Category: Desktops
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Dell Unveils $2200 Alienware Aurora Rig
An all-new, supercharged addition to the all powerful Alienware range has just been announced by Dell. The Alienware Aurora was first seen via the Dell Community site, and in the press release the writer expresses an important reason as to why the rig is such a great addition to a high-performance gamer’s arsenal: namely immersion. […]
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100-Million Downloads For Apple’s Mac App Store
The Mac division of Apple’s App Store is currently celebrating a massive milestone after reaching the 100-million mark for digital software downloads. The App Store opened up its desktop department less than a year ago in January 2011 with an initial library of 1000 software apps. Until then the store was solely a marketplace for […]
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Creative Ad Agency Turns Google Maps Into First-Person-Shooter Game
An act of genius – or genuinely disturbing? Creative advertising agency Pool Worldwide utilised the immersive Google Maps location and tour guide with photographic Street View and provided its worldly travellers with a M4A1 assault rifle turning it into a first-person-shooter called Google Shoot View. Arming geographiles with the deadly weapon, the ad co. hijacked […]
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Happy Birthday Angry Birds – Mobile Gaming Sensation Celebrates 2 Years!
This past weekend, the uber-popular mobile gaming sensation Angry Birds celebrated its second year since leaving the nest – amidst a catapult ride into the world of mass marketing and ahead of landing on new forms of media such as the future movie! If you don’t know Angry Birds, you must have lived the last […]
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Google Doodle Celebrates Robert Noyce – ‘Mayor of Silicon Valley’ & Intel Founder
He was dubbed ‘The Mayor of Silicon Valley’ after he founded computer processor company Intel and today Robert Noyce is celebrated in traditional Google Doodle style! Robert “Bob” Noyce was born on December 12th, 1927 and would have been 84 today. In 1957 he co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor the company credited as creating the first commercially […]
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Google Doodle Celebrates Robert Noyce – ‘Mayor of Silicon Valley’ & Intel Founder
He was dubbed ‘The Mayor of Silicon Valley’ after he founded computer processor company Intel and today Robert Noyce is celebrated in traditional Google Doodle style! Robert “Bob” Noyce was born on December 12th, 1927 and would have been 84 today. In 1957 he co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor the company credited as creating the first commercially […]
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BBC Sci-Fi Show Doctor Who To Become a Game – “Coming Soon” For Sony Playstation 3 & PS Vita
As buzz for this year’s annual Doctor Who Christmas episode is building sci-fi fans into frenzy, the BBC has given geeks an early gift ahead of the big day’s must watch telly tradition – the news that the popular show will become a game for Playstation 3, PS Vita and PC platforms in 2012. The […]
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BBC Sci-Fi Show Doctor Who To Become a Game – “Coming Soon” For Sony Playstation 3 & PS Vita
As buzz for this year’s annual Doctor Who Christmas episode is building sci-fi fans into frenzy, the BBC has given geeks an early gift ahead of the big day’s must watch telly tradition – the news that the popular show will become a game for Playstation 3, PS Vita and PC platforms in 2012. The […]
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Acer To Join Samsung In Closing Netbook – Cost-Cutting Taiwan Co. Will Focus On High-End Tech
Taiwanese co. Acer is following in the footsteps of neighbouring Korean’s Samsung in ceasing production of Netbooks – but Acer’s motivation is in an attempt to save the company’s struggling profits. Acer is infamously struggling on a financial level which is the reason for their axing of the Aspire Netbook range to focus on higher-end […]
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XXX Web Domains Go Public – As TalkTalk Filter Fail Leaves HomeSafe Unsafe
XXX web domains have gone live – and no we’re not talking about websites that support the clean-living straight edge lifestyle symbolised by a trio of Xs. This is a different kind of hardcore.. The ICM Registry has now decreed that adult business websites can have their own sector of the internet, akin to an […]
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Minecraft & LEGO – Game & Toy Makers Building a Perfect Partnership!
It doesn’t take a genius to find comparisons between the wonderful online world of Minecraft and all-time classic toy LEGO. The game that was clearly inspired by the toy will now come full circle in a partnership that was destined to be built – LEGO will make Minecraft inspired toys! The ever-popular Danish toy range […]
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Minecraft & LEGO – Game & Toy Makers Building a Perfect Partnership!
It doesn’t take a genius to find comparisons between the wonderful online world of Minecraft and all-time classic toy LEGO. The game that was clearly inspired by the toy will now come full circle in a partnership that was destined to be built – LEGO will make Minecraft inspired toys! The ever-popular Danish toy range […]