Yesterday, some of the biggest names in the public fight for internet freedoms and personal privacy made an appearance together in Auckland, New Zealand, to talk to Internet Party members and concerned citizens, about the upcoming New Zealand general election and they spent a lot of their time criticising the”adolescent” …
Read More »Donkey Kong has a new king
If the last time you checked in with the Donkey Kong arcade game world record was the 2007 documentary, King of Kong, then you have quite a bit of catching up to do as the two competitors from the film, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, aren't even in the top …
Read More »Governments continue to lean on Google for user info
Despite the fact that the world and his dog are now aware of the PRISM program in the US, Tempora here in the UK, Xkeyscore around the world and any number of other invasive programs, thanks to the efforts of Edward Snowden and other whistle blowers, it seems that Governments …
Read More »be quiet! Straight Power 10 competition
If you're a regular reader here at KitGuru, then you know that one of our favourite things to do is put some of the world's best hardware up for grabs for those willing to perform some simple task. Well today is no different, as we've teamed up with the fine …
Read More »Hearthstone hits 20 million player milestone
Who would have thought when Hearthstone launched officially earlier this year, that the next hugely popular, competitive title to hit the PC would be a collectible card game? Well you better believe it now, as Blizzard has released an image on Twitter to celebrate the fact that it now has …
Read More »It’s official: Microsoft is buying Minecraft, Notch is leaving
Well there you have it guys, it's a done deal: Microsoft is buying Minecraft and the studio behind it, Mojang and the original creator of the game, Markus “Notch” Persson is leaving the company for good. He's not been actively involved in developing for Minecraft for some time, but this …
Read More »New Xbox 360 bundles coming this Christmas
If you're in need of a DVD player or something to access Netflix with a bit more oomf than you set top box (oh and it plays games too), Microsoft is set to offer some new bundles for its Xbox 360 console this Christmas, one of which will come with …
Read More »Samsung, LG in washing machine scandal
I know that in general we cover light hearted news here at KitGuru, but today we have to take a swing at real, hard hitting journalism, as it turns out that Samsung, is accusing LG of sending its employees to showrooms in Germany, in order to damage Samsung's high end washing …
Read More »NZ PM in alleged Dotcom extradition plot
The character of New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, has once again been called into question, after internet entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom, announced that he had in his possession a copy of an email conversation between the CEO of Warner Bros and the MPAA's Mike Ellis, that discussed Mr Key allowing …
Read More »Phones 4U alludes to network collusion
Mobile phone retailer Phones 4U has announced that due to the decision by both Everything Everywhere (EE) and Vodafone to no longer do business with it, that it has been forced to enter administration in order to protect its assets long enough to figure out if it's even possible to …
Read More »GTA V delayed for PC, hitting consoles in November
If you've been waiting for a version of GTA V that wasn't running on near-decade old hardware, then you're in luck, as before long the anarchy simulator is set to be released on the Xbox One and PS4, but the hotly anticipated PC version has unfortunately suffered delays and now …
Read More »What is the net neutrality argument all about?
There's a few things that we're quite passionate about here at KitGuru. One is providing you guys with the most honest breakdowns of new hardware possible and we do our best to break well researched, up to the minute news too. But down in our guts is where you'll find things that …
Read More »Spinosaurus walked on all fours, hunted on land and in water
It's time to once again go back to that iconic Dinosaur resurrection trilogy, Jurassic Park and correct our view without the 90's tint, as it turns out that along with the raptors not being of the veloci-kind and the fact that they'd probably have been covered in feathers, the Spinosaurus …
Read More »Curiosity rover reaches main scientific destination
The Curiosity rover is a marvel of modern engineering. After spending eight months in the cold black of space, it descended through Mars' carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and landed in the Gale Crater in August 2012. From there it conducted a few simple scientific experiments, but spent the majority of …
Read More »British ISPs continue blocks against Pirate Bay proxies
As file sharing has evolved over the past decade, the efforts of lobby groups and studios to stop it have done so too. Back in the day the technique of choice was to sue individual downloaders and uploaders, but that's time consuming and ultimately has little effect on the number …
Read More »Leeroy and Starving Buzzard getting Hearthstone nerfs
In one of your games of Hearthstone in the past few months, have you come across a combination that made use of Leeroy Jenkins to take you out in one turn before you could react? Perhaps when going up against a Hunter your opponent was able to draw themselves upwards …
Read More »In Alien: Isolation, how will you survive?
