Earlier on in the week, people became largely aware of a fake Minecraft sequel doing the rounds on iOS. This app claimed to be Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2 and actually managed to hit the top ten on the App Store's top-selling chart. However, after awareness of this scam app was …
Read More »Over 200,000 people sign petition to stop Apple removing headphone jack
Right now, the rumour going around that Apple has decided to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 is picking up a lot of steam. While nothing has been confirmed, anonymous ‘supply chain' sources have claimed that in an effort to make the iPhone 7 even thinner, the headphone …
Read More »Asus launches new TUF Sabertooth Z170S motherboard
ASUS has even more announcements in store for us today with the announcement of the new TUF Sabertooth Z170S Motherboard, which Asus says is designed tough and built to last. The ATX board features an arctic-white digital camouflage finish and has plenty of high-end features to boot. The Asus TUF …
Read More »Sony wants to trademark the term ‘Let’s Play’
We are all pretty familiar with the concept of a Let's Play at this point, YouTubers and streamers use the phrase often to describe their playthrough of a game. However, it looks like Sony is trying to claim the phrase, according to a recent trademark listing at the US Patent …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege patch to bring server and hit detection improvements
Rainbow Six: Siege is out and many people are actually quite impressed with it. However, the game does have its issues, mainly poor hit detection and networking errors. Fortunately, Ubisoft is working on these things and Patch 1.2 is set to hit this week. Matchmaking errors seem to be affecting …
Read More »Lenovo is going to phase out the Motorola brand name (sort of)
It has been some time since Lenovo bought Motorola's mobile division from Google, with the goal of breaking into the smartphone business. However, it looks like we could be saying goodbye to the iconic mobile brand name for good soon as Lenovo intends to phase it out and eventually replace …
Read More »Microsoft is building its own SIM card for Windows 10
It looks like we are set to gain yet another SIM card standard, this time, courtesy of Microsoft, which wants to build its own SIM for new Windows 10 smartphones and LTE-enabled tablets. While Microsoft's SIM card may not be a different size to the current Nano SIMs, it is …
Read More »Researchers claim PlayStationVR to cost between $400-$600
There has been a lot of talk surrounding the price of virtual reality this week after the Oculus Rift officially went up for pre-order with an unexpected $599.99 price tag. However, we still have two more virtual reality headsets to launch this year, one of them being the PlayStatioonVR, which …
Read More »Rumour claims Half-Life lead writer has left Valve
The Half-Life series has earned itself a great deal of praise from PC gamers since its inception. However, at this point, it has been so long since we last heard anything official about a sequel that many have took to believing that it may never happen. One rumour popped up …
Read More »Seasonic announces PRIME-series Titanium power supplies
Seasonic has quite a bit in store for us this year as the company just announced its new PRIME series of 80 PLUS Titanium rated power supplies, aiming to push the limits of design and be the quietest active cooling PSUs around. The Prime series will feature a class-leading ten-year …
Read More »Detailed shots of consumer Oculus Rift package snapped at CES
This week has been an exciting one with CES ongoing in Las Vegas, but Oculus nearly stole the show by launching its pre-orders earlier this week. Although buyers were asked to put down a little more than expected for their future HMD, detailed images of the headset and its accessories …
Read More »Cooler Master debuts new series of RGB mechanical boards at CES
If there's one feature that could sum up keyboards in 2015, it would be RGB backlighting. Thanks to the development of clear switch housings, every mechanical board can now feature uniform (ish) LED backlighting and many manufacturers have jumped on that. Cooler Master was one of them, but it's not …
Read More »Edward Snowden uses Demolition Man tech to talk at CES
Edward Snowden has made an appearance at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Not, as you might expect, in person, but on a display with its own locomotion, looking rather like the meeting room in Demolition Man. The technology was really important, Snowden said, because it allowed him to talk at …
Read More »Chinese ‘Hoverboard’ booth raided at CES
Despite the two wheeled ‘hoverboards' being one of the more recent boom and bust industries in the tech world, with bans and warnings of dangerous batteries, companies are still iterating on the idea. Are they allowed to though? One Chinese manufacturer has had its CES booth raided by U.S. marshals …
Read More »Far Cry recommended specs continue raising bar for PC gaming
Although virtual reality and future games like Star Citizen are really going to push our gaming systems to their limits when released, other AAA titles are carrying the torch through much more reasonable steps. They are still climbing ever higher though and Far Cry: Primal is no different, requiring anyone …
Read More »Kitguru Tech News recap 7th January 2016
