One of the problems with getting older is that at Christmas time, it's very hard to get a present that's anything like what you really want. Maybe you want a new car, or an animal, an upgrade on your house or maybe a really nice bit of aftermarket PC hardware. …
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UK GAME restocking Xbox One for your stocking
The PS4 might have won the first round of the worldwide console wars, but the Xbox One sold very well as well. So well in-fact that there's been somewhat of a shortage as of late, but never fear if you wanted to get one by Christmas, as GAME has now …
Read More »Dark Souls II is a ‘full game,’ will have no DLC
One of the producers at From Software, the developer of Dark Souls, has been speaking about the original, frustration testing, RPG and it's upcoming sequel. At one point in the interview though, he said something you won't hear from the mouth of any other developer out there at the moment: …
Read More »Minecraft multiplayer set up just got a lot easier
Setting up your own multiplayer server on Minecraft is the holy grail of grief avoidance whilst still being able to play with your pals, but it's never been the easiest of things. I'm sure there's Kitguru readers that would scoff at this, but not everyone is as technically proficient as …
Read More »Exclusive interview with Glen Rhodes from AOne
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 …
Read More »Spain fines Google for privacy law breach
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 …
Read More »FACT is blackmailing a Dutch ISP with money laundering
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 …
Read More »New to League of Legends? You’ll want to keep this handy
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 …
Read More »Porn filters block sex education, charity websites
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 …
Read More »Win a STEAM game this weekend!
This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Star Wars. It means you can put all …
Read More »Kingom Come Deliverance is a beautiful looking RPG
The first trailer for the first game to come out of Czech developer Warhorse studios has been released and it's very, very pretty. Known as Kingdom Come Deliverance, it's said to be an open world RPG, action-adventure, with first person combat, stunning visuals and a non-linear story. Sounds like a …
Read More »This man’s working lego car took 500,000 bricks
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 …
Read More »Netflix will start streaming 4K in February
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 …
Read More »Check out the first AMD Mantle gameplay demo
The graphics card wars are heating up again folks, but not just with performance, with features too. Nvidia is gunning for its GSync technology which fixes screen tearing without the need for the performance drop associated with Vsync, but AMD has something potentially more exciting. AMD has Mantle, its DirectX …
Read More »Guess who has the most bitcoins in the world?
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 …
Read More »Taleworlds talks new Mount and Blade II Bannerlord engine
Turkish developer Taleworlds has been hard at work on the true sequel to its seminal Mount and Blade (and Warband) for a while now and details have been very, very thin on the ground. Until recently all we knew is that it existed, was called Bannerlord and that it was …
Read More »It’s official- EA is being sued
Last week we reported that legal firm Holzer Holzer and Fistel, was investigating EA's public statements about Battlefield 4's progress. This probably would have led to a lawsuit eventually but for now, another firm has beat it to the punch as Robins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, has launched a class action …
Read More »Pirate Bay hop skips back to Swedish domain
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 …
Read More »There’s a lot of Facebook scams going around this Christmas
It's Christmas time, so in the holiday spirit a lot of websites, including ours, are doing plenty of giveaways and contests, but that doesn't mean you should trust every Facebook page out there. In the lead up to this festive period, Kaspersky Lab has seen scammers trying to interest Facebook …
Read More »Britain’s internet archive is now officially offline
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 …
Read More »Warhammer Online rides off into Sigmar’s sunset
“Shutting down now, thanks for all the Waaaaaghs!” read the message to gamers logged in a the time of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning's shut down. While there might have been a reasonable number of players still willing to slaughter one another across the Old World, with the licensing deal …
Read More »Well this Zelda game is a bit different
Nintendo has a lot of well loved franchises and bankable characters – even if they haven't been selling systems for it. There's Mario and all of his side characters, Kerby, Samus, Donkey Kong , Link and more, and all of them tend to star in games that are somewhat similar …
Read More »Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC Review (1600p, Ultra HD 4K)
In November AMD released their reference R9 290 and while we were impressed with the frame rate performance we certainly didn't find it fun dealing with the noisy, ill performing reference cooler. It has been some time coming, but today we look at the first custom cooled, overclocked card from …
Read More »be quiet! Advent competition enters third week
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 …
Read More »Obsidian planning to unveil Kickstarter project
Obsidian Entertainment is said to be bringing a new licensed project to Kickstarter in 2014, CEO, Feargus Urquhart has confirmed. While speaking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Urquhart suggested that it might use the same engine as the studio's recent Kickstarter success, Pillars of Eternity. how to increase penis length The CEO …
Read More »Swedish uploader fined $652,000 for one movie torrent
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 …
Read More »BT’s new porn filter to block proxies too
If you ever needed an incentive to vote with your wallet on censorship, now's the time to do it. BT has one of those filters that David Cameron loves to much and it's live now, so if you're an existing BT customer, your internet experience is set to be censored …
Read More »ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac Motherboard Review
The 4770K offers quite possibly the highest per-clock performance numbers of any consumer-grade processor currently on the market. It’s just that fact which makes Haswell’s multiplier-unlocked Core i7 a plausible option for workstation applications. And with that possible usage scenario comes the requirement for workstation-grade LGA 1150 motherboards. Is ASRock’s …
Read More »What’s it like to use the Oculus Rift for seven hours straight?
Are you asking me? I have no idea. I had horribly expensive laser surgery (wavefront lasec) a few years ago and while there's no evidence to suggest the Rift can negatively affect it, I freak out at eyestrain so I'm taking it really steady with my Rift, even if I …
Read More »Wavemaster Mobi-2 Bluetooth Speaker Review
When KitGuru first looked at the original Wavemaster Mobi speaker back in July there were two things that we felt were missing – Bluetooth support and the ability to daisychain. Now that the German design team in Bremen has addressed Bluetooth functionality, we decided to retest the latest version. Browse through …
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