Microsoft Kinect makes your Xbox 360 into something else entirely. No longer is it the clumpy, whirring console exclusively for gamers willing to put up with endless red rings of death. Instead, it becomes the essential console for family gaming, making everything the Wii offers look, well, four years old. And it’s a software update’s throw from making the Xbox 360 the essential set top box, full stop.
Read our full Microsoft Kinect review to find out why we think it’s the gadget of the year.
The Orange San Francisco is one of the cheapest Android phones on the market. Android may be the seen as the biggest rival to Apple’s iPhone, but phones like this prove it’s a different kettle of piranhas altogether. An ancient battered first-gen iPhone will fetch more than a hundred quid on eBay, but the Orange San Francisco costs just a ton new. How can it possibly be any good? Find out in our Orange San Francisco review.
The HTC Desire HD. Where to begin? While the phone has only been official for a month, it’s a smartphone that gadget obsessives have been waiting on for much longer. Ever since the 4.3-in HTC HD2 stunned us a year ago by challenging our notions of how big a screen should be, we’ve been waiting for the Taiwanese trendsetter to serve up an equivalent sized handset, packed with Android, instead of the dreadful, crashy Windows Mobile.
The Americans got one in the Summer in the HTC Evo 4G, and now, at long last, British fans are getting one in the HTC Desire HD. Is it the iPhone 4 trumper we’ve been hoping for? Find out with our full HTC Desire HD review.
Set 50 years after the events of its immensely popular predecessor, Fable 3 charts the player’s meteoric rise and struggle to overthrow a tyrant king, before being thrown into the majestic hot seat themselves. Its creator, Peter Molyneux reckons it’s an experience like no other. Is he right? Read our Fable 3 review to find out.
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare is the final add-on for Rockstar’s five star rated Wild West adventure. Undead Nightmare adds a brand new zombie-filled single player campaign and two extra multiplayer modes, including a zombie survival mode. If you’ve read our Undead Nightmare preview you’ll know we were impressed. But after more play time is it the thriller we expected it to be? Or did it make us scream in horror? Read our Undead Nightmare review to find out.
The TVonics DTR-HD500 might not be the first gizmo you have in mind when it comes to buying a Freeview HD set top box. After all, why bother when big names like Humax and Panasonic are turning out such incredible machines? Why? We’ll tell you: read on and find out why we’re rooting for this plucky British underdog in our TVonics DTR-HD500 review.
Fallout: New Vegas faces a challenge tougher than a Super Mutant on the powder. Previous post-apocalyptic installment Fallout 3 scooped awards across the board on release two years ago, and had fans’ hair falling out, not through radiation sickness, but simply because they played into old age. In the hands of a different developer, can the series continue its streak? We’ve been roaming the Mojave wastelands for the last fortnight to bring you our verdict: find out what we made of it in our full Fallout: New Vegas review.
When asked to review the new Amazon Kindle, I expected to find myself tearing it apart. Truth is, despite my love of gadgetry, I’ve always been skeptical of e-readers. I love books, for all the same reasons lovers of books tend to: the physical object, the smell of old pages, all that romanticised guff that’s been said before. And so in my previous encounters with e-readers I have mostly found myself unimpressed, turning my nose up at the dreary grey e-ink screens. Not this one though. No, no. Read on for the new Amazon Kindle review and find out why.
