PC gamers are always miffed when the consoles owners get Grand Theft Auto before the beloved PC version. In the past it has taken RockStar between 9 months and a year to get the PC version out to market. There are two theories for this. The first is that it …
Read More »StarCraft Universe hits KickStarter
A project set up by Upheaval Arts is set to interest many gamers who enjoyed StarCraftII. StarCraft Universe is set in an ‘alternative reality' where the ending of StarCraft II:Wings of Liberty has a grim conclusion for Kerrigan. Without the Queen of Blades to stop the hybrid’s assault, the protoss …
Read More »Microsoft ditch mandatory Kinect policy
Microsoft have told gamers that they will no longer need to have an always online, all seeing online camera attached to their Xbox One. Just another in the latest line of 180 degree changes for the company who have been facing a lot of negative press for a series of …
Read More »Elon Musk details Hyperloop transit system
You may not immediately know the name Elon Musk, but he is the man behind SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Paypal. He is currently working on a futuristic style transit system, called Hyperloop. To this date very little has been detailed about the system, except that it would serve as a …
Read More »ZTE Firefox OS smartphone to hit US and UK eBay
ZTE will be selling their new Firefox OS smartphone soon via Ebay stores in America and the United Kingdom. The smartphone will mean that consumers can buy an affordable smartphone based completely on open Web standards. The phone ships unlocked and will cost £59.99 in the UK and $79.99 in …
Read More »LG release retro TV with old fashioned dials
Our younger readers may never have seen an old television set with ‘dials', but LG are attempting to hit the nostalia button by releasing a new television with several of them next to the screen. Their retro classic TV, model 32LN630R features a creamy white fascia with volume and channel …
Read More »Google Glass testers get Google Now cards, voice commands
Google Glass is still with the early testers and while videos and information showing the device in action have popped up online, the mass public still haven't been able to get their hands on it. Google have recently applied some updates to the device. Google Now features in the update. …
Read More »Blackberry struggles to find a strategy – up for sale
You can tell when a company becomes hopelessly lost. Things it once took for granted, like leadership and innovation, become nervous half-choices and an urge to copy answers from the kid you're sitting next to. Blackberry had it all, but those days are long gone. What next for the old …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Note II prices go wild ahead of Note III launch
With all the furore surrounding the way that component prices have been dropping recently, space a thought for any resellers or distributors who presently have stock on the Samsung Galaxy Note II. A KitGuru associate was considering one of these, but hit a snag when they went to do a …
Read More »Pirate Bay release PirateBrowser, bypasses censorship
The Pirate Bay have released a new dedicated web browser which will defeat blacklisting ISP filters. In a celebration of their 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay have launched the new PirateBrowser. This is a web browser system which will allow users to bypass ISP filters that will block access to …
Read More »Vietnamese BlackBerry Z30 video leaks
A five minute video is the latest in a series of leaks of the upcoming BlackBerry flagship model to hit the web. This particular video is in Vietnamese. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX62bqi9sWI'] The new smartphone, originally called the Blackberry A10 is said to rest at the top of the mobile phone range. …
Read More »New iPhones will be called 5S and 5C say Macotakara
A Japanese website say they have confirmation that Apple will be calling their new iPhone the iPhone 5S, and that Apple's rumoured low cost iPhone will be known as the iPhone 5C. Macotakara are saying they know ‘sources in Asia' have confirmed the names are correct. The ‘C' moniker is …
Read More »Pirate Bay Launches Browser to Sidestep Censorship
Still looking for ways to help internet users bypass the censorship imposed by many countries, the UK included, The Pirate Bay has launched its own web browser called PirateBrowser. Based on a Tor client and version 23 of Mozilla's portable edition Firefox browser with foxyproxy add-on, PirateBrowser is a simple …
Read More »Google celebrate Erwin Schrodinger
Google are celebrating the life of Austrian scientist Erwin Schrödinger with a Google doodle image. If he was still alive, he would be 127 today. Schrödinger was a nobel prize winning physicist best known for his mind experiment known as Schrödinger's Cat. This was an equation that lies at the very heart …
Read More »Clear skies ahead for Perseids UK meteor shower
Forecasters say the weather conditions are looking good for the Perseid meteor shower which should be clearly visible from late evening tonight to early Tuesday morning in the United Kingdom. Matt Dobson of MeteoGroup, the weather section of the Press Association spoke out “It's looking pretty good for people to …
