Despite some initial concerns, Sony's PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers have been pretty well received thanks to a solid library of games available at launch. Soon, the service will get even better thanks to the addition of the Yakuza series. Recently after a brief period off of the service, …
Read More »PS+ Extra and Premium July update to include Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade
PS Plus Extra and Premium rolled out to the US and Europe last month and now, we're coming up on the service's first monthly update. According to a new leak, July will bring some pretty big titles to the Extra and Premium libraries, including Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade. According …
Read More »Ubisoft+ is coming to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium
A while back, Ubisoft confirmed plans to bring its Ubisoft+ subscription to Xbox consoles. As it turns out, Ubisoft+ will also be heading to PlayStation, as part of the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers, offering a selection of games from the publisher's back catalogue. This version of the service …
Read More »Sony’s new PlayStation Plus tiers coming in June for US and Europe
Last month, Sony officially announced its new PlayStation Plus tiers, shaking up the console subscription offering by mixing in cloud gaming and a rotating library of games. Sony planned to roll out its new PS+ Extra and premium tiers before the end of June, but now we have more specific …
Read More »Sony announces PlayStation Plus revamp, introduces ‘extra’ and ‘premium’ tiers
We've been hearing about Sony's plan to revamp its PlayStation Plus subscription for months now, with various leaks revealing details well ahead of time. Today, Sony officially confirmed Project Spartacus by introducing two new PS+ tiers. Earlier this week, a set of slides began doing the rounds on social media, …
Read More »Galax launches the RTX 3090 HOF series graphics cards
Galax has unveiled the RTX 3090 ‘Hall of Fame' series, consisting of 3x graphics cards: the Galax RTX 3090 HOF, the RTX 3090 HOF Premium, and the RTX 3090 HOF Limited Edition. These three cards should be very similar in terms of performance, although the Limited Edition does come with …
Read More »Two million people used modded Spotify apps to access premium features for free
A few weeks ago, Spotify began cracking down on Dogfood, a modded version of the music streaming app for Android that allowed users to take advantage of ad-free listening for free. Now it turns out that around two million people were using this version of the app to skirt around …
Read More »LastPass has doubled the price of its premium subscription tier
As we covered in yesterday’s ‘passwords do’s and don’ts’ article, password managers are often the easiest way to generate secure passwords and keep track of them all. However, a free user account will often only get you so far, with some features reserved for premium users or subscribers. With that …
Read More »The new Sennheiser Orpheus headphones will set you back £35,000
While we spend a lot of time here at KitGuru talking about gaming peripherals like headphones, testing 5.1 and 7.1 channel solutions, seeing whether they have leatherette earcups and built in volume controls, it's easy to forget that audiophile solutions go so much further. Take for example Sennheiser's new Orpheus …
Read More »Sony’s 4K smartphone won’t actually display much at 4K
A few weeks back, we learned that Sony is launching the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium this year, the first smartphone on the market to feature a 4K display. However, it turns out that the display may rarely actually display things at that resolution. Sony has confirmed that the phone will …
Read More »Sony to launch the first 4K smartphone this year
Sony has just announced two new smartphones, the Xperia Z5 and the Xperia Z5 Compact. Though a third smartphone is expected later on in the year known as the Xperia Z5 Premium, which will be the first one in the world to feature a 4K display, with a massive 806 …
Read More »Battlefield Hardline’s first DLC has been detailed
We have some details on the first DLC pack for Battlefield Hardline. After a few teases, Visceral Games finally came clean, announcing the first DLC for its cop focused Battlefield shooter. The first pack is called ‘Criminal Activity' and it includes new maps, guns, gear and vehicles alongside a new …
Read More »Battlefield Hardline Premium program announced
Now for the least surprising news of the day, Visceral Games has announced that Battlefield Hardline will in-fact have a Premium membership, granting owners access to all future DLC for the game. Battlefield titles have a history of coming with a premium version, which is normally priced at £39.99. The …
Read More »Lian Li announces the release of it’s PC-O Series chassis
Lian Li has been posting photos of it's new line of under development PC cases since September, and now it is ready to reveal the final products. There are four cases in the range so far, the PC-O5, the PC-O5S, the PC-O6S, and the PC-O7S. These range from the very small PC-O5 which …
Read More »Final Stand won’t be the last Battlefield 4 DLC
Battlefield developer, DICE, has promised that the Final Stand expansion won't be the last update or bit of new content we will see for Battlefield 4. Writing in a Battlelog blog post, the developer said that it will continue to support the game, which launched back in November 2013. “With …
Read More »Virgin getting into the subscription gaming business
An interesting trend in gaming at the moment, is the simultaneous rise and fall of subscription based services. MMO's using that business model are disappearing or converting over to the free to play model, but companies offering gaming packages as part of a monthly charge are growing. Microsoft's Xbox Live …
Read More »Nintendo to continue selling Wii U basic
“Well, why not?” you might be asking yourself, and it's a good question. 1: Because there's a big rumour going around that GameStop in America is going to stop selling it, because nobody is buying it, and 2: Because nobody is buying it. To make sure that the cut price, …
Read More »Would you pay for a Youtube channel subscription?
Some of Youtube's most popular content creators have been approached by the video sharing site and asked to put forward proposals for the sort of programming they could make available on a pay-per-subscription based channel system, that could see users pay between £0.60 and £3.00 a month to watch their …
Read More »Every Wii U will need an external hard drive
Now that we know Nintendo's basic Wii U save data allocation, user profiles and system data, will all add up to over 4GB, it's looking like even those with the Premium console will need an external hard drive if they want to download more than a couple of games. Of …
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