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Though 2020 has undoubtedly been a tough year for both businesses and the general public, one knock-on effect of the global pandemic and nationwide lockdowns has been that people are playing games more than ever before. Though Steam recently set a new record for concurrent users, it has now outdone …

The record was broken twice in two days, with over 20 million users online yesterday...

After initially hitting 6 million players in its first 24 hours, Call of Duty: Warzone has now reached 15 million players after its first 72 hours. When compared to other battle royale games, Warzone has more players than the likes of Fortnite BR and Apex Legends had after their first 72 …

Despite releasing in 2015, it would seem as though Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege is more popular than ever. In the lead up to Operation Void Edge’s release date, the team-based tactical shooter saw its concurrent players on Steam peak to an all time high of 178,000. Since the start …

The Sonic the Hedgehog film has had a tumultuous development. From the near universal dislike for the original trailer, to the studio completely redesigning Sonic, leading to delays in the films release, concerns were raised that these served as a bad omen for the film itself. It would seem that …

It looks like Luigi might finally be stepping out from under the shadow of his older brother. Luigi’s Mansion 3 has become Nintendo’s fastest selling game of the year in the UK physical charts, outperforming The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and even Super Mario Maker 2. The action-adventure ‘horror’ …

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII launched over the weekend and the game is already breaking records. The lack of single-player campaign this year doesn’t seem to be bothering many, physical sales for the game are down but launch day digital sales have gone through the roof. Activision has announced …

Earlier this month we watched PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds ascend to the top of the Steam charts, taking over Dota 2’s top spot that week. Now over the weekend, the game has set another record, PUBG has now had the most concurrent players of any game in Steam history. As seen by …

The Indian Space Research Organisation has broken the world record for launching simultaneous satellites into orbit around the Earth. Taking off in the early hours of this morning, the Polar Satellite Launch vehicle PSLV-C37 hauled 104 satellites out of the Earth’s atmosphere. Three satellites were for Indian use, while the other …

Somehow nearly a decade has passed since the original release of celebrated, retro-gaming documentary, The King of Kong and the landscape of top-tier Donkey Kong gamers is very different today. Not only has the world record been raised to monumental heights since then, but the two champions of the film, …

Adobe has managed to increase its annual revenue to near $6 billion, an overall rise of some 22 per cent year on year. Quarterly net income is said to be at record setting levels also, thanks to rapid growth in its digital media segment, and expansion of its Creative Cloud …

If you thought Apple was rich before, having the biggest, most financially settled company in the world, think again, as this year has eclipsed all others that came before it. In-fact it’s eclipsed every single company’s most profitable year ever, netting the fruity firm a staggering $53.4 billion (£35 billion). …

Over a year and a half since its original release, Grand Theft Auto V has finally launched on the PC. It’s brought with it a number of changes like improved visuals – even more so than the new-gen console update – and its own benchmarking tool for those that want to make …

Apple has managed to break several records this week with its first fiscal quarter earnings report of the year, managing to post the biggest quarterly profit of any company ever in history. Over the last several months, Apple managed to generate a profit of $18 billion. This beat out the previous …

G.Skill is no stranger to breaking new ground when it comes to memory speed world records, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that it’s done that once again, this time smashing the DDR4 world record with a frequency of 4255MHz. Unlike some previous records however, this wasn’t …

Valve’s new year is off to a good start as the Steam concurrent users record has been topped. A total of 8.46 million users were using Steam a few hours in to the new year, beating out the previous record, which was set all of the way back in June. …

Game of Thrones seems to set a new piracy record every season, so it should come as no surprise that the season 4 finale was downloaded 1.5 million times just 12 hours after the show aired. At its current rate, downloads of the episode are set to topple 7.5 million …

While there might have been a lot of talk recently surrounding the new Nvidia Titan Black GPU, partner company GALAXY has taken lemons and made rocket fuel, by producing a new version of the GTX 780 Ti that’s managed to take the top spot on the single GPU 3Dmark Fire …

Christmas time is always incredibly busy for retailers but when it comes to online retailers, there’s a lot more people in the shop at once. Amazon has just proven this as it revealed that in the weeks leading up to the 25th of December, it started to sell 426 items …

Well at least somebody does and at least somebody is shopping in Blockbuster. It’s more than that thought, as Blockbuster pre-order records have been shattered by those laying down cash for an Xbox One, despite the console not hitting the shelves until much later this year. MCV has a statement …

We all love a bargain, but scouring the high street technology stores on the day after Xmas did not seem to generate any serious surprises. KitGuru is sent some snaps and breaks out ‘Analysis 101’ to see just how well the shoppers are doing today. Will records be set? While …

Capturing game play is becoming ever more popular with thousands of videos being uploaded to Youtube on a daily basis. The AVerMedia Game Capture HD is a device that can be connected to either a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360 and can record your gameplay without the need for a …

A new record has been set for the crowd funding of a game on Kickstarter, as Project Eternity ends its run on the site just shy of $4 million (£2.47 million) – over 3.5 times its original $1.1 million goal. As the game entered its last hours of funding, the …

In a world full of doom and gloom, it’s nice to see a little rainbow glow coming from Castleford. With today’s announcement, Target Components can draw a positive line under its efforts in recent years, to combat the nation’s negativity and offer something a little more chirpy. KitGuru peers through …

Thanks to the recent addition of Intel’s Core i7-3820 to its LGA2011 (Sandy Bridge-E) lineup, the cost of ownership for this platform has dropped by a good chunk. What many of us were wanting to know however is how well this entry level quad core LGA2011 processor can overclock. Does …

The speed of a modern CPU is such that the more bandwidth you feed it, the better the results you get. So the question becomes, just how far can modern memory be pushed?  Working in tandem with AMD and one of the world’s top overclockers, ADATA has pushed the boundary …