Tag: Book
Phew! Metro: Last Light is safe and now has a release date!
It's been a rocky few months for Metro: Last Light, the stunning post-apocalyptic shooter from Deep Silver. For a while back there during the sell-off of defunct publisher THQ's assets, it looked as though the Metro 2033 sequel had seen…
The Beatles Yellow Submarine book free for iPhone/iPod/iPad users today
To mark the first anniversary of The Beatles back-catalogue being made available digitally for the first time through the iTunes store, Apple have teamed up with the Fab-Four's team to offer iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users an exclusive…
Chris Ryan pens Medal of Honor tie-in book
Medal of Honor, the controversial franchise re-vamp from EA that has playing as both American and Taliban troops, is to get a tie-in novel penned by ex-SAS serviceman Chris Ryan. The best-selling author of numerous warfare novels, Ryan's Medal of…
Metro 2033 Ranger Pack DLC hits Steam and Xbox Live tomorrow
Post-apocalyptic shooter Metro 2033 is getting its first piece of downloadable content tomorrow in the shape of the Ranger Pack. Available over Xbox Live or through the Steam PC platform, it'll offer two new weapons (the Heavy Automatic Shotgun…
Sony predicts e-book to take over printed copy in 5 years
The Japanese tech-giant suggested the paperback will be a thing of the past within five years after analysing the rise of digital film and music. Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading division, told the Telegraph: "Within five years there…
Metro 2033 – Review
Name: Metro 2033 Genre: 1st Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PC Price: £36.97 (Amazon) It's not that rare of an occurrence to pick up a newspaper and find a story about train or tube commuters forced to trek through…
CES 2010: £125 Freescale tablet ready "by Summer"
While we wait with baited breath for announcements concerning the "dead-cert" rumour that is the Apple tablet, Freescale are looking to generate some pre-CES buzz by claiming they will have a "smartbook" tablet ready by the summer of this year….
Kindle was such a… success… Amazon is pushing ahead with Kindle 2
It was, as everything always is, leaked on the internet a couple of weeks ago, now Amazon’s finally detailed the specs of Kindle 2 – ideal if you’re just starting to get in on the hot new book-reading scene.
Kindle 2 will feature a 25% longer battery life, according to Amazon, will turn the pages 20% quicker if you’re an amazingly impatient person for whom TIME is MONEY and you can’t waste TIME waiting for PAGES to BLOODY TURN, will be thinner and…
Shiny Video: London's Guinness Book of World Records' gaming character costumes attempt
This morning I waved my gamer-geek credentials high in the sky from London’s Millennium Bridge, where the Guinness Book of World Records staged an event, attempting to gather together the most people in one place dressed as game characters.
Take a look at the video above for some choice costumes, including the twenty-odd strong group of school kids dressed as Mario (one of them shouted out to me, as I was also dressed as Mario, “Mario! we’re your sons!”), Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog, a chilly-looking Lara Croft, Final Fantasy’s Rikku plus a whole lot more.
You’ll be pleased…
Remind your future self how much of a moron you used to be, with Dear Future Me
A nifty idea which has spawned an actual real-life book (full of paper! wondrous 1.0 words!), FutureMe.org is like an online time capsule which can email you in the future and remind you of whatever it was you wanted to be reminded about back when you typed those now-meaningless words in.
Simply write…
