Software & Gaming

Microsoft has announced its new terms of use policy forcing users to agree to let Microsoft share your personal data with the company's partners. Don't worry though, it's committed to keeping your account secure – when did that ever go wrong for a gaming company? Microsoft wants users to be …

With the upcoming next-gen release of both Microsoft and Sony's systems, a lot of focus has been on native resolutions, frame rates and detailing – but all in fast paced, highly explosive shooters like Call of Duty: Ghosts. Surely the real beauty will be found on slower titles with less …

Star Citizen it's just the biggest crowd funded project ever, but it's also garnering a seriously rabid fan base around it, with early backers already thinking ahead to what the game will be like at full release. Some fans have even been making videos using some of the few assets …

For a few days now, the internet has been abuzz with claims that the next-gen Call of Duty: Ghosts on the Xbox One, wouldn't natively run at 1080p, but would instead run at 720p and then be upscaled the somewhat standard-these-days, HD resolution. As more information has come out, that …

This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread over here and place a caption to a scene from the latest Batman game. It means you …

There's a slew of Nvidia news today, with an officially announced price tag for the newest card in its lineup, the GTX 780Ti. But much more than that, as it's also bringing with it a price crash on current 780 stock and even finding itself as part of new bundles …

Sony has released details of the Playstation 4 day one patch that will add in and enable a bunch of features for the console. The day one download will only be 300MB though so it shouldn't take too long for most people. The patch basically adds a few previously advertised …

It looks like the Xbox One's launch may very well not end up being the smooth affair Microsoft would want it to be, especially since it's happening so close to the launch window of its main competitor, the PS4. Rumours that are being cited by their sources as pretty concrete, …

Batman Arkham Origins has finally knocked GTA V off of the top of the sales chart this weekend, but it's sold only around half of the copies that Arkham City managed to push when it was released back in 2011. That said, the numbers are comparable to the original Asylum's, …

If like me, you consider the first Walking Dead game from Telltale an emotional rollercoaster of a title, then you'll no doubt be as excited as I am for the second Season. Fortunately the wait isn't long at all, as Telltale has now teased a big reveal for the 29th …

If you've been wondering how the Xbox One will be navigable via the Kinect, it's exactly as unnecessary looking as you'd expect, with actions that at best seem to cut out one menu button and replace it with a sentence that always starts with “Xbox,” which will no doubt go …

Star Citizen is a behemoth at this point. Not only is it the most successfully crowd funded campaign ever, but it continues to blow even its own estimations out of the water. It's been over a year since the space-sim's original Kickstarter campaign and it's just earned another $1 million …

Last month we wrote about Killzone: Shadowfall being around 50GB in size, well it turns out that before Sony swooped in and saved the day, the game was bordering on 290GB. Those are some pretty hefty file sizes considering we're moving more towards being all digital. The bulk of those …

When fans of the Batman Arkham series found out that the third game wouldn't be made by Rocksteady, there was definitely concern for the series. Many were worried that the next chapter wouldn't live up to expectations or that it wouldn't do the series justice; it wasn't just fans worrying …

With the League of Legends Season 3 now done and dusted, it's time to look forward to the next season, where as usual, Riot is planning big changes to vast swathes of the game in order to improve balance, competitiveness and up the ante on potential strategies. It's going to …

League of Legends might be set to see its biggest MOBA, esports competitor gain a big new following of not only players, but viewers too, as Valve's DotA 2 has now been officially launched in Korea, thanks to the help of Nexon. This makes the second time the two developer/publishers …

There's a lot of people getting excited about the next console generation right now and understandably so; we're getting very close to the release of both Microsoft and Sony's new systems. However spending hundreds of pounds on a box that isn't a PC, doesn't help companies like Alienware, which is …

A while back we got some rumoured specs for Call of Duty Ghosts, which at the time a lot of us thought they were quite extreme with the recommended specs featuring a GTX 780. Well we still don't have the official recommended specifications but we do have the official minimum …

HBO's Real Sports segment, which purports to show you what happens behind the score board and “off the field,” took some time out from its usual coverage of real world action, to instead focus on esports, interviewing key players in the League of Legends pro scene, people at Riot Games …

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted up a video urging the people of America and specifically Washington DC, to join the Stop Watching Us protest this Saturday (26th October) against the NSA and US government's surveillance schemes like PRISM, secret laws and the mass collection of personal and private data …

Would you like to see some classic N64 titles remade and put on the Nintendo Eshop? I know some people who still own N64's and other retro consoles and it seems Nintendo knows too. A new rumour going around suggests that Nintendo is working on remaking several classic titles in …

Here at Kitguru we like a good interview. You can learn a lot about a game, a service, or a company, just by asking someone in the know a few simple questions. However, sometimes those interviews can go long, with answers that take literally minutes to read. Attention spans being …

An interesting trend in gaming at the moment, is the simultaneous rise and fall of subscription based services. MMO's using that business model are disappearing or converting over to the free to play model, but companies offering gaming packages as part of a monthly charge are growing. Microsoft's Xbox Live …

Just before the world was beginning to tire of Zombie games and movies, Dean Hall has finally managed to get an early access version of DayZ onto Steam. It's not quite ready for play yet, but it will be soon, as the game has now appeared in the Steam database. …

Nintendo Land is out and the Mario brothers are in, in this new Wii U bundle set to land before Christmas. Now instead of getting the Nintendo produced mini-game, party title with your newly purchased Wii U console, you'll get the two Mario bros themed games instead. Coming as part …

I think all of us have wished we could make a living from playing games at some point, but unfortunately to do that you have to be really, really good. One league of legends player is living that dream: in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC, Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez revealed just how …

Titanfall is on its way, many gamers are looking forward to getting their hands on it after being impressed by the gameplay demo's we've seen and now we have an exact release date to look forward to: March 14th 2014. For those who need reminding, here is the E3 demo: …

Amid news of studios cracking down on negative reviews, and other companies releasing incomplete games under the guise of a final product, it's great to see a developer do really well thanks to its conscientious handling of promotion. The Stanley Parable is one such instance, where consideration of its audience …

For PC gamers Grand Theft Auto V is a sensitive subject. Rockstar has left us in the dark when it comes to a PC version and all we've had to give us hope are a few retail leaks and a bit of source code. At this point it seems some …

Whether you're a fan of DLC, or simply remember the day when they were free and called “patches,” they're part of a trend in modern gaming that doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. The second a new game is given a release date, we're told about special …