Mega.co.nz has detailed a big update on its blog, describing fixes to security issues, added features and support for different browsers, as well as improvements to its API. The update was announced by founder Kim Dotcom in his usual manner: Updates from the #Mega engine room: https://t.co/hpKwIFyBRX — Kim Dotcom …
Read More »8GB of RAM a “joy” to next-gen developers
Sony upped the ante for the next-generation of consoles when it announced last month that it's PlayStation 4 would come equipped with a whopping 8GB of RAM – more than most gaming PCs – and developers are more than a little pleased. Speaking about it with Eurogamer, is Dishonored's lead …
Read More »Copyright trolls demand WordPress reveal critic’s details
Copyright law is in a bit of a mess at the moment. It's used by giant corporations like Samsung and Apple to lock others out of their strong selling markets and by trolls to try and scam money from people and companies. One such troll however, is going further than …
Read More »1,000 Natural Selection 2 gamers lose access in Steam crackdown
More than 1,000 gamers have had their access to Natural Selection 2 cut off after Valve found their copies of the game linked to credit card fraud. Due to charge-back fees, this ended up costing the developer, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, over £20,000. All affected players have had their game deactivated …
Read More »Tomb Raider 2013 – worth the cash?
Tomb Raider 2013 was released this week and seems to be going down a storm with PC gamers, although some aren't too happy about the change in design which focuses less on puzzles and more on shooting people in the face. Call me old fashioned but I do like a …
Read More »February game sales disappointing despite AAA releases
Video game sales last month were pretty disappointing according to new statistics, despite the fact that some giant AAA properties were launched in February, including: Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3 and Crysis 3. Last month all British game stores sold a total of 1,854,954 games – representing a near …
Read More »Google “arrogance” over street view house blurring
Google might have taken a beating from the EIA this morning, but it's about to take another. Residents of one street in Carshalton, in Surrey, UK, have described the search giant as arrogant, after it had another streetview car drive the road outside their properties, summarily unblurring the images of …
Read More »Google Japan has ivory and whale products for sale
Despite its own policies outlawing any items that come from endangered species, Google has been found by the Environmental Investigation Agency, to have thousands of ivory and whale products on the Japanese version of its shopping site. Surveying the site over a two and a half week period in February, …
Read More »Win a copy of Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider!
Are you waiting to get hold of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …
Read More »Biostar Hi-Fi A85W Motherboard Review
Today we are going to take a look at the Biostar Hi-Fi A85W motherboard which features the same A85X chipset as the Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H that we reviewed recently. Consequently, it features AMD's FM2 socket which supports the latest ‘Trinity' APUs. Biostar may not be top of most enthusiasts lists but …
Read More »Virgin Media broadband ‘just excuse after excuse’
If you live in the United Kingdom, chances are you will have to settle with a less than impressive internet connection and over the last 3 months I have been chatting with some Virgin Media customers, who are less than happy with their ‘premium' service. I use Virgin Media myself …
Read More »Amazon remove SimCity under gamers fury
Amazon have stopped selling the downloadable version of SimCity after thousands of angry gamers gave the title a shocking one star review. SimCity – Standard Edition was removed from the Amazon online store yesterday. The always online game has been a disaster for Electronic Arts, and its customers because of …
Read More »Google to sack more people at Motorola Mobility
Google are planning to cut back on more staff at their Motorola Mobility division again with a second round of layoffs. The reports indicate that 1,200 employees are being kicked out of the company, or around 10 percent of their total workforce. Employees were told of the planning redundancies via …
Read More »Sky claims it can handle new broadband traffic
Sky, the company that recently bought up the telecoms company that owned both O2 and Be Broadband's technology and customers, has suggested that despite the influx of new users, it will be more than capable of handling it. However, network issues have already begun to appear. Sky's response is that …
Read More »BT creates 1,000 jobs with fibre
BT's big push to expand fibre broadband to many more British homes will create as many as 1,000 engineer jobs to install the technology. That is a further increase from the 1,500 positions created by last year's fibre installation projects. Out of those 1,000, 400 will be taken on as …
