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Technology: Silent Piano Technology
Sharing the Love: Group Play
Game Review: The Last of Us
Technology: How To Make A Successful Blog
Technology: Making Music by Thought
Technology: GiffGaff Goes Dead On Us
Everyone knows Giff Gaff from the adverts in...
Technology: How to choose what type of phone you should get
Choosing which type of phone suits our...
Top 5: Common Eye Complaints For Students
Technology: The Older Generation Conundrum
As a guy in his mid-twenties, I believe I am pretty clued...
Health: How many is too many?
Let’s talk eco – Protecting the environment actively
Especially in major cities like London...
Technology Event: Sony Xperia Z Launch Party
Game Review: Tomb Raider
Rebooting a franchise, whether it be a video game series...
Game Review: SimCity
Game Review: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
There are some things in this world that are...
Technology Review: BoomBoom 230
Gaming: Sony Reveal and What it Tells Us
The games announced at the Playstation 4 reveal last week were...
Website Review: Kickstarter
Because of my profession (actor) I regularly check out...
Could The Steam Box Be a Console Killer?
The fight for the living room console-space has...
Website Review: Fandom Comics
Technology Event: SIRO-A
The Pick Up Artists of Oxford Street
Don't hate the player. Don't hate the game. Hate yourself...
Common symptoms of Mouth Cancer
6 ways to limit Mouth Cancer
Technology Review: Top 5 Phones4U Accessories
Having a mobile phone is just the tip of the iceberg when...
Game Review: Thirty Flights of Loving
I had heard lots about Thirty Flights of Loving: about how...
Technology Review: Sony Xperia Z
Being an iPhone user I rarely have the time or need to look at...
Game Review: Call of Duty Black Ops 2
When I began Call of Duty Black Ops 2’s campaign I was...
The iPad & the Transformer Pad: Gaming Capabilities
Technology Review: iPhone 4 Case – Ben Allen Collaborate
Your iPhone is a big deal...
Technology Review: Nokia Lumia 920
Technology: What handsets have the best specifications for social media?
When it comes to social media the Blackberry smart...
Technology Review: AppQuiz
Creative Event: Nokia + Deadmau5 – What went down?
So the secret event of the year was a...
Has Spartan Ops Saved Halo 4?
In my last article, I talked about Halo 4 and it’s...
Creative Event: Nokia + Deadmau5 Return
I’m a big fan of crazy or innovative events in London...
5 Ways to Get Rid Of Acne
Technology: Sony Xperia T Face-Off
Game Review: Is Halo 4 Still Halo?
After taking a day out of my schedule to blast through...
Technology: A Good Set of Headphones
Being an iPhone user I received headphones with
Technology Review: Intel Ultrabook Convertible
Graphic Novel Review: Darkness Outside The Night
Being a comic book fan and collector of graphic novels I...
Game Review: Everyday Is The Same Dream
Everyday Is The Same Dream is an incredibly stylish, thought provoking art...
Netflix: A Student’s Best Friend
There are a few shocks that come with moving to university...
Creative Event: Videogame Art in London
Technology Review: Appsing
Game Review: Why You Need To Play The Walking Dead
This is the first time a game has made me cry...
Creative Event: Battle of Ideas 2012
Over the course of next weekend a great battle will be...
Creative Festival: Kopparberg ün-establishment
Swedish Cider makers Kopparberg have teamed up...
Gaming: Eurogamer Expo Games Round-Up #2
Join us as we look at the next 6 fancy...
Gaming: Eurogamer Expo Games Round-Up #1
We take a look at the fancy new games that were...
Gaming: The Art of LAN
There was a time before the wonders of the internet that to....
How to get along during the cold season
Summer is nearly over and the cold time of...
Technology: Various Ways of Phoning
A little over a decade ago telephony was just picking up a...
Technology: The Return of Wristwatches
Over the last decade or so, it seemed that watches were making a...
Game Review: DayZ – When Clunky Becomes Creepy
How can something so clunky be so scary?
The Big Catastrophes of Mankind
There are two occurrences in the world which mankind is...
Technology: Project Monument Live Experience
There is a sense of letting part of yourself go when you clean out old toys...
