Tech News

Google has claimed that its upcoming game streaming platform Stadia, will be faster and more responsive than local gaming hardware within a “year or two” after launch. According to the Vice President of engineering, Madj Bakar, Google believes its Stadia gaming platform will be faster than traditional gaming systems of …

Atari’s new VCS console project may be in trouble after its lead architect and former Xbox team member quits his role at the company, claiming non-payment of invoices to be the issue. The crowdfunded Atari VCS console was supposed to be launched in June, that date was delayed and the …

G.SKILL has announced new high-capacity, high-performance memory kits based on 32 GB modules and spanning several of their current DDR4 series. The company claims these modules will push the performance of high-capacity memory solutions to the limits. Included in the new specifications are G.SKILL’s Trident Z Royal and Trident Z …

Activision has revealed detailed PC minimum and recommended requirements for the upcoming Modern Warfare reboot, along with discussing what’s to come in the returning co-operative Special Ops game mode. PC system requirements for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been revealed on Blizzard’s Battle.net website. Both the …

As part of its Battlefest celebrations, EA will be hosting a series of Free Weekend Trials of its popular WWII shooter. Gamers who have been curious to try out Battlefield V will get the chance to jump in on the action for a few days at a time for free! …

It's a Helium-filled 14TB HDD, designed for use in NAS systems

Rumours of Google releasing its very own smartwatch are doing the rounds again. The potential new device could be coming around the same time as the Google Pixel 4 launch, according to an industry source. Just last week, information detailing the official specification of the Google Pixel 4 was leaked. …

We've seen a number of custom Radeon RX 5700 XTs since the reference cards launched back in July, and we've reviewed several high-quality models ourselves. We've already seen XFX release its THICC II card, and now it seems a THICC III is in the works. As reported by VideoCardz, XFX …

Microsoft recently released a cumulative update to Windows 10 to address problems with printing caused by the previous update. However, it seems that has not quite gone to plan with users reporting that something else has broken. It looks like Microsoft has its work cut out with many recent updates …

There is growing optimism that AMD will deliver on its schedule for next-generation Zen 3 processors after TSMC says it has begun mass production of chips based on its new 7nm+ EUV technology. TSMC this week announced it is “delivering customer products to market in high volume”, which means they …

In an update released yesterday, Microsoft has changed the intensity of flashbangs in Gears 5 following player feedback. An additional update will make further changes later this month. Announced as part of Microsoft's ‘Whats Up' update for Gears 5, as reported by GameSpot, Microsoft said community feedback around flashbangs is …

MSI has been pushing content creator based products for some time now. It seems they might have a new content creator HEDT motherboard on the way to support AMD's upcoming TRX40 Threadripper 3000 socket too. MSI have been putting a lot of effort into their content creator featured products of …

Back in June we got the news that id Software would be releasing Doom Eternal, the sequel to 2016's Doom, on November 22. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case as the company has taken to Twitter to release a statement pushing back the release date until 2020. Despite being …

AMD has officially announced two new processors are being added to the Ryzen 3000 line up. Although it looks like they will only be available to OEM system builders for the moment. Since the initial launch of AMD Ryzen 3000 processors back in July, AMD has introduced new products into …

Noctua has introduced the long-awaited all-black versions of its CPU coolers. The legendary NH-D15, NH-U12S and the NH-L9i all getting a makeover along with new chromax.black fans. Staying close to its successful formula, Noctua has taken its signature quiet cooling performance and introduced an all-black coating to the heatsinks and …

Intel’s Technology Open House in London was an exhibition of products from the chipmaker and its partners that showcase the capabilities provided by Intel. Core to the showcases were 10th Gen Ice Lake and Comet Lake laptops, Optane-accelerated systems, and gaming PCs designed for high framerate horsepower.

Console gaming fans will be happy to hear that Sony has confirmed in an official statement, its next-generation console, the PlayStation 5 will be out next year with a launch date at the end of 2020. Additionally, there will be other big changes to the PlayStation 5 controller. The old …

Yesterday at Intel’s Technology Open House event, we got the chance to catch up with Natalie from MSI on one of their new ultraportable laptops for content creators. Importantly, the MSI Prestige 14 is one of the first ultraportable laptops to be shown with Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake CPU …

We sneaked a run on the new 10th Gen Intel Dell XPS 13. ssshhhhh.

The new Borderlands 3 patch has been released to improve stability while addressing a number of concerns, including hotfixes and general improvements to the game such as tuning some enemies and bosses. The latest patch focuses on a reported stability issue where an infinite loop could occur when hitting the …

From 15th October through to 5th November Apex Legends will include a Halloween themed event titled Fight or Fright. The event will include a limited-time game mode, exclusive challenges and special Halloween inspired cosmetics. Apex Legends Fight or Fright Event will start on 15th October and will include an all-new …

KitGuru got a minute to talk with expert overclocker, 8Pack, and discuss Intel's Performance Maximizer, and 8Pack's own Supernova XLTD system

Arctic is back with the Liquid Freezer II - just how good is it?

Intel has announced a new Xeon W-2200 series to join the Cascade Lake-X HEDT line-up for 2019. The Xeon W-2200 series will offer lower performance options compared to some Cascade Lake-X processors, with quad-core CPUs available. The top four Xeon W-2200 processors will effectively share the same characteristics as Cascade …

Yesterday, when AMD announced its new Radeon RX 5500 series, we heard that the MSI Alpha 15 would be the first machine to launch sporting the RX 5500M graphics chip. Now, we have more details on the laptop itself, and it's an all-AMD machine targeting 1080p gamers. The main feature …

Samsung has announced its new Chromebook 4 and Chromebook 4+ entrants to the Samsung Chromebook line-up, offering great performance and a sleek design to consumers looking for a portable and reliable way of tapping into the Google experience. According to Samsung their new Chromebook 4 and 4+ offer both hardware …

Yesterday Apple began rolling out its latest operating system, macOS Catalina. The successor to macOS Mojave, the new update is notable for removing iTunes and introducing Apple Arcade. It is available for some Mac machines released as far back as 2012. Announced in a Newsroom post by Apple yesterday, macOS Catalina …

TeamGroup has announced it is releasing a couple of new products. Included in the announcement is T-Force DARK Z gaming memory and the T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 which is a Gen 4 PCIe M.2 SSD drive, both are designed for AMD Ryzen 3000 systems to offer the best possible performance. …

Humble Bundle has given us some fantastic deals since its inception in 2010 and this month's subscriber bundle is up there with the best we've seen – for just $12 you can get Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Call of Duty: WWII and Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Available directly from Humble Bundle …

Intel has announced it will be cutting the price of their 9th generation CPUs which have their integrated graphics disabled. The F and KF variants of Intel’s 9th generation Coffee Lake processors are now cheaper than their GPU enabled counterparts. Intel has often been criticised by consumers for offering 9th …