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Apple hosted an event in New York yesterday, where the company celebrated the best games and apps of 2019. In their own words: “In 2019, apps made their mark by reflecting the zeitgeist of our society and sitting at the nexus of digital and pop culture”. With that in mind, …

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With the size of game downloads and software applications increasing all this time, it is essential to have the storage capacity to cope with all this data inside your PC. HDD manufacturers realise this and are increasing HDD capacity in desktop products. Toshiba has announced it is adding additional lines …

KitGuru is proud to announce that we have launched our very own mobile app. The KitGuru app is available today for users of Android mobile devices and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store right now. The new KitGuru mobile app provides readers of our site a great new …

Sharkbay, a user from the PTTWeb forum, has posted what appears to be a list of specifications for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPU. The successor to Comet Lake is currently rumoured to cap out at eight cores while using the 14nm process node. As with any rumour though, all of …

Tempered glass panels and RGB lighting are the norm for PC cases these days, with manufacturers launching new products with these features on a regular basis. Gigabyte has provided another tempered glass and RGB option now with the release of the C200 Glass chassis. The new C200 Glass PC case …

The KitGuru Advent Calendar 2019 is back for day 3, where we give readers the chance to win prizes each day in the run up to Christmas. Today we are working with Thermaltake to give away their high end A700 case!

If you are thinking of building a budget PC system over the Christmas period and wondering which CPU cooler to buy, then ID-Cooling may have a new cost-effective option worth checking out. ID-Cooling has just launched a new CPU tower cooler that looks idea for those budget-friendly gaming PC builds. …

The big day has finally arrived, with Halo: The Master Chief Collection officially kicking off its rollout on PC with the release of Halo Reach. If you are planning on playing today, then you may have realised that the game has not unlocked on Steam or Game Pass just yet. …

In the last nine months, there has been plenty of discussion surrounding Riot Games and its internal practices. Recently, there have been lawsuits alleging discrimination and sexism, which Riot has moved to block due to a waiver found in most employee contracts. This led to a walkout protest, which didn’t do much at …

Back in April, Apple and Qualcomm dropped their respective lawsuits against each other and agreed to partner up once again. At the time, this had a knock-on effect on Intel, as the company would no longer be supplying modems for future iPhones. Development on 5G modems swiftly came to an end and …

Microsoft couldn't exactly win on the power front, or on the top-rated exclusives front this generation but the company doubled down on beating the PS4 in other areas. Cross-play, Play Anywhere, Game Pass and backwards compatibility initiatives all helped change the perception of the Xbox One this generation and Microsoft …

Just as the Black Friday sales are coming to a close, PlayStation is hosting another sale on its digital games store. The Christmas sale is home to over 450 titles, and is commencing from today until the 23rd of December, where you can find games for up to 90% off. …

AMD's latest series of HEDT processors have officially arrived alongside the new TRX40 motherboard platform and the sTRX4 socket. To support the latest chipset and 3rd Gen Threadripper CPU socket, EKWB has ensured sTR4 compatible waterblocks for those looking to put a custom loop together. The EK Velocity sTR4 series …

Kingston's latest DC500R SSD is a drive designed for read-centric workloads in data centres

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Development on next-gen consoles is well underway at this point, with Sony confirming several key specs for the PlayStation 5 and Microsoft announcing Project Scarlet. Developers already have their hands on early versions of this next-gen hardware and while devkits are normally kept heavily under wraps, the PS5 has been subjected to numerous leaks, …

Taiwan Excellence Awards were handed out recently with both Gigabyte and MSI winning awards for their innovative products. Two of Gigabyte’s motherboards and a content creation product from MSI were among the winners of the awards. Gigabyte’s Z390 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce motherboard has won a Taiwan Excellence Silver award by …

Death Stranding may have released almost a month ago, but the game is still very much in people’s minds. According to Vulture, Hideo Kojima, the game’s creator, discussed the possibility of a sequel to the game, once again featuring Norman Reedus. Kojima clarified however that if he were to do so, …

Just a few days ago, intel announced it will be providing a microcode update in the BIOS of X299 motherboard to help improve overclocking capabilities of its new Core-X series processors and would be rolling out the new microcode very soon. MSI was the first manufacturer to detail which motherboards …

Looking for a new gaming laptop this Christmas? Well, Gigabyte may have just what you need with the all-new Aorus 17 flagship gaming laptop. The Aorus 17 is the world’s first laptop to feature Omron mechanical keyboard switches. At the Gamescom 2019 trade show in Cologne Germany, Gigabyte revealed the …

Sonic the Hedgehog has had a long and varied history with games. Ever since his debut in 1991, The Blue Blur has starred in many games – some great, others no so much so. You can now take a stroll through the history of Sega’s mascot, with the Humble Sonic …

Super Mario Maker 2 became a smash hit when it released earlier this year, quickly becoming one of the Switch’s best-selling titles. The game held many upgrades over its predecessor, such as new styles, new enemies, and new items. Nintendo has been relatively silent since its release however, with only …

The KitGuru Advent Calendar 2019 is back for day 2, where we give readers the chance to win prizes each day in the run up to Christmas. Today, we are working with Edifier to bring one reader a very special audio upgrade, with a pair of Edifier S3000 Pro speakers up for grabs!

Black Friday is consistently the biggest retail shopping event of the year and while total UK physical game sales were down compared to 2018, retailers still sold through an impressive 1.3 million physical game copies last week. This also means that the UK's top ten games chart is very different …

Samsung researchers have found a new way to create self-emissive QLED diodes that extends their lifespan and efficiency, but it's still not certain that displays with self-emissive diodes will come to the consumer market. Dr. Eunjoo Jang and Dr. Yu-Ho Won, both researchers at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, published a paper …

This time last year, Star Citizen officially crossed $208 million in lifetime crowdfunding. Now, to cap off 2019, Star Citizen has crossed a new milestone, with $250 million made to date spread across almost two and a half million backers.  So far, 2,448,842 people have backed Star Citizen during its …

Following the growing ultrawide monitor trend, BenQ is expanding its DesignVue lineup with the BenQ PD3420Q Designer Monitor, aimed at multimedia professionals and content creators who need accurate colour representation for their work. On the outside, the PD3420Q is similar to the latest PD models from BenQ, with a borderless …

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