As fantastic as Zelda: The Breath of the Wild is, the game does suffer from poor frame rate at times, particularly when the Nintendo Switch is running in docked mode. This has been a widely reported issue that for some reason, is not present on Switch in handheld mode. Fortunately, …
Read More »Samsung confirms plans for a standalone VR headset targeted at gamers
Earlier this month, we started hearing new rumours surrounding Samsung's long-awaited standalone virtual reality headset. At the time, various anonymous sources claimed that Samsung standalone headset would have a much higher resolution than current high-end PC offerings. Since then, a Samsung's VP of global marketing has confirmed the company's standalone …
Read More »Palmer Luckey is no longer working at Oculus/Facebook
After founding the company and helping it get to the point where it is today, Palmer Luckey has officially left Oculus VR and by extension, Facebook as well. This move has been somewhat expected for several months now, as Luckey has remained silent since September, when he was found to …
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Read More »CD Projekt gives update on Cyberpunk 2077 as Witcher 3 passes 25 million sales
The Witcher 3 has been a massive critical success for CD Projekt Red and it seems those years of hard work crafting the game have truly paid off as this year, The Witcher 3 surpassed 25 million copies sold. That is around five million more than the figure CD Projekt …
Read More »Destiny 2’s full reveal trailer has dropped, PC version confirmed
Earlier this week, Bungie officially announced Destiny 2, following a retail/marketing leak over the weekend. At the time, only the game's logo was shown, this was then followed by a short minute long teaser trailer and now today, Destiny 2 has finally received a proper unveiling. Today, Bungie dropped the …
Read More »AMD RX 500 series leaks continue as new details and images land on the web
Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing more and more about AMD's upcoming Radeon RX-500 series. These new graphics cards are set to be a refresh of the Polaris lineup and according to what we have heard previously, they are set to be announced in just a couple …
Read More »Gigabyte joins the party, adds support for Intel Optane Memory on motherboards
It isn't taking long for motherboard manufacturers to jump in and start supporting Intel's new Optane Memory SSDs. These tiny but speedy M.2 cache drives were first announced earlier this week, sporting 3D XPoint technology. Since then, ASUS has announced its plans to release a BIOS update to support it …
Read More »The Samsung DeX seamlessly transforms the Galaxy S8 from phone to desktop
While we did learn an awful lot about the Samsung Galaxy S8 from leaks over the last few months, one thing that did sneak up on us during the official reveal was the announcement of Samsung DeX. This new product essentially allows your smartphone to seamlessly turn into a desktop …
Read More »Ashes of the Singularity update brings big performance boost to Ryzen at 1080p
AMD has had quite a lot of success with its new Ryzen 7 processors but one area where the chip does let us down a bit is 1080p gaming. Earlier this month, AMD explained that this was simply due to the way games are currently optimised, adding that the situation …
Read More »Blizzard is making changes to WoW enemy scaling following mass complaints
Recently, Blizzard introduced some changes to the way that enemy scaling works in World of Warcraft, a move that swiftly drew the disapproval of the player base. Now after receiving so many complaints, Blizzard has agreed to address concerns and make changes. These significant changes were made during WoW's 7.2 …
Read More »ASUS to refresh GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 with faster memory
Back when Nvidia first announced the GTX 1080Ti, the company also announced some improvements coming to its older Pascal cards. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 were both due to get faster RAM modules and now, it looks like board partners are catching up with that, as ASUS has revealed …
Read More »Bioware is putting a plan in place to fix up Mass Effect Andromeda
Following the game's launch just one week ago, Bioware has received a ton of feedback regarding Mass Effect Andromeda. Some of it was positive, with many fans of the series going on to enjoy the game but there has also been some blowback over cut corners. As a result, today …
Read More »ASUS BIOS update will enable support for Intel Optane Memory on Z270 motherboards
Earlier this month, Intel officially started rolling out products based on its new 3D XPoint technology, which aims to be the future of SSDs thanks to its much faster speeds when compared to NAND. This all started out with a very expensive 375GB SSD, which would only really be useful and …
Read More »FSP’s new Dagger series brings Gold efficiency to SFX power supplies
The heart of any decent PC build is the power supply. However, when it comes to small form factors, options can be limited. Fortunately, FSP has some high-efficiency options hitting the market this year to help expand the market a bit. These new SFX Dagger supplies offer modularity, DC to …
Read More »Nvidia ‘Prepare for Battle’ promo now includes the GTX 1060
