sourcing this year's challenge for the young billionaire – was that he wanted to start his own Facebook book club, much like US talk show host, Oprah has. However unfortunately for the Facebook founder, not …

To live test digital defences in both the UK and the US, our national, salaried hackers are going to be going at one another in a series of online wargames, designed to mimic attacks from other nations' digital warriors. It will involve hacks against the financial sector, as well as …

Australia has a bit of a history of being sensitive about games. Until not too long ago, the maximum age rating it had for any game was 15, which meant if anything was considered inappropriate for someone in their mid-teens, the game wasn't going on sale. Despite the implementation of …

Blackberry, one of the long standing powerhouses in the mobile game until somewhat recently in its history, could well be bought out by Samsung. If that does go ahead, the rumoured figure is a staggering, $7.5 billion (£4.9 billion) but if so, it's unlikely to be for its place in …

Bitcoin has always been a pretty volatile currency, or commodity – depending on how you look at it. While it remained practically valueless for years, it eventually ended up peaking at over $1,200 per coin in late 2013. Since then it's crashed and risen several times, for the most part …

The effectiveness of warning letters sent to households that are thought to have downloaded media that's copyright protected is pretty much unknown. Some people pay up if money is demanded to make the whole thing go away, some ignore it and others fight it saying that it certainly wasn't them. However …

Dead Rising: Watchtower, is an upcoming live-action movie starring everyone's favourite secondary character actor, Rob Riggle, of 21 Jump Street and The Other Guys fame. He'll be playing the infamous photographer and zombie slayer, Frank West. Set to debut on Sony Pictures' Crackle streaming service, we now know that the movie …

One of the interesting aspects of Kerbal Space Program, is that much of what the developers have added over the past couple of years, especially when it comes to new parts and realism tweaks, was also developed by modders on the side. Sometimes those mods get incorporated and sometimes not, …

Even among most of our die-hard PC-centric fan base, there's still debates about which is better, the PS4 or the Xbox One, which should you get? Why not both? Etc. Etc. Still, why not both? Especially when you can bundle them both into a single chassis like reader Ed Zarick …

David Cameron has had a hard on for banning things online for years now. His big focus in 2013-14 was certain types of pornography, which ultimately led to mandatory filters on new broadband accounts and the banning of such innocuous actions in British porn production as face-sitting and female ejaculation. But …

You never really believed that even after its hit with Alien: Isolation, that Creative Assembly would stop making Total War games did you? Despite Rome II's somewhat lacklustre reception, another Total War game has been in the works for a couple of years already, but it steps into the world …

Microsoft has managed to score an Emmy for the Xbox One at the 66th Annual Technology and Engineering awards, presented to it at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas as part of CES. It won in the category for Television Enhancement Devices, beating out contemporary consoles and set top box …

A few weeks ago, Turtle Rock, makers of Left 4 Dead and the upcoming monster stomper/shooter, Evolve, asked its fans to name the first DLC monster for the game. All of the options were related to size and strength, like Colossus, Titan and Juggernaut. However none of those made the …

One of the problems we regularly discuss here at KitGuru, is the chicken and egg scenario. So often when a new technology is released, it needs the marketplace to garner content and investment, but it needs content and investment to gain enough interest for people to create a market for it. Perhaps …

After a recent law was passed in Canada that forced ISPs to send copyright infringement notices to their customers, copyright lobby groups have been jumping on the bandwagon and also firing off notices of their own. However, some have been using it as an opportunity to try and extort money …

The head of New Zealand's GCSB intelligence agency, Ian Fletcher, has announced his resignation on the grounds of what he describes as “family reasons.” Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who has regularly faced off with Fletcher and the New Zealand government during the ongoing pre-trial investigations for his extradition hearing, said …

Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is set to outline his and his party's continued distaste for the nicknamed, “Snooper's Charter,” after PM David Cameron announced that last week's terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine was a sign we needed greater digital security. The “Snooper's Charter,” or …

Seeing anything in Sunless Sea is a challenge. You have to have your ships' lonely, single light pointed in the right direction and you need to make sure your mirror skill is high enough or taking pot shots at anything is going to be very difficult. One thing the developers …

A lot of privacy advocates got a little worried during the press-conference where US President Barack Obama addressed the Sony hack, as he stated that the security breach was exactly why extra online powers needed to be given to intelligence agencies to thwart those responsible. However, just a few weeks later and …

G.Skill is no stranger to breaking new ground when it comes to memory speed world records, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that it's done that once again, this time smashing the DDR4 world record with a frequency of 4255MHz. Unlike some previous records however, this wasn't …

If there was any suggestion that the quality of shows produced by the likes of streaming platform holders, Amazon and Netflix, were anything less than that of more traditional network produced shows, the Golden Globes has shone a light on that fallacy. At this year's awards ceremony, both Netflix and …

Corsair's latest gaming mouse – the Sabre, ships with a high-end, 6,000 DPI Avago ADNS S3988 optical sensor, strong back-end software and an RGB LED colour system which lets you pick just about any colour for the backlighting. Of course a lot of its contemporaries ship with similar features, so …

Too often it seems that the protagonists in our games are the same muscle bound, shaved headed super soldiers. Some titles offer character customisation or play with our expectations, but I don't think I've ever played as a marked-for-death teen before. And that's exactly what we'll get to do in the upcoming …

Commercial space organisation, Space X, attempted a frequently delayed unmanned mission to the International Space Station on Saturday, delivering supplies and important cargo to the orbiting station for the first time in months. While the launch itself went off without a hitch, the big scientific experiment with it was to see …

As part of its continued expansion into every facet of our lives, Google may soon start selling car insurance in the US according to an analyst from Forrester Research. If it turns out to be true, this will go hand in hand with its new push it into automotive development: the …

What is going on with the Pirate Bay? Something tells me that's what the current admins want us to be asking. On the .se homepage that recently updated with a waving pirate flag, a pop-up ad and a countdown timer following a multi-week disappearance after a December raid, a new image …

Some of the best demos in the world for virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, are stationary ones like Sightline: The Chair. Why? Because when your body is immobile in both virtual and real… ugh, reality, it's a much more immersive experience. Getting full body movement to work is much …

Even though the private industry looks set to overtake NASA in the race to dominate the endless blackness outside of our own little world, here's hoping that the space agency and its international counterparts continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, rather than resorting to more commercial ventures. Still, …