Gamescom 2018 is coming up in just a few weeks time and this year will be special for two reasons. Firstly, this will be Gamescom's 10th anniversary and secondly, we are expecting to see new records broken as the convention continues to go from strength to strength. Gamescom has been …

Yesterday, AMD officially launched the B450 chipset for Ryzen. This isn't the most exciting launch in the world, as B450 shares a lot in common with both B350 and X470. However, it does provide a new option for those looking to build a low cost Ryzen PC. Now, partners are …

The mobile market is tough to crack. Many companies have tried to rise above the likes of Apple and Samsung only to drop off the map later. With that said, there has been a shift over the last few months, with Huawei reportedly overtaking Apple in total smartphone shipments. According …

Monster Hunter World isn't landing on PC for another week, but reviewers already have their hands on the game and have been discussing PC performance. At first, impressions seemed positive, but eventually word of heavy CPU usage began causing concern. Now, it seems that the amount of work the game …

Antec is revamping its all-in-one liquid cooling lineup this week with the introduction of the new Mercury RGB series. The latest Mercury AIOs come with RGB lighting, just as the name suggests, and will be available in three sizes, with 120mm, 240mm and 360mm radiator options. According to Antec, the …

Yesterday, Sony revealed its quarterly financial results. We've already established that Sony Mobile is in a tough spot at the moment. However, Sony's gaming division is doing better than ever, with the PlayStation 4 set to surpass the PS3 in lifetime sales very soon. Since launching in November 2013, the …

While Sony might be doing excellently on the gaming side thanks to the success of the PS4, the same can't be said for the company's mobile division. Sony's latest quarterly earnings report indicates that its smartphone business is shrinking, with sales continuing to slump. During the 2017-2018 financial year, Sony …

It has been a long time coming, but today AMD has officially launched the B450 chipset for AM4 motherboards. Up to this point, Ryzen 2nd Gen buyers have had X470 motherboards available to them, but with B450 now landing, there will be more budget-oriented options available. As you would expect, …

But it all comes at the cost of Touch ID and the headphone jack...

Monster Hunter World has already been a huge success for Capcom on Xbox One and PS4, selling over eight million copies, but many are still waiting for the PC launch. At this point, it is well established that the PC version is going to be very demanding, particularly on the …

Nvidia has an event planned for the 20th of August, will we finally be getting new graphics cards?

We've known since the start of the year that Microsoft Studio, Playground Games, has been working on a big RPG project. Currently, the rumour is that this will be a revival of the Fable franchise, in an open-world setting with a big focus on the single-player story. Now, the UK-based …

Earlier this month, we launched a new competition, giving our readers the chance to win a brand new Alienware 17 R5 laptop. This is quite the beast, with an 8th Gen Core i9 processor, a 1440p 120Hz display and a GTX 1080 GPU. There were many entries for this one, …

Over the last couple of years, we've seen an exodus of writers at Valve, with multiple veterans leaving the studio to work on other projects. This included Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw, The duo behind Left 4 Dead and Jay Pinkerton, who worked on Portal 2 and some of the Team …

We've known for years now that Samsung is working on fully flexible displays. There have been rumours about this technology landing in smartphones almost every year for the last four years. However, it is starting to look like 2019 might finally be the year, as Samsung Display has announced that …

Since early 2017, we've been hearing about DRAM shortages and strains when it comes to supply and demand. In fact, the situation has been so seemingly odd that China's economic regulator launched an investigation into market collusion. It looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel …

The Summer season is still in full swing here in the UK and the heat wave isn't slowing down. To celebrate the good weather, Overclockers UK is holding a ‘Red Hot' sale, with graphics cards, peripherals, full systems and other bits of hardware all getting price cuts. While Overclockers UK …

At KitGuru, we are always looking to improve our content which often means hiring the best people in the industry. Today, we are pleased to announce that industry veteran, Aris Bitziopoulos, is joining the review team with a focus on power supply reviews. Aris has worked with Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp …

Last year, we saw a huge rise in the number of Triple A games utilising loot boxes to make extra money. Two of the biggest examples were Battlefront 2 and Middle Earth: Shadow of War, both of which ended up removing those microtransactions. Now, Microsoft's Turn 10 Studio will be …

Over the last couple of years, a cracker known as Voksi has been tearing down Denuvo's anti-tamper protection one game at a time. Voksi became renowned for getting through the protection pretty quickly over the course of 2017, but it looks like the police have managed to track him down. …

Back in early 2017, the European Commission began investigating several hardware companies for price fixing, including ASUS, Philips, Pioneer and Denon & Marantz. Now that investigation has come to a close, with €111 million in fines being handed down. The European Commission announced today that it has issued fines in …

Last month, Valve began rolling out the revamped Steam Chat client in an effort to better compete with the likes of Discord. The UI received a complete overhaul and a few features were improved, including group chats, inline multimedia support, better voice chat etc. The new client has been in …

Late last week, it became known that Apple's latest 2018 MacBook Pros were throttling, which hurt Core i9 performance in particular. Yesterday we learned that this was actually due to voltage settings with the VRMs, and a user-generated fix was pushed out. Now, Apple has made things easier with a …

Last week, users began getting their hands on the new 2018 MacBook Pro machines, unfortunately for those splashing the cash for the Core i9 model, some thermal throttling does occur under load. On the bright side, a fix has already been discovered.

When it comes to loot boxes in video games, one of the big topics of conversation has surrounded the disclosure of drop rates for certain items. A few publishers have revealed drop rates for their games, and now Rocket League is joining in. Rocket League is set to get a …

Despite not releasing as many exclusive games as fans would like, Microsoft's Xbox division seems to be doing very well for itself. Microsoft recently revealed its end of fiscal year results, with the Xbox division bringing in $10 billion in total. This is a major year-over-year jump for Microsoft's gaming …

With the Pascal architecture hitting two years old, there is a hunger in the market for a new generation of graphics cards from Nvidia. Rumours surrounding the GTX 11-series have been floating around since January. Most recently, signs have begun pointing towards an August launch and the latest rumour claims …

Last week when Apple first rolled out its new 2018 range of MacBook Pro laptops, the company claimed that while it did tweak its keyboards to be quieter, it did not do anything to stop dust or debris from affecting its butterfly switches. It didn't take long for this to …

Earlier this year, after several leaks and a full year of rumours, Activision officially announced Spyro: Reignited Trilogy. The remakes of Insomniac's original three Spyro games will be launching on the 21st of September for Xbox One and PS4, but we now seem to have confirmation of a Nintendo Switch …

Prior to Microsoft's E3 conference this year, there were a few rumours floating around suggesting that we may see some new Xbox hardware/accessories. Instead, Microsoft took the opportunity to focus as much on games as possible. Now, it looks like we'll be seeing those hardware launches at Gamescom instead, as …