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Back in 2017, Atari announced a return to the console market with its own retro gaming system. The console has been through a lot since then, including a name change, a big crowdfunding campaign, content partnerships and internal hardware changes. Initially, the Atari VCS was due to ship out to backers before …

Apple recently hosted an event honouring the best games and apps of 2019. The company has since revealed which games were the most downloaded of the year. Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart Tour’ took the top spot, despite only releasing in September. Other big winners include Minecraft and Stardew Valley. Mario Kart …

Infinity Ward has done well with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare so far and with paid map packs and loot boxes now out of the picture, the game is transitioning to a ‘seasonal’ model for content. The first season is now live, promising the ‘biggest free content drop' in Call …

PlayStation have announced the list of games that will be joining its PS Now subscription service for the month of December. The headlining title is the battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The other titles accompanying it onto the service is F1 2019 and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. These games will …

Campo Santo captured the attention of a large number of gamers a couple of years ago with the release of Firewatch and in 2018, it looked like the studio would find success once again with a new game called ‘In the Valley of Gods'. Plans for that game changed in …

Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced version of the 2017 JRPG has finally received a Western release date. The game has already been available in Japan since the 31st of October, but Western fans have been eagerly anticipating the announcement of its release in the West. After nearly two weeks of …

With modern surveillance systems required to operate in harsh environments, digital video and network video recording platforms require reliable and robust storage. Toshiba has this covered with the new DT02-V series of surveillance hard drives. Toshiba has announced a new series of HDDs designed for digital video recorder (DVR) and …

At the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm has unveiled its roadmap for the coming year and declared that 2020 will be the time for 5G multi-gigabit speed to become mainstream. Qualcomm says that 2020 will be the year that its 5G mobile platforms will define what is possible …

Resident Evil 2 Remake has been lauded as one of the best games of the year and it looks like Capcom wants to keep things rolling with a remake for Resident Evil 3. Given the success of RE 2, another remake seemed like a sure thing. A couple of weeks …

The KitGuru Advent Calendar 2019 is back for day 4, where we give readers the chance to win prizes each day in the run up to Christmas. If you're looking for a new way to stay comfortable while gaming, then you're in luck as we are giving away the Sharkoon Elbrus 2 chair!

AMD has announced it will be deploying an open ecosystem to enable OEMs to create custom, high-performance Mini PCs powered by Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors. The new ecosystem will deliver mini PCs for industrial, media and enterprise markets. ASRock Industrial, EEPD, OnLogic and Simply NUC will be the …

AMD's AIB partner HIS has developed a new series of graphics cards, the HIS Radeon RX 5700 XT Pink/Blue Army. These cards feature the previously used IceQ X² cooling system from the company and, as the name suggests, come in a blue or pink camouflage pattern. Both cards have a 2.5-slot …

The next-generation X670 chipset from AMD will be produced by a third-party, according to insider sources. These same sources also revealed that X670 would release in late 2020, alongside the 7nm+ Ryzen 4000 CPUs. The current X570 platform is manufactured in-house, by AMD, unlike the previous 300-series and 400-series motherboards. …

While there is no official mod support for Halo: Reach on PC yet, Microsoft is keen to let players tinker around as soon as possible. To enable this, Halo: Reach on PC will have the option to disable anti-cheat, giving you the chance to play around with mods in private …

In celebration of the Action-JRPG NieR’s upcoming 10th anniversary, Square Enix have opened a website, teasing at the possibility of more to come from the much-loved franchise. The website is currently relatively barren, although more is certainly to come, in due time. The original NieR was released in April of …

Last week, Valve cut the Steam Controller price by 90% in an effort to clear out remaining stock of the first-generation gamepad and discontinue it for good. Despite being somewhat divisive, there is still a lot of interest in the Steam Controller, so remaining stock sold out quickly. Unfortunately, the …

Marvel’s Spider-Man released in late 2018 to much fanfare. The game was praised by both critics and fans, and sold incredibly well, shifting over 13 million units, as of August 2019. It is no surprise that Insomniac Games would be working on a sequel, especially after Sony purchased the studio …

Back in July, it was announced that Apple would be acquiring Intel's smartphone modem business in a deal worth $1 billion. Intel didn't necessarily want to sell off its stake in the mobile modem market, but with Apple and Qualcomm teaming up again, selling the business off seemed like the …

AOC has added two new entries to its AOC's AGON gaming lineup. There's the AGON AG493UCX, a 49-inch curved monitor that comes with a 32:9 aspect ratio, and the AGON AG323QCXE, a 32-inch curved monitor with a WQHD resolution. The AOC AGON AG493UCX has a 1800R curvature and uses a VA …

Apple hosted an event in New York yesterday, where the company celebrated the best games and apps of 2019. In their own words: “In 2019, apps made their mark by reflecting the zeitgeist of our society and sitting at the nexus of digital and pop culture”. With that in mind, …

With the size of game downloads and software applications increasing all this time, it is essential to have the storage capacity to cope with all this data inside your PC. HDD manufacturers realise this and are increasing HDD capacity in desktop products. Toshiba has announced it is adding additional lines …

KitGuru is proud to announce that we have launched our very own mobile app. The KitGuru app is available today for users of Android mobile devices and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store right now. The new KitGuru mobile app provides readers of our site a great new …

Sharkbay, a user from the PTTWeb forum, has posted what appears to be a list of specifications for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPU. The successor to Comet Lake is currently rumoured to cap out at eight cores while using the 14nm process node. As with any rumour though, all of …

Tempered glass panels and RGB lighting are the norm for PC cases these days, with manufacturers launching new products with these features on a regular basis. Gigabyte has provided another tempered glass and RGB option now with the release of the C200 Glass chassis. The new C200 Glass PC case …

Back in the first half of 2018, shortly prior to the release of Detroit: Become Human, reports began surfacing claiming poor working conditions and inappropriate behaviour behind the scenes at Quantic Dream. At the time, one former employee had filed a lawsuit against the studio and now, a judge has …

The KitGuru Advent Calendar 2019 is back for day 3, where we give readers the chance to win prizes each day in the run up to Christmas. Today we are working with Thermaltake to give away their high end A700 case!

If you are thinking of building a budget PC system over the Christmas period and wondering which CPU cooler to buy, then ID-Cooling may have a new cost-effective option worth checking out. ID-Cooling has just launched a new CPU tower cooler that looks idea for those budget-friendly gaming PC builds. …

The big day has finally arrived, with Halo: The Master Chief Collection officially kicking off its rollout on PC with the release of Halo Reach. If you are planning on playing today, then you may have realised that the game has not unlocked on Steam or Game Pass just yet. …

In the last nine months, there has been plenty of discussion surrounding Riot Games and its internal practices. Recently, there have been lawsuits alleging discrimination and sexism, which Riot has moved to block due to a waiver found in most employee contracts. This led to a walkout protest, which didn’t do much at …

Back in April, Apple and Qualcomm dropped their respective lawsuits against each other and agreed to partner up once again. At the time, this had a knock-on effect on Intel, as the company would no longer be supplying modems for future iPhones. Development on 5G modems swiftly came to an end and …