Sony is sending out emails to users across the world recommending that they change their passwords. Two members of staff at The Verge received these warning emails, which included the following statement from Sony: “The Sony Entertainment Network team routinely monitors for any irregular activity, and if such activity is …
Read More ȣ450 for an Xbox One photo?
Last week we put out an article on the Xbox One day one edition boxes being sold for as much as the console on eBay but this week's story definitely takes the cake. A 19 year old from Nottingham has paid £450 for a badly printed photo of a day …
Read More »Kim Dotcom alludes to US phone tapping
The overreaching of the US government's domestic and international spy programs continues to be theorised in the latest revelations from Kim Dotcom's extradition trial, with the Megaupload founder and expert witnesses suggesting that the FBI may have used a fake mobile phone tower to record his phone calls, as late …
Read More »Piixl reveals the ‘Jetpack,’ a possible Steam Machine
When Valve announced the Steam Machines earlier this year, I think a lot of people were expecting console sized PC boxes similar to Valve's prototype. While this was true for the first Steam Machine to be revealed, the London based company Piixl has come up with something quite different. You …
Read More »EA doesn’t see games going all digital this generation
Digital downloads will be a huge part of console gaming this generation but Electronic Arts CFO, Blake Jorgensen, doesn't see EA going all digital any time soon. There is a good reason for this though: digital makes up less than 30% of the publisher's sales. During the Credit Suisse 2013 …
Read More »Mining the depths of the Oculus Rift forums
Whenever talk of the Oculus Rift comes up, you often hear about people converting already popular games over to it, like Mirror's Edge, or Skyrim or one of the F1 racing titles. Either that, or one of the very popular, rollercoaster demos that hit earlier this year. What I've found …
Read More »Microsoft closes down Victoria studio
Despite the fact that it only announced an expansion of the Canadian based Victoria development studio last year, Microsoft has announced that it'll be shuttering it. While a large expansion was announced and planned in 2012, ultimately growth wasn't quite as high as expected, though this will still leave around …
Read More »Pay for Ouya games with bitcoins
As bitcoin continues its latest struggle to decide if it wants to be worth more than a thousand dollars or not, companies around the world continue to accept it. Now, you can buy games for your little Android Ouya console using the digital currency through the Ouya store, just like …
Read More »Deck Around this Christmas with slang you’ve never heard
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 …
Read More »Google may face off against Amazon in robot delivery
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 …
Read More »DICE is dropping everything to fix Battlefield 4
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 …
Read More »Riot circles wagons, bans pro streaming of other games
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 …
Read More »HP cutting over 1,000 jobs next year in UK
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 …
Read More »Winner of the Phanteks Enthoo Primo (and more) competition !
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 …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 micro-transactions aren’t cheap
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 …
Read More »Winner of £250 PC WORLD Gift card announced!
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 …
Read More »Get cooperative in new Humble Bundle
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 …
Read More »Exclusive interview with LN2 OC Guru Petri Korhonen
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 …
Read More »32 Indie developers sign up for ID@Xbox self pub program
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 …
Read More »HTC One follow up leaked by UK Judge
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 …
Read More »Win another STEAM game of your choice this week!
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 …
Read More »Dell’s 4K monitors priced
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 …
Read More »Survey suggests £255 worth of digital damage per cyber-attack
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 …
Read More »Websites look like space diamonds
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 …
Read More »CityRip lets you bike through alien cities with the Rift
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 …
Read More »PS4 sales predictions at a million a month
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 …
Read More »The PCGamingAlliance wants to end buggy game launches
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 …
Read More »Check out a host of upcoming games at VGX
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 …
Read More »You can now apply for the Project Spark beta
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 …
Read More »Nvidia Shield update adds 1080p 60 FPS streaming
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 …
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