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The Mafia series has had a positive history on the PC platform. However, this year, a new team has picked up the series to deliver Mafia 3. Things didn't get off to a great start last Friday when the game's PC version launched with a hard 30 frames per second …

While things are quiet at the moment on the Vega front, it looks like news is leaking out about Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 revisions from AMD. The new efficiency focussed GPUs launched earlier this year in the form of the RX 480, 470 and 460 but according to reports …

Just last week both MSI and Asus announced that they would be rolling out BIOS updates for their current Z100-series motherboards to introduce support for Intel's upcoming Kaby Lake processors. If you an MSI user and have already installed the Kaby Lake update, then you may want to keep an …

Now that most of the kinks with the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update have been ironed out, it is time for Microsoft to focus on the next big update. We have heard some details about the Redstone 2 update in the past but according to reports this week, we now …

Since the start of this console generation, the Xbox One has consistently been outsold by the PlayStation 4. Microsoft's console did have brief stints of higher sales but the original box never really hit its stride. The Xbox One S is a different story however, as over the last three …

Dark Souls 3 is getting its first DLC pack later this month titled ‘Ashes of Ariandel' and aside from taking players to an icy new world, it will also introduce a new dedicated PvP arena. While PvP is present in Dark Souls 3 already thanks to game invasions, there hasn't …

In September, we teamed up with Biostar to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a Racing Z170GT7 motherboard, worth almost £125. The draw has taken place and the winner of this impressively specified piece of hardware can be announced. The correct answer was, of course, 110dB. The winner …

BitTorrent Inc. the company behind the Utorrent file sharing client, has become a one CEO firm once again. This came as part of a falling out between the two heads, who previously joined up as the company transitioned to a more commercial entity. It has denied that the company is …

Snapchat, the company that turned down three billion dollars in Facebook money just three years ago, is now readying itself for a public offering, which could see the company valued at $25 billion (£20.5 billion). If successful, it would be the biggest tech IPO since Twitter went public in 2013. …

If one thing has become apparent from breaches of corporate stores of customer information in recent years, it's that the fall out is usually lessened if you give people a heads up that they may have been compromised. An alternative for British banks though, is to just not tell anyone. One security …

Although we are big fans of mechanical keyboards here at KitGuru, there is no denying that there are some rather fancy membrane boards in existence too. Roccat's Skeltr, though, is looking to become the undisputed king of membrane boards, with a host of high-end features, and a price tag to …

With the PlayStation VR headset now out in the wild, it didn't take long for people to start trying to make it do things it's not designed for: like playing content on the PC. However surprisingly enough, it works rather well, giving you a giant, floating 2D TV to play on. …

Although you might expect that announcing a paying option for a service wouldn't exactly drive people to sign up, that's exactly what's happened with Amazon's gaming stream service, Twitch. After the announcement of Twitch Prime, concurrent viewer numbers have gone up by as much as 13 percent over the ensuing …

Over the last couple of years, AMD users have likely had an encounter or two with Raptr's ‘Gaming Evolved' app. At one point it was AMD's answer to the GeForce Experience, with the app being bundled with every driver update. However, it looks like AMD is moving on from Raptr's …

Around four years ago, Western Digital introduced the HelioSeal platform and began shipping helium-filled hard drives, pushing the market forward by offering extreme capacities and reducing energy consumption for enterprise users. It turns out that helium filled drives have caught on, as Western Digital announced today that it has managed …

Battlefield 1 might not officially launch until the 21st of October but if you happen to be gaming on an Xbox One or a PC, you can actually get a head start right now. If you sign up for EA Access (Xbox) or Origin Access (PC), then you get to …

As much as immigrants and refugees are a sensitive, emotive political topic, it's easy to agree that actually being one of those people fleeing a war torn country must be pretty terrifying. With that in mind, Refugee Text wants to use the power of automated chat bots to help those …

KSI, best known in some circles for being banned from Eurogamer Expo for inappropriate behaviour towards female attendees, is mad that people are pirating his recent movie. Fans have highlighted his own pirating ways in the past, but that only seems to have incensed the man more. Olajide Olatunji, otherwise …

The Motorrad, as BMW is calling it, is a self-balancing, sometimes-autonomous motorbike, which could make two wheeled travel far safer than it is at the moment. The marketing for the new concept tells us that it's so safe, you don't even need to wear a helmet. While the legislation of …

Valve has debuted one of its internal VR developments at the developer only Steam DevDays conference: a new HTC Vive controller design. The motion tracked controller looks shorter than its predecessor and is purportedly capable of being let go or half-held, potentially offering a new interaction method in game. Although …

Although a lot of games involve some element of chance, pure luck-based item and money gambling is not something that developers want to encourage, especially when it's outside of their game. That's why Valve recently cracked down on CS:GO gambling and it's why CCP is doing the same for EVE …

Android 7.0 Nougat may have only just arrived a few months ago but the first big update is already arriving later this month. Android 7.1 will be bringing support for some new features, including Google's new Daydream VR platform. If you happen to own a Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, or …

StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular modern real-time strategy games around and has even gone on to spawn a healthy modding community. Speaking of which, this week, StarCrafts mod released, a new graphical overhaul aimed at bringing out the silly side of SC2 by turning it into one …

Microsoft's Hololens has recieved a lot of interest from the tech community and while the augmented reality headset was previously only available to approved developers, a couple of months ago Microsoft did open things up a bit to allow anyone in the US to pick one up, providing they had …

Yesterday Samsung officially threw in the towel and cancelled production on the Galaxy Note 7, ending the smartphone's time on the market just over a month after its initial launch due to repeated battery overheating and fire issues. Now according to a new report, it seems that Samsung may not …

Earlier this year, Acer and Starbreeze teamed up to launch a new ‘StarVR' headset, featuring a significantly wider field of view and a bump in resolution compared to the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Due to the increased spec, StarVR is primarily aimed to be shown off in public venues, …

Serious Sam is one of the more ridiculous shooter series over the past couple of decades, with endless enemies, elaborate weaponry and beautifully expansive open levels to explore. Serious Sam looks set to become as good a fit for VR as it was for FPS gaming, but here's Croteam to …

The British Science and Technology Committee, a cross-section of MPs that monitors the technology and science industries, has called for the creation of a new commission, who's sole job is to monitor the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It could encourage development of useful AIs, while creating best practices to avoid …

As the owner of Oculus VR, Facebook has been driving forward virtual reality development for much of the last year and recently announced a new Facebook social experience through the Rift headset. To head up its new social VR team, Facebook has now hired on ex-EA executive Rachel Franklin, who was …