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MSI has recently announced the launch of its next-generation flagship SSD, the Spatium M570 Pro Frozr. This SSD was designed to provide lightning-fast read and write speeds, achievable thanks to the Phison E26 PCIe 5.0 controller and high-grade 3D NAND flash. Alongside the M570 Pro Frozr, MSI unveiled another mainstream …

Philips has recently launched a new gaming monitor called Evnia 27M1N5500P for the Chinese market. This 27-inch monitor resembles the Momentum 5000 27M1F5500P, launched in May 2022. However, unlike the 2022 model that uses a true 10-bit panel, the new monitor uses one with 8-bit + FRC. The Evnia 27M1N5500P …

Lian Li has recently launched the Uni Fan TL LCD and Uni Fan TL, a new range of fans that can interlock with each other. The former comes with a 1.6″ LCD that can be customised to display GIFs, images, or system stats. The Uni Fan TL, on the other …

At BlizzCon this year, Blizzard announced an ambitious plan for the future of World of Warcraft. The team is embarking on a new trilogy of connected expansions, starting with The War Within in the second half of 2024. Now, Blizzard has shared its roadmap, outlining the next year of updates.  …

A new Intel roadmap covering the desktop/mobile CPU, workstation CPU and GPU segments, has begun circulating. The roadmap highlighted several new products launched in 2023: the 14th Generation Core series, Core Ultra 100, Xeon Sapphire Rapids, and discrete graphics like Arc. However, it also included what we can expect for …

Though the franchise once had a clear rotation of game developers working on each successive Call of Duty title, the past few years have seen Treyarch, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games all working together in various ways to maintain COD’s annual release schedule. Following the release of Modern Warfare III …

While Sony has been a bit more apprehensive than Microsoft when it comes to going all-in on game subscription services, the company’s relatively new PlayStation Plus Extra tier has served as a great way to bring older first-party titles to more players. Unfortunately, according to Sony this has had a …

Yesterday we reported on what is likely one of the worst cases of ransomware we’ve had in the games industry, with almost 2 terabytes of data being extracted from the company. As part of this, a full list of sales data for all PS4 and PS5 era first-party titles have been …

The PlayStation 5 had a relatively slow start back in late 2020 due to many factors including but not limited to the global pandemic and a massive shortage of supply. This year however, we saw Sony’s supply woes finally end, making for a highly lucrative year and helping to push …

For Day 21 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we're teaming up with NZXT to give away TWO prize bundles! Our first bundle today is audio-focused, offering up the Relay Headset, Switchmix, Relay Speakers and Relay Subwoofer for a full audio setup upgrade. Our second bundle is PC-focused, offering up an H6 Flow RGB, extra RGB fans, a Kraken Elite 360 AIO, a 1200W PSU and an NZXT motherboard. 

There has recently been a bit of a kerfuffle in the tech reviews scene. Igors Lab, a well-known and respected site appeared to make some errors while testing the new Alphacool Apex Stealth metal fans, something that was made clear when other reviewers tested the same set of fans. What …

Jason Blundell is a well known name within the Call of Duty community. His reign as the head of COD Zombies at Treyarch had him oversee some of the series’ most successful entries. After departing the studio, Blundell founded Deviation Games. Unfortunately, he would leave late last year, with no …

In an unfortunate case of ransomware, Insomniac Games have had a great deal of their internal documents leaked online. As part of this, concrete sales figures for the many PC ports of PlayStation titles have now been revealed. As shared by Reddit user ‘OrangeC-2003’, an internal document from February 2023 …

In what has unfortunately become one of the biggest ransomware attacks in recent memory here in the games industry, Insomniac Games have had a boatload of internal documents and information leaked. While we will not address a majority of it for obvious reasons, one interesting leak detailed complete sales stats …

While perhaps not quite as great of a redemption story as No Man’s Sky, Fallout 76 has for the past half a decade been slowly growing and improving – making it a far cry from what the experience was like back at launch. With the year coming to an end, …

For Day 20 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have something particularly big planned. The winner of today's competition will get a raft of prizes, including a new Ducky ProjectD mechanical keyboard, an Endgame Gear XM2 wireless mouse & mouse pad, a Thunder X3 Core gaming chair and a Streamplify streaming kit! 

Klevv is expanding the CRAS V RGB DDR5 memory series in multiple ways. In addition to the new high-speed memory kits running at 8,200 and 8,400MHz, Klevv also introduced the new Brilliant White memory kits featuring white heatsinks. Klevv's new high-speed CRAS V RGB memory kits will be available with …

With FSR 3 going open source, it was just a matter of time before modders started to add support for the technology into games. Gamers can already use FSR 3 frame generation in some games that don't officially support the technology, including The Last Of Us Part 1 and Cyberpunk …

FSP has revealed its product lineup for 2024, which includes a 2500W power supply. The Cannon Pro 2500W boasts 80 Plus Platinum certification, ATX 3.1 standard standards, and an updated PCIe Gen5 connection. Geeknetic shared the details about the company's 2024 product lineup, where the highlight was the upcoming Cannon …

In recent weeks, Rocksteady Studios has been holding a playtest for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Those with access were already talking and sharing details but nobody was leaking specific story spoilers. That changed this week with the game's entire plot leaking online.  If you are looking forward to …

2023 is nearing its end, and with just a few weeks left in the year, Valve has now released their 2023 Steam Year in Review, letting you take a look at all your gaming stats from the past 365 days. Available HERE and also on the Steam client homepage, 2023’s …

Earlier this month, it was reported that Insomniac had been hit by a Ransomware attack, resulting in the theft of lots of data, including details about upcoming games and the personal information of employees. Now, those behind the attack have leaked 1.7TB of the company's internal data.  We won't be …

Game engines are an important tool required for video game development. While many have resorted to using licensed engines such as Epic Games’s Unreal Engine 5, EA is one of the many publishers to have created their own tech in the form of the Frostbite Engine. Being somewhat of a …

Sea of Stars is an indie RPG from Sabotage Studio – the team that brought you 2018’s excellent retro action-platformer The Messenger. Launching to near-universal acclaim, the studio has now revealed that over 4 million people have played Sea of Stars since its launch back in August. Making the announcement …

In the decade since its release, many have deemed Obsidian Entertainment’s Fallout New Vegas to be one of if not the best entry in the Fallout series. Unfortunately, Bethesda deemed the game a failure due to it missing an arbitrary Metacritic score by a single point. Had this not been …

For day 19 on the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we are teaming up with Noctua to give away THREE prize bundles! Each bundle comes with a Noctua CPU cooler, a set of fans, thermal paste and wipes to keep your hardware clean. 

In recent weeks, plenty of leaks and rumours have been pointing to a new round of graphics cards from Nvidia. The company is reportedly planning to launch three RTX 40 Super graphics cards in January and now some additional information reveals when we can expect to see the first reviews.  …

Intel has recently unveiled a new technology designed to improve picture quality and performance, much like what DLSS and FSR do. Based on frame extrapolation, the framework is described in a research paper presented at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 event in Sydney. The paper (via Wccftech) named “ExtraSS: A Framework …

Sony has been exploring ways to bring in-game help and tips to PlayStation users since the PS5's inception. The console launched with a guide feature that would give players quest-by-quest walkthroughs for supported games. A new patent from Sony reveals a new idea – dynamic difficulty that can be adjusts …

This month, it was confirmed that Embracer Group made the decision to close down Free Radical Design less than three years after reviving the studio to work on a new TimeSplitters game. Now, one of the studio's former developers has shed some light on what the team was working on …