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Shortly after the launch of AMD's most recent R9 GPU's, retail prices went through the roof thanks to demand from digital currency miners. However, prices are currently back to normal and AMD is promising stability from now on, which will be good news to those looking to build a new …

Figures for sales of the Xbox One have shown up in the latest NPD report and though it's clear that the exclusivity of Titanfall on Microsoft platforms helped the Xbox One get a nice bump in its sales, that trend hasn't continued in the following month. Back in March, when …

People are nasty to each other when there's no real world repercussions, we know this from the last two decades + of internet usage, the growth of online gaming and the spread of social networking. All of us have called someone something nasty online and all of us have been …

The Pirate Bay is one of those dogs that not matter how many times you kick it, it just won't stay down. Despite its owners being in jail, its servers raided at times and massive studio funded lobby groups the world over gunning to take it down, it's still alive …

Coming this Autumn, is the already announced Assassin's Creed Unity which we saw a short trailer of earlier this year. It's beautiful, based in Paris during the French revolution and it's launching on current gen systems and the PC. However it's not the only Assassin's Creed title in the works, …

Google Glass only costs just $150 to make, but whopping $1500 to buy. Apparently, even an extreme price-point does not stop many technology enthusiasts from demanding to buy it. However, up to this week only select software developers under the Explorer program could get the smart eyewear. Apparently, the closed …

Nvidia Corp. has already begun to ship its GeForce GTX Titan Z graphics cards to various distributors and stores, but it does not let them start sales before the official launch. The latter is postponed by the lack of drivers which enable the graphics card to show its full performance …

Sometimes mainboard makers come up with rather interesting solutions that truly leap performance of desktop personal computers forward by overcoming limitations of mainstream PC platforms. Unfortunately, in many cases elimination of one bottleneck just leads to creation of another… In a bid to boost performance of solid-state drives, Intel Corp. …

Philips, the Dutch electronics firm, is attempting to get the sale of Nintendo's Wii U banned in the US. Nintendo has once again been targeted by a company that thinks it owns patents relating to technologies found inside of its consoles. The patents that Philips own end in 379 and 231, …

Its giveaway month! To celebrate Intel's recent launch of the Z97 platform we have another great competition for our readers – the chance to win one of three Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards! The Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE includes the usual high-end motherboard features like USB 3.0, HDMI and PCI-E slots, as …

Mobile app emulation isn't always an easy task, BlackBerry devices have been known to run some Android apps but emulating Windows Phone or iOS apps inside Android has been mostly unheard of until now. A team of students have successfully managed to emulate native iOS apps on Google's mobile OS, …

Superhot, a challenging first person shooter with puzzle elements, launched on Kickstarter just yesterday but it has already surpassed its $100,000 funding goal. The game was originally created for the Unity web player, you can play the original version on the game's official website, which features a few levels and …

History always repeats itself. Rambus and JEDEC have a history that began in the early nineties and greatly influenced the whole dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry in the 2000s and 2010s. That history is about to repeat itself. Rambus, a developer of high-speed interfaces and owner of multiple standard-essential …

Two of the UK's biggest highstreet hardware businesses, Dixons and Carphone Warehouse, have announced that they'll be merging into a single electronics retailer, in a merger that is said to be worth £3.8 billion. It's taken months and months of talks and no doubt a lot of lawyer fees, but …

A quick look around the web this morning and you'll find a lot of your favourite sites giving their break down of Nintendo's latest first party title, Mario Kart 8. A long, long time fan favourite, the series has consistently pushed the quality of the racing and its visuals in …

It was bound to happen in the wake of the Snowden revelations last year, that let us all know just how much our goverments and others were keeping tabs on us, but we're only starting to see the data for the trend shift now. In a report by Sandvine, encrypted …

3D Realms hasn't had the best of luck in the past few years. After releasing Prey back in 2006 to much acclaim, it's mostly stuck to mobile remakes of its classic Duke Nuke'm titles and of course there was that business with Duke Nuke'm Forever that took a long time …

Working at an energy drink company apparently gives you some pretty decent perks. Those likely include an inability to sleep and burgeoning kidney damage, but one of the others is the apparent ability to get invites to publishers' studios to play unreleased games, like 2K Games' Evolve. Developed by the …

Despite of expectations that Micron Technology will increase computer memory prices this month because its rivals cannot meet all demand, the actual increases were not significant and average contract prices of DRAM [dynamic random access memory]  in May are projected to remain generally on the same level as in April. …

At present when it comes to wearable electronics gadgets, all eyes are on smart-watches, smart-bands and other similar devices, which are already available on the market. A lot of people are interested in Google Glass are watching in different directions since it is not available. Now it seems like they …

Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday said it would demolish one of its fabs in Yokkaichi, the company's NAND Flash memory manufacturing complex in Mie prefecture, Japan, and build an all new factory specially to produce 3D NAND flash. The new fab is expected to be complete next Summer and will go …

Apple’s mobile devices feature very advanced application processors as well as operating system, but they still cannot run two apps on the same screen at once, something that greatly limits functionality of such devices. According to unofficial information, starting this Fall, when Apple releases its new iOS 8, the iPads …

Grand Theft Auto Online is still going strong with its recent ‘High Life' update which added new cars and apartments and some bug fixes but it seems one pesky glitch fell through the cracks as users are able to infinitely produce money again through a duplication glitch. The High Life …

A recent documentary has revealed that 56 Samsung factory workers have contracted Leukaemia, which has been caused by harmful chemicals and a hazardous work environment. Samsung has officially apologised for what happened and has offered compensation to those affected. Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-hyun said “several workers at our production facilities …

Kim Dotcom has always been a big supporter of free speech. He's put forward this ideal with his services like MegaUpload and Mega, which allowed personal freedoms through sharing of information and ideas, but he doesn't just talk it up, he walks it as well, championing the idea behind closed …

“Technology leadership is all about understanding where the market will go next”, claims AMD Chief Sales Officer, John Byrne. “It's about predicting the future”. KitGuru was fortunate enough to catch up with AMD's CSO – the driving force behind AMD's recent sales resurgence. This interview gave us a unique and …

A couple of days ago, Sony came out and said that Watch Dogs would run at 1080p and 60 frames per second “in a way that only PS4 can provide”. It turns out, the company's claims aren't even close to true as the Watch Dogs developer has revealed the actual …

As is often the case in this world – especially when it comes to piracy – rule makers and enforcers like to employ a “do as I say, not as I do,” kind of attitude. That's no less obvious in the case of Richard Humphrey, who was sentenced to two …

In-case you hadn't heard, Microsoft announced last night that it was going to be selling an Xbox One without its Kinect motion tracking camera. This is perhaps the second biggest U-turn the company has taken since the original announcement of the console, where after endless backlash, it went back on …

Humble Bundle has long been a way for gamers around the world to get hold of some great classic games, as well as top up their libraries with tens of others that they'll never touch, whether they're good or not. Fortunately, it usually only comes along once a month or …