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We covered Terrible Things a while back, a humiliating and abominable game that looks as much to play as it is to deride, but unfortunately due to problems with its name it's not going to make it to people for Christmas. Something that looks like it might though, is Deck …

We all had a good laugh and a think about Amazon's recent announcement that it was working on drone delivery to help reduce the time some products get to your doorstep and giggled again when Waterstones jokingly said that it would start delivering books via owl. However this might not …

Battlefield 4 is in pretty bad shape right now and it seems that there are so many issues that DICE needs to put a stop to all other projects including future games and expansions to finally fix Battlefield 4 once and for all. EA gave the following statement announcing DICE's …

If you'd said a decade ago that there would be not only gamers like Fatal1ty making the big bucks by being a professional at it, but that teams of people would be able to do it for a living too – some pulling in as much as a million a …

Hewlett Packard has announced that the new year will see another large number of its UK employees let go from the company. In total as many as 1,124 will be made redundant by the end of March 2014. According to union leaders (via the Guardian), the unlucky number will be …

Today we close our Phanteks competition, and boy did we have a ton of entries for this one, around 8,000 people wanted this case, badly! We were one of the first publications in the world to review the Phanteks Enthoo Primo chassis – way back in August 2013. It earned …

If you didn't know I'm sorry to break the news to you, but the next Gran Turismo game is going to have micro-transactions. That's right if you want to you can play the game as usual and earn your way to the newer cars, or you can just pay to …

Our PCWORLD £250 gift voucher competition was popular – we had many thousands of entries from readers wanting a chance to buy some tasty new goodies before Christmas. buy autocad online Sadly we can only pick one winner – and the prize goes to reader Nelia Freitas from Norfolk in …

While the Humble Bundle seems a little less special these days, due to its increased frequency, the Humble Weekly Sale and the constantly open and selling Humble Store, that doesn't mean that a new bundle isn't cause for celebration, especially when it's packed with as much cooperative action as this …

Two days ago, KitGuru Lab staff cast their eyes over a photo of a brand new product. It looked amazing and seemed to offer a level of flexibility in LN2 cooling that you don't often see. That product is the EK-SF3D Critical Point. We have been lucky enough to get …

The Xbox One has been out for a couple of weeks now meaning that players and Indie developers alike have the console in their hands. One of the things Microsoft did to try and win gamers over was announce its self publishing program for Indie developers and today, Chris Charla, Director …

A few weeks ago we posted an article on the Nokia VS HTC Patent case but yesterday it took a turn for the worse with the HTC One Mini being banned in the UK. This led to the HTC One successor being discussed in court. In the official ruling, Judge Richard …

This week we are running another 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 and place a caption to a scene from Assassins Creed BlackFlag on the PC. It means you …

Are any of you guys looking for a 4K display? You might want to wait a while because Dell is about to bring the price of 4K down again with its new monitors. The Ultra HD resolution has been pushed hard this year with prices coming down from $35,000 to …

Anti-malware firm, Kapersky Labs, has released some new data on a survey it conducted that suggests the average user that is hit by an encryption scam malware attack, will face losing around £255 worth of media – and that's if they don'y pay. If they did, it could end up …

Big data is often a topic of conversation in the tech world these days, especially in enterprise forums, but standard data can be just as exciting, if not beautiful in the right context. Take for example Martin Robertson's method of using website links to create these stunning formations. These images …

If you heard the Kitguru news/gossip the other day, I recently bought myself an Oculus Rift. It's not far away now but as with everyone that's ordered one, I've spent a lot of time doing two things: 1: refreshing the tracking page and staring at the “waiting at depot,” notice …

If you thought that Sony was off to a good start because it has already sold over two million of its PlayStation 4s, apparently you ‘aint seen nothing yet. According to analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities, the PS4 is going to continue selling at a rate of around a …

It seems to have become an unfortunate trend in the last half decade, where games often release with either giant glaring bugs, or huge swathes of minute problems that when added together, make the game almost unplayable. Whether developers/publishers are doing this deliberately to use the first batch of adopters …

Looking to shun the typical Hollywood style award ceremonies of the movie industry, VGX has announced its entertainment lineup for its award show, set to take place on the 7th December in an “intimate setting,” and be streamed live across a huge variety of devices. See which game won game …

Project Spark is Microsoft's upcoming game creation suite for Windows 8, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It lets you create your game while playing it by allowing users to customise everything as they go along. You can create custom worlds, characters and animations, sort of like Little Big Planet but better …

Nvidia is updating everything at the moment, last week Nvidia users got a new driver update, yesterday the Geforce Experience got an update and now the Shield handheld is also getting some improvements. When the Shield's console mode was launched back in October, it could only stream 720p gameplay at …

FTL was a great, great game. Honestly, I put 50+ hours into that little indie roguelike. I even wrote thousands and thousands of words of extra content for a mod called Infinite Space. But that doesn't matter because I don't play that any more. What I do want to play …

The Wii U has struggled since its release last year, its had a decent sales peak in October thanks to the release of Zelda Wind Waker HD but for the most part its not done well at all. The lack of sales has caused many to give up on the …

In a partnership you haven't seen the likes of since Sam and Frodo, Batman and Robin or Sterling and Katya, Be Quiet and Kitguru have teamed up (with Blizzard too) to give away some great prizes every week until Christmas, making yours that bit more techy. Sticking with the festive …

Following on from the interesting, but certainly attention grabbing news yesterday that Amazon was currently in discussion with the FAA about unmanned drone delivery, book retailer Waterstones has released a trolling video discussing a new way of delivering books, via owl. In the very tongue in cheek video, press manager …

What's up Kerbal Space Program fans and you know, people interested in real, actual space travel. China has now launched its first lunar rover, attached to the Chang'e-3 lunar probe with the intended mission of surveying the moon's surface and looking for natural resources that can one day perhaps be …

Sony looks to have firmly secured round one in this heavyweight matchup between previously next-gen, now current-gen consoles, managing to sell over 2.1 million consoles since its launch earlier this month. While Microsoft's Xbox One hasn't had quite as long to sell in the US, it's been available in more …

The UK's biggest gaming festival is getting bigger next year as Insomnia festival will take place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, instead of the traditional Telford International. The first Insomnia event to take over the arena will be held over the Easter bank holiday weekend- Friday the 18th of April …

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 and place a caption to a scene from Batman Arkham Origins on the PC. It means you …