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Some bad news came down the pipeline over the weekend as Battlefield 4 has been officially banned in China and as you might know, a Chinese ban is pretty strict. Not only can the game not be sold but the Chinese Ministry of Culture has issued a notice prohibiting the …

Only 10 days left for one lucky reader to win a GTX 780 Ti courtesy of our good friends at Nvidia! Nvidia want to spread the feeling of good will and cheer among all KitGuru readers and we can't think of a better way they could do it! Nvidia have …

The word's “the sun,” and “flipped,” aren't ones that you'd think would commonly appear alongside one another, since the former is the largest body of mass within light years of us and the latter is a relatively flippant term used more for describing various boards people ride on, rather than …

While the number of people that want to and are capable of doing what the title suggests might be a relatively small group – even smaller if you consider the technical know how required to make it happen – that doesn't mean it's not a pretty impressive hack. During the …

With 2013 coming to a close, it's interesting to look back on some of the events of the year, the hardware releases, the news stories: which is why KickassTorrents has collated the results of the most common torrent searches throughout the year on its main site, providing some interesting results. …

Last year Joey Hurdy, a 15 year old kid with autism, went to a science fair at the White House where he met the President and demonstrated his home made Marshmallow cannon for him. Since shooting Marshmallows around the White House, Joey has been keeping himself busy by going on …

The administrator of the second iteration of drug marketplace Silkroad, Dread Pirate Roberts, (DPR) has entered “exile” according to another of the site's admins, DefCon, who in a lengthy blog post over the weekend talked about the problems that was causing, as well as the solutions his team had come …

If you had a few spare sheckles around on Christmas Day and consider yourself a bit of an (anti)security buff, then perhaps you shelled out a portion of that for access to a BBC server? This was all possible thanks to a Russian hacker who on Christmas Day managed to …

A lot of people, myself included, enjoyed Bioshock Infinite immensely and found it to be one of the better games released this year; it certainly wins an award for the environment of Columbia and its impressive immersion. However, I likewise wasn't alone in thinking that the weakest part of it …

Christmas may be a time for joy, but Hello Games, developer of the VGX show stealer No Man's Sky, was hit by flooding the night before. It wasn't just a few inches of water either: a river broke it's bank, sending torrents of water through the windows and every other crack …

Today we are going to take a look at the Buffalo AirStation N600 wireless router which is positioned as an affordable dual-band wireless router.  This means it operates on both 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz frequencies … ideal for those who want to connect multiple devices which consume a lot …

I'm so confident the question on your lips after reading this will be, “why didn't they release this before Christmas?” that I'm opening the article with it. That's right, Lego, the makers of real-world Minecraft blocks, has announced plans to launch a 1:20 scale lego model of the Mars Curiosity …

The two supplementary software applications Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter, which have been available to Eastern gamers for some time and provided them with the ability to store their beloved pocket monsters in the cloud and transfer them between previous editions of the Pokémon games, have had their Western releases delayed due to …

Christmas time is always incredibly busy for retailers but when it comes to online retailers, there's a lot more people in the shop at once. Amazon has just proven this as it revealed that in the weeks leading up to the 25th of December, it started to sell 426 items …

The Tomb Raider series and its hero Lara Croft, hasn't been at its peak since the 90s, but has seen nice jumps in critical acclaim and popularity with the release of certain games, perhaps most notably the latest one. Even though Square Enix didn't feel like it made enough, most …

Christmas is a time for hanging out with families, drinking and eating too much and more often than not, breaking out a game or two. Usually these are simple affairs like Scrabble, Monopoly or perhaps something without a board and dice, like charades. However, this being a site of tech …

Sony is going to start shutting down online support for a few of its older first party Playstation 3 titles throughout 2014. Starting on the 28th of January, MAG along with two PlayStation 3 SOCOM games, Special Forces and Confrontation, will be the first titles to go and since neither MAG or SOCOM have offline …

Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good …

If you managed to score yourself a shiny new Nintendo system this Christmas, you might have noticed that the online functions aren't working. This is because Nintendo has been suffering from a long series of server issues since Christmas morning. how to make counterfeit money The issue is affecting those …

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to help support Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard with Stage 4 colon cancer whose short term disability insurance recently ended. Nakada was diagnosed six months ago which was early in to his first year of marriage, since the diagnosis he has …

Apple has been fined 20 million New Taiwan Dollars after the country's Fair Trade Commission found that the company was illegally interfering with price plans on phone networks. The commission found out through a series of emails that the country's three biggest phone networks, Chunghwa Telecom Co, Far Eastone Telecommunication Co …

The UK's main BMW dealer is located in Park Lane in the heart of London's West End. If you find yourself down town for the sales (either of your own volition – or propelled by your other half and an insatiable need to max out the credit card), then maybe …

If you've been following digital currencies recently then you might have heard of Dogecoin, it started off as a joke currency which takes its name from the ‘doge' meme but it has started to pick up some steam recently. The currency is only worth a fraction of what Bitcoin is …

Users of the Redtube streaming porn site – who number in their millions at this point, since Redtube is one of the world's most popular websites – can continue browsing without worry now, as the site's owners have secured an injunction against the copyright troll that recently found a way …

It seems like at this point, everyone that's going to play Minecraft, probably owns a copy of it. It's available everywhere from its humble PC beginnings, on consoles and smartphones, but now it might be hitting the Wii U too, with an emphasis on using the Gamepad to construct and …

Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has just taken over from Judith L. Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, on Disney's board of Directors. Estrin had to move aside as she had already served the maximum 15 years allowed on the board. Disney announced its latest board member at a press …

Things haven't been looking good over at Blackberry for a while now and the company might not be able to bounce back at all this time. The phone maker has not only cancelled its yearly conference but it has also pulled the plug on two phones it had in development …

Dark Souls developer, From Software, turned down a mobile version of its action RPG as it would mean heavily changing the controls. This is according to Alex Adjaj, Director of Global Strategy for Mobile at Publisher, Namco Bandai. In an interview with Digital Spy, Adjaj admitted that the publisher was interested …

When the Steam Machine beta units first shipped to testers, we saw a few first looks and unboxings of the system but now one YouTuber by the name of Trial By Game, has made some pretty decent lets play videos which document his experiences with the new Steam Controller. His …

CyanogenMod has just surpassed the 10 million user mark, further proving that Android users want the barebones operating system, free of ugly skins coupled with fast updates. The custom rom has certainly set itself out from the crowd too, with its over the air updates as well nightly and stable …