Microsoft might be making huge changes to the development of the Hololens behind the scenes, as new reports are suggesting that the company recently fired as many as 60 engineers working on the project, based on technology that Microsoft acquired six years ago. Apparently the project change has been quite …
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Arkham Origins developer is working on two DC games
Rocksteady officially wrapped up its time with Batman earlier this year with the release of Arkham Knight. However, that doesn't mean Warner Bros is done developing games based on DC Comics characters, as it looks like WB Montreal, the team behind Arkham Origins, is currently working on two unannounced DC …
Read More »AMD responds to Crimson driver causing fan issues
AMD recently changed the way it approaches its drivers, with the launch of Radeon Software: Crimson Edition. Unfortunately, some users with the update have found that the driver has been causing low fan speeds on some GPUs, which also causes abnormally high load temperatures. Fortunately, AMD is aware of the …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is getting its first PC patch tomorrow
Over the weekend, we put out our PC performance review for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and now, Ubisoft has officially detailed the first patch for the PC version of the game. Patch 1.21 arrives this week, bringing with it a bunch of bug fixes, along with some AI and user interface …
Read More »Apple may announce new Macbook Air at WWDC
We are quite a few months away from Apple's next big event, known as the Worldwide Developer Conference, which takes place in June. However, we are already hearing some rumours surrounding Apple's plans, which may include a new line of Macbook Air laptops. The Air has been a big part …
Read More »Sony unlocks PS4’s 7th CPU core for developers
Sony has gone ahead and unlocked more of the PS4's power for developers, by giving them the opportunity to make use of the console's 7th CPU core. This change came in the latest SDK for the console and may help Sony keep its performance lead on Microsoft's Xbox One, which …
Read More »British-made, air-breathing rocket engine could change space travel
As much as we're excited by the ventures of Space X and Amazon in making travel into space and the transport of materials into orbit that much cheaper with their re-usable systems, they're not the only ones looking to revolutionise space travel. British company Reaction Engines has designed a new …
Read More »Is big-data a real hope for Minority Report style pre-crime?
The use of big-data has exploded in the last few years, allowing for new weather prediction algorithms, Netflix suggestions and more targeted advertising among many other uses, including some controversial ones. Take for example its use in predicting criminal activity. Could this one day lead to a Minority Report-like pre-crime …
Read More »Vibox Element X Blue System Review
In a world awash with PCs powered by Intel Core i3, i5 and i7, Vibox has come up with an inexpensive alternative that uses an AMD CPU. We cannot recall the last time we tested an AMD PC so we are very interested to see what the company create for …
Read More »Free to play Pro Evo Soccer ‘Entry Level’ edition coming next week
Although it has always lacked the licenses for the Premier League and Bundesliga, Pro Evolution Soccer has always been a strong rival for the FIFA football crown and now it's becoming even more competitive. Starting in just over a week's time, there will be a new “entry level,” free-to-play version of …
Read More »New Amazon Prime Air advert features Jeremy Clarkson
Hiring on the Top Gear crew after the unceremonious end to their long running TV presence, was a real win for Amazon, even if it did purportedly cost the online retailer upwards of £160 million. Part of that price tag however means you can utilise that new talent for other …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate PC port analysis
Many PC gamers grew frustrated with Ubisoft last year following the abysmal launch of Assassin's Creed: Unity, to the point where many were skeptical about this year's release, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. Today we are taking a look at the PC version of Syndicate and seeing how it runs on a …
Read More »Just Cause 3 gets its first patch before the game launches
We are used to seeing day one patches on games these days. However, thanks to the power of game pre-loading, studios can now put those patches out prior to launch, as is the case with Just Cause 3, which will get its first patch this weekend, before its official release …
Read More »Apple’s iPhone 7 may ditch the headphone jack
Apple is on a constant mission to make its devices thinner than before. We saw this with the iPhone 6, which has the camera sticking out of the back of the phone slightly and now, Apple is apparently also thinking about ditching the headphone jack in order to make the …
Read More »Nokia could return with an Android and Windows 10 smartphone
The majority of Nokia may have been s0ld off to Microsoft but the company is still kicking around with ideas for future smartphones. Apparently, Nokia is currently planning a device known as the C1, which in two versions, one with Windows 10 installed and another with Android. This wouldn't be …
