When Oculus was first bought by Facebook, the reaction was fairly negative and while things have settled down a lot since then, recently the Oculus Rift began shipping and unfortunately, not everyone is happy with the Oculus privacy policy. The policy says that Oculus can collect user data ranging from …

Over the years, Apple has added a lot to iOS and now we are at a point where there are quite a few pre-installed ‘stock' apps that come on every iPhone and iPad. However, Apple may soon allow iOS users to escape these apps entirely. This has been talked about …

Attack on Titan went on to become a hugely popular manga and anime series over the last few years and while we have seen a couple of video games made, they have been mostly console-bound. However, this year, those of us on the PC will be getting an Attack on …

Over the weekend, Bethesda and Id Software held a closed beta test for DOOM, which comes out next month. However, everyone else will get a chance to try the game out for themselves during the open beta, which will take place from the 15th of April until the 18th, with no …

One of the big selling points of the HTC Vive headset is that it is “room scale,” which means you can walk around your room, interacting with different elements with the motion controllers – all of it tracked within the VR space. But that means physically moving around and in fast paced …

The Obama administration will not be backing legislation that would allow judges to force companies like Apple to weaken the security of their hardware and software in order to facilitate snooping. While President Obama's personal opinion seems to still be in favour of this sort of bill, clearly there is …

Phishing emails are still one of the most effective methods of capturing people's personal details without them realising it. It was how the Fappening came about and countless leaks and hacks have been possible purely because people were tricked. So make sure you're extra vigilant in the future, as a …

While a British team might not have brought home the gold at any of the world's biggest Esports tournaments yet, perhaps they'll be able to do so at the newly announced, eGames. The event, set to run right alongside the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro later this year, will pit …

The Gladiator Apocalypse has a quad-core Skylake processor with a 3.2GHz Turbo Clock, 8GB of memory and a GeForce GTX 970, and costs just £750. While that’s a purely mid-range specification, it’s more than enough to enjoy PC games at high detail settings at 1080p resolution. Good news, folks. Around …

The first ever multi-country, autonomous truck platoon has successfully completed a journey across borders, down highways and roadways – all without the intervention of a single human driver. Using advanced tracking and mapping technologies, the more than dozen heavy goods vehicles from various manufacturers, were able to link up and …

With Banner Saga 2 finally hitting digital storefronts in just under two weeks' time, developer Stoic has released a new trailer, and boy do the hardships just keep on getting harder. From the looks of our characters, their lives are just as fraught with peril as ever they were and …

It looks like HP is going to shake up the laptop market a little bit as the company launched the world's thinnest laptop this week. Known as the HP Spectre, the laptop measures in at just 10.4mm thick and is packed with Intel's Skylake tech as well as a PCIe …

While Microsoft did initially buy Nokia to bolster its smartphone efforts with Lumia Windows Phones, the company has since moved away from the Lumia brand and will be expanding its Surface line of devices with smartphones. While the first Surface phones were expected this year, it looks like they won't …

A US congressman has found himself under investigation after it was discovered that $1300 of campaign funds were spent on Steam games. Around 70 payments were made to Steam between October and December last year so it sounds like someone had a good time during Steam sale season. Duncan Hunter, …

Over the years, developers have come up with plenty of clever ways to mess with gamers playing pirated copies of titles and Quantum Break is just the latest example as the PC version of the game will give the main character an eye-patch if you did not buy it. The eye-patch …

Over the Easter break, we teamed up with Seasonic to give away 13 prizes including a Platinum 850W, an X-750 and a G-550 power supply alongside ten mystery goody bags. We received a lot of entries for this but today we are happy to announce the list of winners! Congratulations …

Although he might have tried to brush it aside as merely a “private matter,” British Prime Minister, David Cameron's involvement in the Panama Papers leak seems unlikely to go away quickly. Adding fuel to the fire is ostracised whistle blower, Edward Snowden, who has now started poking the PM over …

With the fall out from the Panama Papers leak still snowballing, politicians resigning and calls for others to take more of a governing role of British Virgin Islands tax havens, one aspect has been largely overlooked. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax office, currently rents its headquarters …

The Whatsapp messaging service has confirmed that as of Tuesday 6th April, all communications on its platform are encrypted from end to end, meaning that even if it was given a court order, it wouldn't be able to read its users' messages or images. Only the sender and receiver will be …

As much as playing games in virtual reality might be wonderfully fun and immersive, VR might actually be a great place to watch games too. In a recent teaser trailer for Valve's theatre mode for the HTC Vive, it also showed off a spectator mode for DotA 2, which has …

Samsung has become the first company to begin mass producing 10nm-class DRAM, using a new process known as argon fluoride immersion lithography, which takes over from the previous extreme ultraviolet process. Samsung will be releasing 8GB DDR4 RAM using these new chips, which offer improved data rates and power efficiency …

Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) kicked off today and the company's opening keynote brought several announcements. Amongst all of the talk of VR and development tools, Nvidia also spoke a bit about the specifications for its GP100 graphics chip, otherwise known as ‘Big Pascal'. This could be the chip that we …

As a publication KitGuru places a lot of focus on ‘gaming grade' headphones priced between £60 and £150, however from time to time I like to delve into the high end ‘audiophile' market to see what is available, particularly if money is not a concern. In 2014 I wrote an …

YouTube has evolved a lot over the years and now the site is at a point where big money is involved for a lot of channel owners. However, things don't always go according to plan for every YouTuber and this week, a court slapped two content creators with a $20 million bill …

The HTC Vive began shipping out to customers today and alongside that, Valve has officially launched SteamVR, which has around 120 games and experiences listed already for early virtual reality headset adopters at varying price points. Similar to other areas of Steam, the SteamVR pages showcase dozens of titles and …

Earlier this year, Sony announced that it would be bringing its PlayStation Remote Play feature to the PC, allowing PC owners to stream their PS4 titles. Now, we know that this feature is arriving tomorrow in the PS4 3.50 update but there are a few limitations in place. The PS4 …

Update: The Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, has now officially announced his resignation. His deputy will continue on his stead until a new leader can be chosen. The Panama Papers leak which has painted targets on the backs of many of the world's leading politicians with suggestions of corruption and …

As much as it's a fun job, being a reviewer isn't easy. It involves dedication, integrity and a deep technical knowledge that is gradually built upon year on year. But sometimes you guys think you can do a better job, so we're going to give you the chance to prove …

Google is back as the black sheep of the tech world for many end users this week, after it announced that it would be shuttering, Revolv, a maker of smart-home hubs that Google purchased less than two years ago. But this raises a bigger concern for technology fans, as much …

Amidst the news that Oculus has run into some difficulties with its shipping, the first HTC Vive virtual reality headsets have started arriving on the doorsteps of consumers all over the world. From Tokyo, to California, to New Zealand, Vives have been showing up over the last 12 hours, with …