Tag Archives: news

If you've been wondering how the Xbox One will be navigable via the Kinect, it's exactly as unnecessary looking as you'd expect, with actions that at best seem to cut out one menu button and replace it with a sentence that always starts with “Xbox,” which will no doubt go …

Seasonic are running a competition with us over Halloween – you get the chance to win an awesome 660W 80 Plus Platinum modular power supply! The Platinum Series features a high-tech LLC/full-bridge circuit topology with a unique integrated DC Connector Panel with an embedded Voltage Regulator Module. This design contributes …

Star Citizen is a behemoth at this point. Not only is it the most successfully crowd funded campaign ever, but it continues to blow even its own estimations out of the water. It's been over a year since the space-sim's original Kickstarter campaign and it's just earned another $1 million …

Last month we wrote about Killzone: Shadowfall being around 50GB in size, well it turns out that before Sony swooped in and saved the day, the game was bordering on 290GB. Those are some pretty hefty file sizes considering we're moving more towards being all digital. The bulk of those …

In the springtime of 2013 when AMD launched ‘Malta', the Radeon HD 7990 was the fastest graphics card in the world and weighed in at a whopping £800. Now as the year draws to a close and there have been a spate of new launches, what is the current situation?  …

With more than 80,000 comic/cosplay enthusiasts expected through the doors at London's Excel before the end of Sunday 27th October 2013, this staggering audience begs one question: What can you do at the show?  KitGuru photographs some posters and makes some lists. You know. Just in case they are helpful. …

Once the preserve of withdrawn kids who just wanted to escape to new horizons without leaving the comfort of their own imaginations, comics have become big business. Here in the UK, it doesn't get much bigger than MCM Comic Con 2013 at the London Excel centre. KitGuru hides in the …

When fans of the Batman Arkham series found out that the third game wouldn't be made by Rocksteady, there was definitely concern for the series. Many were worried that the next chapter wouldn't live up to expectations or that it wouldn't do the series justice; it wasn't just fans worrying …

If you thought the music service marketplace was crowded enough with Spotify, Itunes, BBC iplayer and all the other on-demand listening services, it might be set to get even more so, as some reports are suggesting Youtube could soon be launching its own version. Regardless of market saturation however, Youtube …

Samsung has been fined $340,000 after being caught paying for negative comments about competitor products and paying for praise of its own. To a company like Samsung, $340,000 is nothing at all but this could damage its reputation. Samsung was first accused of this back in April, shortly after, the …

With the League of Legends Season 3 now done and dusted, it's time to look forward to the next season, where as usual, Riot is planning big changes to vast swathes of the game in order to improve balance, competitiveness and up the ante on potential strategies. It's going to …

If you work for an international organisation that has had some dealings with the NSA and its PRISM scheme, but you haven't been found out yet, better duck and cover, as Snowden is set to release documents highlighting the cooperation between your agency and American authorities. Edward Snowden has already …

Just last month we reported on how the British military was set to invest as much as £500 million into a new digital strike force, that would recruit security professionals and graduates to a scheme that would not only be set to defend the UK's online interests, but be able …

Zynga yesterday released it's quarterly report for earnings, the first one since ex-Xbox One launch man Don Mattrick jointed the company as CEO and while profits and revenue are down on this period last year, it wasn't quite as bad as expected. According to Bloomberg estimates, while it was predicted …

League of Legends might be set to see its biggest MOBA, esports competitor gain a big new following of not only players, but viewers too, as Valve's DotA 2 has now been officially launched in Korea, thanks to the help of Nexon. This makes the second time the two developer/publishers …

There's a lot of people getting excited about the next console generation right now and understandably so; we're getting very close to the release of both Microsoft and Sony's new systems. However spending hundreds of pounds on a box that isn't a PC, doesn't help companies like Alienware, which is …

While it's all well and good keeping up to date with foreign affairs using CNN, Al Jazeera or RT, but when it comes to Tweets, it's a little more useful if a global organisation gives you localised content – including launches and offers. MSI has now made that move. KitGuru …

A while back we got some rumoured specs for Call of Duty Ghosts, which at the time a lot of us thought they were quite extreme with the recommended specs featuring a GTX 780. Well we still don't have the official recommended specifications but we do have the official minimum …

HBO's Real Sports segment, which purports to show you what happens behind the score board and “off the field,” took some time out from its usual coverage of real world action, to instead focus on esports, interviewing key players in the League of Legends pro scene, people at Riot Games …

Earlier this week Apple announced the new iPad Air and iPad mini with retina display with the only difference between the two being price and size. The new iPad mini holds all of the same specs as the iPad Air but the smaller size cuts its price by £80 giving you …

As you might have noticed from the slew of reviews that hit the net today – including our own in-depth one – AMD officially launched its expected flagship card, the R9 290X, ushering in a new generation of GPU that throws the gauntlet at Nvidia's feet and dares it to …

Would you like to see some classic N64 titles remade and put on the Nintendo Eshop? I know some people who still own N64's and other retro consoles and it seems Nintendo knows too. A new rumour going around suggests that Nintendo is working on remaking several classic titles in …

An interesting trend in gaming at the moment, is the simultaneous rise and fall of subscription based services. MMO's using that business model are disappearing or converting over to the free to play model, but companies offering gaming packages as part of a monthly charge are growing. Microsoft's Xbox Live …

Of course it's lasers right? I mean what other technology would you use in space. It's not for shooting enemy ships though, but for communication, offering some serious bandwidth across the cosmos, vastly improving on old space-based data transmission technology. Known as the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD), this project …

Just before the world was beginning to tire of Zombie games and movies, Dean Hall has finally managed to get an early access version of DayZ onto Steam. It's not quite ready for play yet, but it will be soon, as the game has now appeared in the Steam database. …

When it comes to game engines, things are a lot easier nowadays. Go back 10-15 years and developers didn't have pre-packaged offerings from Crytek, or Epic Games to utilise, they had to build their own physics engine and their own animation systems. Still, while there are a lot of great …

Samsung have been under attack from the China state run broadcaster CCTV. In a recent 30 minute television program Samsung were criticized for shipping sub standard components in their Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III smartphones sold on the Chinese market. The show also discussed how poorly the company …

RM Auctions in Ontario are putting one of the most iconic cars in history up for sale. The Ferrari F310B, chassis 179 was once driven by Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine. The F310 B was first seen at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix and then it went on to claim Ferrari's …

Nintendo Land is out and the Mario brothers are in, in this new Wii U bundle set to land before Christmas. Now instead of getting the Nintendo produced mini-game, party title with your newly purchased Wii U console, you'll get the two Mario bros themed games instead. Coming as part …

I think all of us have wished we could make a living from playing games at some point, but unfortunately to do that you have to be really, really good. One league of legends player is living that dream: in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC, Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez revealed just how …