It hadn’t occurred to me until recently that I could leverage my humble journalistic position to obtain a Sky HD box to sample the service. I have been watching the price since its release, but could never really quite justify taking the plunge, partially because I was highly skeptical of the picture quality. Now the [...]
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Sky HD And Multiroom First Impressions
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Sitting Down With The Roland V-Piano
Friday, May 29th, 2009The words “synthesized piano” conjure forth the feeble, lifeless sounds of a plinky Casio keyboard, the sort of sound that would cause a concert pianist to lie on the floor, hands over their ears, screaming in agony. So, what if I told you that Roland’s new, £5000, V-Piano does away with the traditional, sample-based reproduction [...]
Keyboard Madness
Saturday, May 16th, 2009I’ve come across many gaming keyboards sporting a range of gimmicks in my profession. Thus far I find the SteelSeries 7g to have that little extra edge in terms of all-round usability. The 7g key action is mechanical, a very sought after feature by die-hard typists. Even though it may be noisy as a result [...]
Asoblock, Coming To UK Shores?
Friday, May 8th, 2009There are whispers all over the web about Asoblocks, the ball-and-joint centric construction kit that enables you to easily build some exceptionally good mechs with an excellent level of poseability, and more besides.
World of Warcraft: The Addiction
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009I’ve heard the tales from many a recovering WoW addict, they suffer from urges to play the game again but, having gone cold turkey, are now deterred by the knowledge that, without an entire life to dedicate to the game, you’re really going to get nowhere. World of Warcraft caters for two particular brands of [...]
Flower Power
Friday, March 20th, 2009At the request of John I hit the PS3 Store to pick up Nobi Nobi (aka Stretchy Stretchy) Boy, the incredibly low price came as a bit of a surprise but I also remembered that Flower had slipped past me for a couple of weeks and decided to include it in my purchase which came [...]
Wrath Of The Lich King
Monday, March 9th, 2009Well I’ve been playing (read: reviewing) Wrath of the Lich King for some months now and, for the most part, thoroughly enjoying it. The new content is surprisingly actually quite good and, in my humble opinion, far, far more entertaining, varied and fun than that of classic World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade. Wrath [...]
Halo Wars – Cabinet War Rooms preview event
Friday, February 20th, 2009Report by Johnus Maximus On the 27th of January 2009, some time before the city of London was besieged by the howling arctic conditions of late, I was lucky enough to be invited to an advance preview of the final build of Halo Wars. The event was held in Plant Room 7 of the Cabinet [...]
Samsung NC10
Sunday, February 15th, 2009With the price of the Open Pandora console rising by around £70 in these dire times it has become a little too much for me to justify. I remain confident in the project, though, and coverage here will continue. To ensure that I remain as self-contradictory as possible I did a little netbook research and [...]
Arcam Solo rDock
Friday, January 23rd, 2009I’ve finally had a chance to hook up the Arcam Solo Mini to it’s lovely little MUSO speakers and proceed with the slightly overcomplicated attachment of the equally lovely rDock accessory which allows the connection and control of iPods/iPhones to high-end the mini-system. The rDock connects via RCA for audio directly to the Arcam Solo, [...]