The trade war between the US and China is going to be a double-edged sword for many tech companies.
Read More »Windows 10 May 2019 feature update begins rolling out
Microsoft has been testing out features and talking up its next major Windows 10 update for a few months now. While this update will increase the minimum storage requirements for the operating system, it will also add in plenty of good features, mainly giving users more control over future update …
Read More »WD Blue SN500 500GB SSD Review
It's an entry-level NVMe SSD that can be found for under £70 - has WD nailed it?
Read More »EE usurps Vodafone’s 5G launch, will start roll out next week
A couple of weeks ago, Vodafone announced plans to become the first UK carrier to offer 5G, with the service set to go live in July. Today, EE usurped those plans by announcing that it will be kicking off its own 5G roll out in May, more than a month …
Read More »Dauntless launches today with day-one cross-platform multiplayer on console and PC
There has been a lot of discussion around cross-platform multiplayer in games over the last couple of years. At this point, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are all on board with the idea, paving the way for today, with Dauntless launching as the first game with full cross-platform multiplayer. Dauntless was …
Read More »Gigabyte gaming laptop giveaway winner announced
This month, we teamed up with GIGABYTE to give KitGuru readers a chance to win a fantastic gaming laptop, complete with an Intel Core i7 processor, a GTX 1060 GPU and a 144Hz 1080p display. We had many entries for this one, but today we are pleased to announce the …
Read More »New video shows off the PlayStation 5’s SSD in action
We are still a while off from the launch of Sony's next-gen PlayStation but we already began hearing about the console's hardware specs back in April. At the time, Sony's lead architect on the PS5, Mark Cerny, talked up the console's SSD capabilities but some of it was difficult to …
Read More »New leak points to Radeon Navi performance, pricing and launch
AMD's top-end Navi will reportedly cost $499 and edge out an RTX 2070
Read More »Gigabyte Aorus M5 Gaming Mouse Review
It's just £50, but the Aorus M5 has a LOT of features for the money
Read More »Borderlands 3 pre-orders halted on Epic Games Store
Last week, the Epic Games Store took a break from throwing money directly at publishers and decided to use some of that Fortnite cash to pass on savings to consumers. The initial idea sounded pretty good, with Epic Games funding a £10 discount for any game over £14, including titles …
Read More »Sony and Microsoft streaming tech partnership caught PlayStation team by surprise
We were all surprised last week when heads at Microsoft and Sony came together to jointly announce that the two companies would be working together on future game streaming technology and services. It turns out, the announcement may have also caught the PlayStation team off-guard too, who weren’t clued in …
Read More »Thermaltake launches liquid cooling superstore and courses
On Monday 20th May, Thermaltake opened its flagship store for liquid cooled gaming systems in the swish Syntrend Creative Park, plum in the middle of Taipei – one week ahead of Computex. Syntrend is a multi-storey technology shopping mall where all of the world’s top tech brands have a presence. …
Read More »Huawei promises continued updates following Android license dispute
Last night, it was officially revealed that Google has revoked the Android license from Huawei. This means that going forward, Huawei will be cut off from Google’s apps and services. Huawei has now put out its own statement, promising security updates and after-sales services for devices currently in circulation. Huawei …
Read More »iOS 13 said to drop support for two iPads and four iPhones
As software continues to move forward and evolve, it becomes harder to support older devices. The number of years you are guaranteed updates for varies between smartphone makers, although Apple tends to keep its devices going for longer than most. With that said, iOS 13 will reportedly drop support for …
Read More »Palit GTX 1650 StormX OC 4GB Review
Palit has come up with a TINY GTX 1650 card - but is it any good?
