Last year saw a host of games that pushed the boundaries of what the genre can achieve. New techniques give almost cinematic animation quality and video game acting is no-longer the refuge of Z-list talent. Titles like LA Noire and Skyrim were...
Technology
Thursday 2nd February 2012, 12:24am
SUPERBROTHERS: SWORD AND SWORCERRY
Sword and Sworcery (sic) is a point and click with a difference. This ever-so-clever Canadian game is part homage to point-and-clicks of yesteryear, part musical social experiment. Most of the puzzles are...
Thursday 2nd February 2012, 12:23am
So, the biggest selling phone of last year was the... BlackBerry. It’s been a mixed year for... Wait... What? BlackBerry? Seriously?
After a year that has seen global blackouts and gigantic writedowns – culminating in its co-chief...
Thursday 26th January 2012, 12:05am
SONY PLAYSTATION VITA
Expected: 24 February
Price: £280 with 3G
Sony’s long-awaited portable console is almost upon us. We now know it features both a touch-screen (expected) and an innovative touch-sensitive rear (similar to...
Thursday 26th January 2012, 12:05am
Bouncing a ball against a wall is fun. Doing it a hundred times is still fun. But bouncing the same ball against the same wall for years on end can get a little repetitive.
Finding creative ways to dress up the words “Apple,” “record” and...
Monday 23rd January 2012, 3:14am
1) Swatch Snowpass Watch
Do you find lift passes annoying? Hate having to shuffle around trying to get the right pocket up to the scanner? The Swatch Snowpass is designed to help – it includes a RFID chip rather like the ones in most lift...
Thursday 19th January 2012, 12:09am
The dust is settling after what turned out to be something of a damp squib at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The ultrabook (read: thin laptop) was king, with most manufacturers launching rivals to Apple’s lauded MacBook Air. Mobile had a...
Thursday 19th January 2012, 12:09am
The internet is angry. Yesterday icanhascheezburger.com threatened to go offline. And if you take away my pictures of cats yawning, so help me God I’ll cut you.
It wasn’t just Lolcats, either. Reddit switched off. And something called...
Thursday 12th January 2012, 12:02am
Video games have come a long way since Mario helped to win over a generation of (almost exclusively) boys in the 1980s. Titles like Modern Warfare 3 are more profitable than most blockbuster Hollywood movies. The complexity and depth of games...
Thursday 12th January 2012, 12:02am
How many big names can a band lose before they have to call it a day? Axl Rose just about managed to keep Guns ‘n’ Roses going, despite being the last original member, but only because his ego generates enough gravity to glue the fabric of the...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
