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Anonymous sources close to EA Partners, the publishing arm of EA Games that worked with external developers including Valve, for the likes of Orange Box, Portal 2 and a host of other companies, are hinting at its impending closure, following on from a rough financial year and trouble with several …

Nintendo has announced that it has no plans to run a press conference this year at the E3 expo, despite it being one of the biggest public outings for gaming firms this year. This is counter to the usual trend of a Tuesday showing off of new Nintendo hardware and …

Apple are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their iTunes service. If you head into the iTunes store there is now a feature called ‘A Decade Of iTunes'. The famous day is April 28th. The new feature allows the user to browse a timeline of events and stories following the growth …

Amazon have experienced strong sales with their Kindle and Kindle Fire tablets, and murmurings suggest that they may be wanting to release a set top box to partner up with your television set. Sources close to the project spoke to Business Week hinting that Amazon wanted to release a proprietary …

Would you like to spend some one on one time with Apple leader Tim Cook at their Cupertino, California headquarters? Then your dreams could come true. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is hosting a Spring Auction through online auction site Charitybuzz. This site specialises in …

Known for their range of Android based mini-PCs, Giada is announcing a new tablet based on Android, the T720. This is a significant step up for Giada showing a growing sophistication in design and engineering. The T720 is Giada’s latest Android tablet and the sleek design and hardware features make …

While a handful of investors no doubt made a killing in the past month with the meteoric rise of bitcoin's value, those making hardware specifically to mine bitcoins are doing pretty well too – but they aren't the only ones. While Avalon's ASIC systems have all pretty much sold at …

The Tor accessible network that sells everything from fake IDs to heroin, Silk Road, has been hit with a DDOS attack according to admins. While some site service appears to have been restored in the past few hours, users are still reporting that it's near impossible to login. The news …

Is a 1080p television just not good enough for you? Then take your credit card and wallet, (and perhaps a kidney) to Selfridges to get hold of the new Samsung S9 UHD TV. The asking price? A cool £34,999.99 inc vat. It will be sold in their flagship Oxford Street store …

Microsoft has released an update on the intended release date for its Surface Pro tablet, letting eager UK buyers know that it'll be here before the end of the May and by the close of June, there won't be many places in the world you can't buy one. According to …

It's one thing to release a game that's single player experience requires always-online DRM and then have those same always-on servers crash soon after launch, but it's another thing entirely to release game breaking patches that were supposed to fix everything weeks after launch. That's the situation EA, Maxis and …

Apple has announced its first drop in profits for the past decade, prompting some to question the future of the firm – as it has a history of innovating and trend setting over a few years and then stagnating. Vanessa Barnett, technology and media specialist at Charles Russell LLP has spoken up …

The man behind one of Kickstarter – and crowdfunding in general's – biggest success stories, Chris Roberts' Star Citizen, has announced he's opening a new development studio in Santa Monica to focus on publishing and development of the in-game elements. He also said the new team would be working on …

Bugatti are well known globally for producing some of the world's fastest, and most expensive sports cars. They are releasing only eight Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Car limited editions. The car will hit a top speed of 254 mph and is classed as the worlds fastest convertible. We …

As technology permeates every corner of the planet, so the threat of significant security attacks grows. Articles that run on world famous newspapers like the New York Times, result in massive hacks into every PC owned by that organisation – within 24 hours. It's a very serious world and security …

Here at KitGuru, we have been predicting for quite some time that this Christmas will see the start of a blood bath on Quad HD TV pricing – but for the massacre to begin, it needs competition. Sony looks to be throwing its hat into the ring with the XBR-65X900A. …

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced that it will start shipping the HD 7990 – the fastest graphics card available based on the highly acclaimed graphics GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture from AMD. The SAPPHIRE HD 7990 has a dual GPU architecture with a total of 4096 Stream processors and core …

The federal forces in Australia have arrested the vocal, self proclaimed leader of Lulzsec. A hacking collective well known across the globe for their high profile attacks on leading organisations. They even shut down the Central Intelligence Agency's public web site in 2011. The Australian Federal Police said that they …

Google has bought Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for more than $30 million, according to a Techcrunch source. Apple and Google were both competing to take over the Seattle based company, however Google have claimed the victory. Apple apparently were interested in the start up company to help augment …

iPhone 4 owners who filed claims against Apple in a class action lawsuit have begun to receive their money. A $15 settlement cheque in the mail. The money started arriving this week, according to TUAW. People were apparently so surprised that they didn't even know what the money was for …

Pizza Hut has introduced a new app for the Xbox 360, which allows users to order pizzas online and even design their own custom toppings with the use of Kinect. Whether this will evolve into some sort of social-network mini-game remains to be seen, but it does sound intriguing. “We're …

Today we are going to look at the latest all-in-one CPU water cooler from Cooler Master, the Eisberg Prestige 240L which competes with the latest models from the likes of Corsair and NZXT.  The Eisberg range is targeted specifically at enthusiasts and boasts a number of exciting features that differentiate …

Some images have shown up online for a supposed live-action trailer of Rockstar's upcoming GTA V game, featuring crashed cars, destroyed environments and all the sort of mayhem you'd expect from a game in the GTA series – apart from cops getting shot with rocket launchers that is. The following …

The war of the smartphone manufacturers is continuing unabated across the world and in the court room, with Nokia now managing to secure a block of microphone parts for HTC's One smartphone, with the judge ruling that Nokia invented the part and has an exclusive production deal for it. The …

Netflix is set to offer a new £8 a month service, which while offering the same content to users, allows them to simultaneously stream from the service in four separate locations. The idea is for families to be able to watch different media around the house or t0 accommodate roommates that have differing tastes. Wired also …

Some of the final assets of the defunct publisher, THQ, have now been sold off, with Darksiders not going to its expected home in newly formed Crytek USA (made up of mostly old Vigil staffers) but to Nordic Games, which had a hand in publishing the Gothic series of games through JoWood Entertainment and …

We all know women loves clothes, shoes and handbags, me included. According to a report on the Dailymail however, one PR executive took it a step further. Kathryn Kirton, 35 was head of PR at Activision when she decided to take around £18,000 to pay for her engagement party, hen …

If you frequently build a PC during the evening, you will undoubtedly have a flashlight in your arsenal of tools. For those who think brighter is always better then you won't want to miss the new NiteCore Tiny Monster TM26. It is classed as the world's smallest 3,500 lumen flashlight. …

Apple are expected to post a drop in quarterly profit when they issue their next financial report. The shrink may be their first drop in the last decade, hurt by products with lower profit margins and slower iPhone sales growth. According to Bloomberg fourteen analysts have reduced their estimates for …

Remember Lawnmower Man? If like me you saw that and began eagerly counting the days to when you too could fly through virtual reality with a pre-James Bond Pierce Brosnin, then you and I were both sorely dissapointed, as here we are over 20 years later and nothing much has …