While Nintendo has already announced the Nintendo Switch at this point, there are still several unanswered questions on the hardware side of things. However, this week, reports have revealed the CPU and GPU clock speeds of the Switch while in mobile mode and while docked. We also know a little …
Read More »Star Citizen’s latest patch gives access to Star Marine
Star Citizen's first-person shooter game mode, ‘Star Marine' was announced back in 2014 and since then, we have seen some impressive demos but delays have kept it out of the hands of backers for quite some time. However, this week with Star Citizen's ‘Alpha Patch 2.6.0', players will get their …
Read More »Resident Evil VII demo is now available on PC
The Resident Evil franchise is looking to make a big return in 2017 with the launch of Resident Evil VII in January and while many PS4 players have already had the chance to test out a slice of the game, PC players can now join them. The demo is available on …
Read More »HyperX CloudX Headset Review
While we usually tend to focus on gaming peripherals for the PC specifically, today we are taking a look at the Kingston HyperX CloudX Headset, a revision of the Cloud II designed with the Xbox One in mind. The HyperX Cloud II is widely considered to be one of the …
Read More »LG may start making flexible displays for Google, Microsoft and Apple
It looks like bendable smartphone displays might be the future as not only is Samsung working on the technology, but LG also stepped into the ring earlier this year with a massive £1.3 billion investment. Given the huge investment, we should expect to see more foldable displays over the next …
Read More »Rivvr’s wireless VR for Vive and Rift add-on to appear at CES
Right now one of the big focusses for Virtual Reality headset makers is removing the wire. Valve has been working on turning the HTC Vive wireless and Oculus revealed its own wireless prototype just a few short months ago. However, we may not need to wait for next generation of …
Read More »Samsung is working on a Hololens competitor, new Gear VR coming
Samsung has been dipping its toes in the virtual reality market for a couple of years now with the help of Oculus and next year, the company will be stepping things up. Not only will there be a successor to the Gear VR but there will also be a mixed …
Read More »It will cost you $69 to replace a lost AirPod
Apple's AirPods were delayed by almost two months but on the 19th of December, they will finally go on sale. However, there were still some unanswered questions. Given that these headphones are wireless, it will be easier to lose one, so how much will it cost to replace a lost …
Read More »BlackBerry smartphones will return under TCL
Back in late September, BlackBerry officially threw in the towel and dropped out of the hardware business, meaning the company will no longer be developing smartphones going forward and will instead focus on software. However, that doesn't mean BlackBerry phones will never hit the market again. Similarly to Nokia's recent …
Read More »Nintendo shares drop overnight following Super Mario Run launch
Nintendo officially brought Super Mario to mobile last night with the launch of Super Mario Run on iOS and while we have known that the game will cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of $10 for quite some time, it looks like some investors only figured that out today, as shares …
Read More »Spec and win a Gladiator PC giveaway winner announced
A few weeks ago we teamed up with Aria and Gladiator PC to organise a ‘spec and win’ competition, calling all KitGuru readers to put together the best £800-£1200 build possible and in exchange, the best entry would be rewarded with a brand new PC, built by Gladiator. After much …
Read More ȣ3000 of Gaming Hardware giveaway winner announcement
With Christmas being the season of giving, this month we wanted to give back to our readers by running a giveaway for £3000 worth of PC hardware. More than 15,000 of you entered the giveaway over the last couple of weeks and today, we are happy to reveal the winner! …
Read More »Core i7 7700K TIM replacement improves 5GHz OC temps by 30 degrees
While Intel has yet to officially launch its Kaby Lake desktop CPUs, plenty of people seem to have got their hands on the Core i7 7700K already, with plenty of benchmarks already floating around the web. One of the worrying aspects about these early reviews has been reported temperatures, which …
Read More »Former employee is crowdfunding to sue Crytek over unpaid wages
As we reported last weekend, Crytek appears to have hit a financial roadblock once again and sources speaking with KitGuru confirmed that employees haven't been paid on time for months and no pay has been received for October, November or December. While Crytek has yet to comment publicly on all …
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver addresses kernel faults and vulnerabilities
If you haven't updated your graphics drivers in a while, then Nvidia users may want to this week as the latest WHQL driver, version 376.33 contains some very important fixes that address security vulnerabilities and kernel faults. These issues were reported via Google's Project Zero and Nvidia has been working …
Read More »Dev explains Arizona Sunshine i7 requirement, unlocks all modes
