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The UK government has officially responded to a popular petition that has been doing the rounds recently. After Ubisoft shut down The Crew and actively removed the game from customer’s digital libraries, the Stop Killing Games campaign kicked off, asking the government to prevent games companies from making their games …

Recent rumours have indicated that Battlefield 2042 could be in for a huge shake-up this year, including a possible jump to a free to play model. This was followed by the announcement that the first season of post-launch content has been delayed to 'summer 2022', leaving those who purchased the game to deal with a massive content drought. Now, those players are calling for EA to offer mass refunds.

While some video game genres control better with a gamepad, others function much more efficiently with a mouse and keyboard. Such is the case with first-person shooters, and so many fans were left frustrated when the latest Battlefield game (BF2042) launched without any keyboard/mouse support on console. In response, fans …

Over the course of this week, calls for the resignation of Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, have grown louder. Following on from reports of Kotick's handling of workplace harassment issues, over 1,700 employees have signed a petition calling on the board to choose a new CEO.  The latest petition states …

If there’s one thing we can be certain of in the tech world, it’s that nobody seems to like change. Facebook has experienced it numerous times with its user interface overhauls and now it seems Snapchat is on the brunt end of it too following its latest update. Snap has …

EA has encountered plenty of backlash in the build-up to Star Wars Battlefront II's launch and even after turning microtransactions off, it seems that tensions are high. Aside from the game selling far fewer copies compared to 2015's Battlefront, some Star Wars fans are now petitioning to get EA's rights …

An online petition demanding that the UK government repeal the newly installed surveillance laws made possible by the Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed the threshold for debate in parliament. It needed at least 100,000 signatures, but has continued on since then and is closing on on 120,000 at the …

More than a million people have signed a petition calling on Yahoo and its executives, to ban the sale of ivory on its online auction platforms in Japan. It points out that with Google and Yahoo refusing to allow ivory to be sold on their services, Yahoo is one of …

One of the more exciting, burgeoning aspects of modern democracy, is the fact that people can organise far easier than ever before. That's why when Edward Snowden fled to China and eventually Russia in 2013, releasing documents on government spying that embarrassed and incriminated many agencies around the world, more …

When you buy yourself a controller, especially if it's an official one, you expect it to have a fair amount of life in it, even if you're a heavy gamer. However that's not been the experience of KitGuru reader Michael Allred, who recently contacted Microsoft support to make use of …

Valve opened up a can of worms last night when it announced that it would be allowing developers to sell their mods on the Steam Workshop, with no quality control, curation process, or guarantee of future support or compatibility. The main issue people seem to be having though, is just …

As you no doubt have guessed, Kim Dotcom, is not the Megaupload founder's real name. His birth name, the one he had before changing it to sound like the early 2,000 bubble, was Kim Schmitz. Now though, he could be set to change it again, as a bunch of New …

We've had a lot of feedback on this porn filtering business. While a few of you have showed some support for the idea of protecting the lil' ones, the vast majority of you don't want them to be implemented at all. Fortunately, you're not the only ones as several thousand …

Can't say I blame you either, as that's the platform I want to play it on too. Unfortunately, Rockstar has yet to announce any news of the fifth game in the series appearing on the platform that started its career back with GTA One and two. However, a large number …

Remember when Microsoft announced all those features earlier this year for the Xbox One? TV viewing, cloud saves, cloud computing, game lending, family sharing – and a little thing called every-24-hour activations? Of course you do, because you screamed in the software giant's face to have it ditch all of …

The long standing fight to keep the creator of streaming website TVShack, Richard O'Dwyer, from being extradited to the US has come to fruition, with the man managing to avoid trial overseas, with perhaps a small fine as his only recompense. O'Dwyer will still need to visit the US as …