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EVGA's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin targets overclockers with its feature-packed cooling system and sensors, hitting the market at $1,000.

The tentatively named Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 has unsurprisingly seen a string of leaks and rumours in the past couple of months, as Google is gearing up for a full announcement. The latest batch of Pixel renders may have just given us a look at the final design …

With the massive success of Grand Theft Auto V, it is no surprise that Rockstar likely has plans laid out for the future of its best-selling series. While no firm evidence has cropped up for the existence of GTA 6 just yet, the rumour mill keeps on spinning, this time …

USB 3.1 has only just started catching on over the last couple of years, but it looks like USB 3.2 is already on the horizon. This week, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which consists of industry giants like Microsoft, Intel and Apple, announced some new details for USB 3.2, which …

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is still immensely popular, with the game pushing past five million sales this month. However, there is still a hunger for new content- more specifically, a lot of players are looking forward to new maps. We have already seen a sneak peek at one new map in development …

AMD's Ryzen desktop lineup is a step closer to being complete with the launch of Ryzen 3. Four cores and four threads starting at £104.99.

We have recently been hearing rumours about a wireless/standalone version of the Oculus Rift but it looks like HTC may beat it to market. This week, HTC announced that it would be partnering up with Qualcomm to release a standalone Vive powered by the Snapdragon 835. The wireless and standalone …

Sky is mostly known for its TV and broadband service here in the UK but it looks like the company is experimenting with hardware outside of set-top boxes now. This week, Sky announced that it has teamed up with premium speaker creator, Devialet, to release the Sky Soundbox, a soundbar …

Regular KitGuru readers will have noticed that yesterday, we published a review of the new Antec Mercury 240 AIO review. Unfortunately, we did encounter some issues with our sample, which were all duly noted. Since then however, Antec got in touch with us to explain that it would appear we …

There has been a lot of talk surrounding the Overwatch League in the last few weeks and while we have yet to receive an update on the logo trademark situation, Blizzard is still charging ahead. This week, the publisher announced its salary plans for players in the Overwatch League, promising …

Just ahead of the RX Vega launch, AMD has detailed its biggest driver update of the year...

Nintendo has revealed its quarterly earnings this week, shedding light on the progress towards its ambitious goal of selling 10 million Switch consoles before the end of the year as well as just how well Switch software is doing. The hybrid console has seen 4.7 million sales since its launch …

Apple has quite the bill to pay as this week, a judge has ordered the company to pay out $506 million to the University of Wisconsin over a patent infringement claim. The University's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) believed Apple's A7, A8 and A8x chips all infringed on patents. The …

Earlier this year, Friday the 13th officially launched but was met by mixed reception. While the concept was solid, bugs and various in-game issues held it back significantly. To make matters worse, communication on patches has been slow, so when fans found out that Illfonic were working on a brand …

Last week, we began hearing whispers of a potential Corsair buyout, with sources coming forward to claim that a company known as ‘EagleTree' was looking to acquire Corsair for as much as $500 million. Today, the acquisition was confirmed, with EagleTree Capital buying up a majority stake in the company …

On the Xbox stage at E3 this year, we saw our first glimpse of Dragon Ball FighterZ, an all new fighting game based on the Dragon Ball Z franchise. At the time, we were supposed to be getting a beta for the game, with sign-ups opening on the 26th of …

It looks like Blizzard is taking steps to get the Overwatch community to play nicely with each other, with new penalties being put in place to combat toxicity. As the game's community manager puts it, toxic behaviour can range anywhere from being intentionally AFK and griefing to abusive chat and …

The time has come to say goodbye to Flash, Adobe has finally admitted. This week, the company announced that the long-running software will finally go into retirement as of 2020, at which point updates will no longer be released and web browsers will drop support entirely. While Adobe Flash was …

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After the mostly well-received release of the Kraken 7.1 V2 headset earlier this year, Razer has a new pair of flagship gaming headsets on the way. This time, it’s a revision of its Tiamat range, introducing the Tiamat 7.1 V2 and Tiamat 2.2 V2. The Razer Tiamat 7.1 V2 is …

PlayerUnknown himself teased that the next big monthly update for Battlegrounds would include the much anticipated first-person servers, an FOV slider and a new rifle. Unfortunately, this update has been pushed back to August 3rd as a result of “complications with a client crash bug.” A Steam Community post reads …

If £800 is a little out of your price range for a new PC case, Phanteks has you covered with its new Evolv Shift and Shift-X cases. Although both cases fall in line with the tempered glass and aluminium craze, the Shift and Shift-X take PC tower form factor a …

Despite landing in hot water on launch for its lack of expected content, The Sims 4 has seen a steady string of support from its developer with the latest addition being toddlers that rolled out in January. So far, the title has been exclusive to PC users, but a recent …

We heard back in May that AMD was already preparing for the jump to 7nm CPUs in time for ‘Zen 2' and ‘Zen 3' some time in the next few years but it seems that the company is beginning to open up about the difficulties getting there. In an interview …

It will be a short while longer before we see proper reviews but in the meantime, early benchmarks continue to appear online...

The Destiny 2 beta offered us a tiny slice of the final game, bringing us one mission, a strike and one PvP map. Unfortunately, the beta didn't let us take a glimpse at the changes made to open-world gameplay or Destiny's Patrol mode. However, the folks over at IGN have …

We received a lot of Xbox One X news at E3 last month. We know what the console looks like, what games will support it, we even have the price and release date but pre-orders are still nowhere to be found. Fortunately, this week Microsoft confirmed that those planning to …

We already know that HMD is planning to launch a new Nokia flagship this year, under the name ‘Nokia 8'. We have previously heard about specs and pricing but now it looks like we have a release date in the bag too, with reports indicating that the next Nokia flagship …