It’s a match made in heaven: Minecraft and Lego are embarking on a set of projects together, having attracted more than 10,000 votes on Lego’s CUUSOO site – the home of future Lego projects. Is there a Lego-themed version of the smash hit online game coming? Read more
Back to work? Depressing isn’t it? While your holiday may not have lasted quite as long as you’d imagined it would, there are ways and means of killing time until the next batch of time off. Here are our favourite time-wasters on the web… Read more
“Sign here, please” – we scrawl our name and look shiftily around. We’re in one of Britain’s most secure technology centres. Sky‘s broadband SNS centre is so secret, we’re not allowed to tell you where it is, in case it’s targeted by terrorists. We feel like Jack Bauer, with more child-like handwriting and some crumpled Non-Disclosure paperwork stuffed in our back pocket. Step inside with us, and see what Sky’s so desperate to keep secret. Read more
With Adobe Flash for mobile devices about to fall off the face of the Earth and HTML 5 flying the flag for new web page development, it looks as though the web standard that’s caused so much contention is about to meet its maker. It’s only right to celebrate such a thing by pointing out its best bit – Flash games. Read more
OnLive, the online gaming service that lets you stream PC and console games through your existing kit, is hitting the UK on September 22. But what does it need to do to compete with the gaming big boys already here?
We’ve made a five point plan for success – OnLive, heed this and you can’t fail.
The Wii U promises to bring a new dimension to gameplay, with the wireless controller effectively working as a tablet you can stream games to with the TV switched off. But hang on, that sounds a little like OnLive to us, the online games service that lets you play the latest games regardless of the power of your device. Rather than Microsoft or Sony, BT (who has a 2.6% stake in OnLive) is who Nintendo should be worried about.
But does Nintendo have a strong enough fanbase to see off OnLive? Will people really buy a whole new console when they can play using the gear they already have, plus a subscription? Read on for some expert predictions.
A Japanese woman has been charged and held in Sapporo, Japan, for deleting the character of her virtual “husband” in the game Maplestory, after he virtually divorced her without warning.