In the build up to the release of Alien Isolation in just under a month's time, Creative Assembly has been releasing teasers of the game with the tagline (and hashtag) “how you will you survive?” If our efforts are anything like those of the player being showcased in the trailers, …
Read More »Consumer Oculus Rift coming by April next year
If like me, you're on tenterhooks awaiting your pre-ordered Oculus Rift devkit 2, then it probably won't be much comfort to know that this time around your hardware won't feel as revolutionary for as long, as the much teased consumer version of Oculus' virtual reality headset could be hitting public …
Read More »Reddit made a killing on the celebrity nude scandal
Reddit recently banned the main groups associated with the “Fappening,” which saw prominent female celebrities' personal photographs leaked onto the internet and distributed via links and uploads to relevant subreddits and just about everywhere else on the web. However before Reddit dropped the banhammer on all forums associated with the event, …
Read More »Help charity, play games with Will Ferrell
Despite all the hate that most of the gaming press has been heaping on its readers as of late, in some sort of strange instance of chastising the hand that feeds it, gamers aren't actually a bunch of misogynistic, hateful, basement dwellers. In-fact, a vast majority are well adjusted adults …
Read More »Dotcom to get cloned drives from Megaupload trial
It turns out that after all the legal wrangling and back and forthing in the courts, Kim Dotcom is going to have access to some of the evidence against him, as the Court of Appeals has ruled that although the raid on his house in January 2012 was legal, the …
Read More »Channel 4 to replace 4oD with All 4
Channel 4 has announced that its long standing on-demand service, 4oD, is coming to an end and will soon be replaced by its successor. All 4 will combine the current on-demand viewing options with the ability to watch live television and view a guide of what's coming up in the …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Unity to get coop heists before GTA Online
It might have been almost a year since Rockstar released GTA V with its multiplayer mayhem simulator, GTA Online, but even though it's had plenty of DLC to keep things fresh, the oft-promised cooperative heists still have yet to make it into the game. Assassin's Creed Unity on the other …
Read More »Go slow day protests FCC decisions
Much of the internet is deliberately running that bit slower today, in order to protest a decision by the Federal Communications Commission in the US, that has effectively allowed for the discontinuation of net neutrality and the creation of “internet fast lanes,” where companies have to pay if they want …
Read More »Attack on Titan UE4 concept excites fans
Attack on Titan is a snowballing phenomenon of an anime/manga, in the West as much as the East, but if you aren't aware of it, it's often described as Japan's equivalent of the Walking Dead. Only with naked giants without genitals instead of zombies. Despite its popularity though, its only …
Read More »Apple debuts ‘iWatch’ called Apple Watch
Apple was always going to get in on the wearable game. Yes, we've seen its patent applications for wrist mounted computational devices, but if anything, it's because a tech field with a focus on style as much as substance is right up Apple's street. However, it isn't quite as we …
Read More »Microsoft could be buying Minecraft and Mojang for $2 billion
Minecraft could be gaming's biggest ever success story. Developed (initially) by one man from a clone of another game, into a massive entertainment product that's sold millions of copies on multiple platforms, Minecraft also spawned conventions and merchandise and changed pre-ordering and early access forever. And now Microsoft wants in …
Read More »The new Oculus Rift has easily-scratchable lenses
If you're one of the thousands eagerly awaiting your second iteration of the Oculus Rift headset but you don't happen to trawl through the official forums on a daily basis, you might have missed that there's a nasty issue with the DK2s currently being shipped out: the lenses scratch really …
Read More »Twitter enters retail game with ‘buy’ button
Evidently fed up with driving sales to every corner of the web without being able to take much credit, Twitter has implemented a way to buy products directly through the social network, thereby scoring itself a small portion of the profit. Not for every product mention though and not for …
Read More »Sony sells millionth PS4 in the UK
Nine months after putting its new-gen console on sale, Sony has managed too sell a million units in the UK alone. This makes it one of the fastest selling consoles ever, putting it just behind Nintendo's Wii which managed to hit the same milestone in just over eight and a …
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