It looks like those of us in Europe can expect to see Hearthstone card pack prices rise by as much as 50 percent soon as Blizzard has announced this week that it will be making pricing adjustments across the board. These new prices will affect both the UK and the …
Read More »Valve is making more changes to Steam User Reviews
Steam User Reviews are often a useful tool for many looking to pick up a new game on Steam but there are ways to exploit the system. For example, there are some developers out there that will gift copies of their games in exchange for positive reviews. As a result, …
Read More »BT and Openreach are being legally separated
Over the years, BT has often come under fire for its operation of Openreach, the backbone of the UK's internet infrastructure. Upgrades to the lines have been slow and other ISPs who rely on OpenReach have also accused BT of providing a poor service. Now, after a lengthy regulatory battle, …
Read More »KitGuru poll shows 49.3 percent of readers polled prefer gaming at 100Hz and above
Over the last year or so, we have seen a huge rise in the adoption of high refresh rate monitors, with many PC gamers now choosing to break beyond the 60Hz barrier. With that in mind, we started to wonder, what frame rates do KitGuru readers consider to be ideal …
Read More »Study finds long-term playing of violent video games does not make you more aggressive
As silly as it might seem, violence in video games and its effect on players has been the subject of much debate over the years but this week, the psychologists over at Frontiers published a study to try and come to a conclusion once and for all. This team used …
Read More »John Carmack is firing back at Zenimax with a lawsuit of his own
Over the last couple of years Zenimax and Oculus have been embroiled in a lawsuit, with Zenimax making allegations that Carmack had stolen company information prior to making his move to Oculus back in 2014. Zenimax did win that lawsuit, with Oculus having to pay up $500 million but it …
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver is all about boosting DirectX 12 performance
It looks like Nvidia is starting to focus on boosting its DirectX 12 performance as today's latest ‘Game Ready' driver includes a bunch of refinements intended to significantly boost GeForce performance in DX12 titles. This driver is the ‘Ghost Recon Wildlands' Game Ready driver but it packs in much much …
Read More »Blizzard starts cracking down on guilds selling WoW dungeon/raid runs for real cash
World of Warcraft is a huge game and one that is certainly difficult to truly get into as a solo player, which is why some guild leaders have managed to make some real-world money selling things like raid or dungeon runs. This practise has been going on for a while but …
Read More »Google Pixel owners are struggling with broken microphones, will require total device replacement
The Google Pixel may have been an impressive smartphone but it has certainly had its fair share of problems since release late last year. Back in January we first started seeing users complain of poor speaker quality on their units. This eventually turned out to just be a software bug …
Read More »Dodgy app developers are finding new ways to boost their ratings on Google Play
It looks like Google needs to come up with a few more tricks to clamp down on the amount of app developers scamming their way to positive reviews as research published this week has revealed several new tactics currently being used to nab higher star ratings. You are all likely already …
Read More »Update: ASRock and Gigabyte X370 boards coming, Biostar delayed by BIOS issues
This is intended to be an update to an earlier breaking story. For the full details on our original coverage, go HERE. Yesterday, we reported on the apparent mass stock shortage of AM4 X370 chipset motherboards. According to our industry sources, prior to the Ryzen launch and positive reviews, there …
Read More »Nintendo wins ‘groundbreaking’ case against modded 3DS cartridge seller
It looks like Nintendo is making some progress in its efforts to clamp down on modded 3DS cartridges as the company has won a “groundbreaking” case against a large-scale seller of Sky3DS and Gateway 3DS carts. Similarly to the R4 carts from the days of the original DS, Sky3DS and …
Read More »The Division will get two free expansions for ‘Year Two’ but will lack story content
With The Division's final ‘Year One' DLC now available to season pass owners, it is time for Ubisoft to start looking to the future. While many of us expected a ‘Year Two' content announcement for this game, it was also assumed that it would come in the form of a …
Read More »Gigabyte begins teasing Aorus GTX 1080Ti
Just like many other board partners, this week, Gigabyte began teasing its own GTX 1080Ti. The company began posting teaser images of its upcoming Aorus Extreme Edition GTX 1080TI this week, showing off the card's cooler a bit, though this may not actually be the first time we are seeing …
Read More »Apple, Samsung and Microsoft speak out on Vault 7 CIA leaks
In case you missed it last night or this morning, this week, WikiLeaks dropped the largest intelligence agency leak in history, dropping well over 8000 confidential CIA documents outlining the agency's illicit spying tactics amongst other activities. The first drop in a series of coming ‘Vault 7' leaks alleged that …
Read More »Valve plans to refocus its efforts on software, next wave of games inbound
