My wife Vicky came home from work yesterday afternoon and wanted to help get me out of the house and so took me out for lunch in a beautiful little coffee should in Durham. While Vicky was helping me get ready, she was playing a game on her iPhone, a game that her and her friends had been playing over their lunch period. After asking her about the game I found myself becoming more and...

Rumours are starting to heighten with Apples developer conference on the horizon and with the imminent announcement of the iPhone 5. One such rumour is that of an iPad Mini, something in the region of the Kindle Fire, still retaining the 10inch iPad but just adding to the range, a slightly smaller model and therefore able to compete price wise with the Kindle Fire. For me personally, I...

On the 3rd of May this year (2012), Nvidia release fastest graphics card in the world to the general public, the GeForce GTX 690. The card is sure to set you screen on fire, metaphorically speaking of course. However there is one slight downside to this power beast and that is the price. The GeForce GTX 690 will set you back $999 (£615), however it is worth reminding yourself of the...

Happy birthday to the ZX Spectrum, 30 years old today, birth child of Sir Clive Sinclair. The ZX Spectrum was my very first taste of the computer world, as a child of 70′s, kids all over the place where getting Spectrums, Commodore 64′s, Dragons or BBC Micros for Christmas. For me personally it was all about the games, games run on normal cassettes and loading with that...

A group of young developers with a plethora of experience in game design, have splintered from their previous companies; gathered together and formed Elastic Games. The result of this coming to gather of fantastic minds has been a much rumoured venture named, Call Of Duty Police Warfare. The game has been in design for the past six months and only now have the developers come forward...

Angry Birds, first developed for  Apples iOS platform in 2009 and now on many different platforms across the gaming spectrum, has gone from strength to strength. The manufacture of the game, Rovio, is a fine example of excellent success in the App market. The basic structure surrounding the game is a slingshot action of flightless birds in order to knock off pigs and other obstacles...