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Microsoft has been steadily adding titles to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. The console manufacturer has now announced which games will be joining the service in the first half of March for both PC and Xbox. The titles include first-party additions such as ‘Ori and the Will of the …

Western Digital has announced a new line of NVMe SSDs for enterprise systems, the WD Gold series offers small and medium-size enterprises a range of products for a simple transition to NVMe storage and improved system performance. The new series of Western Digital enterprise SSDs are the company’s first to …

Asus has announced a new curved gaming monitor, the TUF Gaming VG328H1B. As the name implies, this new monitor is aimed at gamers that are looking for a big screen with a high refresh rate, delivering an immersive gaming experience. The ASUS TUF Gaming VG328H1B display comes with curved 31.5-inch VA panel …

EK Water Blocks has expanded its high end desktop custom cooling products this week with the introduction of a new motherboard monoblock for the AMD sTRX4 platform. The new HEDT water block for AMD socket sTRX4 is specifically designed and engineered for the Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme motherboard. The …

Intel’s CFO George Davis has stated that the company's 10nm process node will be ‘less productive' than its predecessors, but it is targeting a “better profile of performance” for its “7nm period”. Additionally, Intel's road to 5nm will be shorter thanks to the company's investments in this technology. During a …

This could mean we will see the new mobile GPUs any day now...

While OLED is still seen as the cream of the crop when it comes to displays, the last year has seen a surge of interest around Mini LED. There have been rumours of Apple switching to this new display technology in particular, with the latest reports indicating that the MacBook …

Just last week, reports indicated that while EA had cancelled an unannounced Star Wars game, the publisher has two more in the works. One of those is supposed to be a sequel to 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order, while the second game was described as a ‘smaller, more unusual' project. Now …

As companies continue to monitor the coronavirus situation, big annual events are cancelling, postponing or otherwise changing up in response. So far, MWC, GDC Facebook F8 and Nvidia's GTC have all been impacted and now, Google is also making the decision to scrap I/O 2020, its largest event of the …

Half-Life is officially back, with Valve finally bringing a new entry to the series after more than a decade away from it. Half-Life: Alyx won't be a ‘one and done' situation though, in fact, Valve is using this game as an opportunity to return to the franchise long-term. Speaking with …

While digital gaming brings with it a number of advantages and conveniences, it does have one major drawback – namely the ability for publishers to completely remove their games from sale with no ability for consumers to buy it. A number of titles have been affected by this, most famously …

EVGA has announced a new series of PC power supplies this week. The EVGA B5 follow the tradition of offering consumers a reliable, high performance and affordable solution designed to offer the maximum flexibility for system builders. The new B5 power supply series from EVGA features a relatively small form …

With the release of the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X, the concept of the ‘pro patch’ was introduced. These patches were released by developers and were introduced in order to allow older games to take advantage of the higher-end console hardware. Thanks to Phil Spencer, we now know …

The Final Fantasy VII Remake has had a long and arduous journey. The remake had been in talks ever since the PlayStation 2 days, and kept either getting cancelled or delayed. Finally in 2015 the game was officially announced to be in development. The game would then see its fair share …

Ever since the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx, the Valve Index VR headset and controllers have been pretty hard to get hold of, with stock swiftly running low. At the moment, the Index is still sold out, but Valve has been working to build up some inventory and apparently, that stock …

After several weeks of flight testing and a vague teaser earlier in the week, last night, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary officially launched on PC across Steam, Xbox Game Pass and the Windows Store. The game arrives almost exactly three months after the release of Halo: Reach, which became available on …

Smartphone ports of classic games are nothing new. Games such as the GTA series and Mega Man, alongside an abundance of Sega titles have all made their way to mobile systems – with varying degrees of success. Now Konami is following in their footsteps as the publisher has released a …

After a few years in development, Seasonic has rolled out its first Connect power supply. A solution that is designed to improve cable management when building a PC via a magnetic cable hub back-plane and shorter modular cables. Seasonic originally revealed its concept power supply way back at Computex 2018, …

In the coming months, Riot Games will make several changes to League of Legends' client. These changes are aimed at improving the user's experience by fixing bugs, improving the client's performance, and reducing the “client bootstrap time” and the “champ select lock-in time”. According to LoL development team, “the client …

Lian Li doubles down on its RGB PSU cable extensions...

Kingston has announced the availability of a new DC1000M SSD series of enterprise-grade SSDs for data centre deployments. The DC1000M series is designed for data-intensive workloads such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and deep learning applications. The new DC1000M U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD series joins the Kingston range of enterprise-class …

While Valve initially planned to show off official Half-Life: Alyx gameplay at The Game Awards all the way back in December, those plans were abruptly cancelled shortly before the event. Things were quiet for a while but just last month, Valve announced that Half-Life: Alyx would be releasing on the …

So far, we've had a number of high-profile event cancellations in early 2020 due to growing concerns around the coronavirus. As a result, other events planned for the year are reconsidering their dates and some are even shifting to to online-only, live-streamed formats. The latter will be the case for …

Just a couple of weeks ago, be quiet! announced the Shadow Rock 3, an all-new CPU cooler with a rated 190W TDP cooling capacity and a long-lasting, almost silent fan. Now, you all have the chance to win one and try it out for yourself.  To help promote the Shadow …

Mario Kart Tour initially launched in September 2019 to a great deal of buzz surrounding it. Bringing the iconic series to smartphones could have allowed for everyone to experience the best of Mario Kart. Unfortunately the game launched with a number of issues such as its control scheme, gacha mechanics, …

Last month, Mountain popped up on our radar with the first teaser for its upcoming mechanical keyboard. Several of us here at KitGuru are keyboard nerds, so we’ve been following this one closely, tracking the various teaser posts as things ramped up. Now today, the Mountain Everest keyboard kickstarter has gone live, …

The Division 2: Warlords of New York had a surprise early launch yesterday but things did not go as planned. PC players were the first to get access and they were unfortunately quickly met with bugs and server issues. As a result, Ubisoft is performing “unscheduled maintenance” today with the …

EIZO has announced the release of the world’s first true HDR reference monitor featuring a built-in calibration sensor with a 31.1-inch DCI-4K HDR panel to provide professional colour grading, ideal for professional post-production and colour grading workflows. The ColorEdge PROMINENCE CG3146 from EIZO is the successor to its previous HDR …

Shortly after unveiling the game's Early Access plans, Obsidian has shown off new gameplay footage for its upcoming game ‘Grounded'. The cartoonish, shrunk down survival game is due to come out at some point in the next few months and now we have a good look at how Obsidian's multiplayer …

The BAFTAs are one of the most prestigious award shows around, and since 2003 have been giving recognition to some of the best games of the year. This year’s British Academy Games Awards are set to take place on the 2nd of April. With that, the nominees for the 2020 …