Retro Game Review: Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Star Wars games have always, in my opinion, dominated the...
Social Media Addiction: The New Disease
Today’s world revolves around being on-line...
Technology: Free Time
Technology: The Tweeting Psychos
Science: Why Isaac’s Katrina’s Bitch
Seven years ago hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana...
Technology: 3D Printing
Say you wanted something built (Item X) and you went to a large company that owned the...
Paralympics: Sportifying Wheelchairs
Olympics Special: tea&cheese
Game Review: Songify
Top 5: The fantastic world of free MMORPGs
After my couple of months' stint on Star Trek Online I gladly settled back into...
Is Gaming becoming the new Movies?
With the interest in movies declining (cinema wise), on demand films at...
Retro Game Review: Ico
Website Review: shortoftheweek.com
There are tons of short film sites out there...
Retro Game Review: Jet Set Radio Future
Jet Set Radio Future holds a special place in many gamers’ hearts...
Designing the Perfect Home
For the majority of my friends the reality is harsh...
PS3 Game Review: Rainbow Moon
Rainbow Moon is a complete throwback to classic RPGs...
Game Review: Supreme Commander 2
Having played on various platforms, I have built...
Pros and Cons: The Higgs Boson Particle and the Dangerous Future
If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years you may not...
Technology Review: blinkbox
In the last couple of years there have been many sites that offer a...
The Joy of Netflix
Retro Game Review: Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
Last month’s E3 sparked a debate about video games dumbing down since their...
Review: Google Chrome on iOS
I converted to an iPhone earlier this year, and while...
Technology Review: Nokia Lumia 800
Mobile phone technology and its brands are at war...
Retro Game Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization V
According to Sid Meier's Civilization V by 2048 the world will be split into 3 superpowers...
Retro Game Review: Façade
Game Review: TonePad
Game Review: Monsters Ate My Condo
If you’ve ever seen Robot Chicken then you’ll understand the madness of a game made by its...
Game Review: Paradise Cove
Retro Game Review: Fahrenheit
On Monday at E3, alongside the big franchise announcements such as God of War, Crysis and...
Technology: Is Siri still really quite silly?
I am not a fan of Apple products. However, recently, for work...
Technology: Air guitar to the top
Are you one of these people who have the urge to strum the air when a rock song is played?
Introducing the Sonos SUB
This time last year, Sonos was still a relatively unknown company...
Retro Game Review: Fish Listening to Radio
At first glance, the life of a fish doesn’t seem like the most entertaining premise for a game...
Technology: Killer computers
On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the ocean on its way back from Rio de Janeiro...
Technology: Bigger is not always better
Everyone is buzzing about the next iPhone...
Post Offices: Let it Be
If there's one thing I don't understand about today's world...
Evolutionary Libraries
When you meet someone who is passionate about their job it sometimes...
Retro Game Review: Mass Effect
On 6 March, Mass Effect 3 was released to tremendous...
Technology: Seeing into the Future
There are several things that frighten me. One of the most...
Retro Game Review: Braid
In the post Christmas and Easter comedown from the barrage of bloated sequels...
Angry Birds: The Gift of Reality
We live in a quite a crazy world. Finland’s Särkänniemi Adventure Park has opened...
Study Watch: Lads’ Mags
Here's a seemingly easy test: where is this quote from: a lads' mag or a convicted rapist?
Smartphones: Phantom Vibrations
Have you ever felt a vibration from your phone, only to take it out...
Game Review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
What. Just. Happened. Everything was going great.
Review: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
If Alan Wake, developer of Remedy’s 2010 long gestating third...
Game Review: Star Trek Online – Future thinking and free?
Online gaming has really blossomed in the last decade...
Tech Review: Olympus VN-71*PC Range
If you want to be a journalist, a pencil, a notepad, and a fleeting knowledge of...
Hottest Games: 2012
2011 was a fantastic year for gaming. The release of Modern Warfare 3...
Tech News: Recent Happenings
Three weeks into 2012 it has already been eventful in the tech world, here at...
Tech News: Wiki Black Out
I once wrote an essay on the possibility of the Internet being one day Switched Off. A disastrous event...
