For the final day of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with NZXT to offer up THREE prize bundles. Two winners today will each get a brand-new set of gaming peripherals, while a third winner will get a new case and AIO liquid cooler, creating a perfect starting point for your next build.

Across consoles and PC, 2026 is shaping up to deliver a wave of high‑profile releases that span genres, budgets, and audiences. Established franchises are returning with new entries, while several studios are preparing to debut original projects that have been in development for years. It’s a year that promises both scale and variety, making it one of the most closely watched release calendars in recent memory.

For Day 30 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with Seagate to give TWO winners today a major storage upgrade. One winner today will get a Firecuda 530R 1TB SSD and a second winner will get an 8TB Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox!

For Day 29 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with FSP to give away THREE prizes. Each winner today will get a new FSP 850W or 1000W PSU!

Ubisoft has been forced to pull Rainbow Six Siege offline due to a recent hack. Someone managed to gain access to Ubisoft servers and began giving out billions of free R6 credits to random players across the game, while also issuing false bans and sending out unusual in-game system messages to players. 

For Day 28 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have teamed up with Silverstone to give two lucky readers a hardware bundle including an SSR-FLP01W chassis and either an SST-DA1000R power supply or an SST-IM360 ARGB liquid cooler.

For Day 27 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have teamed up with ASRock to offer up a B860I Lightning motherboard, perfect for anyone looking to build a small but powerful Intel-based PC.

For Day 26 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we teamed up with AMD to give away one of their best CPUs to date, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D!

Christmas day has arrived and with it comes our biggest giveaway of the season! Today's prize will be none other than a fully built gaming PC packed with MSI hardware, built by CyberPowerPC. 

Thermaltake has introduced the MAGCurve 360 Ultra ARGB Sync AIO Liquid Cooler, a display‑driven cooling solution built for high‑performance systems. Available in Black and Snow, it combines a curved screen, AI‑assisted customisation, and a compact but capable thermal design.

Prior to Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar had a good stretch where it was releasing a new game every two years or so. As it turns out, during this time, Rockstar had been kicking around the idea of bringing in third-party studios to make Grand Theft Auto games set in other cities around the globe, with the biggest idea being Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo.

IO Interactive snuck out some disappointing news to end the year. The studio's new James Bond game, 007 First Light, has been delayed, taking over Grand Theft Auto 6's original release slot on the 2026 calendar.  In an update shared this week, IO Interactive confirmed that 007 First Light will …

For Day 24 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with NVIDIA to give one lucky reader a new graphics card! Today's prize is none other than the RTX 5070 Ti graphics card!

Hogwarts Legacy was the bestselling game of 2023 and it is still charting even today. Given that success, it should come as no surprise that a sequel is being developed, but while the first game was purely single-player focused, Hogwarts Legacy 2 could lean towards multiplayer. 

It has been almost three months since EA's Board of Directors announced that it had received a $55B buyout offer. Last night, EA took the next step towards closing the deal, with shareholders officially voting to approve the buyout. As first spotted by Stephen Totilo, EA's shareholders have now voted …

Back in 2023 as part of its effort to get the acquisition of Activision approved, Microsoft signed legally binding agreements with a number of rival game companies to ensure continued equal access to Call of Duty across all major platforms. Microsoft has made good on those promises for the most …

For Day 23 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with Arctic to give one lucky reader a massive cooling upgrade. One winner today will receive the panoramic Arctic Xtender VG case, as well as a massive Liquid Freezer III Pro 420mm AIO liquid cooler.

It has been five years since Studio Wildcard announced Ark 2 but unfortunately, we are still quite a ways off from seeing the game in action. This week, the studio revealed that Ark 2 is now not expected to release until 2028. 

For Day 22 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have teamed up with DeepCool to give one winner a bundle of hardware. Today's prizes will include a DeepCool CH160 Plus PC case, an LM240 AIO liquid cooler and a PN850M power supply to go with it.

For Day 21 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with ADATA to give one lucky winner a memory and SSD upgrade. Our prizes today include the ADATA Lancer Neon RGB DDR5 32GB CL30 memory and Mars 980 Blade 1TB SSD!

For Day 20 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with Thermaltake to give one lucky reader a big prize bundle. The winner today will receive a Thermaltake View 290 TG case, along with a set of ARGB Sync fans, a ToughLiquid 360 EX AIO liquid cooler and a Toughpower GF A3 power supply, creating a perfect starting point for a new build.

Recently, we learned that Sony and Bungie had resolved a plagiarism dispute over Marathon with an artist. Coincidentally, the game's original art director has now left the company. 

Ahead of CES next month, Lian Li has introduced the Vector V100 MINI, a compact Micro-ATX case based on the original V100 design. The smaller form factor retains broad cooling support, with room for up to three 120mm side fans, three 120mm or two 140mm top fans, and one 120mm rear fan.

For Day 19 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have teamed up with Netac to give THREE lucky winners an SSD upgrade! Each winner today will receive a Netac NV150HK M.2 NVMe SSD.

Thermal Grizzly has been rolling out a wide range of products for those building custom liquid cooling loops. This week, a new range of fittings arrives in the DeltaMate line-up, including new options for matt nickel finish, new rotary fittings, extenders and more.  DeltaMate fittings are precision-engineered from CNC-machined brass …

Nvidia has announced the next wave of titles receiving DLSS updates. Games like Ashes of Creation, Splitgate and AION 2 and more are due to support Nvidia's upscaling technology, alongside other RTX features. ARK: Survival Ascended – Lost Colony, the first major canonical expansion for the remastered survival game, now …

In recent weeks, the prices of memory kits have surged to record heights, effectively ruining any plans consumers may have had for upgrading their machines in the near future. One of the most popular memory makers, G.Skill, has now offered a statement, acknowledging recent price hikes.

For months, Sony has been pushing ahead with its lawsuit against Tencent, claiming the company's game, Light of Motiram, infringes on its Horizon Zero Dawn IP. Now, the lawsuit has been settled, avoiding the need for a trial, and Light of Motiram has been removed from stores. As spotted by …

The next round of games for GeForce Now has been announced. There are five new titles joining the cloud gaming library this week, including Obsidian's beloved Fallout game, New Vegas. 

For Day 18 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar we have teamed up with CPS PC Cooler to give away FIVE prize bundles. Each winner today will receive a DT360 AIO liquid cooler with an integrated IPS display, and a KN850 power supply to go with it!