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Since long before the video game industry was conceived, Germany has taken a zero tolerance policy to depictions of Nazi iconography in entertainment media, from the infamous Swastika to showing Hitler himself. Now, unprecedented changes have been made to Germany’s ratings board that will see video games that wish to …

Samsung has been pretty hot and cold when it comes to launching its own Bixby-powered smart speaker, once remarking that it would be unmarketable when compared with Amazon, Google and Apple’s iron grasp. Now, Samsung has made it a reality, announcing at the Galaxy Home with a more “conversational, personal …

The day has finally arrived, Monster Hunter World has finally landed on PC, eight months after the console version. The good news is, the game runs and plays quite well with a keyboard and mouse, the bad news is that plenty of players are in fact having issues- with DRM …

While Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2018 was headlined by the highly anticipated Galaxy Note 9 phablet alongside the Bixby-powered Galaxy Home smart speaker, the event itself marks a big expansion in the firm’s ecosystem. Prioritising “seamless connectivity between all devices,” Samsung has announced its return to the smartwatch market with the …

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Note 9, the world's first 1TB handset with expandable storage.

A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Nintendo had begun taking legal action against popular emulator sites. It started with lawsuits filed against LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, which were forced to remove their libraries of classic Nintendo games. Now, other sites are starting to remove ROMs, including EmuParadise. EmuParadise is …

At this point, Discord is the go-to communication platform for most PC gamers. For many, it has replaced Skype, TeamSpeak, Curse and most importantly, Steam chat. Now, Discord is going to be taking on Valve in another form, with the chat client set to get its own games store. Discord …

These days, the flagship smartphone market is pretty formulaic with most companies following the same trends each year. Last year we learned that RED would be looking to shake things up a bit with its own smartphone, built out of Titanium and offering a too good to be true ‘holographic …

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 unveiling is just a few hours away, so it’s just about time for a convenient leak showing off Apple’s brand new iPhone range due out later this year. This hands-on with the 2018 iPhone line-up gives a closer look at the infamous return of the notch …

While there have been a couple of delays along the way, Rockstar is nearing the end of development for Red Dead Redemption 2. With the October release date seemingly secured, we shall finally be getting our first look at gameplay later today. So far, Rockstar has released screenshots and cinematic …

Those of you who have been following KitGuru for a while will know that Diablo is one of my favourite games. Each time there is a slight inkling that new Diablo projects are in the works, I'm straight on it. This week, Diablo fans received some particularly positive news from …

Yesterday, Samsung announced a staggering 180 trillion won ($161bn/£124bn) investment towards component research and capital expenditures over the next three years. $22 billion of that pool will primarily be taken up by Samsung’s Electronics division, as the company bolsters its efforts in artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, electronic components for motor …

A botched iOS app update has seen Snapchat’s source code uploaded to file sharing website GitHub, briefly leaving it open for anyone to download. Luckily, parent company Snap managed to get the leak removed thanks to a takedown request. The source code was uploaded to GitHub under a free account, …

It seems that toxicity isn’t just prevalent in League of Legends, but developer Riot Games itself as an exposé reveals a rise of discriminatory behaviour against women from within the studio. Riot has since responded to the report, apologising for its failure to “live up to its own values” while …

EA has come under fire many times over the years for various reasons, most of them pertaining to poor game launches or microtransactions. Last year, we saw the biggest backlash yet thanks to the loot box system in Battlefront 2, which ended up turning the heads of politicians and government …

After months of leaks upon leaks, Samsung will finally be hosting its Galaxy Unpacked 2018 event tomorrow. We already have a good idea of what to expect, but here is when and where the announcements will be taking place. On the 9th of August at 4PM BST, Samsung will be …

At E3 earlier this year, Nintendo dedicated a lot of time to showing off Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Given the amount that was shown at the time, it would have been easy for Nintendo to stay quiet for a bit longer, but it looks like the team is wants to …

Update (08/08/18): IGN found itself knee deep in controversy earlier this week after YouTuber Boomstick Gaming pointed out a number of similarities between his Dead Cells review and that of the publication’s Nintendo Editor Filip Miucin. After an internal investigation, IGN has parted ways with Miucin and is in contact …

In the run up to the FCC’s vote that ultimately eliminated net neutrality, the regulator revealed that it had experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that prevented users from commenting but conveniently left the rest of the site perfectly accessible. In what is likely no surprise to anyone, …

In November 2017, the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that broadband providers would have to start advertising average speeds to customers, rather than top speeds. As always, it takes a while for these rules to properly fall into place, but the switch has now happened, and it looks like …

The team at Treyarch is trying something different for Call of Duty this year, shifting away from single-player and focussing all efforts on multiplayer. A few weeks ago, the game's beta dates were announced for PC and consoles, and now, the minimum and recommended system requirements for Black Ops 4 …

Google has released its latest mobile operating system for Pixel handsets, dubbing the update Android 9 Pie.

Large tech companies tend to acquire smaller firms on a regular basis. Sometimes these acquisitions are relatively uninteresting on the surface, but they do tend to provide insight into what is going on behind the scenes at any given time. This week, Google announced that it has acquired ‘GraphicsFuzz' a …

If it’s not cheaters bringing PUBG players down, it’s a plethora of bugs according to the game’s community. It seems that developer PUBG Corp agrees with this assessment, pledging its latest efforts to improving Battlegrounds’ quality-of-life under a new campaign called “FIX PUBG.” “For the duration of the campaign, we’ll …

Operation Para Bellum is slowly but surely coming to a close, as Ubisoft has begun teasing details surrounding its next lot of content for Rainbow Six Siege. Titled Operation Grim Sky, this will be the first time in over a year that the developer has returned to a traditional seasonal …

Ever since the rise and fall of OnLive, there has been an increasing amount of interest in ‘cloud gaming' amongst major publishers. Sony has PSNow, Nvidia has GeForceNow, Microsoft recently acquired its own cloud gaming service, and in May, EA acquired a cloud gaming service of its own. The acquisition …

Yesterday, AMD announced the full line-up for its 2nd generation of Ryzen Threadripper processors. We're getting two different series this time around, distinguished by ‘X' and ‘WX' branding. Those of you interested in the 32-core flagship TR 2990WX will be pleased to know that retailers have already begun listing them, …

Last week, MSI accidentally let some news out surrounding Intel's 9th Gen processor launch. At the time, we learned that Z370 motherboards would be getting a BIOS update to support some of Intel's upcoming 9th Gen SKUs. Since then, other motherboard makers have also begun announcing their own plans for …

While mouse manufacturers have finally been turning their attention to left-handed gamers in recent years with ambidextrous mice, these products often forgo many of the features that right-handed players get access to. Razer is hoping to turn the tide on this moving forward with its exclusively left-handed Naga Trinity gaming …

Back when the Xbox One was first introduced in 2013, Microsoft was very focused on expanding further into the entertainment industry. One of the big announcements was a Halo TV series produced by Steven Spielberg. Things were silent for years but the project is finally making progress. We now know …