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 …
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How did you nerd out this Christmas?
Christmas is a time for hanging out with families, drinking and eating too much and more often than not, breaking out a game or two. Usually these are simple affairs like Scrabble, Monopoly or perhaps something without a board and dice, like charades. However, this being a site of tech …
Read More »Sony is pulling online support for a few first party games
Sony is going to start shutting down online support for a few of its older first party Playstation 3 titles throughout 2014. Starting on the 28th of January, MAG along with two PlayStation 3 SOCOM games, Special Forces and Confrontation, will be the first titles to go and since neither MAG or SOCOM have offline …
Read More »Gaming for Good charity raises over $10 million
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 …
Read More »KitGuru Annual Awards 2013
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. …
Read More »Nintendo’s online services are suffering from server issues
If you managed to score yourself a shiny new Nintendo system this Christmas, you might have noticed that the online functions aren't working. This is because Nintendo has been suffering from a long series of server issues since Christmas morning. how to make counterfeit money The issue is affecting those …
Read More »Crowdfunding launched for Blizzard dev with Cancer
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 …
Read More »Apple is in trouble in Taiwan over iPhone prices
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 …
Read More »YOYOTech joins forces with BMW in driving competition
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 …
Read More »$12,000 worth of Dogecoin stolen over Christmas
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 …
Read More »Gigabyte R9 270X Windforce OC Review
If you are working with a budget of £180 or less there has never been a better time to buy a graphics card. The Gigabyte R9 270X Windforce OC that we are looking at today for instance is supplied in a preoverclocked state, with a custom cooler and has a …
Read More »Redtube protects users and itself against copyright troll
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 …
Read More »Minecraft might be coming to the Wii U
It seems like at this point, everyone that's going to play Minecraft, probably owns a copy of it. It's available everywhere from its humble PC beginnings, on consoles and smartphones, but now it might be hitting the Wii U too, with an emphasis on using the Gamepad to construct and …
Read More »Twitter co-founder joins Disney’s Board of Directors
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 …
Read More »Blackberry cancels its conference and two phones
Things haven't been looking good over at Blackberry for a while now and the company might not be able to bounce back at all this time. The phone maker has not only cancelled its yearly conference but it has also pulled the plug on two phones it had in development …
Read More »Dark Souls won’t come to Tablets or Phones due to controls
Dark Souls developer, From Software, turned down a mobile version of its action RPG as it would mean heavily changing the controls. This is according to Alex Adjaj, Director of Global Strategy for Mobile at Publisher, Namco Bandai. In an interview with Digital Spy, Adjaj admitted that the publisher was interested …
Read More »VTX3D R9 270X X Edition Review
Today we review the new VTX3D R9 270X X Edition, the second 270X we have reviewed since the launch in November. Should you be shortlisting this card for a new system build early in the New Year? The card we are reviewing today is a new dual fan version of …
Read More »Lets take our first decent look at the Steam Controller
When the Steam Machine beta units first shipped to testers, we saw a few first looks and unboxings of the system but now one YouTuber by the name of Trial By Game, has made some pretty decent lets play videos which document his experiences with the new Steam Controller. His …
Read More »CyanogenMod hits 10 million users mark
CyanogenMod has just surpassed the 10 million user mark, further proving that Android users want the barebones operating system, free of ugly skins coupled with fast updates. The custom rom has certainly set itself out from the crowd too, with its over the air updates as well nightly and stable …
Read More »Apparently Apple has some ‘big plans’ for 2014
Tim Cook has hinted at Apple's big plans for 2014 in a letter to employees, the letter also praised the ‘innovation' that went in to the new Mac Pro, IOS 7 as well as the iPhone 5s. buy a essay online Employees have revealed the email to 9to5Mac and it …
Read More »World of Warcraft hackers get up to two years in prison
Late last week, 10 men from a hacking group responsible for stealing and defrauding 10,000 World of Warcraft accounts, were found guilty and dealt sentences as high as two years in a Chinese prison. The first five to be arrested were named Chen, Ma, Zhu, Zhi, and Wang. The operation started off …
Read More »Go Away Cameron- A Chrome extension that bypasses filters
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, …
Read More »Don’t worry League of Legends will work over Christmas
If you were worried that all that family time, good food and present opening would take time away from racking up IP on the Summoner's Rift, then don't fret, Riot games has you covered. It's announced in a new post that there will be some specific technology in place to …
Read More »Last chance to enter be quiet! advent competition
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 …
Read More »Obvious Nintendo Wii U advert is obvious
One of the biggest complaints any Nintendo fan will have of the Wii U marketing strategy, is that most of it's target audience (Wii owners) don't realise it's a new console. This isn't too surprising considering what the Wii U is called and what it looks like, but most importantly, …
Read More »Star Citizen breaks $35 million, introduces new ship
It seems like only a month ago that were were talking about how Star Citizen had broken its latest monetary milestone (less than, actually) but today we're doing practically the same story, as the game from Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame, has now hit its next crowd funded stretch …
Read More »Three more arrested in Silk Road case
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 …
Read More »There’s a Tomb Raider card game on iOS
Lara Croft isn't a character I'd easily associate with a social card game on a mobile platform, but that's exactly what's in store for the long standing gaming heroine in her next adventure. In Tomb Raider Reflections, you'll go on quests, collect artefacts and battle other players, all through the …
Read More »Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)
AMD fans have been waiting on this for a long time, the eagerly awaited Sapphire custom version of AMD's R9 290X, featuring their cutting edge Tri-X cooling system. Sapphire have not only adopted their impressive three fan cooler, but they have tweaked the core and memory speeds a little, offering …
Read More »Asus GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Review
Today we look at the new customised high end card from Asus, the GTX780 Ti Direct CUII OC. This solution features a customised two fan cooler and out of the box overclocked speeds. We already know the GTX780 Ti is the fastest single GPU on the planet, so how does …
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