Today KitGuru TV's Leo Waldock talks about some of the more interesting news stories posted on Kitguru.net in the last week. Apple has apparently cut iPhone production by 30% – read HERE. Asus announces world’s first monitor to run on just USB-Type C – read HERE. Palmer Luckey reveals more …
Read More »PlayStationVR briefly listed on Amazon for $800
It is clear at this point that virtual reality is going to be expensive to get into, especially if you want a first generation device. While the Oculus Rift was given an official $600 price tag yesterday, we have yet to see official prices for the HTC Vive or PlayStationVR, …
Read More »Smartphone built around security/privacy had a severe vulnerability
Last year saw the launch of the Blackphone, a smartphone designed and built for the super security/privacy conscious. However, even a device built to be secure can run into problems as independent researchers revealed that the device had a pretty severe vulnerability that could allow hackers to send and receive …
Read More »MSI GT80S 6QF Titan SLI w/ Desktop GTX980’s (unboxing)
MSI's GT80 Titan was our favourite laptop of 2015. Our original review way back in January last year scored it 9.5 out of 10. It also won our highest award for best laptop of the year 2015. This was the first laptop to incorporate a fully fledged mechanical keyboard, and …
Read More »MSI has built the Mac Pro of gaming PCs
MSI is no stranger to system building at this point, following the making of its Nightblade line of micro-ATX gaming desktops. However, MSI wants to shrink things even further this year with the Vortex, a compact gaming system, custom built inside a cylinder-shaped case- it's essentially the gamer version of …
Read More »A fake Minecraft sequel is selling quite well on the App Store
There are quite a few examples of bad apps on Apple's App Store. However, once in a while, we come across an outright scam, which is the case here with Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2, a fake sequel to Minecraft being sold for £4.99 and topping the App Store charts. The …
Read More »Palmer Luckey insists that Oculus isn’t making profit on the Rift
Yesterday, pre-orders for the Oculus Rift officially went live, revealing a £499.99 price tag that caught many people off guard and left some questioning exactly why the Rift ended up being so expensive, particularly since the development kits came in at around the $300-$350 mark. However, Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey …
Read More »The first Snapdragon 820 smartphone has been announced
Qualcomm has announced the first smartphone to use its brand new Snapdragon 820 chip though it isn't Samsung as previous rumours may have suggested, instead, it's a relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer called Letv. The smartphone in question is known as the Letv Le Max Pro and was revealed during Qualcomm's …
Read More »Apple may offer wireless Ear Pods instead of a headphone jack
We have been hearing for a while that Apple may be planning to ditch the headphone jack in an effort to make the iPhone 7 even thinner and now, new reports seem to be backing that idea up. According to supply chain sources in China, Apple has officially dropped the …
Read More »Nvidia is bundling Rise of the Tomb Raider with its graphics cards
After its brief stint as a Xbox exclusive title, Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially making its way over to the PC in a couple of weeks time. In order to celebrate, Nvidia will be bundling a free copy of the game with purchases of its GTX 900-series graphics …
Read More »AMD has shown off its newly designed ‘Wraith’ stock CPU cooler
For years now, PC builders have had to deal with a noisy stock CPU cooler at one point or another, whether it be from Intel or AMD. However, things could improve this year as AMD has demoed its newly designed ‘Wraith' stock CPU cooler, which aims to be much quieter …
Read More »Far Cry Primal won’t include a co-op mode
This year, Ubisoft will be spinning off the Far Cry franchise with a more survival-focussed game- Far Cry Primal. When it comes to survival games, most studios tend to focus on the multiplayer experience but Ubisoft is going about things a bit differently and has revealed that Far Cry Primal …
Read More »Papercraft 3D printing shows up at CES 2016
As much as 3D printers are an awesome invention offering home-brew modellers and enthusiasts a chance to create lots of fun items out of plastic, you do still need resin or some other uncommon building materials to actually construct them with. Not so with Mcor's Arke though, as it uses …
Read More »Forget flying cars, passenger drones could be the future
2015 was in many ways, a disappointing year. For all of its technological breakthroughs and attempts at hoverboards, the hard truth is that the year came and went without a viable flying car. Doc Brown would be sorely disappointed. However perhaps there's hope yet, as despite the failings of the …
Read More »Palmer Luckey reveals more Rift details in AMA
Yesterday's launch of Oculus Rift Pre-Orders was rather manic, with thousands or perhaps even tens of thousands of people trying to buy the headset, despite it coming in at around double the expected cost. To answer some people's concerns and others' hopes for the future, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey took …
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