Now that virtual reality is out there and in consumer hands, more companies are choosing to invest in it. In fact at GDC right now, LG is showing off its very own SteamVR-supported competitor to the HTC Vive. So with all of this new hardware coming in, Valve plans to …
Read More »Qualcomm and Microsoft team up, demonstrate Windows Server running on ARM
It looks like Qualcomm and Microsoft are teaming up this year to bring huge performance gains to the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. This newly announced partnership will see the Azure Cloud boosted by Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 platform, which is now powered by 10 nanometer processors, though this particular collaboration should …
Read More »PS4 Pro’s ‘boost mode’ is now rolling out, will improve performance for older PS4 games
The PlayStation 4 Pro might be more powerful than the original PS4 but not all games have been able to take advantage of the beefier hardware. Some developers have released patches to allow older games to use up the extra resources but for the most part, older PS4 titles will …
Read More »Microsoft’s service-wide log-in issues should now be fixed
Update: Yesterday, we learned that many users across the world were having issues with Microsoft's account-based services, with customers unable to login to Xbox, Outlook, Office 365 and even Skype. At the time, we didn't have official acknowledgement from Microsoft on the wide-spread issue but today, the company finally got …
Read More »Middle Earth: Shadow of War gameplay footage released, showcases new nemesis system
At the start of last week, Warner Bros dropped a surprise announcement for Middle Earth: Shadow of War. At the time we received a cinematic trailer, learned the basic story premise and heard about a new and improved nemesis system coming to the sequel but we didn't get to see …
Read More »What is going on with AM4 X370 motherboard stock?
Can't find the high end motherboard you want for a new Ryzen processor? You aren't the only one.
Read More »Dev explains why Gears 4 shotgun misses at point-blank range, fix coming
Gears of War 4 came out back in October and as much as we enjoyed the PC version of the game, those playing may have noticed that the Gnasher, the Gears' series famous shotgun, is less accurate than in previous games. Right now in Gears 4, the shotgun's close range …
Read More »WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 dump puts the CIA in a glass cage, reveals operations and spyware tactics
This week, WikiLeaks dropped the largest intelligence agency leak in history with the release of 8761 confidential CIA documents, going over the agency's illicit activities. This is just the beginning too, with Julian Assange claiming there will be a series of additional leaks to follow. At the moment this operation …
Read More »AMD’s 32-core Zen-based ‘Naples’ CPU aims to bring innovation and choice back to server market
Now that AMD has worked its way through the Zen architecture launch with its mainstream Ryzen processors, the company can now start turning its attention to other markets. It has been around a year since we first heard whispers of AMD's lofty ambitions for Zen in the server/datacentre market but …
Read More »The Switch is apparently Nintendo’s fastest selling console ever
The Nintendo Switch launched last Friday and while the game library is fairly small at the moment, it seems plenty of people have been excited enough to jump in at launch, with the Switch reportedly going on to become Nintendo's fastest selling console in history. The Legend of Zelda: Breath …
Read More »Microsoft lowers Surface Book cost barrier by cutting out discrete GPU
Microsoft's took its first steps into the laptop market back in 2015 with the launch of the Surface Book and as impressive as it was, the laptop was also very expensive and thanks to the inclusion of a discrete Nvidia GPU, its value hasn't really depreciated at all since. This has …
Read More »Zelda: Breath of the Wild is already running on PC but there’s a catch
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild finally released on both the Nintendo Switch and the Wii U last Friday and since then, the game has gone on to get plenty of praise from fans and critics alike. However, it looks like the developer behind the Cemu Nintendo Wii …
Read More »Fresh image leaks show Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+ in full, confirms headphone jack
Update: Just yesterday we got our first proper look at the Samsung Galaxy S8+ thanks to some fresh image leaks showing off the smartphone in full view. However, one thing many were curious on was how the standard Galaxy S8 looks compared to a larger Galaxy S8+. Fortunately, we now …
Read More »NETGEAR Competition: Five winners announced!
A couple of weeks ago we launched a giveaway with NETGEAR, offering up five prizes to five lucky KitGuru readers in need of a networking upgrade. We received a lot of entries and after going through the selection process, we have now picked our five winners. To recap, here was …
Read More »Cooler Master’s MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ brings uncompromised quality for £899
Cooler Master has been making power supplies for a long time now and while many of them have been great in their own right, they usually need to hit an affordable price point, which means things like component selection need to be carefully considered to hit a budget. So what …
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