Over the last couple of months, Nvidia and Ubisoft have been teaming up to run a ‘Prepare for Battle' promotion. This essentially meant that anyone buying a GTX 1080 or a GTX 1070 would be able to redeem a free copy of either For Honor or Ghost Recon Wildlands. While …
Read More »Calyos NSG-S0 Passive Chassis launches on Kickstarter, already 50 percent funded
Back in February, KitGuru has the opportunity to head to Brussels to visit Calyos and take a look at their completely-passive NSG S0 chassis prototype. We were fairly impressed at the time and today, the Kickstarter campaign for the chassis officially kicked off and has already managed to climb 50 percent of …
Read More »Windows 10 Creators Update will start rolling out on 11th of April
We've known for some time that the next major Windows 10 update would be coming in Q2. Microsoft originally announced the Creators Update late last year and now, it looks like the update is ready to go as today, the company confirmed that the update would begin rolling out on …
Read More »Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S8 today, here’s what we know so far
Samsung is all set to officially unveil the Galaxy S8 and S8+ later today but over the last few months, we've seen more than a few leaks. We have images of the phone, internal specs and yesterday, Samsung accidentally leaked the user guide, so we even know what the company …
Read More »Final Fantasy 14 patch revamps free trial and paves way for Stormblood
To support the buildup to Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion, today Square Enix announced that it would be revamping the MMO's current free trial period. Previously new players could try the game for 14 days for free with some limitations. However, that 14-day limit is now being removed, giving players …
Read More »Win a PC chassis, 1050W PSU, Mouse and keyboard with Game Max and KitGuru
This week, we are once again teaming up with Game Max to offer you guys the chance to win a PC upgrade bundle, including a Cobalt Game Max case, a Game Max GM1050W power supply and a gaming mouse/keyboard combo to top it all off. The case we are giving …
Read More »Destiny 2 ‘Last Call’ teaser drops plenty of story hints, full reveal coming tomorrow
Earlier this week, Bungie officially announced Destiny 2 with a short teaser image. Since then, we've received our first look at where Destiny 2 is going story-wise as a teaser trailer starring Cayde-6 has dropped, giving us our first look at the war going on. The teaser trailer is aptly …
Read More »The new Razer Blade Pro has higher specs, gets THX certification
It looks like Razer is upping the ante this week with its Blade Pro laptop. Not only has the laptop received a hardware spec bump, but it is also the world's first laptop to be qualified for THX Mobile Certification, which is supposed certify the quality of the laptop's display …
Read More »Support for 3DMark and PCMark Vantage ends next month
As Microsoft gears up to officially drop support for Windows Vista, today Futuremark also confirmed that it would be dropping support for 3DMark Vantage and PCMark Vantage on the same day. These decade old benchmarks were designed around Vista back in the day and with just 1.12 percent of users …
Read More »Skylake X and Kaby Lake X named in AIDA 64 update, first benchmark leaks
Back in January, we started coming across the first rumours surrounding Intel's next HEDT CPU launch. At the time, we heard that Skylake X and the X299 platform would be launching in August but it seems that things might be further along than we thought as this week, AIDA 64 …
Read More »Intel’s new Optane Memory aims to bring big boosts to storage performance
Just last week, Intel kicked off its rollout of Optane products, featuring its long in development 3D XPoint technology. It all began with the Optane DX P4800X SSD for data centres but this week, Intel is launching something more consumer-oriented. In April, Intel will begin shipping Optane Memory in 16GB …
Read More »Oculus picks up former Apple design chief to lead hardware division
It looks like Facebook is shaking things up over at Oculus as this week, the company hired a veteran from Apple's product design team to head up the hardware division for Oculus VR. Michael Hillman was an employee over at Apple for 15 years as chief architect for Apple's consumer …
Read More »Retailers are starting to narrow down Red Dead Redemption 2’s release date
It has been around five months since Rockstar officially announced Red Dead Redemption 2 and while there is still a lot we don't know about the game, it appears that things are still on track for a 2017 release. At the time of announcement, Rockstar gave us a ‘Fall 2017' …
Read More »Surface Book 2 and Surface Pro 5 may not appear next month after all
It looks like Microsoft's upcoming Surface Book 2 might take a bit longer than expected. We previously heard rumours that Microsoft might be planning to launch its next-generation laptop at its next event in April but reports this week point towards that not being the case, with reliable sources coming forward …
Read More »Here is what Bioware is fixing in the next Mass Effect Andromeda patch
As fun as I am finding Mass Effect Andromeda at the moment, the game has plenty of shortcomings, some of which include various bugs and in-game issues. Fortunately, Bioware is already working to fix Andromeda's problems, with the next patch focussing on various bugs, performance drops and unintended progression blocks. …
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