In today’s gaming climate of big-budget first-person shooters and third-person adventures it’s not often you’ll hear of a feature length puzzler being among the year’s most wanted games. Portal 2 isn’t just any game. Portal 2 is the follow up to developer Valve’s brilliant original mind-numbing Portal adventure – a title held in universal acclaim. We spent some time with Portal 2 ahead of its April 22 release. Read on for our hands-on impressions.
Brink may not be on everyone’s radar, but it deserves to be mentioned as one of the most anticipated shooters of 2011 alongside the likes of Bulletstorm, Killzone 3, Crysis 2 and Duke Nukem Forever. Brink is full of neat gameplay ideas and multiplayer innovation from the team that brought us Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Quake Wars. We got to play Brink ahead of its May 20 release. Read on to hear how the shooter is shaping up.
If you’re wondering why there’s not the usual regular update of tech news and features on the site today, it’s because Electricpig has been sent in for a bit of a digital MOT, and will be in absentia until tomorrow. You can still look at the site, and catch up on anything you’ve missed recently (like our coverage of the new MacBook Pro, or our Angry Birds cake), but we won’t be able to post new content.
We’re updating the site so that it should run more smoothly for you, and we also need to carry out some essential maintenance while we’re at it. We’ll be back online by 7am tomorrow morning, when we’ll be posting as usual. Thanks for your patience!
In the meantime, why not have a go at the Angry Birds Competition: there’s only two days left to enter!
The last time we wrote our top 100 iPhone apps, it was 2009. That’s a long time ago, and since then, a new iPhone has been released, and developers have been pushing the envelope of creativity and becoming ever more essential. So we thought it was about time we overhauled our list. Read on for our best iPhone apps.
The Doctor Who universe is set to expand again with a follow up to Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. Doctor Who: Worlds In Time will be a free MMO with the goal of solving puzzles and challenges to save the universe. We’d expect to see plenty of Daleks, the sonic screwdriver getting a look in and, with any luck, lots of appearances by the Doctor’s assistant Amelia Pond.
Doctor Who: Worlds In Time is being developed by Three Rings, the brains behind pretty awesome MMOG Puzzle Pirates. Doctor Who: Worlds In Time is due later this year after Series 6 of the new Doctor Who kicks off.
Out 2011 | £free | Doctor Who
Fancy a free Amazon Kindle? Speculation is growing again that Amazon may be considering flinging Kindles out for free. Back in October 2009, John Walkenbach observed that the price of the Kindle was falling at a consistent rate with such unwavering speed that he forecast that a free Kindle is due to arrive by November 2011.
Kevin Kelly reports that he mentioned that observation to Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, in August last year and received an interesting response: “He merely smiled and said, ‘Oh, you noticed that!’ And smiled again.” Why does that matter? Because Amazon looks like it’s testing a free Kindle future out already…
This may be the coolest Kinect hack yet. Combining Microsoft Kinect with a 3D printer, Joris Peels from i.materialize revealed the tool which scan people can create miniature 3D reproductions of them. The set up was put together by Karl Willis from Interactive Fabrication and its set to get improviments in resolution in the future to make the models more realistic. See the system, dubbed Fabricate Yourself, in action after the break…
Rumours that the Blackberry PlayBook will play nice with Android apps have been rattling around recently and a video has emerged showing an almost official confirmation from RIM that plans are afoot.
Recorded at Mobile World Congress, the video shows the Blackberry PlayBook and a RIM rep can be heard saying: “We will also support Android apps when we release the Dalvik engine on top of QNX.” The Dalvik engine would allow Android apps to be run on top of the native QNX OS on the Blackberry PlayBook. Take a look at the video after the break and let us know in the comments: should RIM allow Android apps on the PlayBook?
