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Good news Hearthstone players with Android tablets! Blizzard has just released the game you love for the tablet you own, allowing you to play  wherever you desire. But there is a temporary problem for some of us… Unfortunately for the first few days, you will only be able to download the …

UK retailer, GAME, is set to launch special console bundles for Black Friday, including an Xbox One with four games and a Wii U with Super Smash Bros, Super Mario U and an Amiibo. There are strong rumors of a Playstation 4 bundle as well, although that one has yet …

Attack on Titan is a snowballing phenomenon of an anime/manga, in the West as much as the East, but if you aren't aware of it, it's often described as Japan's equivalent of the Walking Dead. Only with naked giants without genitals instead of zombies. Despite its popularity though, its only …

Be careful showing your landlady any screenshots you have from playing Defcon, as you could find yourself suspected of terrorism. That's the situation Henry Smith found himself in, after his letting agent saw whiteboard drawings he'd made to help figure out elements of a game he was working on: Global …

While rumours of the demise of computer gaming abound, the underlying numbers are remarkably strong. Sure, we're not reliving the glory days of all night queues for new releases, but the market is certainly seeing some revenue. KitGuru puts its gourd in the river to check the cash flow. When …

UK retailer, GAME, has announced that it will start converting some of its existing stores in to pre-owned only shops under a new name: ‘Gametronics'. The gaming chain aims to kick off its new brand in Lincoln and Cambridge and if all goes well, it will expand to other cities …

Today we are going to take a look at another gaming headset from Sennheiser, the G4ME Zero. Like the G4ME One we reviewed recently, this model is targeted at the premium segment of the gaming market and commands a premium price. Sennheiser are well known for producing a large range …

Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest gaming headsets from Sennheiser, the G4ME One. This particular model is targeted at those users who have a lot of money to spend and are looking for a premium over-the-ear headset which is specifically designed for gamers. …

The PS4 might have won the first round of the worldwide console wars, but the Xbox One sold very well as well. So well in-fact that there's been somewhat of a shortage as of late, but never fear if you wanted to get one by Christmas, as GAME has now …

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 …

Last week we were led to believe that GAME would be offering a musical chest as a pre-order bonus for the upcoming Zelda game but then in a series of tweets those rumours were squashed, with GAME stating that it was still working on bringing pre-orderer's something special. Well now the retailer …

Video game retailer GAME recently announced that it would be holding Xbox One lock-in events leading up to the release of Microsoft's new console, where up to 70 gamers at each of its many locations would be locked in the store and given access to the new console and a …

Despite all the hate for Microsoft's next-gen system, I'm sure there's a few of you who are interested in its boxy corners, the persistent eye of the Kinect camera and its unswappable hard drive. Likewise Sony fans must be eagerly rubbing their hands together, waiting for that day in November …

Did you ever play one of those stand-up shooter arcade machines that had a pressure pad on the floor? It killed your knees, but it allowed you to duck down behind allies to reload, or use your riot shield to protect you from enemy bullets. I thought it was a …

Hey man, you looking for some cheap games? You are? That's good man, that's real good. You come to the right place, or at least, you will have once you head over to Green Man Gaming, which for the next day or so, is offering all of its previous 666 …

Remember Tessallation? I talked about it a few days ago as one of the stranger and more intriguing titles I'd played with in recent months. It features a girl with a Tetris block/Rubiks cube head, cryptic clues about a Poly War, childrens' drawings of people with calculators, NES controllers and …

We all mourn the passing of the huge number of high street gaming stores. Steam and the other online download engines provide an excellent service and there's no turning back the clock, but the high street stores provide a ‘finger on the pulse' which KitGuru loves. Here's a great example. …

Ian Chambers, previously IGN's international director, has joined GAME, where he will take on the role of chief digital officer beginning at the end of July. This means he'll be managing the online side of the business, as well as covering business developments and digital marketing. “I am delighted with …

[As a heads up before starting this piece, it contains spoilers for the discussed game, “Train”] Imagine you're at a gaming expo. You sit down at a table with a few other players, to have a go at a simple looking train management game. It's all about efficiently loading passengers …

This is the basic premise for web-game, GeoGuessr, which sees you trying to figure out where in the world you are, based solely on what you can see on a Google Maps streetview screen. Of course you know where you actually are, but where is your virtual counterpart? That strange …

Highstreet video game retailer GAME was in deep trouble last year. It was circling the drain and it looked like the long-standing chain would come to an end. However, OpCapita, the owners of twice defunct Comet, swooped in and saved the day. However, in the latest accounting reports from the …

While the advent of Quad HD TV might provide one of the biggest challenges to console gaming in the coming years, there seems little doubt that having a single code platform might be one of the biggest benefits for the development community in years. KitGuru eyes San Jose in November …

From one of the world's fastest booming markets a decade or so ago, we now read the news with half an expectation to hear that another studio has gone under – or a chain of game-selling stores has pulled down its shutters for the last time. It's with a sense …

There's been a lot of news about the little console that could over the past 24 hours. Original backers are now receiving their first editions of the Ouya, GAME has announced it's taking pre-orders at £99.99 a pop and Maker Bot has announced a partnership with Ouya to make new, …

While publishers and developers may be concerned about the future of games at HMV, after many stores were closed and a lot of game purchasing staff let go, one person from the beleaguered firm decided to jump ship before getting the boot. Gamerbase boss Dominic Mulroy resigned earlier this week …

There seems to be a peculiar trend when it comes to high street businesses. Often times if one shop goes under, another replaces it doing almost exactly the same thing. For some reason companies seem to think that just because the last business failed, doesn't mean their near identical one …

After the huge success of Angry Birds and all the other iPad-o-sphere games that followed, it looks like the next generation of man-machine interface is going to be a lot more mature. Intel and Eugen Systems have collaborated together to introduce the next revolution in Surface gaming. KitGuru was on …

While we might be mourning the loss of some HMV outlets this morning, previously administered firm GAME, seems to be doing a big better. Today it has announced a partnership with gaming royalty, Hideo Kojima, for the launch of the new Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. As part of this team …

Despite suffering through its own administration less than a year ago and ultimately closing half of its outlets and letting go a big portion of its staff, GAME is apparently looking to buy up HMV locations in a move to expand current business. Revealed by GAME boss Martyn Gibbs in …

The first system to hit our labs in 2013 is OverclockersUK's Titan 8350a King Cobra MK2. Featuring an overclocked octa-core processor from AMD and a 2GB Radeon HD 7850, can the Titan 8350a King Cobra MK2 plough its way through our set of tests? Based around an AMD backbone, the …