Arizona Sunshine was one of the most exciting games releasing for virtual reality this year. However, the game swiftly began drowning in controversy upon release after certain parts of the game were found to be exclusive to Intel Core i7 owners. This led to quite the outcry upon the game's …
Read More »Verizon may back out of Yahoo buyout after massive hack revealed
Yahoo is facing a lot of scrutiny right now after the company revealed yet another massive hack to its customers. Earlier this year, Yahoo finally admitted to having 500 million user accounts compromised during an attack back in 2014 but it turns out that wasn't even the worst of it. …
Read More »You can play The Division for free this weekend, it’ll also be on sale 50% off
Ubisoft is back on its feet with The Division following the hugely successful system overhauls that came with patch 1.4. Since then, players have been returning to the game but if you haven't given it a chance yet, then you will get the opportunity this weekend as the game will …
Read More »Cyberpower is bundling up to ten free games with systems for Christmas
If you happen to be shopping around for a pre-built system for Christmas and you haven't landed on one just yet, then you may want to check out Cyberpower this week as the boutique system builder is giving away up to ten games with its systems, including some of 2016's …
Read More »144Hz monitor market almost doubled in 2016, Asus remains top seller
At the end of last year, we learned that Asus had managed to snap up around 40 percent of the gaming monitor market in 2015 thanks to the success of its ROG Swift line of monitors. This year, the gaming monitor market got very competitive with companies like Acer and …
Read More »AMD also gave a sneak peek at Vega performance last night
Last night AMD held its ‘New Horizon' event and officially unveiled Ryzen, its next CPU, which went head to head against the Intel Core i7 6900K in a few tests. However, CPUs wasn't all AMD had to demo as there was also a small sneak peek at Vega too, this …
Read More »LG will be showing off its new HDR monitors at CES
CES is coming up in just a few weeks time and while KitGuru will be there covering the event, it looks like LG wants to get ahead of all the other companies set to attend by announcing its new 4K HDR monitors ahead of time. LG's new monitor comes with …
Read More »Apple removes ‘time remaining’ in macOS after battery life complaints
There are plenty of mixed feelings floating around about Apple's latest batch of MacBook Pros with Touch Bar and some of the complaints boil down to disappointing battery. Not only have some models been producing poor battery life but the battery life ‘time remaining' estimations within macOS has also been …
Read More »Microsoft rushes out Win10 update to fix broken Internet connections
Microsoft has pushed out a few questionable Windows 10 updates over the last year or so and this week, another one was added to the list as some Windows 10 users found themselves unable to connect to the internet or a local network. A recent automatic update for Windows seemed …
Read More »The Modern Warfare Remaster now includes skin crate microtransactions
Back in the day, games didn't tend to come with microtransactions baked in and many look back on those times fondly. However, given the popularity of remastered games right now, this gives publishers a chance to force them in after the fact, which is exactly what has happened with Call …
Read More »Amazon’s first Prime Air drone delivery has taken place
It has been over two years since Amazon first announced Prime Air, its drone delivery service. Since then, the 30-minute delivery service has been tested in countries across the world and this week, the first official Prime Air drone delivery was made here in the UK. For the first customer …
Read More »Microsoft wants Cortana in the home, Amazon Echo competitor coming
It looks like Microsoft wants to get into the smart home business and it will be using Cortana to make it happen. Cortana has been Microsoft's digital assistant for mobile and Windows for quite some time and now, Cortana will be hitting smart home devices, like Harman/Kardon's new Amazon Echo …
Read More »Xbox One now supports 300 backwards compatible games
One of Microsoft's big surprises for 2015 was the announcement of backwards compatibility for the Xbox One. A year later, there are now over 300 Xbox 360 games playable on the Xbox One with more being added on a regular basis and as it turns out, the feature has become …
Read More »AMD’s next CPU is Ryzen, can compete with 6900K, features SenseMI tech
AMD kicked off its New Horizon event this evening, giving us our best look at the company's next flagship desktop processor yet. For starters, the official name for AMD's next CPU is ‘Ryzen' but AMD had much more to show off, including some performance demos putting Ryzen up against an …
Read More »Samsung may spin-off its foundry business after losing Apple to TSMC
Samsung is well-regarded in the chip manufacturing business but this year, the company suffered a bit of a loss as Apple chose to go with TSMC for the creation of the iPhone 7's A10 processor. This has been quite the blow to Samsung's foundry division so going forward, Samsung may …
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