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Nominations for the European Hardware Awards 2017 have now been finalised. Each product has been nominated by one of the 9 publications that make up the European Hardware Association. Voting has already started and the winners will be announced on the eve of Computex 2017 in Taipei.  If you had to …

This week, we are teaming up with Fierce PC to give KitGuru readers the chance to win a brand new gaming PC. We didn't want to just give you a standard gaming rig though, we want to give you the chance to make this build your own, so not only …

Update: After much criticism from fans and content creators, Atlus this week announced that it would be loosening up a bit on its streaming and YouTube video rules for Persona 5. Initially, Atlus did not want streamers or video makers showing any boss fights, any story spoilers or any content …

At a recent industry pub quiz, KitGuru came back with an armful of Buffalo prizes – so it only seemed fair to create a competition for our readers. Star prize was a 2TB Buffalo LinkStation NAS worth over £120 as well as a 4-port hub, mobile mouse, earphones and universal …

During the NAB 2017 event, Intel has announced a spruced-up Visual Computer Accelerator, the second of its kind, to take video-crunching to the cloud. With HD and UHD Video workloads in mind, the Visual Compute Accelerator 2  (VCA 2) has been designed with the purpose of creating smooth real-time UHD …

It seems like one of Europe's best-sponsored eSports teams, ASUS ROG Army, has snapped up another major deal under the form of German sporting goods brand, Adidas. The company has announced it has signed a sponsorship with the Spaniards to supply them with custom-designed uniforms, bearing team and sponsor insignia, …

Uber’s wants to take to the air after mastering autonomous driving and reveals how far it’s come along with plans for a fleet of flying taxis. During its Elevate Summit event, the company rolled out heavyweights and partner companies to promise the delivery of a “flying taxi” service by the beginning …

Intel has released a Product Change Notification (PCN) document informing would-be customers of its new Xeon CPU models. Apart from announcing new server CPUs, the PCN also heralds a new tier system for the segment. The long list includes a listing of 45 Xeon processors, including 11 Xeon Phi MIC-architecture …

Fallout: New Vegas is an excellent game, bringing the older RPG elements that the original Fallout games were known for and combining it with Bethesda's open-world style. Unfortunately at this point, the game is rather dated and could look a lot better. With that in mind, one modder has taken …

It looks like the OnePlus 5 is on the way as this week, details surrounding the upcoming smartphone began to leak out, alongside an image of what the phone should look like. This particular image made its way on to the web via India Today Tech, whose claims to have …

Update: Following last month's extensive leak, Activision made Call of Duty: WWII official last week. This will be the game's official title and SledgeHammer Games is behind its development. Now after a brief wait, the Call of Duty: WWII livestream is taking place right here, during which campaign, multiplayer and …

Back in 2016, Google finally began implementing Android app compatibility into Chrome OS and while the list of supported devices was initially quite small, it has grown a ton so far in 2017. Back in January, we learned that Google wanted all Chromebooks released this year to feature Android app …

Back in late March, we announced that we were teaming up with Game Max once again to offer our readers a chance to win a PC upgrade bundle. This bundle included a Cobalt Game Max Chassis, a GM1050W PSU and a mouse/keyboard combo. After sifting through the entries, today we …

It looks like the European Union's plan to get rid of mobile data roaming charges is going through once and for all. While the writing has been on the wall for a long time now, this week, the new law passed its final vote, meaning from from mid-June onwards, EU …

Back in March, Samsung officially revealed its future plans for the millions of Galaxy Note 7s it recalled in late 2016. After plenty of pressure from environmental groups, the company agreed to recycle as many parts as it could while also exploring the possibility of reselling refurbished units. Now, it …

It looks like the person behind the infamous Microsoft and Sony DDOS attack back in 2014 has been sentenced to two years in prison. The teen was 16 years old when he began selling access to his network of breached IP addresses, earning around £386,000 in the process. The ‘Titanium …

Following on from last month's announcements, this week Intel's first 3D XPoint products officially became available. For the budget-oriented market, there is Optane Memory, a small M.2 cache drive intended to boost mechanical HDD performance, meanwhile for data-centres, Intel has the Optane DC P4800X, a super speedy PCIe SSD built …

It looks like Qualcomm may be teaming up with Samsung once again for its 2018 flagship system on chip (SoC) as reports this week indicate that the pair have reached a deal to have Samsung co-develop the Snapdragon 845 processor. Samsung has been working with Qualcomm for a while not, …

April might be quieter on blockbuster releases but there are still quite a few interesting games coming out. Dawn of War 3 is launching, Batman: Arkham VR is finally landing on PC, meanwhile games like Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and Wilson's Heart flesh out April's offerings. As with most …

While the recent release of the Radeon RX 500 series didn't exactly set any new performance records for AMD, things are looking promising for the RX Vega. In fact, things have been looking promising on the Vega front for many months now, so where exactly is it? Well this week, …

It looks like Nvidia is turning its attention to promoting virtual reality as today, the GPU maker announced its latest games bundle, giving Pascal GPU buyers three of the best games VR has to offer. Starting from today, anyone buying a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, GTX 1070 or …

There have been tons of reports surrounding Apple's current augmented reality plans recently. Now it turns out that Apple is bringing in some help from NASA for its augmented reality glasses, hiring up those who also helped Microsoft with the Hololens. According to sources, Apple has has hired Jeff Norris, …

Things have been fairly quiet recently on the Google Pixel front recently but we are finally starting to get some new information. Reports this week claim to have found references to three upcoming Pixel devices in the code for the Android Open Source project, all of which will run on …

Resident Evil 7 launched back in January to much acclaim from fans and critics alike. Since then though, many fans have been waiting on the ‘Not a Hero' DLC, a free epilogue expansion to the game starring Chris Redfield. This DLC was set to come out sometime this Spring but …

If you have been playing Overwatch recently and hoping for some fresh scenery then you might be in luck as there are currently plans to release around three new maps ‘standard' maps this year. There are also an additional three ‘non-standard' maps in development, presumably for future events/brawls. According to …

In a show that proves the ZX Spectrum community is alive and well, an attempt to build the most legitimate successorto the ZX Spectrum computer – in spirit and in physical form – has met with great success on Kickstarter after being completely funded just 48 hours on-line. The project …

A year, almost to the day, after launching the original Radeon Pro Duo dual-chip workstation-class graphics card, AMD has announced a refresh to its professional line-up. During the NAB 2017 show (an event for the broadcasting industry) in Las Vegas yesterday, AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo …

Since launching GTA Online, Rockstar has shut down a few fan-made mod projects and this week, it added another one to the list. Over the last few years, some modders have been working on recreating Red Dead Redemption in GTA V but the project came to an unceremonious end this …

If you can run Doom on a calculator, then there shouldn't be much stopping you from running Tomb Raider within your web browser. This week, modder ‘XProger' revealed that after several months of work, he has managed to mod the original 1996 Tomb Raider to be playable in-browser in both …

A couple of weeks ago, we first began hearing reports from analysts claiming that Apple's upcoming OLED iPhone would be delayed due to issues with production. Now this week, KGI is claiming that mass production may not happen until as late as October/November, missing the usual September time frame for …