Read More »Nintendo may also partner with Microsoft for streaming services
Just last week, we learned that Microsoft and Sony were partnering on a joint development effort for game streaming and services based on Microsoft’s own Azure datacentres. This was an interesting move that will see two of the biggest companies in gaming working towards a unified infrastructure to compete with …
Read More »Bethesda removes Denuvo from Rage 2
Last week, immediately following the launch of Rage 2, it came to light that Denuvo DRM was included on the Steam version of the game but was left absent on the version sold through Bethesda.net. This ultimately made having the DRM on either version pointless, as pirates had already began …
Read More »Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
As tensions between the US and China continue to climb, Google pulls its Android license from Huawei
Read More »CD Projekt Red speaks out on development crunch
The issue of developer crunch has been coming up a lot lately, with extensive reports on the issue plaguing many major studios, including Rockstar, Epic Games, NetherRealm, BioWare and more. CD Projekt Red has been relatively open about the fact that it goes through ‘crunch’ periods during development. Now ahead …
Read More »Riot Games won’t budge following employee walkout
Earlier this month, around 200 Riot Games employees walked out of the company’s LA office to stage a protest against upper management. At the time, heads at Riot allowed the walk out to go ahead and promised that there would be no backlash against employees for participating, Now, Riot has …
Read More »Call of Duty 2020 reportedly in upheaval as Activision switches studios and contemplates F2P
For many years now, Call of Duty has been on a three-year development cycle. Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer take turns on a predictable cadence but a wrench has been thrown into the works for Call of Duty 2020, with development reportedly switching back to Treyarch for Black Ops 5. …
Read More »Win an Alienware Area-51m gaming laptop w/ Core i9-9900K, 144hz IPS and RTX 2080!
Ever wanted to own a high-end gaming laptop? Today we would like to give KitGuru readers that opportunity. We are giving away a brand new Alienware Area-51m laptop, featuring an Intel Core i9-9900k processor and an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU for blistering performance.
Read More »Hewlett Packard acquires supercomputing company ‘Cray’
Just last week, we learned that AMD would be teaming up with Cray to build the world’s fastest supercomputer for scientists in the US. Now, Cray has more big news, as the supercomputing specialist has been acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion. HPE announced today that it has …
Read More »Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Detroit get PC release dates, demo versions also on the way
Earlier this year, Quantic Dream announced that three of its former PlayStation exclusive games would be heading to PC as part of the studio’s initiative to turn multi-platform. Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and Detroit Become Human are all coming to PC this year, with playable demos set to release …
Read More »Nvidia RTX starts to see growth but revenue is still down compared to last year
Back in Q3 2018, Nvidia reported lower than expected results due to a weakened crypto-mining market and excess Pascal inventory taking longer to sell. Then for Q4 2018, Nvidia had to cut its earnings estimates due to weaker than forecasted sales in the gaming and datacentre markets. Now, we have …
Read More »Adobe warns subscribers of potential legal action for using old versions of apps
Nowadays, digital software purchases all come with legal terms and conditions specifying that you are buying a revocable license to a product, rather than ownership over an application. Usually, this is easily ignored as companies are unlikely to go after its paying customers. That is not the case for Adobe …
Read More »SilverStone Precision PS15 Review – A £40 Bargain!
It's just £40, but Leo really likes this MicroATX case from SilverStone
Read More »Ubisoft is giving Steep away for free on PC
Ubisoft doesn’t have much of a foothold when it comes to sports games, but a couple of years ago, the publisher did try its hand at it with Steep, a winter sports focused game filled with competitive challenges. In a world where series like Amped and SSX have disappeared, Steep …
Read More »Microsoft and Sony form unlikely alliance for next-gen game streaming efforts
An unlikely alliance has formed between Microsoft and Sony to jointly develop Azure for better AI and streaming services.
Read More »Google has apparently stopped working on ChromeOS and Windows dual-booting
Last year, Google's ChromeOS developers began working to implement a dual-boot option to allow Chromebooks to run Windows in addition to the native operating system. News on this upcoming feature first popped up in April 2018 but things went very quiet in the months following. Now, the ‘Alt OS' mode …
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