Technology

Nintendo's 3DS 3D upgrade to the DS range is just the kind of development we expected in reply to the arrival of touch tablets. As with the Wii, Nintendo are using novelty and innovation to tap straight into the interest stirred up by 3D movies and the...

Any kind of games design, blogging or web design relies on working quickly and easily with a range of graphics software. Professional software like Photoshop and Illustrator are expensive and often contain features which go beyond those needed for most...

Most PC advertisements out there place little or no emphasis on the PC component that hobbles most readily-available PC systems and consoles. The culprit is the hard disk, which delays start-up times and slows gameplay on the vast majority of systems...

The year ahead promises a rash of new technologies, with touch tablets, new graphics cards from AMD and nVidia, and more fast PC processors on the way. Console upgrades and motion controllers from both Sony and Microsoft can also be expected sooner rather...

Upgrading or replacing your PC to play better games can cause power supply problems. Especially when adding graphics cards. Outer Vision Extreme have a power supply calculator that lets you match processors, graphics cards and cooling options to find...

If we're to believe the hype, 2010 is a year packed with dramatic new gaming and media technologies. Much of this is attributed to the iPad, 3D TVs and new motion controllers. In reality, only a portion of the overall market will have access to these...

Over the last couple of years many gamers have upgraded their monitors to 22” models and allied these to a mid- to low-range graphics card to get reasonable gaming performance. More recently cheap 22” TN monitors, (with fast response times), and more exp...

Is the latest, state-of-the-art videogame going to run properly on your PC? With RPGs and action titles the software is likely to place high demands on most of your PC's hardware. The Can You Run It? website offers to save a lot of grief and some costs...

While we can’t claim to have laid hands on one of Amazon’s new touch tablets, this week’s announcement about the colour Kindle Fire certainly appears to herald the arrival of very affordable and functional touch tablets suited to use with Tabletop RPGs....

It's probably just as well a number of large companies in the UK have stopped taking orders in the lead up to Christmas, as it's hard to think of a time when buyers have had so much to lose, or gain, due to rapidly changing conditions in the consumer...

While touch tablets have been selling in large numbers, the console market enters 2011 in a state of relative stagnation. After the successes of 2009 and the start of 2010 the rest of the year fell a bit flat with few games offering any novelty or open-ended...

The iPad is already impressing as a gaming platform. Games such as Need For Speed 2 and Mirror's Edge are selling well and shared gaming is appearing as a standard feature in suitable games. For instance, there's a very slick Scrabble application for...

There hasn't been any coverage of touch and/ or handheld gaming in earlier posts, as we've seen these technologies as being solely about solitary gameplay. In particular, the Nintendo DS has become the 'distraction' of choice for many parents: convenient,...

We're suitably impressed by the appearance of a Microsoft tablet with a full screen. (A split screen tablet may yet be on the way from Microsoft). We're also far from surprised that the first full screen tablets will be expensive and lack certain features,...

Nintendo recently released statements about being in no rush to produce an upgraded Wii console and a policy of delaying hardware releases until software support is in place. It was also suggested that the next versions of Zelda and Metroid Prime for...

To our surprise Apple's iPad delivers most of the features on our touch tablet 'wish list'. It's light, thin, has a 9.7” screen, offers 10 hours of battery life and comes with WiFi as standard. The pricing is equally impressive, as a £310/ $499 entry po...

The Wii's success in shifting loads of consoles to new gamers is in no doubt. The Wii's motion sensors have also changed the way many games are played, and a handful of Wii games offer great gameplay. So far, so good. But how many of those Wii Fit's...