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Say hello to Sweetie, she's a ten year old girl from the Philippines but not your typical child. Sweetie is 100 per cent computer generated and her job is to attract paedophiles and help Terr des Hommes, a Dutch organisation, put a stop to webcam child sex tourism. Sweetie was especially …

Rambo these days, isn't quite the hot property it was a few years ago and it certainly isn't as relevant as it was back in the 80s – 30 years ago for those not feeling ready for maths yet this morning. Still, there's some blood left in that stone and …

Well it may be hard to believe, but a company have just released the World's biggest iPhone speaker – weighing in at an eye popping 178KG. We received an email this morning from zany creator Eric Calderon detailing the new design. The speaker is designed from 44 elements and two …

If you wanted to own a white Xbox One just last week, you'd have found the only way you'd ever get a chance, would be to go back in time and start working for Microsoft's Xbox division sometime in the past few years, as they're all getting one in a …

In the early hours of the morning one of our news staff clumsily misinterpreted a press release from ASUS, claiming they were the first out of the door with a custom cooled R9 290. Sadly this is not the case, and in fact – like all the other R9 290's …

We had quite a lot of entries to win the LUXA2 Groovy Aluminum speaker system. Sadly there can only be one winner! The answer to the competition was 2: P1-PRO and the winner is Markku Uurainen. His Facebook page is here. Kitguru says: The prize will be winging its way …

Last month AMD lifted the curtain on the new Mantle API it developed, promising lower level hardware access similar to how developers create games for console hardware. The announcement got many people wondering just how much of a performance gain they could get from it and at the same time …

It seems that whenever the Xbox One makes headlines, it's not often good news, but today is different. We're taking a break from privacy concerns, low resolutions and delays to tell you that the Xbox One will boot up faster than your TV. While this is pretty minimal, slow boot …

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 the latest Batman game on the PC. It means …

If you stayed up late last night for the launch of Call of Duty: Ghosts, or are itching to get home to open up your delivered, pre-order copy, don't worry about being several hours behind people in more Eastern parts of the world, as this coming weekend, Infinity Ward is …

If you're one of the many hopefuls who signed up to beta test the Steam Machine prototypes from Valve then you might want to take a look at this, as Valve has released images of the Steam Machine and shown off how it has managed to cram such powerful hardware …

If you do your weekly shop at your local Tesco, you could soon be having your face scanned and adverts displayed specifically to target you. It may not announce your name to the world with a projected face like Minority Report, but it could be equally embarrassing if you're a …

Well that didn't take long. Just a few hours after I wondered (sarcastically) where the man had disappeared to, Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and current extradition trial fighter, has claimed the number one spot on Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer, marking the second time in the history of the …

Despite the Kane and Lynch games being relatively well received, if a little hard to remember and it being over three years since we last saw a game in the series, Hollywood apparently sees it as an excellent property to base a movie on. On top of that, it reckons …

Blackberry is no longer set to be sold to its main shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings as part of a massive $4.7 billion deal and is instead pushing to raise over a billion dollars in capital to help it continue operations as is. With an ailing business and over a billion …

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom is a face you see online quite often. He's regularly launching some rally, or announcing his intention to launch a new political party, or even just posting sarcastic comments about President Obama and his proclivity for spying on the world. But for the last day or …

It was late last week that Sony revealed its difficult to follow teaser trailer, that went on and on and eventually just featured a piece of paper suggesting upcoming news about the PocketStation, a Japan only accessory for the original PlayStation that featured a screen and controls – like Sega's …

Battlefield 4 is one of the most popular games on the PC however the launch has been less smooth than developer DICE had hoped. They have been responding to reports of the game crashing, freezing and losing sound and assure people that a patch is on the way. Readers on …

A Kickstarter campaign to build an inexpensive 9 inch high definition monitor to connect to the Raspberry Pi was fully funded in just three days. The £65 HDMIPi is an affordable small and portable HDMI monitor to connect to the Raspberry Pi. It broke the funding target of £55,000 and …

Nintendo announced a while ago that they were stopping all production of their original Wii console – wanting to place their focus entirely on the Wii U, which hasn't been the sales success the company would have wanted. They are now saying that the Wii Mini, originally for the Canadian …

Blockbuster recently re-entered administration, despite raking in masses of pre-orders earlier in the year for both the Xbox One and PS4. With its current financials, it announced it would be unable to provide refunds, unless customers wrote to the head office, with all sorts of documentation and receipts. One man …

If Sci-fi has told us anything, it's that the future is filled with robots that may or may not want to kill us and lasers, lots and lots of lasers. While we might be still a few years away from developing some form of sentient life form from the internet, …

Microsoft has had a tough time getting potential buyers to forget about all of the privacy concerns the internet has raised in regards to Kinect but today the company has finally let users know exactly what happens with the data Microsoft can collect in the new Xbox Live privacy statement. …

While the Xbox One might be having all sorts of trouble when it comes to displaying games at 1080p and/or at 60 frames per second, one thing it is able to do is multi-task. If you're in a game and want to look something up through the Internet Explorer browser, …

It's been a long time since we heard anything about Epic Game's scavenging, base building, defence title Fortnite, but now that's it's surfaced again to grab a breath of foetid air, the news isn't particularly exciting. We now know there's another developer working on it and that that developer has …

Following on from revelations that the US' NSA had been tapping the phone of German chancellor, Angela Merkel for over a decade, a growing number of politicians and influential people in Germany have been calling for the government to offer asylum to NSA document leaker Edward Snowden. Published in a …

Nintendo has decided to suspend the Swapnote service after receiving regular evidence that the 3DS feature was being used to exchange offensive material. The Swapnote and Special notes services were suspended at 7:00 PM EST on the 31st of October so over here in the UK you would've found that …

Outerra is an in-development game engine that just keeps getting more impressive. It already scales wonderfully from space like distances, all the way down to close up fields of grass, without a hint of stutter (and not much pop in) despite the huge draw distances involved. In a new trailer …

Last week Android 4.4 Kit Kat was released alongside the Nexus 5 and as a result, the official Android website has been updated but Google fans have spotted something out of the ordinary on the Apps & Entertainment page. The first image the page greets you with has a father …

Despite their mammoth budgets, contemporary games often ship with a host of unexpected bugs, you just have to hope they don't affect you on day one. A good measure of the developer that released the title is how they deal with these problems and DICE seems to be taking Battlefield …