Gadget Review: GZ-MS150 JVC Camcorder
Game Review: Limbo
Best Indie Games 2011
With Christmas rolling in soon and the New Year now only weeks away, it’s a...
Top 5 Gadgets for 2012
Gadget Review: Olympus Linear PCM Recorder LS-3
I was surprised how much fun I had with Olympus LS-3.
5 Gadgets for Under a Fiver
Christmas shopping online is probably the best invention ever...
Top 5: LCD TVs
Christmas is looming like a tinsel strewn iceberg dead ahead of us and...
Gadget Review: Livescribe Echo SmartPen
The Livescribe Echo Smarten is pretty damn cool.
2012: Gamer Revolution?
Over the last year something strange has been happening to the game community as...
Gadget Preview: New Wee Console?
Retro Game Review: Wolfenstein 3D
Gadget Review: iPhone 4S
On 4 October we were waiting with banners and party poppers for the announcement of the iPhone 5 at the
Game Review: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
If you loved Fallout 3 and Oblivion, then you’ll love Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Top 5: Best Tablet PCs
Only someone living in a cave without wi-fi or 3G would have missed...
Pollution Fighting Trees
A scientific study released this month has shown that London’s trees can...
Retro Game Review: GoldenEye 007
No retro game review catalogue could be substantial without mentioning one of the most revolutionary...
Gadget preview: Asus Eee Transformer Prime.
Not long ago we previewed the Asus Eee Transformer, a tablet that could be become a laptop in...
Game Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
As a girl, playing computer games is a funny one. It used to be considered weird, that girls could play computer games,
Retro Game Review: Deus Ex
Website Review: Firebox.com
As the Christmas period approaches and I get older I find it harder to buy gifts for...
The Weekly Round-Up
Top 5: Useful Apps for Android
Apple may be the first to export the idea that every phone needs thousands of...
Tech Review: Asus Automobile Lamborghini VX7
You know that feeling when you enter a shop filled with high-end technological...
Preview: Star Wars: The Old Republic
After the success of the PC game Knights of the Old Republic, its...
Top 5 Worst Game Let Downs
With new games and sequels being released left right and centre lately, so much hype is inevitably going to lead to some...
Game Review: We Dare
Cloud Gaming: OnLive
Top 5 boring, stupid, terrible or just plain wrong Games
Looking back on the games I have played over the years there are a...
The Rise of the Wiki
Wikipedia is a big deal. From its inception in 2001 it has become one...
Top 5 Smartphones
Independents’ Day
The games industry has been in a miniature renaissance lately. With game developer tools becoming more numerous and...
Top 5 Worst CEO’s
Being the head of a company is not an easy task, but most CEO’s do their...
Website Review: Newgrounds
I am a big fan of gaming. On top of gaming I also enjoy how...
Top 5 Best Cars
Fast, slow, sleek, shabby, exciting and boring are all keywords many people use when...
Tech Preview: iPhone 4S
As inevitable as the rising of the sun and the crashing of the stock exchange is...
Top 5 Worst iPhone Apps
There are literally thousands of Apps available on the market today and I’ve had a...
Website Review: Filefront
For the last 10 years, PC gaming has been on the decline, but a few gems...
Top 5 File Sharing Sites
Sending files can be tricky business. It used to be difficult sending a file over 50mb...
Comic Review: Ultimate Spider-Man
During the Summer Marvel Comics made an announcement that captured the...
Eurogamer Expo 2011
For the past three years the Eurogamer Expo has increased in...
eee Transformer vs iPad 2
The ASUS eee Transformer versus Apple's iPad. Who will win?
Eeek! There’s a Spider!
Arachnophobes may need to book a long holiday this winter as the warm spring and...
Game Review: Dead Island
Is ‘Clean’ Nuclear Energy Possible?
The production of clean nuclear energy may be a little bit closer to reality...
Family Blogs
Cookies, Supercookies, Tracked Life and Vanished Privacy
Have you ever needed a flight from London to Brazzaville (or any...
The God of fruit named technology is gone!
Good night sweet prince. The corporate gods have deigned you too beautiful for this...
