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It looks like Valve has lost yet another writer as this week, Jay Pinkerton parted ways with the studio. Since the start of 2016, we have seen several writers leave Valve's offices for various reasons, all of which previously worked on the Half-Life series. This time around, it is Pinkerton …

While many fans expected the disastrous launch of the Galaxy Note 7 to be the end of Samsung’s Note line of handsets, it was confirmed last year that this would not be the case. Now, the Galaxy Note 8 appears to be edging closer to release as leaked images have …

Back in April, AOC launched a new range of monitors designed in collaboration with the same team behind Porsche. We have already had the chance to review one of these monitors, praising the design but we weren't the only ones to be impressed. After appearing at Computex last week, AOC …

There has been a lot going on in the overclocking scene over the last week or so. While a lot of recent news has focussed on CPU-related overclocks, today we got word that a new world record had been set for DDR4 frequency, with a G.Skill kit breaking past the …

Over the last few months, Valve has been preparing for the death of Steam Greenlight, with plans to replace it with a new service known as Steam Direct. Just a few days ago, Valve announced the new fee for Steam Direct submissions and now, the company has confirmed that Greenlight …

While there is talk of Bioware placing the Mass Effect series on ice for a few years, Andromeda is still receiving patches to improve overall quality. This week, Mass Effect Andromeda patch 1.08 released, which focusses on improving the game's character creation and making some additions/changes to certain dialogue options. …

Gigabyte has been keeping busy since the launch of X299, bringing together some veteran overclockers to put the Gigabyte X299-SOC Champion motherboard to the test. It seems the tests taking place at Gigabyte's OC lab were successful too, as four new benchmarking records were set, using an Intel Core i7-7740K …

Back on 4th May, KitGuru kicked off a major piece of research and we would like to thank the many thousands of you who took the time to complete a detailed survey. You certainly told us what's hot or not in your opinion!  We have now been through the responses …

HP’s push into the gaming market continues as the company has begun rolling out a new line of OMEN systems, including desktops, notebooks and an upcoming portable VR system. Interestingly, the OMEN X VR Backpack meant to launch this month seems to have also had a rework and a slight delay …

FSP is a name that KitGuru readers should recognise by now but if not, I am confident you will remember them after today. Last week during Computex, we swung by the FSP booth to check out what they had in store and amongst the usual coolers, fans and updated PSUs …

Ever since the launch of the Devil May Cry reboot, Ninja Theory has been working away on a brand new IP- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. This game has been floating around for several years and was initially supposed to release back in 2015 but was followed by a series of delays. …

There has been much speculation surrounding the upcoming OnePlus 5 in recent months but it looks like all of our questions will soon be answered. This week, OnePlus announced that it would be revealing its next smartphone later this month,  so expect ‘the flagship killer' to return quite soon. The OnePlus …

At Computex this year, G.Skill returned once again to hold the Annual OC World Cup, inviting top overclockers from around the world to gather and compete for an ultimate grand prize of $10,000. In 2016, the overclocker known as ‘Splave' came out on top. However, this year, he was dethroned …

It looks like Microsoft is going to have to fend off a new antitrust complaint in Europe. This time around, Kaspersky Lab is filing a complaint against Microsoft claiming that the company is using its dominant position in the OS market with Windows to push its own anti-virus software over …

Mr. Walter Yeh, President & CEO of TAITRA gave the closing Press conference for Computex 2017 with a bunch of statistics that show Computex continues to grow in importance. The organizers announced that 41,378 international visitors from 167 countries attended the show, a 1% increase from last year. Countries with …

ASRock had one of the busier booths at Computex this year, with a ton of new HEDT motherboards on show, on top of a focus on small form factor systems and even Bitcoin mining. Obviously with the launch of X299, there were a lot of motherboards on show at ASRock's …

Yesterday, Nintendo announced that the Pokemon Company would be holding a surprise 8-minute Nintendo Direct stream. Well, the stream just concluded and in total, we got three announcements. For starters, yes a Pokemon game is coming to Nintendo Switch this year but it isn't the rumoured Pokemon Stars. Instead, Switch …

With the launch of the Nintendo Switch, we are starting to see a resurgence of interest in handheld gaming. This has given hope to some of Sony's dedicated Vita fans but unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Sony is planning on getting back into the handheld arena any time soon. At …

Back in early May, we heard that Apple may be expanding its foray into the Smart Home market with its own Amazon Echo competitor. Now, at WWDC, Apple has made the ‘Siri Speaker' official. The product is officially called the HomePod and it is designed to use spatial awareness to …

Back in April, we first heard that Apple may be planning a new iMac Pro, powered by an Intel Xeon processor, ECC memory and better discrete graphics. Last night at WWDC, that machine became a reality, with Apple making the iMac Pro official, powered by an 18-core Xeon processor and …

Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference is officially under way and so far, there has been plenty of talk surrounding the Mac. We already knew that Apple was planning a Mac Pro redesign for 2018, which would be preceded by an iMac refresh this year. Now, the new series of iMacs …

Futuremark, the company behind the widely used PCMark, 3DMark and VRMark benchmarking tools has now released PCMark 10. This is an updated version of the benchmarking tool for Windows 10, featuring new and improved workloads all wrapped up in a faster, more user-friendly application. PCMark benchmarks measure overall system performance …

Over the last several years, Google has been battling it out with the European Commission in court over various antitrust allegations. One of the first antitrust cases to be levied at Google surrounded the company's ‘Shopping' search engine, with the EU claiming Google skews results and causes harm to competitors. …

It looks like Sony’s efforts to bring virtual reality to consoles has been paying off as more than one million PlayStation VR headsets have been sold since launch back in October, despite the lack of big game launches outside of Farpoint and Resident Evil VII. The new milestone was reached …

Back in early 2016, Bethesda Game Studios head, Todd Howard let the word out that the publisher's in-house studio teams were working on three “huge” unannounced projects. We have heard very little about what Bethesda's internal team has been up to since then but it looks like at least one …

It hasn't been long since Palmer Luckey officially left Oculus but it looks like he has been keeping himself busy since then. Rather than trying to jump back into the virtual reality industry though, Luckey has opted to form a brand new startup company, which will be working on surveillance …

Over the last few months, Denuvo has been consistently making headlines for one reason or another. First Resident Evil VII was cracked in record time, then the software was accused of impacting the performance of recently released indie game ‘RIME', which was also cracked in record time, causing the developer …

It has been several months since we first heard about Valve's plans to phase out Steam Greenlight and replace it with a new service known as ‘Steam Direct'. One of the key changes with Steam Direct was originally going to be the price of submitting a game to Steam, which …

Computex is officially over and while we have already covered most of the big announcements, there are some smaller but interesting things we spotted at various booths over the course of the week. In this article, we will be rounding up some of the bits we saw at MSI, ASRock, …

QNAP made an appearance at Computex this year, bringing along some impressive new systems, the most interesting of which is the new Ryzen-powered NAS. This is the first NAS device to make the jump to AMD's new platform, signifying AMD's transition into other key markets beyond the desktop. The Ryzen …