Read More »SATA-IO completes SATA 3.2 Specification
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it has completed the SATA 3.2 Specification. The latest iteration of the specification brings with it increased data transfer rates, improved power management and SATA Express. SATA Express will allow drives to use two lanes of PCI Express 3.0, increasing available bandwidth …
Read More »3D Hologram projector for your smartphone
The latest Star Wars movies may have sucked, but there is no denying that the original releases in the 1970's were way ahead of their time. We are still waiting on a 3D projector, similar to the one built into R2D2. The wait may be over, as Imagination Farm USA …
Read More »Be Quiet Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler Review
Today we are going to look at the Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler from Be Quiet!. It is the first model we have looked at from the second generation of the ‘Shadow Rock' series of products. We are excited to see how it fares in our tests as previous models …
Read More »New iPhone may be released within a month
The latest news from AllThingsD would suggest that Apple may introduce the follow up to the iPhone 5 at a special event held on September 10th. This is almost a full year after Apple introduced the iPhone 5 at a media event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts Center on …
Read More »Low priced 4TB drives now being served on an Aria platter
Almost exactly one year ago, KitGuru covered the news that the price of a 4TB drive had been slashed down to just outside the £200 mark. With a few wobbles along the way, that price continues to fall. KitGuru eyes up another offer in the storage department. When things spin …
Read More »Asus will make next Google Nexus 10
Asus were the manufacturer of the original Nexus 7, and the redesigned model which was released earlier this year however Samsung were responsible for the bigger Nexus 10 model. Asus bid for manufacturing of the new model, and they won, aiming to release the Nexus 10 in time for Christmas …
Read More »nVidia price cuts extend to laptops with MSI GE60 and GE70
With all the price cuts on nVidia desktop graphics cards, we guess it was only time before the mobile space also started to throw up some GeForce bargains. Having broken into the world's Top 10 for laptops a few years back, this Taiwanese outfit still pushes hard to create original …
Read More »SSD price war in full flow with Crucial and ADATA
Just a few weeks ago, KitGuru was chatting internally and wondering what happened to all the cool SSD deals from last summer. We remembered a time when drives dropped below £70 and then headed down to settle around £60. Why were 2013's prices so much higher? Looks like movements in …
Read More »Overclockers UK ups the ante in ongoing GTX 600 series price war
In a tactical bid to take the ongoing Nvidia GTX 670 and 680 price war by the throat, Overclockers UK is slashing the price of Asus DirectCU II cards for this weekend only. The move sees Overclockers UK offering up some of the best deals currently available, and better still, …
Read More »G.Skill TridentX breaks world record at 4400MHz
G.Skill has reclaimed its position as performance king after professional overclocker James “YoungPro” Trevaskis reached 4400MHz using G.Skill's TridentX memory earlier this morning. The set-up used to achieve this result consisted of an Intel Core i7 4770k, ASUS Maximus 6 Impact and G.Skill TridentX DDR3 3000MHz C12 4GB. As is …
Read More »Chrome browser can release your passwords in just a few clicks
UK programmer Elliott Kember has raised a concerning issue on his blog this week. Web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can reveal saved logged in user passwords in just a few clicks. According to The Register there is now a debate over whether this is a ‘common feature' or …
Read More »BMW i3 (2013) 170bhp hybrid available on order
The new BMW i3 has gone on sale priced from £25,680 with the £5,000 OLEV Government grant. The car can be ordered now, but the official UK launch date is on the 16th November 2013. The BMW i3 is a hybrid design, powered by a synchronous electric motor with the …
Read More »LG G2 specs and price detailed
Many people are waiting on the new G2 phone from LG. At their event in New York the company highlighted the features of the watch, calling the G2 ‘The most ambitious phone in history'. Key features of the LG G2 are a new edge to edge display (‘near zero bezel'), …
Read More »Microsoft developing phone that won’t ever disturb you
We've all had that awkward moment when you forget to silence your phone in the cinema and it happens to go off during the quietest scene of the film. You'll be glad to hear that this may not be a problem for long, as Microsoft are currently developing a technology …
Read More »OverclockersUK have something ‘big coming’
OverclockersUK are teasing everyone with news that they have something ‘big' coming to market. They just sent us a press release which reads “For quite some time Overclockers UK have been working on a top-secret project, a project soon to be unveiled but not first without a taste. In the …
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