With a bright day over the London Excel being promised by the Met Centre,  tens of thousands of characters will begin the decent on Comic Con 2013, early Sunday morning. KitGuru plans to be in bed til noon, but here are some more shots of what you can expect if …

In the springtime of 2013 when AMD launched ‘Malta', the Radeon HD 7990 was the fastest graphics card in the world and weighed in at a whopping £800. Now as the year draws to a close and there have been a spate of new launches, what is the current situation?  …

With more than 80,000 comic/cosplay enthusiasts expected through the doors at London's Excel before the end of Sunday 27th October 2013, this staggering audience begs one question: What can you do at the show?  KitGuru photographs some posters and makes some lists. You know. Just in case they are helpful. …

Once the preserve of withdrawn kids who just wanted to escape to new horizons without leaving the comfort of their own imaginations, comics have become big business. Here in the UK, it doesn't get much bigger than MCM Comic Con 2013 at the London Excel centre. KitGuru hides in the …

As a chipset, X79 is starting to show its age, especially when compared to the feature-heavy Z87 PCH. This can pose problems for motherboard manufacturers looking to sell a value-orientated product that isn't stripped to the point where masses of consumers are alienated away from the target audience. Cutting down in …

Zynga yesterday released it's quarterly report for earnings, the first one since ex-Xbox One launch man Don Mattrick jointed the company as CEO and while profits and revenue are down on this period last year, it wasn't quite as bad as expected. According to Bloomberg estimates, while it was predicted …

While the Asus Maximus Hero range is all about making the best possible mainboards for those on a budget, being a Christmas hero can be very similar. It’s about giving the right person the right technology – right when they need it most.  Everyone knows that the Asus Maximus Hero board …

While it's all well and good keeping up to date with foreign affairs using CNN, Al Jazeera or RT, but when it comes to Tweets, it's a little more useful if a global organisation gives you localised content – including launches and offers. MSI has now made that move. KitGuru …

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 …

Over the 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 the image from Battlefield 3. It means you can …

The NSA and its PRISM data collection has been a hot topic for a while now. Ever since Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong and dumped the news on the world that none of us can really say anything privately online, a lot of people have been trying to figure …

We have all had USB pen drives break/fail/drop in liquid and refuse to work. We have also found them bulging in our pockets or, better still, preventing us from getting a comfortable mouse position because of how far they stick out from a laptop. ADATA claims to have a cure …

Everyone needs to be able to back-up crucial files and while the cloud is watching and waiting, sustained mobile data transfer rates across the UK mean that a physical drive and connection are often a better choice in 2013. With data transfer rates up to 445MB/sec, ADATA has a new …

Today we are going to take a look at the ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ motherboard which is their flagship FM2+ model. We recently looked at a Gigabyte's flagship FM2+ motherboard – the G1 Sniper A88x and we were very impressed with the overall package. ASRock have made quite a name for …

Are you a gamer? do you need a new headset for your intense gaming sessions? If you answered yes, then today's competition prize will certainly get you hot under the collar. We are working with Astro Gaming to give away a pair of their mega ASTRO A50 Wireless headphones. We …

Against a backdrop of AMD's Chief Sales Officer managing to bring home the Q3 bacon in the shape of a $95m profit, it looks like AMD is becoming an altogether more attractive place to be. The latest defection comes from nVidia's compute team. KitGuru snoops for more resolution on the …

There is a definite step-up feel in the air around Synology's UK offices in Milton Keynes this October. Hot on the heals of the DS214, we now have the DS414 and DS114 about to land. KitGuru fingers a pair of 4TB drives and wonders on the best place to stick …

Isohunt's decade and-a-bit long career as one of the world's paramount torrent search sites has come to an end and the site's owner and founder, Gary Fung, has initiated the self-destruct sequence, shutting the site down a couple of days before his original court settlement decreed. It was just last …

Not everyone is a big fan of social networking, but if you want to get involved in the early beta testing for Bungie's upcoming shooter RPG, Destiny, you might need to start loving it, as the developer is going to be tweeting out beta codes at random over the next …

This weekend 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 controversal image from Call Of Duty MW2 (It's not …

Today we are taking a look at Dino PC's latest offering, the Dark Reign. Built inside a CM 690 III chassis, this system comes equipped with an Intel Core i5 4570k, 8GB Corsair Vengeance memory clocked at 1,600 MHz and a Gigabyte GTX 770. Its £999 price tag even includes …

Pirates around the world, remove your stove hats for a minute of silence please. Isohunt, one of the world's longest running and most popular torrent search sites has finally succumbed to legal pressure from the media lobby and US government and has been forced to settle on a cease and …

Our recent competition with PCSPECIALIST was a success – for those who missed the news on our Facebook page yesterday, we just wanted to keep you updated … PCSPECIALIST announced the winner over here. Ryan Conneely walks away with a stunning new system, featuring: Full System Specs: CPU: Intel Core …

Well we had to wait a little longer to announce the winner for our recent bequiet! competition because of some behind the scenes email issues. Our final winner is Nicholas Hughes from Northampton. The correct answer was C: 135mm SilentWings. Nicholas wins all this lovely hardware. Power Zone 850W: http://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/385 Shadow …

Today we are going to take a look at one of the most powerful gaming notebooks to ever hit the market, the Alienware 18.  This fits in right at the top of Alienware's range and is one of the most expensive gaming notebooks that is currently available on the market. …

Earlier this month the supermarket Tesco jumped into the tablet arena with it's budget Android device. At the time I was hopeful that this wouldn't become a trend between UK shops but it seems that Argos is continuing the trend with it's own £99 Android touchscreen device. As far as …

Arguably the go-to brand for NAS among the KitGuru faithful, this company never seems to stop innovating and developing its already popular product line-up. Today, we're hearing word of a brand new, high-performance product at a sensible price. KitGuru stands by with a pair of drives. You know. For back …

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 the image from Watchdogs. It means you can put all …

Intel's Haswell processors have presented us with arguably some of the biggest variations in air-cooled overclocking ability that we have seen from the company's mainstream and high-end processors since the pre-Nehalem era. With that in mind, there's a clear justification to opting for pre-overclocked bundles sold by retailers. Is Aria's …

Personal data, personal privacy, freedom of thought and expression, these are all big topics at the moment thanks to the Edward Snowden leaks and the ever evolving landscape of the cloud and big data. Public opinion tends to split down the middle, with some suggesting they have nothing to hide, …