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Earlier this year, a super rare prototype of Nintendo and Sony's collaboration console was found in what seemed like perfect condition and photos of it appeared online. Only 200 of these consoles were ever made, most of which were thrown out after the project fell apart. Now for the first …

There have been a number of distributed computing projects over the years, from SETI@Home to Folding@Home (for which KitGuru has a powerful, active team still running) but as much as the desktops of the world are more powerful than ever before, smartphones have seen the biggest explosion of performance hardware …

The judge presiding over the case of Apple vs several thousand of its former retail employees for what were described as “demoralising,” bag searches throughout their time with the company, has thrown it out, stating that if employees wished to avoid the checks, they could have not brought bags to …

Snapchat is one of the biggest social communication platforms of the past few years and is still growing at an unprecedented rate. As of right now, its users are sending videos that between them all are watched more than six billion times per day. While these numbers haven't been officially …

With Blizzcon 2015 having taken place this weekend, there's been a lot of Blizzard-centric gameplay trailers and teasers released about upcoming content, but that doesn't mean all other developers have dropped tools and taken a break. Indeed Capcom took the bold move this weekend of releasing trailers for one of its own upcoming …

Grand Theft Auto V launched on the PC back in April this year, just six weeks before Valve's summer sale kicked off in June. Due to how new the game was, a deep discount wasn't applied to the title, though it sort of looked that way. During the sale, GTA …

It looks like Blizzard is in-fact planning to bring back some of its classic titles. We have seen HD remakes become a popular option for publishers in recent years and now it seems that Blizzard is planning to bring back the original StarCraft, Diablo II and Warcraft III, according to a …

It looks like AMD has a class action lawsuit on its hands over the company's Bulldozer series of processors. The complaint stems from claims that AMD overstated the number of cores contained in the chip, the lawsuit says that while AMD advertised Bulldozer as having eight cores, it only really had …

After around a year of speculation, Blizzard today announced the proper release date for Overwatch and what payment model it will use. The game will be a full priced title, though skins will still be sold as microtransactions on the side. The game is also heading to the Xbox One …

GlobalFoundries and AMD have announced this week that they have successfully produced the first 14nm FinFET sample chip. Previously, GlobalFoundries has been licensing Samsung's own 14nm process but it seems that the fab is now ready to make it work alone. This is also good news for AMD, as it …

Last week, we began hearing rumours that AMD was preparing another GPU for launch before Christmas and now it seems that we know exactly when to expect it. Next week, AMD is said to be releasing the new Radeon R9 380x, featuring a fully unlocked Tonga GPU with more stream …

With four people now in custody for their connection to the TalkTalk hack, we are starting to learn more and more about what actually happened. After a couple of weeks of speculation as to how much data was stolen, we now know that 157,000 customers of the ISP had their …

Sony has been working on PlayStation VR (formerly Project Morpheus) since 2013. We already knew that the company had the final specification in mind, it was just waiting for developers to build a solid library of launch titles. Now, Sony has shared that final specification with the world, with a …

It looks like Geralt is heading for the big screen in 2017, as a movie based on The Witcher series is now in the works. Right now, it isn't clear if this will be a live action or animated film, but we do know that Polish company, Platige films, will be …

Google has been trying to reduce Android fragmentation for the last few years and while it has made some significant advances with software optimizations, it looks like the company may be looking to take the next step and standardize Android hardware by partnering up with chip makers. Such a move …

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is already out in the world and making a positive impression on console owners. However, this year Ubisoft made the smart decision to spend a little extra time on the PC version, which comes out in a couple of weeks. Now, we can take a look at …

A couple of months back when Super Mario Maker launched on the Wii U, GAME customers in the UK found themselves charged five times for their pre-orders of the title. Now, it seems that GAME is having similar issues with Fallout Pip-Boy Edition pre-orders, with some people being charged twice …

MSI has launched the second season of its Pro Talk web-show that talks to various high-profile individuals related to gaming hardware, with Mike ‘hastr0' Rufail, who's credits include being a pro-player in the earlier days of Call of Duty's Esports scene, as well as now managing Team EnVyUs. Hosted by …

As further indication that police and intelligence agency access to digital records can be abused, a U.S. judge attempted to bribe an FBI agent with beer in the hopes that it would give him access to the text messages sent from two separate phone numbers. Eventually they settled on $100 …

One of the more head scratching moves made by local governments and authorities in looking to deal with the destabilising effect the Uber ride-hailing company has had on the traditional transport business, is restricting it. Transport for London famously pushed for a five minute minimum wait time for customers to …

Bethesda has a review embargo in place for its upcoming post-apocalyptic wasteland-simulator, Fallout 4. That much is to be expected as you don't want people A: rushing to put a review out and B: releasing it before the optimum time to build on the hype. What is bizarre however, is …

One of the cooler moments in Ark: Survival Evolved, is taming yourself a big carnivore to stomp around on. There's not much more badass than knowing you have several tonnes of muscle and teeth on your side should a fight break out, but in Ark, a lot of people have …

It is not unusual for us to see those in the PC market begin to diversify. Today, Lian Li, normally known for its PC cases, has announced its first step in to the custom watercooling arena with its own CPU water block, the CB-01. The focus for the CB-01  appears …

This week, AMD announced a massive change to how it is handling its GPU drivers. The red team announced that the Radeon Technologies Group would be doing away with the Catalyst Control Centre entirely, putting drivers under a new banner: ‘Radeon Software: Crimson Edition'.  The new drivers will feature an …

The smartwatch market wasn't quite what it is today before the Apple Watch. In total, Android Wear makers were shipping less than one million units a year combined, according to 2014 sales numbers. However, when the Apple Watch launched, the device quickly became quite popular, with three million or so …

An engineer at Google has taken it upon themselves to save you from non-compliant USB Type-C cables, with warnings of charging problems and potential damage to your devices. The engineer is Benson Leung, who has worked on Google's Chromebook Pixel and Pixel C tablet. In order to help customers avoid …

YouTube today announced that it would be bringing two new features to the service, both of them being virtual reality related. For a start, YouTube now fully supports virtual reality video playback, meaning content creators with the right equipment could upload some pretty interesting experiences. Additionally, the YouTube mobile app …

Activision has a tendency to tie pre-order incentives to its annual Call of Duty games and this year is no different. In much of the game's marketing worldwide, we have seen that the Nuketown map is coming back for those who pre-order. Unfortunately though, here in the UK, not everyone …

BlackBerry has been on a downward spiral over the last few years, barely managing to cling on to a percentage of the smartphone market. However, now the OS isn't just contending with Android, iOS and Windows Phone, as Tizen OS has also over taken it in terms of market share. …

Fallout 4 isn't arriving for a few more days but that hasn't stopped Bethesda from releasing its Pip-Boy companion app to the public on Android and iOS. The studio has also put out the final ‘launch' trailer for Fallout 4 slightly ahead of time, reminding us that we do in-fact …