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PC gaming is great but more often than not, if you want low latency, high refresh rates and G-Sync, then you are going to have to settle for a 27-inch monitor over something like a large living room TV. Nvidia is looking to change that this year with the announcement …

Earlier this week a security flaw with x86 CPUs went public, which reportedly impacted Intel CPUs the most. The major concern going around was that in order to fix this, OS makers would have to change how Windows, macOS and Linux manage the kernel, which would lead to a performance …

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The original Star Wars Battlefront 2 from Pandemic Studios might be 12 years old, but the game is still getting patches to keep it alive. Over the last four months, the game has received two patches, showing that while LucasArts and Disney Interactive might not be making video games anymore, …

With CES coming up next week, we are expecting a lot of announcements from many companies throughout the tech world. This year though, LG has decided to sneak a couple in early, first we saw the largest 8K OLED TV unveiled and today, LG has begun showing off its new …

Ultra-HD and 4K displays are finally starting to come to the forefront for PC gamers but 8K seems to be just around the corner. This week, VESA published its new DP8K cable specification, with support for DisplayPort High Bit Rate 3. HBR3 is the highest bit rate supported by DisplayPort …

A few months ago, Facebook officially announced the Oculus Go, a brand new standalone virtual reality headset with all the necessary hardware built in. At the time, just one Oculus Go headset model was announced but according to a recent FCC filing, we might see a second one launch as …

It has been many years since Criterion moved on from the Burnout series. Since then, the franchise has been dormant, with the last entry coming in 2011 in the form of Burnout Crash. Now in 2018, it looks like Burnout might be making a comeback, with Burnout Paradise reportedly set …

Throughout December and early January, we ran a series of daily giveaways for the holiday season. These were all ‘reviewer’ giveaways, in hopes that readers would come back and share their thoughts on what they won with us and other KitGuru visitors. We've had a couple of submissions so far …

For the next three months here in the UK, MSI is encouraging users to share reviews of their Z370 or X299 motherboards on qualifying retailer product pages, including Amazon, OCUK, SCAN etc.

Back in 2015, Lenovo caught a lot of flack for shipping laptops with ‘Superfish' installed on them. This bloatware installer resulted in adware and spyware being installed on store-bought systems and as you would expect, customers weren't happy. Following this, the US Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation and now, …

Given the sheer amount of good games that released over the last 12 months, it can be easy to forget that Cliff Bleszinski's ‘Lawbreakers' was one of them. The game had a rather unceremonious launch and promptly dropped off the map. This obviously became a talking point when it came …

The Nintendo Switch hasn't been out for a full year just yet but it has already broken several milestones. The console is well on its way to surpassing the Wii U's lifetime sales in its first year but beyond that, Nintendo has declared the Switch as the fastest selling home …

Yesterday, Intel found itself in a bit of a bind after a security flaw went public. The flaw allowed users with modern CPUs on modern operating systems to gain access to the kernel, which opens PCs up to a range of cyber attacks. At the time, it was believed that …

Two weeks ago, a mysterious teaser hit the web claiming that a certain peripheral maker was ‘back in the game'. At the time, we assumed that this had meant that Mad Catz had managed to claw its way back from bankruptcy and now it seems that those assumptions were indeed …

There has been plenty of controversy surrounding Star Wars Battlefront II and EA’s monetisation decisions. This only got worse when EA attempted to defend itself, with CFO Blake Jorgensen explaining that the publisher didn’t want to ‘violate canon’ with skin options, using pink Darth Vader as an example of a …

The KitGuru Advent Calendar is coming to a close! For our finale, we are teaming up with be quiet! to give readers the chance to win a Dark Base 700 chassis, a Silent Loop 280mm all-in-one liquid cooler and a Straight Power 10 CM 500W power supply bundle!

Over the last few weeks, rumors have begun circulating about Apple's 2018 iPhone plans. This year, we saw a shakeup to the iPhone lineup with the introduction of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X- the first iPhone to sport an OLED display. Next year, Apple will apparently be …

As we reported last week, currently the World Health Organization is pushing to have ‘gaming disorder' classified as an addiction under the ‘disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors' banner. This would put gaming addiction in the same league as having a drug or alcohol addiction. Now, the Entertainment …

Monster Hunter is one of those franchises that always seemed like it would be right at home on a PC, but for one reason or another, would always end up tied to a console. That is changing this year with Monster Hunter: World. This game was announced for PC and …

The sun has been setting on the Kinect for quite some time now. Microsoft's console camera peripheral was promptly unbundled from the Xbox One after its initial launch, the Xbox One S dropped the proprietary Kinect port and in October, Microsoft stopped manufacturing the sensor entirely. Now, the final nail …

This week, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan began discussing Blizzard's 2018 plans for the game and it looks like the studio will be getting the ball rolling very soon. For starters, Overwatch's next map, known as ‘Blizzard World', will be rolling out to all players very soon after spending a couple …

(Update 04/01/18): Intel has released a statement over the security concerns raised below. It seems that this may not be an issue unique to Intel's own CPUs and any performance impacts will be mitigated over time. You can find more details HERE. (Original Story 03/01/18): This week it has emerged …

Today on the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have a major storage upgrade for one lucky reader. We have teamed up with Drobo and Seagate to give away a Drobo 5N2 NAS system with five 2TB Seagate Iron Wolf HDDs!

Just a few weeks ago, a huge Devil May Cry 5 leak was unearthed, promising a 2018 release date and a reveal at E3 this year. Aside from various gameplay elements, the leak also claimed that Hideaki Itsuno, the director of DMC 2, 3 and 4 was returning for this …

Way back in August 2016, we began hearing about Google's mysterious new operating system called ‘Fuchsia'. It's an open-sourced project but so far, Google hasn't given us a proper showing of it. Back in May 2017 we saw a video of what the OS would look like running on a …

Last year, Intel and AMD made its long rumored collaboration official, with Intel announcing that its new Core-H series processors would use on-board graphics from AMD's Radeon team. Since then, things have grown quiet, but this week, Intel began listing the specs for its Core i7-8809G CPU, featuring RX Vega. …

Over the course of 2017, Facebook cut the price of the Oculus Rift down again and again, closing the year out with a £350 holiday sale for the HMD and Touch controllers. Back in November, we learned that these sales brought Rift and Vive usage up to very similar levels …

Back in March following on from the Switch's launch, hackers immediately found a browser exploit that allowed them to dig deeper into the console's inner workings. Now, right at the start of the year, hackers have managed to figure out how to get access to the Switch's kernel, paving the …

Over the last couple of days, Valve has faced some criticism from Linux players after reports came in that automatic VAC bans were being passed down to those with ‘catbot' in their Linux username. For those who don't know, a catbot is an aiming cheat for Team Fortress 2, for …