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Pokémon Company has announced a new Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms. The upcoming Pokémon Unite is a MOBA-like game, similar to League of Legends and DOTA, created in partnership with Tencent. Developed by Tencent’s Timi Studio, known for their work in Call of Duty Mobile, Pokémon Unite will be …

For June, we are teaming up with KIOXIA to give away THREE 960GB SSDs. We'll be picking three lucky KitGuru readers to get their hands on one of these, so don't miss out!

One of the issues with subscription services is that subscribers never truly own the games – they merely own a licence to play the games for a limited time. Because of that, games often come and go from these services. Microsoft has now announced which games are coming soon to …

Nvidia’s latest GPU driver update is a pretty major one, bringing full support for the Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate feature stack, as well as hardware accelerated GPU scheduling on Windows 10.  This week, Nvidia began rolling out its latest ‘Game Ready’ and ‘Studio’ graphics, both containing DirectX 12 Ultimate feature …

Bloober Team is quickly becoming a household name for first-person horror experiences. The Polish studio is responsible for a number of psychological horror games such as Layers of Fear, Observer, and Blair Witch. According to Stock exchange documents however, the developer is currently in talks for either an acquisition or …

Samsung unveiled its Odyssey G9 monitor back in January of this year at CES 2020. Almost six months on, after much anticipation, the South Korean electronics manufacturer has finally launched the world's “first dual QHD gaming monitor with 1000R curvature”, the Odyssey G9. Samsung's Odyssey G9 features an 49-inch screen …

ASUS has introduced its latest portable monitor, the ZenScreen MB14AC, sporting a full HD 14-inch IPS panel that can be used vertically as well as horizontally. Portable monitors appear to be on the up, with more and more companies introducing their own portable screens to the market. HANNspree and ViewSonic both …

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon started its life as a stretch goal for BloodStained: Ritual of the Night’s Kickstarter campaign. The stretch goal was hit, and the 8-bit Castlevania-inspired platformer was released in 2018 to great success. Now, it’s been announced that Curse of the Moon is getting a sequel, …

When EA released its first Star Wars game back in 2015, many fans expressed concern at the publisher’s ability to do justice to the legacy of the games that came before it. Since then however, EA has seemingly managed to impress fans with its latest outings such as Star Wars …

It's a feature-rich mini-ITX Z490 board with a top-notch VRM solution

EK has launched a new pumpless Quantum Kinetic TBE 160 DDC Body D-RGB pump-reservoir combo. As strange as that may sound, as a ‘pumpless' pump-reservoir combo, users can attach their own DDC pump, which EK claims allows “for a more affordable upgrade process from the previous generation of reservoirs.” The …

Deepcool has just launched the new X-Frame MF120 GT A-RGB fans in packs of 3. Deepcool claims the translucent blades give these fans a unique aesthetic, allowing the twenty ARGB LEDs to easily shine through the blades, resulting in a “striking new look” for your system. Due to the translucent …

Team Group is launching two new SSDs in partnership with the ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance. The T-Force Delta TUF Gaming Alliance RGB SSD and the T-Force Cardea II TUF Gaming Alliance M.2 SSD add TUF-themed aesthetic elements to the original SSD models, while delivering the same level of performance the drives are …

It has been over two years since the Oculus Go first launched, aiming to deliver a media-focused, mass-market VR headset. Since then, Oculus has put more time into the Quest, a more successful but more expensive standalone VR gaming headset. As Oculus looks towards the future of its platform, it …

Fujitsu's Fugaku Supercomputer has taken the spot as the world's fastest supercomputer, with 415 TFLOPS of performance and 7.3 million ARM cores. After less than one year on the throne as the world's fastest supercomputer, IBM's Summit has been toppled. As of June 2020 the world's fastest supercomputer is Fujitsu's …

Steam has been around for 15 years now, with over 1 billion registered accounts and an estimated 95 million active monthly users throughout 2019. The Epic Games Store has been looking to supply some competition and it looks like the strategy is working, with EGS rising to an average of …

This week, AMD announced that its EPYC processors are starting to be adopted in many supercomputers, including “the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world and four of the 50 highest-performance systems”. Twice each year TOP500 releases a list ranking the top 500 supercomputers in the world. The latest update to the …

While there wasn't much hardware news from Apple at WWDC last night, one particularly big announcement was made. Apple is indeed moving over to ARM processors, referred to as ‘Apple Silicon', for future Mac computers. The change will occur over the next two years, giving developers a ‘transition period' for …

During the recent EA Play 2020 stream, Electronic Arts announced that it would be bringing a number of its games to the Nintendo Switch. Four of the games were announced during the stream, though we now know what the other titles set to arrive on the hybrid console are planned …

TSMC is reported to have scaled up its production capacity of 5nm and is said to have started production of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 875 SoC as well as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X60 5G modem. According to the Chinese tech website 快科技 (meaning ‘fast technology') TSMC has officially started production of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 875. This means …

During Electronic Arts’ ‘EA Play 2020’ event, the publisher announced that it would be bringing its popular Battle Royale shooter Apex Legends to the Nintendo Switch. Now, in its most recent investor fireside chat, EA announced its intentions to bring Apex Legends to mobile platforms “by the end of the …

Despite years of heavy investment and even bringing in some huge streamers on multi-million dollar contracts, Microsoft's streaming platform, Mixer, has been unable to catch up and compete with the bigger sites like Twitch, YouTube and even Facebook gaming. Now, Mixer will be shutting down, with the service set to …

With many big titles releasing later this year for current-gen systems, it begs the question as to how exactly each publisher will deal with the generation transition. Luckily, those who are planning to purchase Marvel’s Avengers at launch will be able to upgrade to the next-gen versions for free – …

AOC has listed a new 4K IPS monitor on the Chinese branch of its website. The AOC U28P2U features a sleek design, with wide colour gamut coverage, making it appealing to those needing a high resolution, colour-accurate display. Featuring a 28-inch IPS panel with 4K resolution, 4ms G2G response time, …

With the recent announcement that Facebook is buying Mixer, it is becoming clear that the social media platform is looking to compete in the games industry in a major way. Now, the company has announced that it has acquired Ready At Dawn, the studio responsible for The Order: 1886 and …

It's a 3.5in, 16TB HDD aimed at the enterprise market segment

The upcoming Ryzen 5 3600XT and Ryzen 9 3900XT processors have been spotted in the 3DMark database, reaching their advertised boost clocks. A 3DMark Time Spy score using the 3900XT was also found, giving us a glimpse of what we might expect from the 12-core processor...

At E3 last year, one of Microsoft's big announcements was that it would be bringing CrossfireX to the west. Remedy Entertainment has been working on a campaign for this new western release and starting today, the game will enter closed beta, with an open beta following later in the week.  …

There have been many Crash Bandicoot games following the original trilogy but now, a couple of decades later, we are getting a proper sequel. Today, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time was officially announced.  We got our first hint of this last week, when box art for the game leaked. …

Ever since George Floyd was murdered by police officers on the 25th of May, there have been global protests for racial equality and justice, with many companies announcing and offering their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Bungie has announced that it will be selling a collectible pin …