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One of the wonderful things about the Steam platform is that it is incredibly open with its statistics, showing how many people are playing different games and how many users are online at all times. This is something that is pretty unique amount digital distribution platforms and it allows us to …

Bungie has gone ahead and hired former Guild Wars 2 writer, John Ryan, to be the new ‘loremaster' for Destiny, it has been confirmed. The company aimed to strengthen its writing staff working on the game, following the departure of lead writer, Joseph Staten, just a year before release. The …

We've had a couple of KitGuru readers get in touch to let us know that Amazon US and Amazon UK both appear to be willing to follow in Newegg's footsteps and issue 20 per cent refunds to buyers of the GTX 970 graphics card following the recent VRAM fiasco. Two …

Qualcomm has announced its new entry in to the streaming market with its new Snapdragon-based Chromecast competitor, capable of streaming 4K. Unfortunately, Qualcomm's streaming stick won't be made available to consumers and is instead there as a reference design for third-parties to license out. Third-party manufacturers will be able to …

Sony unveiled The Last Guardian a number of years ago, initially as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. However, despite the long and troubled development cycle, the company has refused to announce its cancellation and has remained certain that it will come out eventually. Unfortunately, that may longer be true as Sony …

Apple's lightning connector protocols have been cracked open and could be a big breakthrough for the iOS Jailbreaking community. The exploit allows access to Apple's serial kernel debugger, which was previously only available on past iOS devices. Apple Jailbreak site, iDownloadblog, has reported that past iOS hacks were developed for …

Toshiba has shown off two new camera modules that it is developing for Google's modular smartphone, currently named ‘Project Ara'. There are two versions at present, a 5 megapixel camera module and a 13 megapixel one. These cameras can be swapped in and out of the handset, allowing for easy …

Earlier this month, Dying Light developer, Techland, promised to bring full mod support to the zombie survival title. Now the studio has made good on that promise, with a new patch restoring the ability to mod the game. Full mod tools are also on the way. Patch 1.4.0 unlocks the …

Following on from our recent review of the DeepCool Steam Castle, many of you asked us where the best place to pick up some of the company's products was. At the time, we didn't have a particularly great answer for you, but now you can pick them up at the …

According to anti-malware security firm Kapersky, many of the world's major banks have been hit by digital thieves over the past year and a half, with the attackers making off with at least $300 million, but potentially as much as a billion (£648 million), after using malware and social engineering …

Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe has announced that he's leaving the BBC and will be moving to the US in order to take on a new position at Apple. He'll be working through the rest of the month, with his last show set to take place on the 5th of March, …

Nintendo has apologised to UK and other European Wii U owners, after it announced that over two years after the console's release, it has not and will not be bringing the TVii feature to the continent. According to the Japanese game maker, it was simply too difficult to localise all …

Samsung isn't even hiding it anymore, the next Galaxy flagship from the device maker will launch during a Samsung Unpacked event on the 1st of March, just before the Mobile World Congress is due to take place. The Samsung Mobile Twitter account begun teasing the next flagship with a #TheNextGalaxy …

Minecraft is likely one of the last games you would expect to come under fire for violent content but that is exactly what has happened over in Turkey. The country's Family and Policies Minister, Aysenur Islam, has launched an investigation in to the game under the impression that it promotes …

You can now throw the Windows 10 Technical Preview on your Mac with the latest version of Parallels. Parallels Desktop 10 now gives Windows 10 as an option for the virtual machine, alongside Ubuntu and the older Windows 7/Windows 8.1 ISOs. Parallels works by creating a virtual machine on your …

In an attempt to lower its dependence on Qualcomm, the world’s largest developer of application processors for mobile devices, Samsung plans to integrate baseband capabilities into its advanced Exynos system-on-chips. Such SoCs will emerge next year and will power devices the company will release in 2016. For years flagship smartphones …

This week Carl Icahn, a well-known activist investor, as well as a leading financial analyst said that Apple’s stock has massive growth potential and that the company’s capitalization could exceed whopping $1 trillion, which would be the highest market cap of any public company ever. At present Apple’s stock is traded …

Kingston Technology, a leading manufacturer of memory modules, solid-state drives and other memory products, recently increased its stake in Phison, an independent designer of NAND flash controllers. The investment will help Phison to fund development of SSD controllers better suited for Kingston. Kingston will acquire 10.4 million shares of Phison …

Valve Software said this week that it will demonstrate “the latest” living room PCs running its own operating system at this year’s Game Developers Conference early next month. The company did not disclose whether those will be commercial products and the launch of appropriate hardware is imminent. This week Valve began …

Perhaps, new generation game consoles are considerably less powerful than the majority of gaming PCs; perhaps, they are not going to stay on the market for a really long time, like their predecessors. But here is a fact: Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 are selling dramatically faster than …

I'm sure your gaming PC is astonishingly powerful and some of you probably have some pretty incredible custom built water cooling solutions, but they don't stand a chance next to the water cooling system currently being installed at the Los Alamos' Strategic Computing Center for the new Trinity supercomputer. Previous supercomputers at the …

In a move to help protect American online businesses and help them coordinate with US authorities, Obama has signed an executive order that will make federal agencies set up a way of sharing data between technicians in these businesses and federal agents. This information sharing will go both ways, with companies tipping …

Although the USB 3.1 standard with a new reversible plug, higher performance and other improvements have been around for about a year now, no commercial PCs so far have adopted it. However, things are going to change soon, when Asustek Computer launches its motherboards with the new interconnection technology. The …

The number of Generic Top Level Domains (or gTLDs) has expanded rapidly since ICANN got around to opening up the bidding process, to allow people and corporations to apply for any gTLDs in 2012. After the application process had finished there were applications for 1,409 new TLDs. Some of these domains were …

The Game Developers Conference is set to go ahead in March, which will be our first look at the future of games in 2015. At the event, Eidos Montreal will be showing off its new game, Deus Ex Universe, featuring AMD Tress FX 3.0 technology. The description for the Eidos …

Micro-transactions have become the norm these days, particularly in mobile games, so much so that it can be difficult to track down games that don't feature them. However, Apple is looking to make things a little bit easier for you with its new ‘Pay Once and Play' category on the …

On the PR side of things, Ubisoft didn't have a great holiday season last year, with Assassin's' Creed Unity launching with all sorts of issues that took months to fix. However, on the sales side of things, Assassin's Creed Unity and the last generation title, Assassin's Creed Rogue, didn't do …

The HTC One M9 is due to be officially revealed in just a few weeks at MWC but as usual, we may already know most of what HTC has in store for us thanks to a new leak, detailing the specifications of the device. According to new leaks published by …

You have probably heard by now that Zenimax Online is taking The Elder Scrolls Online in a new direction by dropping the monthly subscription requirement and adding in a micro-transaction ‘crown store' to the game. Now some details have come out, letting us know what we will be able to …

Google has been showing off more and more of Project Ara during recent months and we may get to see even more of the modular smartphone at the Mobile World Congress, which starts next month, in Barcelona. Around 50 of the device's modular components are also due to be displayed …