Deus Ex: Augmented Humanity
Cyberpunk computer game series Deus Ex continues with its latest instalment Human Revolution which...
NERF Blasters and a crazy short film competition
My job is very interesting. Investor and business meetings by...
Memory Full
What is the population of Papua New Guinea? What is the date of the Battle of Agincourt? Where was William Blake born?
The Killing Game.
I was playing a particularly violent video game earlier this week, one that involved...
Jupiter gets a Probing
When a spacecraft crashes into the plant it’s studying it usually means that a mission is a disaster and...
Apple doesn’t like to be bitten.
Technology uber giant Apple is at it again in the latest round of patent infringement battles with its rivals.
Social media for social mobility – creating your own opportunities
It’s common knowledge that this year is the worst yet for...
The Perfect Match
Bubble Universes Discovered
Bubble universes have long been a staple of Science Fiction but scientists may...
The British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App
The British Library and BiblioLabs have launched an App for the iPad that allows...
Graphic Novel Adaptation or what I like to call… not getting it right!
The surge of comic/graphic novels that have been adapted into films has...
App Attack
Yesterday Artfinder launched two new Apps for iPhone and iPod which allows visitors to...
Will you Wii U?
You may be forgiven for not being aware that Nintendo are launching a new console in...
Museums as far as the eye can see!
With the summer holidays upon us again you may be stuck for ideas of what to do other than...
CERN finds God… almost
Scientists in Geneva are one step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries of...
I’m on Google+
The question everyone is asking is whether Google+ presents a challenge to...
Sonos: The Wireless HiFi System
CDs have been the distribution format of choice in the music industry...
Living on Mars
No one would have believed that in the first decade of the 21st century we would be close to completing...
Griffin takes Flight
Griffin Technologies were in London this week to promote their new range of accessories for all things Apple.
Graphic Novel Review: The Dylan Dog Case Files
Oh, why bother? It’s all going to the dogs. Graduate employment, the economy, journalism, Hogwarts… they’re all collapsing around our ears.
Capturing the 21st Century: Vernon God Little
The premise behind D.B.C Pierre’s Vernon God Little is that life “is like watching TV-trailers; a shade of...
The Rise of the Super Hero
You may have noticed but Summer these days guarantees the emergence of one thing...
Halo: Still Evolving
In November this year Halo: Combat Evolved will celebrate ten years since its release and to commemorate this...
The Internet is Good for You.
In an age where the use of the Internet is becoming more and more necessary to...
Film Preview: You Instead
If you’re going to T in the Park look out for a world first as the film You Instead gets its world
Where’s my Jetpack?
It is time to stop complaining and embrace the future. And by that I mean the present...
Vax’s Revolutionary Student
When you think of cutting edge environmentally friendly household products, you may not automatically think of your trusty vacuum cleaner.
Review: Women War Artists
On entering the Women War Artists’ exhibition one is faced by a wall of statistics highlighting...
Uni Music League
Do you write music or are you in a band at Uni? Do you feel like your music deserves a wider audience?
Game Review: LA Noire
LA Noire: A 1940s set homage to noire fiction that uses state of the art technology to give...
Graphic Novel Review: Snow Trap
When two record store owners discover that a whole stack of their New Wave vinyls has been stolen by...
Underground Revolutions
How many times have you been at an Underground station in the heat of the summer, places to go, people to see...
Amy Grimehouse Presents: Welcome to the Dollhouse
Amy Grimehouse has moved location and seems to have found a more than suitable home in The Book Club, Shoreditch. Emanating the...
Story Mode
Video gaming first became popular in the late 1970s/early 80s with the introduction of the world’s first...
On a Bicycle made for 24,000
In July 2010 Boris Johnson, along with Transport For London (TFL), launched his bid to make London the largest...
Vampires, Werewolves & Witches, oh my!
Vampires, werewolves, ghosts and zombies were once literary expressions of public anxiety and warnings not to stray from the path of...
Intel’s DIY FX Workshop
As a strictly amateur filmmaker, I arrived at Intel’s DIY FX workshop expecting to be overwhelmed by techies, gadgets and jargon that...
