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Acer is releasing three new gaming monitors: the Predator X28, the Predator X38 S and the Predator CG437K S. Each of these monitors is aimed at a specific niche of gamers, offering high refresh rates, Ultra-HD resolution, HDR support, and low response times. All of these Acer monitors will be available …

In a completely unexpected move, Intel added four new processors based on the Tiger Lake architecture to its product database. What is even more surprising is that all of them are for desktop, marking the launch of the first 10nm processors for desktop from Intel. The new processors were initially …

Thanks to modern technology, video games can accurately capture the likenesses of voice actors, bringing an added sense of reality to games. 2013’s The Last of Us took some creative liberties with characters, while others looked much closer to their real-world counterpart. Such is the case with Marlene. Played by …

With E3 just around the corner, and rumours of an imminent Switch Pro announcement, the beefed up Nintendo console is seeing more and more of its details finalised and leaked. A Chinese accessory manufacturer has gotten their hands on a significant number of details regarding the soon-to-be-announced Switch Pro. According …

A new report has revealed the PL values of the upcoming Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M mobile processor architecture. While Alder Lake-M comes with rather conservative values maxing at 30W, Alder Lake-P goes well beyond that, reaching up to 115W. Intel's hybrid processor architecture should be more efficient as it's …

We may still be a long way from getting our hands on Ryzen 8000 series processors, but leaks and rumours have already started to surface. Recently, a roadmap showing Strix Point was posted on social media, giving away the codename of the new Ryzen series — Granite Ridge. The roadmap …

Earlier this month, Nvidia confirmed plans to re-introduce the RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 with ‘Lite Hash Rate' GPU revisions to reduce crypto-mining performance and get more graphics cards into the hands of PC gamers. Now, these LHR graphics cards are starting to land in the hands of …

Back in December 2019, 2K Games officially set up a new studio to begin working on a new BioShock game. Things went pretty quiet after that but this year, a series of job listings have begun revealing more details about BioShock 4, including the fact that it will be an …

Recently we reported that Sonic Colours was seemingly going to be getting a remaster thanks to a number of leaks. Now, during the Sonic 30th anniversary stream, SEGA officially announced that Sonic Colours would be getting a remaster, bringing the Wii game to modern platforms – except for Steam. Sonic …

Crytek made its long awaited return to the Crysis series last year with Crysis Remastered. It didn't take long for rumours of a Crysis 2 and 3 remaster to begin gaining ground and now, Crytek appears to be teasing both.  The teasing began on Twitter last week, with the Crysis …

During the early 2000s, SEGA released a number of Sonic the Hedgehog collections, offering many of the blue blur’s adventures in one convenient package. Over the years however, these collections subsided. Now they are back with the Sonic Origins, a collection of Sonic’s classic games, enhanced with new features. During …

Back in March, CD Projekt Red announced that it would be making some internal changes to support development on multiple major projects at once. Now, we are starting to see that take shape, with Cyberpunk 2077 getting a new Game Director.  Previously, CD Projekt's Adam Badowski served as both Studio …

Yesterday, Techland held a pre-E3 reveal stream for Dying Light 2 and sure enough, we got plenty of new details about the game, as well as a release date and new gameplay footage.  The release date that leaked yesterday for Dying Light 2: Stay Human turned out to be accurate. …

As the expected date for the RTX 3080 Ti launch comes closer, the first benchmark results have started to appear. Besides the results, there's also confirmation on most of the specifications of the new GPU thanks to GPU-Z validation. The GPU-Z validation of RTX 3080 Ti has finally come out …

Following the release of the new Aero and Aorus laptops, Gigabyte is now introducing the A7 X1. Unlike the other two laptops, the A7 X1 is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU. The Gigabyte A7 X1 supports up to 64GB of …

Nvidia started off this month promising to bring over 60 games to GeForce Now. As we near the end of May, the final batch of GeForce Now games for the month have been announced, bringing over another 22 titles.  The standout here is Biomutant, which launched on the 25th of …

Sony has been slowly but surely showing increasing amounts of support for the PC platform. Following the release of Horizon Zero Dawn, and the most recent launch of Days Gone, it seems as though the next PS4 game to get a PC release will likely be Uncharted 4. During a …

Gearbox has some good news today – Borderlands 3 is finally getting cross-play support. The bad news is that this won't be enabled for PlayStation, as publisher 2K Games requested that the feature be disabled for Sony's console. Gearbox CEO, Randy Pitchford, made the reveal on Twitter this afternoon, stating: …

Today, Acer announced its new Swift X laptop series – a new range of thin and light laptops pairing AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors with Nvidia GeForce discrete graphics. While these laptops will have some power for gaming, they are primarily aimed at ‘creators' and appear to be designed as …

Techland is set to show off Dying Light 2 once again later today, but the game's release date may have already leaked. The studio has previously said that Dying Light 2 is still planned to release in 2021, but it may just barely make the cut.  As spotted by Okami13 …

Epic Games revealed a fresh new look at Unreal Engine 5 last night. Not only did we get an impressive looking new demo showcasing the engine's tech, but we also have new details on various improvements and when the engine will be ready for wider use.  Unreal Engine 5 is …

Today, Square Enix held a Dragon Quest showcase stream for the series' 35th anniversary and the publisher was not short on announcements. Not only did we get an announcement for Dragon Quest 12, but an older classic is also getting a remake. The major announcement here is Dragon Quest 12: …

Despite the fact that the video games industry has typically been viewed as a ‘boys club’, across the industry’s billions of players there is a great deal of diversity. PlayStation recently revealed that its portion of female players has been steadily increasing, with 41% of all PlayStation owners identifying as …

Out with the old, and in with the new - KitGuru is changing how we test GPU power draw

We've been hearing about the ‘Nintendo Switch Pro' for years now, with rumours beginning back in 2019. Now, it looks like all the mystery will finally be put to rest soon, as multiple sources this week have said that Nintendo will announce its new Switch model before E3.  According to …

Despite being one of the most recognisable video game properties around, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has been relatively silent – at least in the video game space. With 2021 being the blue blur’s 30th anniversary, SEGA has confirmed that a dedicated showcase is happening later today. Ahead of this …

Back in early 2020, noblechairs partnered up with Bethesda to produce officially licensed gaming chairs based on Bethesda’s biggest game franchises. So far, we’ve seen Fallout and DOOM get the noblechairs treatment and now, The Elder Scrolls is getting its turn in the spotlight.  Back in January, the noblechairs HERO Gaming Chair …

Nvidia posted a small video with some kind of liquid (Titanium?), announcing an upcoming event scheduled for May 31st at 10:00 PM PST. Although the company didn't specify what will be shown or announced during the event, given the timing, it's very likely that Nvidia will be introducing the RTX  …

With E3 rapidly approaching, video game developers and publishers are beginning to advertise their respective conferences and game showcases. With the recent acquisition of Bethesda by Microsoft, some fans wondered how the console manufacturer would handle future showcases. It has now been revealed that Xbox and Bethesda will combine their …

Western Digital isn't only announcing new storage gear for the gaming market today, the company has also unveiled SanDisk Professional, a new brand of premium storage solutions for creative professionals. Professional content creation requires reliable storage, as content is captured, saved, transferred, shared and archived. To harmonise this process, SanDisk …