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Plextor is about to start selling its first solid-state drives with PCI Express x16 interface next week. The new-generation Plextor M6e PCIe SSD will be available starting next week exclusively via a store in the U.S. and then will go for sale worldwide starting the 14th of April. Plextor M6e …

It has been rumoured for a while but Microsoft has finally officially revealed Cortana, the Windows Phone version of Siri or Google Now. The Halo AI inspired voice assistant will be available in the next Windows Phone 8.1 update which is due to arrive in the US in beta form …

Blizzard's popular free to play collectible card game, Hearthstone, has begun rolling out to iPads. The developer is referring to this as a ‘soft-launch' as it is currently only available in select countries in order to test the app's stability but global availability is expected to come soon. Right now …

Following on from news that Xbox has a new boss, Phil Spencer, with plans to merge multiple departments together, including Microsoft Studios, the game development arm of the software giant is being hit by layoffs, with several staffers posting confirmation on Twitter; some of them, with links to their new …

Amazon's recently revealed set top box, the Fire TV, might not make it outside of the United States as the company currently has no plans to release in other countries. Selling a streaming device is never easy as licensing agreements need to be made with copyright holders in order to …

Intel Corp. this week demonstrated the new reversible USB 3.1 type C connector that represents the future of the standard. The USB 3.1 type-C offers the same capabilities as the latest specifications do, but in a form-factor that is much more convenient to use. The key feature of the USB …

When the NSA spying revelations were first revealed, it was clear American metadata was being used when it came to tracking down terrorists – though it wasn't particularly useful – but Obama and others made bold statements that suggested “nobody [at the NSA] is listening to [American] telepohone calls.” However now …

One of the most horrifying parts of The Matrix, wasn't that we were being grown and harvested like cattle, in a situation that makes you wonder, “why not just use cattle?” but that if you gave the robots any problems, the agents would impregnate you with a little, belly button …

Age of Mythology (AoM), while not quite as well remembered as Age of Empires, is one of the PC's classic RTS titles, and like Empires, it's getting a re-release on Steam. However, as well as being updated for modern PC compatibility, it's also getting a few tweaks to make it …

Today we are going to take a look at the NZXT Source 530 case which has been designed to offer a balance between features and affordability.  It is available for around the £80 mark, targeting a mass audience.  There are a number of other manufacturers who have strong offerings around …

Beyond the obvious racism of the Lord of the Rings, the protagonist for upcoming Assassin's Creed, Tolkein mashup, Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor, has a very good reason for killing the Elvish abominations, which we get to see first hand in the latest trailer for the Monolith developed game. [yframe …

Microsoft Corp. announced at the Build 2014 conference on Wednesday that it would waive licensing fees for special versions of Windows operating systems for select devices. Microsoft wants to enable partners to offer lower-cost systems in the highly competitive smartphone, tablet and PC categories. Microsoft Windows will be available for …

Micron Technology, one of the world’s leading makers of dynamic random access memory, said Wednesday that it had started to produce next-generation DDR4 memory in volume. The company and its partners will begin to officially ship servers featuring Intel Corp.’s Xeon E5-2600 v3 and Micron’s DDR4 memory in the second …

What do smartwatches, intelligent coffee mugs, robots and smart goggles have in common? It looks like Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have an answer: Intel chips and Windows software inside. At the Build 2014 conference, the two companies indicated they would team up for wearable devices, tiny intelligent electronics, robots …

Amazon on Wednesday introduced its first set-top-box, the Amazon Fire TV. The new STB combines powerful hardware with one of the world’s richest collections of digital content and video games. The STB supports an external gamepad controller to make it more appealing to gamers. The novelty will cost $99 in …

Many of you guys know me as Carl from the Kitguru Facebook page – we share a lot of fantastic looking reader systems every month, but every so often these systems have a fascinating story behind them. Reader Jack McBride from the United Kingdom sent this one into us today …

Microsoft has been keeping the Indie developers in mind this generation with its ID@Xbox publishing programme. Unfortunately, in order for your game to qualify it must launch on Xbox One first or at the same time as other platforms, a requirement that is causing some developers trouble. While there has …

Although a number of PC makers are pretty vocal about the success of notebooks based on ChromeOS operating system, actual sales of such computers are pretty low, according to market analysts. Apparently, the global market share of Chromebooks in 2013 was about 0.6 per cent. ABI Research estimates that 2.1 …

EA has apologised for some April Fool's tweets that came from the Frostbite Engine Twitter account yesterday, branding them as “unnecessary” and “stupid. The Wii U taunting tweets have been deleted but EA COO, Peter Moore, has still apologised on behalf of the company. Gamers will know of the Frostbite …

There's a lot of talk of Virtual Reality at the moment, with the announcement of Facebook's Oculus acquisition, Sony's debut of the Morpheus prototype and the news that there's a new kid on the block, the next year is looking quite exciting for VR enthusiasts. However, not everyone thinks the …

You might want to check that your Thief save is okay as reports began popping up yesterday suggesting that lots of gamers are currently losing their save files to corruption or just flat out losing them altogether. Square Enix has begun investigating the problem but some have managed to fix …

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced plans to slightly boost its purchase commitment from GlobalFoundries by around $50 million this year compared to last year. As part of the agreement, the contract maker of chips will manufacture not only its traditional central processing units (CPUs) and accelerated processing units (APUs) …

We broke the story recently that the sorry tale of Twin Galaxies was shadier than anyone had imagined, with the ownership of the company in question and several parties fighting it out, ultimately resulting in the fans of the long-time video game score keeping organisation getting hit worst of all. …

Net Neutrality is quite a hot topic around the internet based world at the moment, as it seems America and other countries may see the future as a gated community of permissions and access hierarchy and a lot of people aren't happy with it. Similarly, not many people are happy …

There's been a lot of controversy over Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, mostly around graphics. While the 2012 version looked stunning for the time and still, the latest trailers have fallen a bit flat and look like everything in the game world has been scaled back. Ubisoft maintains that that's just for …

Apple has quietly delayed mass availability of its premium desktop again. At present the company offers to pre-order the new Mac Pro and get it in five or six weeks from now, sometimes in May. It looks like more than four months after the official launch date, Apple still cannot …

Tim Sweeney, a legendary game developer, said in an interview that virtual reality technologies will have higher influence on video games than the smartphones had. At present the VR technology is mostly aimed at game developers, researchers, enthusiasts and early adopters, but eventually it will not only appeal to loads …

Satya Nadella, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., continues to re-appoint executives in an attempt to create an efficient executive team at the software giant. In addition to the new team, we are starting to see changes that Mr. Nadella wants to bring to Microsoft. For example, …

A Chinese web-site has published what it claims to be the first image of the Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card. The cooling system of the new dual-GPU flagship graphics adapter code-named Vesuvius looks similar to a teaser published by AMD on Monday, so the product may actually be the real …

Microsoft has revealed a range of statistics today, showing off the popularity of Twitch streaming on the Xbox One console. The Twitch app launched on the same day as Titanfall and as a result, 30 per cent of Twitch broadcasts were coming straight from the Xbox One on the 11th …