The legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple rages on, with Qualcomm hitting back at Apple once again. This time, the chip maker is claiming that Apple's iPhone simply would not exist without the use of its patented technology, going as far as to say: “Qualcomm innovations are at the heart …

OnePlus relished in the success of its OnePlus 5 launch with many first time users taking to social media to praise its speed, software and relatively low price. The very same day, the company has come under fire for cheating its benchmark scores and lying about the true performance. Traditionally, …

When we first got our hands on the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, we were bowled over by the challenge it poses for Intel's top-end Core i7 processors. Intel may have taken up that challenge with the announcement of the Core i9, but despite this the most astonishing feature of Ryzen …

Paradox Interactive had a good year in 2015, publishing two hit games on PC- Cities: Skylines and Pillars of Eternity. Two years on, both games are also heading to console. Cities: Skylines came to the rescue for city-builder fans after the disastrous launch of EA’s SimCity and years later remains …

AMD has been keen to keep the momentum up ever since it launched the first batch of Ryzen desktop processors in March. We've already heard a bit about the company's plans to take on Intel's Xeon lineup but today, we see the full launch of AMD's EPYC processors, scaling the …

Today, MSI has officially launched the GeForce GTX 1080Ti Lightning Z. This is MSI's flagship graphics card and in the company's own words, it is “built to be perfect”, combining the tried and true Tri-Forzr cooler, Military Class 4 components and new SuperPipe technology to deliver an engineering masterpiece. We …

While Luke works hard to review the new range of Intel X299 processors which have been officially sampled by Intel UK, he has managed to find some downtime to unbox the latest Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3. Spoiler - its a great looking bit of kit.

Leaks are a bit of an issue for tech companies far and wide but the situation only gets worse for larger companies. For instance, Apple can't seem to keep anything secret, in-fact, it appears to be so bad at stopping leaks that even the the company's policy on how to …

Last year, Blizzard announced that it would be releasing a brand new class for Diablo 3. That time has finally come, with The Necromancer set to launch early next week as part of Blizzard's celebration for the 20th anniversary for the Diablo franchise. The Necromancer first appeared in Diablo 2 …

Today, we sent fellow KitGuru writer, Dominic, down to Thorpe Park to meet with the folks at Acer. While we were there, we had the chance to take a good look at the Predator 21X, the world's first Ultra-wide laptop, with a 21-inch display, a mechanical keyboard and dual graphics …

Dom takes a trip to check out Acer's ultra-wide behemoth.

Update: It looks like yesterday's Europe-wide Skype outage has mostly been resolved. While there are still some lingering issues for some while the service returns to normal, everything should be in place by the end of today. So what caused this latest Skype outage? Well one group is claiming that …

Over the last few years, Valve's Steam Summer sale dates have consistently leaked well ahead of time, giving us a chance to prepare our wallets beforehand. Last month, an anonymous developer revealed this year's sale dates and today, PayPal confirmed it. It's now official, the 2017 Steam Summer sale kicks …

Crowbar Collective has been working away on its Half-Life 1 remake, Black Mesa, for quite some time. However, the game has been missing its finishing touch for years- the Xen chapters. Originally, the Black Mesa developers wanted to get Xen out this Summer but unfortunately, there has been one last …

Today we look at a preproduction Asus ROG GX501VI Zephyrus with Nvidia Max-Q technology

OnePlus has made headlines the past few weeks, with each leak of its new flagship-killer leaving fans a little less settled. After three and a half years in development, the OnePlus 5 has been fully revealed ahead of its launch on the 27th of June. With just a slight markup …

It has been quite some time since we've heard any news surrounding AMD's launch of the RX Vega. From what we know so far, the GPU is set to launch in late July and according to new reports this week, add-in board partners will begin shipping their own custom versions …

Samsung's much anticipated return to the phablet market is approaching fast as a new report this week claims that Samsung will be launching the Galaxy Note 8 in August. This is the second time we have heard of an August launch for the Note flagship, so it is looking more …

Prior to the announcement of Anthem, various leaks and rumours pitched the new IP as Bioware's take on Destiny. Now, it seems the similarities between the two games is spreading further, with EA stating that the game is ‘the start of a 10-year journey' echoing the way Activision first pitched …

CCL has put together a £1600 system with an i5 and GTX 1070, plus tonnes of RGB lighting. Yum.

Update: Following on from last month's rumours, a standalone version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare remaster is now looking more likely than ever. This time around though, we have hard evidence in the form of a leaked image, showing the standalone remaster boxed and ready to hit store shelves. …

Earlier this month, G.Skill hosted the annual OC World Record stage at Computex. We have already covered the new memory speed world record but it turns out, ten other overclocking world records were also broken during the event, all using G.Skill Trident Z memory, X299 motherboards and a new Intel …

The debate surrounding encryption and backdoors has been heating up again recently. While the UK's conservative party wants to enforce a ban on encrypted services, the EU's parliament has proposed new legislation that would make end-to-end encryption required across all digital communications. The European Union's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice …

KitGuru was fortunate enough to be invited one of MSI's giant factories in Shanghai, China.  We expected to be given a limited tour and told to ‘keep behind the barriers', but we were actually given full access to the entire process – from the soldering of components onto the mainboards, …

To celebrate the launch of its latest high-end SATA SSD, WD is running an exclusive competition with KitGuru!

Killer Instinct's 2013 reboot has developed a bit of a cult following over the last few years. However, with the game being a Windows Store exclusive on PC, the game has been missing out on a huge player base. Fortunately, Killer Instinct is now heading to Steam, so those avoiding …

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 1 was the first to receive a shocking 1 out of 10 score for repairability, from the teardown experts at iFixit. Now this week, the company seems to have broken its own record with the new Surface Laptop netting the worst possible score of 0.   Apple’s …

It looks like Intel's upcoming Core i7 7740X could be quite the overclocker according to reports this week. Intel's Kaby Lake-X Core i7 is heading our way fairly soon and while it may not be the most exciting chip in the lineup, a leaked reviewer's guide points towards 5.0GHz overclocks …

The Aorus GTX 1080Ti Xtreme Edition is a quality entry into Gigabyte's GPU lineup. It won in the EHA awards this year and we were impressed too, praising it highly in our own review. Now, Gigabyte is kicking things up a notch with the launch of the Aorus GTX 1080Ti …

Over the last couple of years, there have been a few reports surrounding remasters of classic Blizzard games. It all kicked off when Blizzard announced that it would be endeavouring to ensure Starcraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II all continued to work on modern PCs. Since then, the initiative has …