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Christmas time is always incredibly busy for retailers but when it comes to online retailers, there's a lot more people in the shop at once. Amazon has just proven this as it revealed that in the weeks leading up to the 25th of December, it started to sell 426 items …

The Tomb Raider series and its hero Lara Croft, hasn't been at its peak since the 90s, but has seen nice jumps in critical acclaim and popularity with the release of certain games, perhaps most notably the latest one. Even though Square Enix didn't feel like it made enough, most …

Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good …

Every year, KitGuru considers hundreds of products and puts the best into the KitGuru Labs for testing. While you may tend to see things in terms of conclusions and awards, we actually have a pretty sophisticated scoring system on the backend, that allow us to rank everything we have seen. …

A crowd funding campaign has been launched to help support Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard with Stage 4 colon cancer whose short term disability insurance recently ended. Nakada was diagnosed six months ago which was early in to his first year of marriage, since the diagnosis he has …

Apple has been fined 20 million New Taiwan Dollars after the country's Fair Trade Commission found that the company was illegally interfering with price plans on phone networks. The commission found out through a series of emails that the country's three biggest phone networks, Chunghwa Telecom Co, Far Eastone Telecommunication Co …

The UK's main BMW dealer is located in Park Lane in the heart of London's West End. If you find yourself down town for the sales (either of your own volition – or propelled by your other half and an insatiable need to max out the credit card), then maybe …

If you've been following digital currencies recently then you might have heard of Dogecoin, it started off as a joke currency which takes its name from the ‘doge' meme but it has started to pick up some steam recently. The currency is only worth a fraction of what Bitcoin is …

Users of the Redtube streaming porn site – who number in their millions at this point, since Redtube is one of the world's most popular websites – can continue browsing without worry now, as the site's owners have secured an injunction against the copyright troll that recently found a way …

Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has just taken over from Judith L. Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, on Disney's board of Directors. Estrin had to move aside as she had already served the maximum 15 years allowed on the board. Disney announced its latest board member at a press …

Lets face it, it was only a matter of time before this happened- A Chrome extension that goes by the name of ‘Go Away Cameron' has been released. It's a handy little tool that disarms the ISP filters that UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has forced the likes of Sky, …

The be quiet! and Kitguru advent calendar competition has been running for a few weeks now offering up great prizes from PSUs, to t-shirts, but now we're in the last week so that means it's your last chance to enter and get yourself a new SLI enabled motherboard, a high …

Ross Ulbricht might be the alleged captain of the now sunken ship that is the Silk Road drugs marketplace (well, there is version 2.0) but he wasn't the only one that worked on it. Now another three have been linked with Ulbricht and have been charged with money laundering. The …

Here at KitGuru, we spend almost all of our time on testing new products that are just arriving in the market. That gives you, the reader, an idea of what to buy – but how does the product get in your local/preferred store?  Finding the cool products and  bringing them …

Google has been hit by a near million euro fine for breaching Spanish privacy laws by combining different information on users from its multiple services without letting consumers in on it, and not giving them access to the data that's held on them. This is all about a move in …

British arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), has taken a step beyond lobbying to have sites blocked and sending out legal threats to consumers, now it's trying to blackmail a Dutch ISP into shutting down a torrent website by threatening it with a …

In a game like League of Legends, where time is of the essence, you'll often come across acronyms and abbreviations. This can be confusing, especially if you're just starting out and you don't have a history of context to draw on to figure out what it might mean. You don't …

At the behest of the government and through their own initiative, British ISPs have begun firing up their own pornography filters, but as expected, on top of not being the all encompassing blockers that they were designed to be, they've done what we all knew they would do and started …

That's a little bigger than the pirate kit I had as a kid and it's certainly more than most people would ever play with, but the results of what one Australian and his Romanian pal have achieved with just some Lego is incredibly impressive. The little yellow, kit-car looking machine …

Yesterday we reported that Amazon was going to begin filming all future projects in 4K, in that same article we talked a bit about Netflix filming season one of its original series ‘House of Cards' in ultra high definition as well as testing 4K streams. Netflix has now confirmed that …

In terms of total bitcoins? It's rumoured to be the currency's creator, who no one has ever identified. His supposed name is Satoshi Nakamoto, but really it could be anything as nobody knows anything about the man (if it is even is a man or a single person at at …

The Pirate Bay has been playing a game of hopscotch for the past week as it changed domains multiple times, moving initially when its .SX domain was shutdown/seized, heading to Ascension Island's .AC, then to Peru and Guyana now back to Sweden with the .SE domain it used back in …

Don't worry your internet hasn't crapped out and somehow I'm telling you this through a loaded webpage, but the British internet as we know it is now officially offline. Or at least, it's accessible from an offline facility. This is all part of the British Library's attempt to store the …

The third week of our joint competition with be quiet!t has begun in earnest and there's a third question to answer, giving y0u the chance to win one of three great prize packs. The focus this week is CPU coolers, so if you need a new high powered heatsink-fan combo …

An Ex- Admin of the now defunct bittorrent site, ‘Swebits', has been fined $652,000 for uploading one pre-release movie a few years ago. Along with the crippling fine, he will have to serve 160 hours of community service and has a suspended Jail sentence hanging over his head for helping …

The most recent bitcoin boom was driven by Chinese investment, with people from the country buying up more of it than the rest of the world put together just a few weeks ago. Today though, that situation is very different, as following increased regulations by the Chinese government making trading …

Twin Galaxies, the long time video game world record score keeper, has disappeared off of the face of the internet. The official site redirects you a “not found” page on the owners site, the Facebook hasn't been updated in weeks and the Twitter has been quiet for over seven days. …

In another classic example of site blocking not achieving its original goals and simultaneously overstepping the mark into the realms of censoring completely legitimate content, Sky's recent blocking of several torrent websites as per UK court orders, ended up also blocking popular image hosting site Imgur over the weekend. penis …

Amazon has a long history of not treating its employees very well, whether it's not providing adequate air conditioning in some of its facilities – leading some workers to pass out on the job – or leaving warehouse employees working alone in huge empty buildings. But one constant theme seems …

According to new emails outed as part of the Kim Dotcom extradition trial, New Zealand customs officials were offered the chance to earn “brownie pointts,” by the organisation's operations manager, if they gave up secretive information on the people they were investigating and handed it over to the FBI. how to …