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When the Nintendo Switch released in 2017, a feature missing from the console-handheld hybrid was backwards compatibility. This meant that a number of Wii U titles remained stranded on a console which sold fewer than 14 million units. Since then, Nintendo have slowly been porting these titles to the Switch. …

Seagate has announced the launch of a revolutionary modular storage solution at CES 2020 today. The Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System is an efficient data management solution built to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud and edge data. According to a recent IDC study, global datasphere is expected to grow …

Call of Duty’s last several releases have been mired in a number of controversies surrounding the players’ movement abilities. Starting with Advanced Warfare in 2014, players were given ‘enhanced’ movement capabilities in the form of jetpacks – with each following game tweaking the way in which movement worked. After the …

ASRock's connectivity-loaded Z390 flagship gets a VRM upgrade to 14-phases

Back in late 2017, we learned that  Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games over a licensing dispute. The dispute came into play after CIG switched from using the CryEngine to Amazon’s Lumberyard engine. Crytek claims CIG undersold CryEngine’s impact and used it in two games without permission. CIG has always maintained that …

Thermaltake has introduced a new member to its S series PC chassis range. The new S300 Tempered Glass mid-tower is available in a traditional black or an elegant white version and features a minimalist but luxurious design as found in the previous cases from the Thermaltake S series. The S300 …

ASUS is starting off CES the right way, with announcements for the world's first 360Hz gaming monitor and a 4K/144Hz display with 1400 nits of peak brightness for HDR.

The Dragon Quest franchise is 33 years old and contains 11 titles in the main series with countless spinoffs, re-releases, and remakes of its games. Celebrating the franchise's success and achievements in 2019, the series' creator Yuji Horii has revealed what's coming next for Dragon Quest on his Twitter account. The …

Back in March 2019, Daedalic Entertainment had announced that it was developing a new “The Lord of the Rings” game. Further details of the game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, were unveiled in the latest issue of Edge magazine, and it seems that Gollum won't look like the character …

CES kicks off tomorrow but MSI has given us a sneak peek at what new launches to expect over the coming days.

The NAND flash market has been through plenty of ups and downs over the last few years. Unfortunately for consumers, we are looking at another period of price increases, with analysts predicting flash memory prices to rise by as much as 40 percent.  DRAMeXchange, a division of Trendforce, started off …

ThermalTake began showing off its new TOUGHRAM DDR4 modules at Computex last year, with enhanced RGB lighting features, a 10-layer PCB and pre-binned memory ICs to ensure performance. Over the second half of 2019, speeds were consistently improved, with kits now available all the way up to 4400MHz.  Each of …

Square Enix has always had a penchant for new technology and with the rise of mixed reality and cloud streaming, that won't be changing any time soon. This week, Square Enix president, Yosuke Matsuda, issued an open letter on the year ahead, specifically addressing the publisher's ambitions for cloud streaming …

Riot Games has announced a lot of new titles recently, rapidly expanding beyond its core game, League of Legends. Some of the titles announced could be considered risky but there was no Artifact or Diablo Immortal level backlash to speak of. It turns out that a lot of thought went …

Long-term KitGuru readers from the early 2010s will remember that we used to have our own forum. While that section of the website is on hiatus for now, the KitGuru Folding@Home team is actually still going. Andrew, otherwise known as ‘LimeyGeorge' reached out to us this week to let us …

AMD had the jump on the 7nm generation, pushing out several 7nm-based GPUs and CPUs. In 2020, AMD is expected to push its 7nm product line further, with expectations that the company will become TSMC's biggest 7nm customer for the year, edging out the likes of Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia.  …

Earlier this week we took our first look at the recent slate of Samsung Galaxy S11 leaks and rumours doing the rounds. Now, the official launch date for Samsung's next flagship has been revealed thanks to a leaked promotional video for the Samsung Unpacked event. Just as expected, Samsung will …

The XFX RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro has appeared online in yet another leak for AMD's next GPU launch.

It is incredibly rare for a single-player game to break its launch-day concurrent player records without some form of update but The Witcher 3 has defied the odds… twice. After beating out the game's launch-day peak player count on Steam last week, it seems that even more people became interested, …

Over the years, Valve has worked on many unannounced game prototypes, many of which we may never hear about. We will be learning about one particular game soon though, F-Stop, a prequel to Portal that never ended up making its way to the finish line.  LunchHouse Software, an indie studio, …

With us now officially in 2020, PlayStation has announced which titles are being offered for free to its PlayStation Plus members in January. From the 7th of January until the 3rd of February, you can get your hands on the Nathan Drake trilogy, in the form of Uncharted: The Nathan …

While Samsung has been building up a strong line-up of gaming monitors for a while now, none of them have carried the ‘Odyssey' badge. That will start to change this year, with the Samsung Odyssey CTG9, a flagship 240Hz ultra-wide display with a massive 5120×1440 resolution.  While pricing has yet …

Thermaltake has announced its first new PC chassis of 2020. The View 51 Tempered Glass ARGB Edition is a full-tower chassis available in black and snow edition white versions, featuring tempered glass panels and pre-installed RGB fans. The new View 51 TGB ARGB features an open layout design, equipped with …

Taipei-based investor analysts hint at next-gen Nvidia 'Ampere' launch in 2020 with a 50 percent performance increase on 7nm.

GameSir already produces a range of innovative and high-quality gaming peripherals for PC and console gaming systems. Just recently the company announced it has launched the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for its VX2 AimSwitch Gaming combo device. The GameSir VX2 AimSwitch Combo aims to help users who experience difficulties playing FPS …

Way back in May 2018, GSC Game World announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was back in development after some lengthy downtime. News on the sequel has been pretty quiet since then but this week, the developers gave an update, confirming that the game is being built on the Unreal Engine.  This …

Samsung is expanding its notebook portfolio with the launch of the new Galaxy Book Flex α (alpha). The new device adds another variant to Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex range and features improved battery life and an immersive QLED display at a competitive price point. Galaxy Book Flex α is the …

We review the SAPPHIRE Pulse RX 5700 XT, which now costs under £400

Zotac is preparing to debut a new product range at CES 2020 next week, along with expanding its line of ZBOX Mini PCs. The company will be at the Caesars Palace Forum Suite in Las Vegas with some interesting new products on show. Attendees at CES will be given a …

Since leaving Infinity Ward to co-found Respawn Entertainment, Vince Zampella has led his new studio to a string of hits, including the Titanfall series, Apex Legends and most recently, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. All of that success has Zampella climbing up the ranks amongst EA executives, as he will …