LA Noire is a game like no other: where previous Rockstar games have stuck to tried and tested sandbox shooter mechanics, this Team Bondi developed thriller takes an entirely different approach, making you use your noggin rather than your trigger finger.
Our full review is coming very soon, but in the meantime, we thought we’d round up everything you need to know about the game and its development right here. Read on for the lowdown!
The Apollo 13 space mission was one of man’s greatest triumphs. So what better way to pay tribute to it than with a stop-motion video featuring interlocking plastic blocks? Our friends at Toyology have pointed us in the direction of a new viral, celebrating the LEGO City Space Range. It’s the first in a series of five vids – launching every day this week – commemorating significant moments in space exploration. Clearly, someone has too much time on their hands. Hit the Read More button below to watch the Apollo 13 Lego video…
President Obama – the most powerful man in the world – appears to be less than impressed with his BlackBerry. At a fundraiser in Chicago he commented privately that the technology used by the White House was ‘like, 30 years behind’, before going on to bemoan the lack of ‘really cool phones and stuff’. He raged, ‘I’m the President of the United States, where’s the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen?’ To be fair, the man’s got a point. Read on to find out why…
Back in 1997, when HTC was a design and manufacturing outfit, it launched what was then a unique product: a PDA. Less than two years later, with the company requiring a large injection of cash, it was clear the product was ahead of its time. As co-founder Cher Wang (daughter of the second richest man in Taiwan) later observed: ‘The market just wasn’t ready for a PDA phone that behaved like a minicomputer’.
Yet just last week, HTC announced some extraordinary news. Record profits for the first three months of the year had hit £313m, triple that of the same period last year – and in terms of market value, it had overtaken Nokia. It seems HTC hasn’t just captured your imagination – it’s captured your wallet, too.
Read on to reveal the secrets behind its success!
Electricpig meets former Radio 1 presenter Colin Murray – and discovers a man who loves to talk tech. When he’s not reading Sports Illustrated on his iPad or hunting down obscure music on his Sonos, the BBC anchorman is streaming baseball to his laptop in the wee hours. Yet despite all that, he can’t stand Twitter. WTF, as they say…
Mobile network Three has unveiled an extraordinary new sales tool: live video customer service. ‘It’s like advanced video calls, but so much smarter and with more interaction, around a custom built touchscreen’ say B-Reel, the Scandinavian digital gurus who built the bizarre-yet-brilliant tool.
Imagine a Skype video call – except that the sales person on the other end can drag or drop photos of the latest Three phones onto the screen, using a specially-made, multi-touch display. It’s all very Minority Report, you really have to click through and see the video….
How would like to test out the latest ejector seat? Well maybe you should watch this video before making up your mind. It shows BAE Systems putting the ejector seat on the brand new F-35 Lighting II through its paces – at a mere 600mph. From the moment the pilot pulls the handle, it takes him just three seconds to get clear of the jet. We say him, it was actually a crash-test dummy. To be fair, it costs millions to train those Top Gun types you know…
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Jack Tretton, the notoriously robust CEO of Sony PlayStation has landed himself in a very sticky spot – again. Having previously described the Wii as a ‘lollipop’ and the Xbox an ‘unreliable cook’, Tretton has branded the Nintendo 3DS a ‘babysitting tool’.
To be fair, he’s in good company here. Take a look at our Top 5 outrageous quotes emanating from the biggest cheeses in gaming…
