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Did you play my game of the year 2012, The Walking Dead? If not, now's your chance to get it at a steal. The Humble Weekly sale is up and this one's offering a large collection of Telltale's back catalog, for just a few dollars. So what's available in this …

Today we are going to look at the latest product from Thermaltake's sub-brand, Tt eSPORTS, the Shock gaming headset.  This model is designed specifically with PC gamers in mind although the 3.5 mm interface means it's compatible with most devices.  It is designed for those who find the Shock One …

Apple have quietly axed the 4th gen iPod and have replaced it with a slightly stripped down 5th generation version. The iPod Touch 4G with the small 3.5 inch screen is gone. The budget iPod Touch, a 16gb version of the 5th generation touch has been added, without a rear …

After a lot of complaints – Microsoft have decided to bring back the Start Button in the Windows ‘Blue' update. Microsoft finally announced that the much discussed menu system will make a reappearance in Windows 8, in Version 8.1. Antoine Leblond, the corporate vice president of Windows Program Management, delivered …

One of the main reasons given by pirates for their downloading of TV shows and movies, is that there's no decent quality, convenient and fast way to watch the content when they want, how they want. However, this isn't necessarily the case with the recent launch of the Netflix funded …

One of the things that many photo sharing sites aren't too keen on, is nudes. It's a mine field, because you have to protect children from seeing it and then there are those who might be uploading images that aren't of them – it's a legal headache. So understandably, many …

One of the biggest problems of running a MOBA title like League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth or DotA 2, is that the communities that play them can be extremely caustic. Most players are nice enough, passively playing away with the odd ping to give you a heads up, but …

Let's face it, there's very few people that don't think the idea to make people pay full price licensing fees for games they borrow from friends for their Xbox One is a dumb idea. Everyone's talked about it, from consumers, to journalists, to analysts. No one wants it. Microsoft has …

In a season of continuous launches, one of the most eagerly anticipated events has been the full on drive on Kepler – in all its variations. On 22nd March 2012, an email from nVidia's boss to all of his employees made its way onto the web. It congratulated them on …

Nintendo has announced a new rechargeable pack for its Wii-mote controllers – as if there weren't enough of those out there already – with a quick-charge function, that should see you gaming for a full hour off just a ten minute charge time. Currently listed at 4200 Yen (£27.5), the …

Well you guys won't have too long to wait now for reviews of Haswell processors on your favourite websites. We noticed this morning that ARIA have just gone live with their stock of the new range of Intel processors. Kitguru can't spill the beans we are under NDA still, but …

After communication from Women, Action and the Media, a women's advocacy group, suggested that Facebook did very little to prevent gender and sexual discrimination on Facebook, despite having clear policies for clearing out racial or religiously motivated hate groups, the social network has announced its intention to step up its …

While the initial sheen might have come off the smartphone market (Apple in particular) as it moves to becoming a commodity, it is still a growth industry. But enjoying far greater growth is the accessory industry that has grown around it. KitGuru snags a sighting of a new site – …

We love PC mods, if you follow our Facebook page, we post them almost every day. The new R-Kaid-42 system is produced by Swedish design company Love Hultén. The unit is built around a wooden chassis, looking almost like a piece of furniture. The company install 20,000 playable titles from yesteryear, …

For a reviewer – giving a PC a rating is difficult as they often only spend a week or two maximum with the machine before publishing their article and handing it back to the manufacturer. This report by Soluto, a company who have collected data from their cloud based management …

Head of PR over at HMV, Gennaro Castaldo, has left the firm after almost three decades of employment, to take up a position at the internet's favourite hate group, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), famous for the ineffective blocks it lobbied to have put into place against websites like the …

Over the next two weeks, we're all in for a deluge of launches. Not only are the main semi-conductor firms in mid-launch-madness-mode, but all of the companies that make components to go inside the new Haswell boxes are also on over drive. Plus Computex is around the corner. Today sees …

In a move that shouldn't be a surprise at this point, several major movie studios have asked Google to remove Kim Dotcom's Mega site from its search engines, claiming that the file locker is hosting copyright protected content without permission. However, it's not individual file links that the studios want …

Microsoft has announced that it will have 15 exclusive games during the Xbox One's first year, with eight of those being brand new IPs. It's also said that its upcoming E3 presentation, will be all about games and understandably so, as it's apparently going to be spending around a billion …

The PC is dead. That's what they've been saying for 15 years or so, with every new console generation and every fad product that has its short time in limelight, but here I am tapping away on one in roughly the same manner I have for years, the screen's just …

Hot off the back of the successful Humble Double Fine Bundle, the indie loving crew behind the pay-what-you want game packs, has launched another one, this time packing in a load of different titles, including the beautiful anti-game, Dear Esther. As usual it's pay what you want (over a dollar …

Belkin first showed their Thunderbolt Express Dock back in IDF 2011. A year later and after a minor facelift it was showcased at CES 2012, due for release later that year. Finally the product has been released keeping the same low profile aluminum style exterior they used in January 2012. …

Since the death of the legendary Steve Jobs, many Apple naysayers felt that the company may struggle to innovate. Tim Cook wanted to clarify the situation, saying that the company would release ‘several more game changers' and hinting that wearable computers could be one of the new concepts. Cook spoke …

Singapore would love to be seen as a shining example of Eastern prosperity. It features gleaming clean cities, low crime rates and seemingly little dissent among the populace. Of course a lot of this is to do with the fact that caning children is an accepted practice, capital punishment has been …

We received some queries from Kitguru readers after our initial Radeon Quad HD7990 testing back in January this year. We had a crash happy disaster of monumental proportions and based on emails, we weren't the only users experiencing problems. We had assumed at the time that AMD had not focused …

Well at least somebody does and at least somebody is shopping in Blockbuster. It's more than that thought, as Blockbuster pre-order records have been shattered by those laying down cash for an Xbox One, despite the console not hitting the shelves until much later this year. MCV has a statement …

The age old question of whether platform providers should be held responsible for how their services are used, has risen its ugly head once again, this time in the wake of a teen suicide in Italy, where a girl threw herself from a third story window after a video of …

If we all drew one thing from Microsoft's Xbox One reveal, it's that it loves TV and wants you to watch it through your Xbox. Despite the fact that people are watching more and more content via streaming and on demand services than ever before, Microsoft is continuing to invest …

While most of us know OCZ for its impressive position in the high performance SSD market, the company also has an interesting line up of affordable power supplies. KitGuru Labs recently took four of these apart and put each of them under the microscope/scanning array before delivering the verdict that …

Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of the most unique games of its generation. It featured a foul mouthed, violent squirrel, hoards of movie references, toilet humour and sex jokes – all of it exclusively on the almost always family friendly Nintendo console, the N64. Over a decade after release, …