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Update (05.09.19): While ASUS was set to end the GeForce ‘Trade Up' program for GPU upgraders at the end of August, the promotion has been extended. Prospective buyers now have until the end of the 30th of September to trade in an old GPU for money off of an NVIDIA …

Last year, Blizzard reforged its relationship with Nintendo by bringing Diablo 3 to the Switch. This year, Blizzard is targeting Switch owners once again with the release of Overwatch for Nintendo's hybrid console. Overwatch Legendary Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch, complete with all of the maps, modes, heroes and …

We’ve known for a while now that Valve has been working on a UI overhaul for Steam. We saw the first part of this in last year’s Steam Chat update and next, the Steam library will be getting an overhaul. We had a preview of these changes earlier this year …

To kick off this year's IFA in Berlin, Intel held its third Real World Performance event, which brought us some interesting news. Not only is the Core i9-9900KS coming soon, but there was also confirmation of Cascade Lake X coming very soon. The Core i9-9900KS is a special edition version …

ASUS broke its way into the gaming smartphone market last year with the original ROG Phone. This year, we will be getting the ROG Phone II, featuring a 120Hz OLED display, up to 1TB of storage and a few other upgrades. The ROG Phone II will sport a 6.59-inch 1080p …

Today at IFA, Acer unveiled a new lineup of Nitro XV3 monitors, catering to QHD and FHD PC gamers who need blistering fast refresh rates. Each new monitor has a high refresh rate, starting off at 144Hz with options going all the way up to 240Hz. The Nitro XV3 series …

G.Skill has been a front runner in high-performance RAM for a good while now, with a ton of high performance DDR4 kits already available. Today, G.Skill is adding two new 64GB RAM kits to its lineup, delivering speeds of 4300MHz and 4000MHz. These are part of the Trident Z Royal …

Just a few months ago, we reviewed the ASUS ROG Zephyrus GA502- one of the best budget gaming laptops on the market today. We were already impressed with its specs and performance at the £1249 launch price, but today, you can get it a lot cheaper in the UK, with …

Back when the Spyro Reignited Trilogy was announced for Xbox One and PS4, a mistake on the game's website led us to believe that the game would also be coming to PC and Nintendo Switch. Months past with no official announcements but now, the remastered Spyro games have officially landed …

Over the years, we have known that CD Projekt Red has been experimenting with the idea of multiplayer in Cyberpunk 2077. The studio has never confirmed official plans to implement this as the team has been focused on the game's huge single-player campaign. However, as we enter the final months …

Back in late 2018, Razer expanded its Blade 15 laptop lineup with an all-new ‘base' model, which lowered the entry level cost for Razer's gaming laptop series. Today at IFA, the Blade 15 Base got a nice update, bumping up the CPU and GPU specs for better performance. The new …

Today at IFA, Razer kicked off the event by announcing the all new Razer Blade Stealth 13, which doubles as the world's first gaming ultrabook.

Back at E3, Ubisoft announced its own foray into subscription gaming with uPlay+. Following on from Origin Access, Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now, uPlay+ aims to offer a Netflix style library of content for a monthly fee, with all future Ubisoft games set to be added the day of …

While 3rd Gen Ryzen has mostly been positively received, there have been some issues along the way. One of the main issues currently is that a good number of 3rd Gen Ryzen owners aren't able to hit advertised boost clock speeds. Fortunately, AMD is aware and may have found a …

Over the years, Valve has opened up the Steam platform a ton, adding lots of features and making it easy participate in the Steam community via the Workshop, Marketplace, Reviews and groups. Unfortunately, this also opens up the door for scammers attempting to take advantage, with CS:GO skin scammers making …

Back in July, Toshiba Memory Corp announced plans to kick off a new era for the company under a new name. Part of this new era will include some expansion, as Toshiba Memory is acquiring Lite-On Technology's SSD business in a deal worth $165 million. The agreement will see Toshiba …

Back at Computex during our time at the be quiet! suite, we came across the new Pure Base 500 chassis, an all new entry-level case. Now just a couple of months later, we are gearing up for the launch, with this compact ATX case set to come out in just …

ARCTIC Technical Director, Vincent Andre, sits down to give us a sneak peek at the brand new Liquid Freezer II and Freezer 50 TR CPU coolers, while also giving us insight into the design process and work involved when launching an all new product.

CD Projekt Red has previously talked about its development process on Cyberpunk 2077, which has involved lots of iteration and testing of new ideas over the last several years. At this point, the game is due out in just over six months, so we weren't expecting any more big changes …

Kolink has been making power supplies for many, many years now. This week, the Kolink Enclave PSU series is hitting the market, bringing new 80PLUS Gold modular power supplies to the UK at sensible prices. Kolink's Enclave series promises high quality capacitors, an advanced circuit design and strong 12V single …

EKWB is expanding its Momentum Monoblock range again this month. The Momentum series contains motherboard cooling blocks for some of the highest-end ASUS ROG and Gigabyte Aorus motherboards already and today, the MSI Z390 GODLIKE joins the list. The MSI GODLIKE is a flagship motherboard, heavily delivering on features and …

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Platinum Games has released some excellent action games over the years, often reviewing very well and garnering up respectable sales. However, Platinum had yet to find the right combination of platform, game and release date to make it to the top of the UK sales charts. That changed last week …

We've been keeping our eye on the ASUS ROG Strix XG438Q monitor for some time now. We first heard about this 43-inch, 120Hz, 4K beast back at CES and spotted it again at Computex. Now, this display is finally ready to hit the market and the price is honestly pretty good …

To celebrate the summer of PC upgrades, we teamed up with AOC, Aerocool, Rapoo and Toshiba to create a new competition, giving KitGuru readers the chance to win one of TWO gaming PC upgrade bundles, including gaming monitors, cases, power supplies, SSDs and more. Now today, we are pleased to …

Last month, we teamed up with FIERCE PC to give away the excellent Fierce PC Shuriken gaming rig, complete with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor and a Radeon RX 5700. We reviewed this very same PC earlier this year, coming away very impressed and now today, we'll be announcing the …

Just as promised, today CD Projekt Red released its Cyberpunk 2077 ‘deep dive' gameplay video, showing off all new mechanics. The gameplay footage has been edited down into a 15-minute chunk to cut out as many story spoilers as possible, giving us a chance to just focus on the different …

Update: This competition is now CLOSED. Our winners this time are Matthew Soule on Facebook and JedixJarf over on our Discord server. Both winners have been contacted and will get their games very soon. If you missed out this time, then keep an eye out as we'll be running another …

Water-cooling distro plates have been getting popular lately and with Lian-Li's latest O11D distro-plate, water cooling can be made easier than ever. Lian-Li and EKWB have teamed up to design the Distro-Plate G1 for the popular O11D chassis, complete with a powerful integrated water pump. The O11D Distro-plate G1 is …

The launch of 3rd Gen Ryzen appears to be going down very well, leading to a big boost in AMD CPU market share.