Read More »Telltale’s Walking Dead season two coming this autumn
If you've read a few of my articles over at the games portion of Kitguru, you'll know I'm a big fan of Telltale's Walking Dead game. In-fact, I made it my game of the year 2012 because at the end it made me cry. For anyone else as emotionally invested …
Read More »Nvidia cards struggling with AMD hair tech in Tomb Raider
We talked about AMD's new TressFX hair technology last week, showing of what it's capable of doing and debuting the fact that it would see its first outing in the new Tomb Raider game. Well now that game has hit the shelves and been installed on many a PC: and …
Read More »EA is hosting a negative chat about sexuality in gaming
EA Games is set to host a talk today called EA Full Spectrum, that looks to find out what Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) think of the current state of gaming. Or at least, that's what you'd think they'd be asking, instead according to the event's site, it already …
Read More »Vice troll pushes “finger hashtag”
Vice certainly covers some strange stuff. From captivating stories on North Korea and Liberia, to some of the world's weirdest and most dangerous drugs, it covers a lot of interesting topics that will make you realise how crazy the world really is. However the group's resident troll Nimrod Kamer, is …
Read More »Dotcom can now sue NZ intelligence agency for spying
Kim Dotcom, the embattled founder of Megaupload and Mega, has won another victory in Kiwi court, after a judge denied the appeal of his opposition to overturn an initial ruling, that said he would be allowed to sue the New Zealand intelligence agency, GCSB. While that's all a little confusing, …
Read More »Win cooling prizes with bequiet! and Kitguru
For the next couple of weeks we are running a competition with our good friends over at bequiet! They are giving away some fantastic prizes to our readers to celebrate the recent launch of their DC1 Thermal Paste. bequiet! announced several days ago the availability of the new high performance …
Read More »SimCity is taking a beating for always-on DRM
The latest version of SimCity has only been out for a couple of days, but it's already drawn a lot of flak from gamers. Initially it was because the servers were intermittent at best and now it's because EA took them down in order to improve stability. Of course none …
Read More »Win a copy of Tomb Raider 2013 and BioShock Infinite
Are you waiting to get hold of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next couple of days. We are giving away codes for both, meaning you can keep your hard earned money for something more important such as …
Read More »Microsoft pay €561m EU penalty
Microsoft have had to pay out €561m, after the EU competition authority fined the operating system giant. They said Microsoft had failed to give at least 15 million customers a choice of web browser, a violation of a voluntary antitrust pact that was spotted and raised by Google and Opera, …
Read More »Nexus 7 dock appears on Google Play
Well it looks like the wait is over. The official Nexus 7 docking station is now available for sale on Google Play. ASUS build the 7 inch tablet for Google and they showcased the dock at CES, earlier this year. Earlier speculation was that the dock would be available in …
Read More »HMV Guernsey enters administration
One more arm of the high street media retailer HMV has now entered administration. Guernsey may not be the biggest market, but it's another tumbling domino that paints a bleak future for the shop chain. Unfortunately for those that are employed in the Guernsey store, the single outley was used …
Read More »Fix: Tomb Raider 2013 on multiple CPU systems
Tomb Raider 2013 was released this week with much critical applause, and since then a couple of our readers have been emailing us to say that they haven't been able to get the game to run at all. After troubleshooting the issues, we found the concerns were actually because both …
Read More »PS4 could be released in August
PS4 component makers are suggesting the next console from Sony could ship worldwide as early as August, because Sony wants to try and push a huge number of systems by the end of the year – 16 million if it can help it. This all comes from Digitimes sources, who are …
Read More »3DMark Overclocking Contest Offers over $16,000 in Prizes
Futuremark® and GALAXY announced the start today of GALAXY Ice Storm, the first official overclocking contest using the new version of 3DMark released in February. For the next four weeks, overclockers worldwide can win more than $16,000 USD in prizes by submitting the highest scores in the new 3DMark Ice …
Read More »Get a free Raspberry Pi camera
The Raspberry Pi camera has been on a few people's radar for a while now, but today we can announce that the little PCB and sensor bundle is being given away by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to ten people that come up with the most creative use of the device. …
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