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Back in late 2019, Microsoft announced Rare's next major game – Everwild. We've had very little news around this game since then, but now, the game does have a new design director.  As reported by VGC, Garry Napper, who previously worked as the design lead on games like Alien Isolation, …

Take-Two Interactive as a video game holdings company owns many best-selling and well-received IPs including GTA, Borderlands, BioShock and more. It seems the company is trying to protect these properties, but in doing so is trying to trademark basic words such as ‘Rockstar’ and ‘Bully’. As discovered by Twitter user …

December has officially begun and the first wave of additions to the Xbox Game Pass library for the month have been announced. Obviously, this month's biggest game is Halo Infinite, but there are other notable games coming over the next few weeks , including Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Stardew Valley, Among …

After cancelling plans for a dedicated multiplayer game set in the Cyberpunk universe, CD Projekt Red pivoted to working on multiplayer modes for its single-player franchises, rather than creating new spin-offs. This week, the studio confirmed that it is working on multiplayer functionalities for both Cyberpunk and The Witcher. During …

ViewSonic has just introduced a new portable monitor packing gaming-grade specs for taking your setup on the go. The new VX1755 is a portable 17-inch monitor with an excellent 144Hz refresh rate, making it a great pairing when travelling with next-gen consoles, or a gaming laptop/PC.  Using a 17.2-inch IPS …

Qualcomm has recently stated it would change the Snapdragon branding and naming scheme, starting with its new flagship SoC. That time has now come, with Qualcomm announcing the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, based on the 4nm process node and using the ARMv9 instruction set.  Like many of its predecessors, …

Following the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition, Rockstar has had to shuffle some resources around to start patching the games and squashing the many bugs present at release. As work on updates is still underway, Rockstar has delayed the physical release of the trilogy for …

Just as promised, today we are kicking off the KitGuru Advent Calendar 2021. As I teased in our announcement post yesterday, for the very first competition this month, we have teamed up with AMD to give one lucky KitGuru reader a CPU upgrade. Our prize today is none other than the Ryzen 7 5800X! 

For every successful sub-genre, there is a free-to-play alternative. Dauntless is a free-to-play co-op action RPG which shares many similarities to Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise. Launched back in 2019, the game is now being updated to take advantage of the latest and greatest consoles: namely the PlayStation 5 and Xbox …

The Definitive Edition of the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy may just be one of the biggest blunders this generation. The remasters, which were intended to celebrate these classic open-world titles, launched in an abysmal state. Rockstar Games have promised to fix them and have been slowly doing so – the …

Valve appears to be betting big on the Steam Deck. Since its announcement, the handheld device appears to have garnered a great deal of interest from developers and fans alike. Despite this, the Steam creator has confirmed that it will not be publishing any games made exclusively for the Steam …

Dreams is one of the most creative video games currently available, coming from the minds at Media Molecule. Unfortunately, the game creation toolkit has suffered from a slow adoption due in part to the relatively inaccessible controls. Dreams’ creation tools have now been revamped to be more beginner-friendly. Making the …

Sapphire appears to have begun selling dedicated crypto mining graphics cards based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture. Currently, no such product is listed publicly on Sapphire's website, but Spanish news outlets claim that they do exist, and even have specification sheets and pricing information.  According to El Chapuzas Informatico, Sapphire's …

Those of you who have been following us for the last few years will know that we like to go big on competitions in December. This year, we are pleased to announce that the KitGuru Advent Calendar is returning, with the first competition kicking off tomorrow! 

Gigabyte has introduced what might be the cheapest Z690 motherboard. The new Z690M DS3H DDR4 is the first Z690 board to lack PCIe 5.0 connectivity, offering PCIe 4.0 instead, as well as a barebones aesthetic to keep it budget-friendly.  According to Tom's Hardware, one of the key reasons behind high …

CD Projekt Red has been making a lot of headlines this week. It started off with the studio president loudly confirming that the company is not for sale and will not be joining a larger publisher. As the week went on, Cyberpunk 2077 received an influx of new, positive reviews, …

Microsoft has announced that it is partnering with itself to improve Xbox Cloud Gaming visuals. As part of the self-serving partnership, the Xbox Cloud Gaming team has partnered up with the folks behind the Microsoft Edge browser to roll out Clarity Boost, a new image improving technology.  The goal with …

Over the weekend, a Halo Infinite designer sided with the community and agreed that multiplayer is still too stingy with XP rewards. Now this week, 343 Industries has detailed the next set of changes to get things right, and this time, the change is much more substantial.  When complaints of …

Over the last couple of years, Ubisoft has moved away from Steam and has instead embraced the Epic Games Store, with all newer releases being made available through Ubisoft Connect and EGS, dodging Steam entirely. Ubisoft would still continue to advertise its newer releases on Steam through community posts for …

Last year, Facebook made a very sneaky acquisition, snapping up popular GIF sharing platform, Giphy, in a $400 million deal. The acquisition was done privately, and seemingly at a discount, considering the company had recently been valued at $600 million. That little deal quickly caught the attention of regulators, and …

The Antstream Arcade has been available for a long time now, offering over a thousand retro titles available through cloud streaming. The service quietly joined the Epic Games Store last week, offering a free welcome pack for all users.  For one reason or another, neither Antstream or Epic Games sent …

Back in July during Nacon Connect 2021, it was announced that Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong, a spin-off of the cult classic Vampire: The Masquerade series, would be arriving in February 2022. As we get closer to the end of the year, we've seen many developers re-evaluating their early 2022 …

Over the last few months, there has been an increasing number of rumours pointing to new Nvidia graphics cards in early 2022. One of these cards is apparently none other than the RTX 3090 Ti, which will reportedly feature new GDDR6X memory modules from Micron. 

While Valve is known primarily as a software company, the Steam founder has created a plethora of different hardware projects over the course of the past many years. The company’s VR efforts proved to be successful, however in the wake of the interest behind the Steam Deck, it appears as …

As we inch closer to the end of the year, there is but one major video game event left – The Game Awards. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, the annual celebration is met not only by an awards ceremony, but also new game announcements. According to one leaker, a remaster of …

Today, Sapphire is launching its latest external graphics solution – the GearBox 500  Thunderbolt 3 PULSE AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT eGFX. As the name implies, this is an external GPU system with its own power supply, and an RX 6600 XT 8GB GPU to go with it to bring …

Microsoft surprised us all this month with an early launch for Halo Infinite Multiplayer, giving everyone the chance to jump in early and play all the launch-day maps and modes. There was one problem that immediately stood out – Battle Pass progression. While 343 has taken some small steps to …

While some video game genres control better with a gamepad, others function much more efficiently with a mouse and keyboard. Such is the case with first-person shooters, and so many fans were left frustrated when the latest Battlefield game (BF2042) launched without any keyboard/mouse support on console. In response, fans …

Since ending the BioShock trilogy years ago, game designer Ken Levine has been quiet. Back in 2017, he started a new studio called Ghost Story Games but the studio has yet to officially announce its first game. That could be changing very soon though, as one notable leaker claims that …

While Capcom has yet to officially announce a new Resident Evil Remake, many anticipate that Resident Evil 4 Remake is in development. Now, a long-time Resident Evil series voice actor appears to have confirmed this, revealing concept art for the game in a live stream.  In a recent stream, DC …