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Nvidia's Maxwell architecture is going mobile as the company has officially announced the launch of its GTX 980M and GTX 970M laptop graphics chips. According to Nvidia, these mobile GPU variants will be around 75 per cent as powerful as their desktop counterparts, delivering enough performance to game at resolutions …

If there's one thing we know how to do well here at KitGuru, it's give things away. We're not kidding. If you keep an eye on our Facebook, we're giving away something almost every day, and this one is no different. Today we've teamed up with MSI and Intel, in order …

If you were a fan of the original Knights of the Old Republic game, then chances are you've been hoping that Bioware will one day revisit Revan and put him in another game. While we aren't getting Knights of the Old Republic 3, we are getting a Revan themed expansion pack …

After months of persistent rumors and just a few leaks, we've finally got our first image of the upcoming HTC made Nexus 9 tablet, which is expected to be officially announced later this month alongside a Motorola made Nexus 6 handset and the official launch of the Android L Operating …

Samsung is expecting its quarter 3 financial results to show a 60 per cent decline in year-on-year profits, showing a consistent downwards trend for the Korean device maker. Analysts had expected the company to generate operating profits of around £3 billion this quarter but the company was quick to warn …

Tetsuya Nomura finally stepped down from Final Fantasy XV and began working on Kingdom Hearts III last month and the director has already made a crucial change to the game's development. Kingdom Hearts III will no longer be using the Square Enix ‘Luminous' engine, the game will now be made …

Today sees the worldwide release of Alien: Isolation, potentially the best Alien (not Alien vs Predator mind you) game ever released. It's reviewed well, with most highlighting the xenomorph's lifelike hunting as being a real scare generator, even if some of the game does feel a bit padded. Still, for …

New guidelines from the government's Crown Prosecution Service in the UK, could see sentencing for revenge pornography, the practice of posting nude images of someone online with malicious intent, extended so that the person responsible is sent to jail for as much at 14 years – though this would be for …

Kim Dotcom has been a personality we've covered here a lot in the past couple of years, mostly because he's been working on some exciting new platform. Over that time he's launched the phoenix like file-locker site, Megaupload, a music sharing site and his own political party, but since then he's …

As ridiculous as the idea of a sword that can do a little more damage at point blank range by having a revolver in its handle is, it was still the most badass thing that I'd ever seen when I first played through Final Fantasy VIII in the late 90s. Combine …

Bitcoin has had quite a star studded history of headlines and peaks, though over the past year has found some stability after hitting a new high of over $1,200 per coin back in December last year. Unfortunately for those that invested in large quantities however, its value has tumbled in …

Unsealed court documents have revealed that Korean device maker, Samsung, owes Microsoft $6.9 million in unpaid interest. The debt somehow relates to Android licensing and the associated royalties, Microsoft has been quick to comment on the recently revealed documents, stating that the debt is real. David Howard, Microsoft Deputy General …

Gearbox, the developer behind the Borderlands series and Aliens: Colonial Marines, received a bomb threat at its headquarters last Friday. Oddly enough, the threat was called in at around 7:30 PM, after most of the employees had already gone home but once the bomb squad arrived, it was revealed that …

EA and Visceral Games have confirmed that Battlefield Hardline will come with nine new maps and seven game modes at launch early next year. However, five of those game modes will be brand new to the Battlefield franchise, although this will come at the expense of some other notable game …

Sony has been working on its virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, for a while now but as we inch closer to consumer grade VR one thing is becoming more increasingly important to the likes of Oculus and Sony, headset users are going to need some social experiences. Virtual Reality may seem …

Facebook is apparently in a constant legal battle against spammers abusing its network and so far, the company has managed to obtain around $2 billion by suing companies selling ‘fake likes' to page owners. According to a Facebook blog post, the social network has tools in place to render fake …

Long standing PC giant, Hewlett Packard, is going to split its business into two distinct ventures, according to reports. As it struggles to remain relevant in a decreasingly hardware focused technological world, HP will spin off its PC and printer business and separate it from its corporate hardware and services …

PewDiePie, perhaps the world's most well known and certainly the most well subscribed Youtuber and Let's Player, is currently signed to the Disney owned, Maker Studios, in a deal that's likely worth a lot of money to the Swedish born gamer. However his contract with the promotional company is up …

Steam Sales tend to bring mixed emotions to the gaming community. Some, get excited by the prospect of cheap games, others clutch their wallets in fear of what they might not be able to stop themselves from doing and others still, see them as something that's undermining the industry. Whatever …

Remember Microsoft's Ilumiroom project? It was a technology that used a projector to make your gaming room the entire screen, rather than just the main display you were using. It was an interesting concept, albeit a little unnecessary seeming, considering whatever was being projected was hard to make out and …

Microsoft Corp.’s Office productivity suite is, without any doubts, the most popular set of applications ever developed. Nonetheless, at present the suite lacks something here and there, which is why it cannot be called ideal. Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, claims that he actually wants to make Office dramatically …

Streaming music is cheaper than buying all the tracks that you would like to hear. Modern streaming services charge from $7 to $10 per month, which may not be a lot for music fans, but which keeps a lot of people away from them. Apple wants to change that and …

About a month ago Advanced Micro Devices unveiled several new FX-series eight-core microprocessors that featured either increased performance, or lower power consumption compared to previously released chips. Apparently, since then the company has also quietly rolled-out a new affordable eight-core chip that costs $125 now in the U.S. The AMD …

Apple reportedly plans to start sales of its “most personal” device ever – Apple Watch – on the Valentine’s Day next year. Quanta, a contract maker of various electronics, is already gearing up to start mass production of Apple Watch in January. Quanta, which will exclusively manufacture Apple Watch, has …

Microsoft Corp. has announced that its next-generation Windows 10 operating system will ship with DirectX 12 application programming interface (API). Keeping in mind that the OS is designed for all types of devices and DX12 is a corner stone for Microsoft’s ecosystem-related strategy, the news is hardly surprising. This week Microsoft …

If you could pick one game franchise for politicians to take notes from in order to potentially affect policy changes, what would you pick? Maybe Gone Home for its positive message of accepting different sexualities, or the Walking Dead for the way it lets you empathise with people from all …

A little while back it was announced that both Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes would be coming to the PC on Valve's Steam platform. While MGS V won't be coming out for a while, Ground Zeroes may be coming to the PC …

If you're in the market for a monitor upgrade then look no further as you can currently pick up the AOC U2868PQU 28″ 4K display for £399, which is actually cheaper than most other offerings currently available. This monitor packs in a 1ms response time and 60Hz refresh rate, making …

Obisidian's upcoming crowd funded PC RPG, Pillars of Eternity, has been delayed for a few months so that the developer can incorporate beta feedback. The title was originally supposed to release by the end of this year, the new release window is ‘early 2015'. Posting on the Pillars of Eternity …

Twitch is set to tighten its policies when it comes to paid and sponsored content deals in response to concerns over transparency and disclosure. The streaming platform will start labeling videos that are created as part of a partnership between the content maker and a third party. However, this level …