Graphic Novel Review: domestiCATed, Paths Once Crossed
I am a dog person. Always have and always will be. After reading this graphic novel my...
Nobrow’s DIY Publishing event for Diesel Island
The Diesel Island Cultural Olympiad 2011 continues this week with a talk from Sam Arthur and Alex Spiro from...
Amy Grimehouse: Whatever Happened to Hollywood Glam?
As the spectators and myself make our way into the venue, we are received by the...
Graphic Novel Review: A day in the life of Alfred
After reading Jean Baptiste, I was interested to see what other work Øivind Hovland had..
Review: Interactive Solar System Tour
Ever wished you could explore the solar system from your computer? Well a fascinating...
Preview: “The Future of the Creative Revolution in Music with Goldie”
London's Red Gallery was the venue this week for an event in The Diesel Island series of events focusing...
Review: ArtPad App
Currently enjoying first place ranking on iTunes UK productivity chart, ArtPad is much more...
Cameron wants to set new standards. James, that is.
After the amazing job James Cameron did managing to sell yet...
Book Review: Sing You Home
Pin It Jodi Picoult novels tend to follow a prescribed formula, consisting of a family crisis, a legal showdown, an unexpected twist
FlashFiction Competition Winners Announced
So after having a ton of entries we have finally narrowed it down to...
Top 10 Online Distractions
Coursework deadlines scribbled on sticky notes remind you that you’re...
Graphic Novel Review: Trial and Error, The Aviated Efforts Of Jean Babtiste de Bomberaque
Everyone I know has a topic of conversation that they feel is...
Graphic Novel Review: Dreams and Everyday Life
Continuing on from Thomas Wogan Is Dead, this week I have delved...
The Royal Wedding
You’re damn right I’m excited about the Royal Wedding. And I don’t believe those who say they won’t be watching it...
Graphic Novel Review: Thomas Wogan is Dead
There was a time when they were anthologies of comics, which only the hardcore fans would buy on...
Apple iPhone: King of the Smartphones
Apple is now the world's most successful manufacturer of smartphones in revenue terms according...
Between Here and There
London is so “global and transnational” that the question of “purity and authenticity” has long lost its...
The Flash Fiction Competition has closed!
A big round of applause to everyone who sent in entries for the flash fiction competition...
The Bournemouth University Screenwriting Degree Show 2011
Buzzing in the heart of Great Marlborough Street, The Courthouse seemed the ideal location to host...
Facebook is the Leader in Online Advertising
According to a study by the Internet Advertising Bureau and the accountants, PwC, the value of online...
That’s just RAFT
On 7th May, at 20:00 (to be confirmed), an event is going to take place that will change...
Working 9 to 5… What a way to make a living?
I peer over the monitor. No one’s looking. Perfect. A frenzy of clattering keys and we’re almost done...
Facebook: The Unstoppable Force
Born in 1984, Dobbs Ferry, New York, in his short life, Mark Zuckerberg has changed the way people live...
Year Of The Mad
A year ago, I had a teaspoon. I also had far too much spare time on my hands, and far too many...
Cloning: Innovation or Abomination?
We often associate human cloning with science fiction, beside technologies such as hoverboards and jetpacks or with the dystopian futures...
EXCLUSIVE You’ve gotta Kiss a lotta Frogs…
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... In the last six months, life has got incredibly interesting...
Random Acts of Kindness
As we ploughed further into the New Year it became very apparent that I had forgotten something...
EXCLUSIVE GeekDom
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... I remember, as if it were yesterday, the day that...
The Future of Fiction
Recent articles proclaim the death of the novel and the decline in our reading habits. Authors such as Philip Roth claim that...
Speaking of Eco-friendliness
Today, eco-friendliness is everywhere. It is promoted in the streets, on the screens, by word of mouth; something about which...
Helena Goodrich on… KCL SIFE
Following television series such as Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice, society has become fascinated by the business world...
Chromaroma
Chromaroma is an online platform that takes the real-life experience of travelling around London to a new level...
Why do we Write?
This is a question that writers the world-over ask themselves when they are...
Hawking Radiation Glimpsed
Black Holes are one of the most wonderful and confusing objects in the known universe, but now we...
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