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We had a quick chat about ‘All In One' systems in the KitGuru offices and, almost universally, the only units we had all used was an Apple iMac. Sure, HP pushed hard into this market a few years back, with Acer etc hot on their heals, but the power, styling …

Apple is reportedly working on one of its largest acquisitions ever, which could be an indicator of a radical change of the company’s strategy going forward. The Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics giant is seeking to buy Beats Electronics, an operator of music streaming service and a maker of advanced headphones. …

Nintendo on Thursday significantly reduced its unit shipments targets for its latest hardware platforms for the ongoing fiscal year 2014 after both 3DS and Wii U failed to meet sales goals in the previous year. The company said its revenue would be flat with the fiscal 2014, but said it …

HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., said this week that it would demonstrate a new open Ethernet drive architecture offering new flexibility and capabilities for developers and operators of OpenStack cloud software. The completely new storage hardware architecture will allow to expand datacenters easier than today. The open …

MMORPG Publisher, NCSoft, best known for the Guild Wars series, thinks that PC games retail has polarised  but remains confident that its upcoming game, Wildstar will break through in the UK. Wildstar has gone through a series of weekend beta tests and is due to enter open beta soon. So …

According to the International Data Corporation, the Playstation 4 is on track to sell 51 million units by 2016 which will top the Xbox One globally. However, if Microsoft were to unbundle the Kinect, then its console would have a real shot at over throwing Sony in sales in North …

The Elder Scrolls Online launched on the PC  just over a month ago and the console version of the game was due to release next month, however, it looks like the game might have been delayed by half a year according to ESO's FAQ, which has since been deleted. The …

Nintendo plans to design a new game console specifically for emerging markets and introduce it during the next fiscal year, the company said on Thursday. The company did not provide a lot of details, but said that it clearly had no plans to simply launch existing hardware – such as …

Back in January a US court struck down the FCC's rules on net neutrality and since then the Federal Commission has been working on a new set of rules that would allow ISP's to charge Americans extra for things like watching Netflix or Hulu. Obviously this is a completely immoral …

Samsung's Galaxy flagships have been defiantly plastic for years despite other manufacturers moving on to more premium designs like the metal body of the HTC One. However, it seems that the company is looking for change as it has replaced its Chief of Mobile Design, Chang Dong-hoon. Dong-hoon isn't losing a …

Sony recently revealed its answer to the Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, at the Game Developers Conference this year. The VR headset featured a pretty good design for a prototype, full 360 degree positional tracking with low latency and a 1080p screen but the standout design might not be staying for …

The World of Warcraft movie is due to finish filming in just two weeks time from now but it still won't be coming out for around two years. The film will take 20 months in post-production in order to “get right” according to Legendary Films CEO, Thomas Tull. The reason for …

While their competitors have been very actively promoting upcoming motherboards, MSI have been keeping really quiet about what they have planned for the coming weeks. When companies like MSI go quiet, we always wonder what they have up their sleeve. Well we have some news from the MSI camp which …

EA may not be everyone's favourite company but it does have some good developers up its sleeve, which is why you should still be a little excited that six new games are going to be announced at E3 next month. We'll also be getting a closer look at Star Wars …

Antec have been very active in recent months releasing (among other things) a range of Platinum rated power supplies which have been given the KitGuru seal of approval. This interview today is the latest in a series with key company executives – KitGuru's goal is to let you into the …

Sapphire Technology has quietly started to sell the most powerful single-chip graphics card based on AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics processing unit, the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X. The graphics board is exclusively available from Overclockers.co.uk now, but over time it can reach different stores as well. The Sapphire Radeon …

Nintendo has been losing money for multiple quarters now because sales of its hardware and software are getting lower. On Wednesday the company reported sales results for the fiscal year that were whopping 38 per cent below original guideline as well as significant loss of around $230 million. For the …

Nvidia Corp. on Wednesday said that it had teamed up with BitFenix, Overclockers.co.uk and PC Specialist for special edition small form-factor GeForce GTX-branded systems. The personal computers will come in BitFenix Phenom chassis with GeForce GTX “Claw” symbol and will mix high performance in games with small footprint. The GeForce …

Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire are getting the re-make treatment, the game is going to come out on the 3DS and will hopefully bring back some old Pokemon fans to the series. Nintendo has had a difficult time with the series in recent years, the DS iterations of the games weren't …

At present personal computers based on Google ChromeOS represent less than one per cent of all systems on the market. While the researchers forecast that eventually sales of such PCs will grow, they will still remain a small fraction of the global PC market. Nonetheless, it looks like Intel Corp. …

Yesterday a Steam Early Access title had to be booted off of steam, which raised some valid worries about how Greenlight and Early Access are run. Today we have more cause to not trust the Greenlight or Early Access programmes as the developers behind Towns have abandoned the project completely. …

Researchers have uncovered new Android based malware that holds smartphones for ransom, claiming that you must pay $300 or face completely false criminal charges for viewing illegal porn. In order to really freak people out, Android-Trojan.Koler.A uses Geo location data to tailor warnings to whichever country the user is based in. …

Upon the success of Tesco's budget Android tablet option, the Hudl, the supermarket has revealed that it is now focussing on bringing out its own Hudl branded smartphone. The supermarket's latest device is said to be out by the end of the year, just in time for the holidays which …

Gamespy recently announced that it would be shutting down its servers which consequently made the multiplayer features on a lot of games obsolete. Some publishers chose to save their more recent titles that people still play but a lot of older titles would still be shut off from multiplayer. Fortunately, …

Microsoft Corp. has no plans to create a portable game system, the head of Xbox division said. Instead, the company plans to focus on advancing smartphones and tablets. This is not the first time when Microsoft denies any plans to develop a handheld Xbox dedicated video game console. “I don't …

Amazon launched a new service yesterday called #AmazonCart, the online retailer is hoping that you'll be scrolling through Twitter, see an Amazon link and and want to buy the product on less than 140 characters worth of information. In order to add Twitter items to your cart, all you have …

Respawn and EA have been pretty tight lipped on the subject of Titanfall sales numbers but it turns out, the game actually sold a lot which led to EA signing a deal to publish the game's sequels. Titanfall sold close to a million copies in the US alone throughout March, …

Crysis has always been one of the best looking games as well as one of the most demanding titles to run but what will it look like in ten years time? A resolution hack has allowed Flickr user, K-Putt, to run Crysis 3 in 8K to take some pretty good …

Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 3 was not a particularly successful product partly because one of its rivals was considerably less expensive and other was available for a longer time and at lower price. But with the PlayStation 4 the company is projected to make a comeback thanks to the fact …

Although it has long been expected that the code-named Broadwell family of microprocessors from Intel Corp. would feature an improved graphics processing unit, it looks like the upgrade may be more significant than previously thought. Apparently, the new graphics and multimedia engine would not only feature higher performance, but also …