Read More »Gears of War 4 might be coming to PC too
Back at E3, Microsoft announced that it would be bringing Gears of War back to the PC with Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. Since then, not much else has been said about it, though the studio behind it says they are still working on it and getting it running with …
Read More »The Razer Blade laptop is finally coming to Europe
It has been a few years since Razer first announced its gaming laptop, the Razer Blade. It quickly became a success and spawned two models, the Razer Blade 14 and the Razer Blade Pro, which uses a 17 inch screen. However, the laptop had been difficult to get in the …
Read More »AMD Fury X2 tipped to arrive next month
AMD's next dual-GPU graphics card has been tipped to launch next month. The card was initially shown off back in June at the announcement of AMD's new 300-series and Fury line-up and has been in development under the codename ‘Gemini', though things have been fairly quiet since then. The card …
Read More »SanDisk offers solid discounts on solid state drives
Having invented the solid state drive (SSD) in 1991, SanDisk doesn't mess around when it comes to innovation and the company has over 5,000 patents in play right now. Being the third largest flash memory manufacturer in the world, alongside a strong partnership with Toshiba, means that it's able to …
Read More »Google has been asked to ‘forget’ 1.2 million URLs
Last year, Google was ordered to comply with what the EU calls ‘the right to be forgotten'. This means that anybody who wants a link pertaining to them to disappear from Google search within the EU, can send a request through to Google and it turns out, a lot of …
Read More »Apple faces patent lawsuit in China
Apple is currently facing a pretty big lawsuit in China. One company, known as BYD, filed two separate suits back in May of this year, claiming that the antenna on the iPhone 6 and some other products in Apple's lineup may infringe on its own patents. BYD has also listed …
Read More »Rainbow Six: Siege open beta is now live
After a little stumble earlier this week, Ubisoft's shockingly timed open beta for Rainbow Six: Siege is now live for everyone to try out. The open beta was due to start a few days ago but had to be postponed due to a last-minute matchmaking bug, which was identified and …
Read More »Sony will make PS4 remote play for PC official
This week, a developer launched an unofficial version of Sony's ‘Remote Play' app for the PC, allowing PlayStation 4 owners to stream their console games to a PC. The official version of Sony's program only works with the PS Vita but thanks to this little nudge, Sony has decided to …
Read More »Overclockers Top 10 Black Friday Deals
There are two ways to approach any major sale. Get something that you've had your eye on for sometime for less money or use the money you've put aside to ‘trade up' for something altogether better. After being voted the KitGuru reader's ‘Reseller of the Year' in 2013 and 2014, …
Read More »Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380X Review
Last week AMD released their mid range R9 380X and today we supplement our launch review by taking a look at the Sapphire Radeon R9 Nitro 380X. Right now NVIDIA have no solution at the same price (£200) so partners are able to offer up some competitive deals to tempt …
Read More »Samsung now mass producing 128GB DDR4 modules
If the Steam Hardware Survey is anything to go by, most of you are running between four and eight gigabytes of RAM in your system. That's enough for most games, though some video editing and Photoshop pros may like a few more Gigabytes tacked on there too. Samsung clearly wants us all …
Read More »VPN flaw could allow anyone to view users’ real IPs
In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, obfuscating systems like encryption, the Tor browser and virtual private networks (VPN) have been championed by privacy advocates the world over as the best ways to protect your data online. However, that latter step may not be as useful as initially thought, …
Read More »Steam will soon make you wait three days for trades
As much as the modern world is all about doing things as instantaneously as possible, there are always a few who ruin it for the rest of us. That's why Valve is soon set to instigate a mandatory three day wait for trades made on Steam, to help prevent those that …
Read More »DinoPC leaps into Black Friday action with AOC
The technology business is all about partnerships. Two or more companies combining resources to open a market or make new deals. For the US-imported retail holiday known as ‘Black Friday 2015', UK-based system builder DinoPC has formed a WWE-style Tag Team with monitor giant AOC. KitGuru casts an eye over the …
Read More »Ancient 2G mobile networks could be used for drone traffic control
One of the interesting legislative challenges facing politicians the world over right now is how to deal with drones. The manned and unmanned quad-copters are taking to the skies in ever increasing numbers, and keeping track of them all is nearly impossible. However it could be that old 2G mobile …
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