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While this is clearly a big advert for Battlfield 4 (and doesn't have anyway near enough Mirror's Edge 2 in it(read: none)), EA has released a new video explaining some of the benefits of its new Frostbite 3 engine and it's very impressive – even if the term “levolution” still …

Synology release a wide range of NAS systems every year, and today we are looking at the DS 1813+ which has been designed from the ground up to cope with the demanding enterprise environment. The DS1813+ is built for speed, it incorporates a dual core processor and can scale with …

For the first time in the series, PCMark 8 will combine performance testing with battery life measurement. You can estimate battery use from each benchmark test or use Battery Life mode to loop a test until the battery is almost empty for more accurate results. New Adobe and Microsoft application …

Many people are using services such as Dropbox and Google Cloud to share and protect important files. A new service has hit the Kickstarter website and the aim is to offer cloud based storage, but back in the home of the user. Solutions such as Dropbox put the actual data …

Google Music could be the first real competitor for streaming music service Spotify, after the search giant signing several high profile deals with three major labels to distribute their songs through its platform. A dominant music service would give Google one more notch in its belt in the mobile computing …

Once upon a time the default web browser for everyone was Internet Explorer. Those days are long gone though, but so are the ones that saw everyone that considered themselves a bit of a tech head using Firefox. Now people seem to be split quite evenly with the latest IE …

Today we are looking at the Kingston Wi-Drive. This portable device can be used to wirelessly transmit and share content with up to three tablets or smartphones simultaneously. Photos, videos and music can be shared with iOS and Android devices. Simply download a free Wi-Drive application, or access directly through …

Without doubt, Synology seems to be almost every geek's NAS storage favourite. Whether you look at KitGuru or the mainstream print media, time after time it's Synology that tops the charts. If you have to pick a ‘negative', then it's pure performance. That's not just for Synology – but for …

Disney, the new owners of the Star Wars franchise, has already farmed out the license for video game development to a new company and guess who it is? Everyone's favourite always-on publisher, Electronic Arts! Hurray… right? This license is pretty all encompassing too, giving EA the right to develop games across …

The Professional versions of Adobe programs such as Photoshop have always been an expensive purchase. Not such a concern for a business, but for the individual they were often priced outside an ‘affordable' level. The Adobe Creative Cloud lets you rent the software for a monthly fee, and it has …

One of the biggest features showcased by Sony during its PS4 unveiling earlier this year, was the share button. It's on the controllers themselves and lets you instantly share footage of your gameplay with the world. This could be pre-recorded action, live let's-plays, or just a simple linkup with friends …

Google has hired a veteran of the videogame industry, Noah Falstein, to head up its Game Design division, presumably to work on a new Android title/platform/series – maybe even something that will run on Google Glass headwear. Falstein has been in games design since the 80s, becoming one of the …

We've all heard about the cloud at this point, we're all using it – or should be if you don't want to lose all your data in freak, digital accidents – but it isn't the only remote service out there. BitTorrent Inc. is pioneering something a little different, torrent based …

If like me you're sat here feeling rather jealous that you can't afford or don't have the connections to get yourself a set of Google's Glass eyewear, you're about to get even more so – as there's potential there for multiplayer gaming via the little device. Ron Amadeo over at …

Hawken is a free to play first person shooter, featuring giant mechanical walker bots, that players pilot and shoot at one another with. In the latest trailer from Nvidia, the developers show off what new effects have been added to the game with the inclusion of more advanced PhysX features. …

The oft promised tax breaks for British game developers have been delayed once again, this time because the European Commission has announced its intention to perform a full scale investigation into the scheme, suggesting that too hefty a tax cut, could give UK devs. too much an advantage over European …

The lines between PC and server, server and NAS box have never been blurred as much as they are now. You only need to look at the descriptions associated with any ‘specialist' piece of kit to see that. But KitGuru has just seen a deal for a genuine HP server …

We have reviewed many NAS systems over the last two years and today we are looking at our first product from Asustor, a subsidiary group of electronics giant ASUS. The 602T is a dual drive system with full cross platform support.  There is no doubt that ASUS are a force …

Returning from Games Developer Conference 2013, Wolfire's CEO and lead programmer, David Rosen learned a lot about animation. He's been breaking down some of the big studio's lessons over the past week and today's look-in is to do with the differences between first person and third person and animation – …

As time goes on, we're all becoming more familiar with the idea of the cloud as a real world thing. It isn't, really, it's a theory and a fancy buzzword for corporate big-wigs to use so they can look like they know what they're talking about – but it has real world …

Google have dropped the price of their complete NIK Collection from $499 to $149. The new Collection includes all of the Nik desktop plugins. The collection comprises the Viveza 2, Dfine 2.0, HDR Efex Pro 2, Color Efect Pro 4 Complete Edition, Sharpener Pro 3.0, and Silver Efex Pro 2 …

When KitGuru caught up with Patrick Moorhead from Moor Insights at Distree last month, one of the things that most interested us was the way that Patrick went into some detail about how he sees the actual deployment of Intel's Computing Continuum rolling out. How much is it worth? This …

Netflix are offering a pot of $100,000 to developers worldwide who show the best result when pushing Cloud computing forward. Netflix CPO Neil Hunt said “Cloud computing has become a hot topic recently, but the technology is still emerging. No doubt many of the key ideas that will take it …

We have published several articles on the poor state of the internet in the United Kingdom, focusing recently on Virgin Media. Since we published this article last week, we have received more emails from readers who wanted to share their opinions. We pinged Virgin Media about this, and are waiting …

If you live in the United Kingdom, chances are you will have to settle with a less than impressive internet connection and over the last 3 months I have been chatting with some Virgin Media customers, who are less than happy with their ‘premium' service. I use Virgin Media myself …

Today we are looking at the Synology RackStation RS812 NAS server which has been designed for small business environments. This cost effective NAS has four drive bays and can scale to eight when paired up with the Synology RX410. It has full link aggregation support with VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft …

Synology has today released the latest update to its popular DiskStation Manager software. While the ‘4.2' version name itself might not sound like much – the company's CEO claims that this is one of the biggest advances in storage software for some time. KitGuru considers a free demonstration over on …

Learning to ‘follow the money' is one of life's most important lessons. It helps answer so many questions – in every walk of life. Sure sex and drugs and rock-n-roll plus the need for weapons and violence figure into the equation, but the money trail is crucial. For graphics, that …

Since we all saw Final Fantasy: Spirits Within and were treated to the flowing individual strands of hair found on the protagonist, it's been a long wait for the same thing in our video games (no? Just me?). Now though, AMD has helped us reach this pinnacle of follicle immersion. With the …

Last December we reviewed the Patriot Gauntlet Node Portable Wireless 2.5″ HDD Enclosure and our guy LUKE gave it a ‘MUST HAVE' award, scoring 9 out of 10 points. Patriot have just released a new version of the Gauntlet which features a beefy 320GB hard drive, for those people who …