The European Commission has officially opened up an investigation in to Apple's tax paying habits after growing suspicious that the company has made unwarranted deals that go against EU law. However, Apple has said plenty of times that it does in fact pay its fair share of taxes. The investigation …

Mechanical keyboards have been popular with the gaming audience now for some time, but they can often be rather expensive. Corsair recently released their K40 gamer keyboard which uses more mainstream rubber domes but takes a leaf out of the ‘mechanical playbook' by keeping the switches separate from one another. It also …

Running with Scissors released its cult classic game, Postal 2, more than a decade ago, since then the developer has released the game on Steam and updated it fairly regularly with new features and even incorporating some fan favourite mods. However, despite the success, it never occurred to the team …

Microsoft recently announced its intention to sell a Kinectless Xbox One bundle, which led to the introduction of its new SDK, which will allow developers to fully access the GPU without having to reserve 10 per cent for Kinect functions. Fortunately for Microsoft, this decision is already paying off as …

AMD's Mantle API had its début last year, promising performance boosts for AMD users in Battlefield 4 and Thief. Since then, Mantle has slowly been working its way in to more titles and now EA has announced that it will incorporate the API in three of its upcoming games. The …

Despite being as fast as ever, Sonic doesn't quite have the same industry clout that he once had. While his long-time opposite number Mario continues to impress and delight fans the world over, Sonic has disappointed enough times that he's just not looked on with quite the same fondness. But …

The Recording Industry Association of America draws its funding from membership fees, paid to the the copyright lobby group to help it police the music industry. Unfortunately for those involved with it however, it seems that the group is continuing to lose members left and right as once again its …

If you've seen any of the documentaries on pro-gaming, whether it's FRAG from a few years ago, or something like the more recent Free to Play from Valve, you'll know that getting sponsored is the holy grail of many an eSports team, save perhaps being given a salary by Riot. …

Nintendo's pre-recorded press conference has now come and gone and while there was certainly a little more polish in its intro thanks to there being more than one possible take (giving them the chance to have a Robot Chicken sequence of all things), one of the first big take homes, …

A software developer has confirmed that Apple’s next-generation iOS 8 operating system for mobile devices will support split-screen multitasking. While the feature will exist and will even allow some adjustments, only two applications at once will be able to work in a split-screen mode. Steve Troughton Smith, who designs Apple …

Sony Computer Entertainment has introduced a new colour variation of the PlayStation 4 video game console at the E3 trade-show. The new flavour will come in “glacier white” and will be available worldwide starting this fall. Since the PS4 is already very successful on the market, the company decided not …

Intel Corp. has been consistently improving performance of its integrated graphics cores for several years now and the code-named Skylake family of microprocessors will not be an exception. According to an unofficial media report, the Skylake will bring a rather dramatic improvement in terms of graphics processing performance compared to …

While micro video game consoles only compatible with mobile and cloud games have yet to prove their feasibility, it looks like Sony Computer Entertainment is confident about its PS Vita-based non-mobile device. At the E3 trade-show the company said that later this year it will start to sell its PlayStation …

Razer revealed the Nabu smartband at CES earlier this year and since then more than 10,000 potential developers have signed up to test and create apps for the device. However, Razer wants to open up the testing to some of its best fans and as a result, 500 Nabu smartbands …

If you are shopping for a new high performance graphics card, then Nvidia's GTX780 Ti surely has a spot right at the top of the list. Today we look at a highly overclocked and customised model – the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780Ti iChill DHS. This card ships with one of …

Another US firm has stepped forward to condemn China's military for its digital attacks on US companies. This time CrowdStrike, a technology security firm is accusing China's unit 61486 of the People's Liberation Army of attacking networks of companies and organisations in the US and other Western nations for the past …

This 370 Inch TV costs more than most houses and I don't mean regular houses-  for the price of this screen you could probably buy a mansion. The 4K TV is called the Titan Zeus and comes in at the £1,000,000 mark or, if you're in the US, then it …

EA and Visceral Games are taking a different approach to Battlefield Hardline, rather than having a “beta test” two weeks before the game's launch, they are holding a real beta test and its already live. The Battlefield Hardline beta launched last night at the end of EA's otherwise somewhat underwhelming …

We have had a lot of competitions running in the last month and today Gigabyte join the giveaway madness by offering up motherboards, coolers, pen drives and headsets! These prizes are open to residents in Europe. The 1st Prize is a Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Motherboard, Corsair Raptor HS30 Gaming Headset and …

E3 isn't just about the game announcements, it's also about the hardware we play those games on so it's fitting that Alienware has finally revealed the specification for its Steam Machine, despite Valve delaying its controller until next year. The Steam box will be called the Alienware Alpha and it …

Britain's relatively newly formed Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has been making modest waves since it first appeared on the scene, stating that one of the fresh tactics it was going to bring to the war on piracy, was to try and eliminate advertising from torrent sites. In its …

Turtle Rock and 2K haven't even taken to the stage officially or started their own tournament with the Nerdist crew, but already we've seen a lot of footage of their asymmetrical, coop, competitive shooter, Evolve, at E3. There was the initial quick glimpse of the new monster, The Kraken, in …

I think some of us can admit that Rockstar really had us going for a while but Grand Theft Auto V has finally been announced for the PC as well as the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. The game released last September and went on to become the highest selling …

One of the most popular sites at any technology show, is that of an expert overclocker pouring LN2 into a record breaking build. Gigabyte's suits in Taipai 101 was no different. KitGuru gets an introduction. To say that someone ‘ Wrote the book on overclocking', might sound like an overstatement. …

Netflix has been giving Verizon the digital middle finger for a little while now. In a campaign to point out to its customer base the reason for their service being slow – Verizon has been throttling it along with other cloud services – Netflix has had a message on its …

Amid all the chaos of yesterday's E3 launch day, with all the game announcements, on-stage bungles and helicopter shots of people playing games on a roof, one announcement threatened to put a long awaited smile on the face of old school point and click gamers… and then tore it away …

Founded in 1986, Gigabyte is one of the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands, with a company motto that suggests you ‘Upgrade your life'. With four new ranges of boards coming into the market, we wanted to make sure we got a complete tour. Enter Nigel Sutch, regional sales and marketing …

It is not a secret that Apple and Samsung are the most profitable smartphone makers in the world thanks to sales of their high-end lines, whereas the competition of other manufacturers has pushed margins so narrow that their low-priced handsets are barely profitable. In a bid to earn more money …

Leap Motion’s motion sensing technology for personal computers looks very promising, but its main problem is that it is not available widely, which is why software developers rarely take advantage of it. However, this may change soon as Hewlett-Packard plans to commercialize a keyboard with integrated motion sensors this summer. …

Chief financial officer of Advanced Micro Devices said that the next generation game consoles from companies like Microsoft Corp., Nintendo and Sony Corp. may emerge on the market sooner than we might think. The life-cycle of the currently available systems may be shorter than those of Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s …