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Facebook brings its video-calling Portal devices to UK

Facebook’s range of video-calling Portal devices are to go on sale in the UK for the first time, the company has announced. Three new versions of the screen-based smart home hubs have been announced, and will now also support Amazon’s voice-based assistant, Alexa, and support encrypted video calling via WhatsApp. First released in the US…

18 September 201918 September 2019 Chris Price News

2018: The year Facebook lost all its friends

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began the year by pledging to fix the social network’s problems, but by the end of 2018 finds himself and his company under more scrutiny than ever. Martyn Landi reports on what has been a turbulent year for the social media giant.. The billionaire’s pledge was in response to scrutiny about…

26 December 201826 December 2018 Chris Price Gadgets, Social Media

WATCH: Portal, the musical!

FINALLY! As spotted by NowGamer, some enterprising theatre types have adapted one of the most heartwarming stories in videogames into a musical. Portal The Musical is an entirely unauthorised adaption of the game - and you can watch the highlights above.

30 March 2015 James O'Malley Gaming

WATCH: Portal 2 re-created in Minecraft

This is pretty astonishing. Reddit user LegMaster163 has recreated part of Portal 2 using everyone's favourite building tool. Impressively, it was all done in the normal 'vanilla' Minecraft, rather than by using mods so it had to be coded using in-game tools. Our only criticism is that the graphics appear a little blocky...

14 October 2014 James O'Malley Gaming

No Half-Life 3 at this year's E3, confirm Valve

Sorry fans of the Freeman; Valve has confirmed that there will be no new product announcements from their team at this summer's E3 gaming conference. That sadly means that, yep, we're gonna have to wait a little bit longer for…

3 May 2012 Gerald Lynch Gaming, Tech Digest news

Think Geek reveal Portal 2 bookends for your test chamber

Experiencing some cognitive deterioration? That's probably because you're not reading enough books. Know why you're not reading enough books? You don't have your library sandwiched between these nifty Portal 2 bookends. Available now over at Think Geek, they take the…

5 December 201123 November 2019 Gerald Lynch Gaming, Tech Digest news

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Best PS3 games of 2011

Now before we get started here, we have to stand up and note that, for PS3 owners, it's been a roller-coaster year. While the PlayStation Network online gaming service has many fans thanks to Sony generously making it free, Sony…

1 December 2011 Gerald Lynch Christmas Gift Guides, Gaming, Round ups, Tech Digest news

REVIEW: Portal 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

The original Portal was a cult smash, turning legions of shooter fans away from their AK-47s and making them don their thinking caps instead. A fiendishly inventive puzzler, it was also hilariously written, with each enigma solved bringing you one step closer to yet another killer punchline. It was a magic formula, and one that many argued would not serve a sequel well. Can Portal 2 live up to its lofty predecessor?

19 April 2011 Gerald Lynch Features, Gaming, Reviews, Tech Digest news

Valve want to make Half Life movie

Gaming properties are hot stuff in Hollywood right now, but very rarely do they capture the imagination of audiences as well as their console counterparts did. Just look at the woeful Super Mario Bros. movie. Even the recent big-budget Prince…

27 August 201021 April 2016 Gerald Lynch Gaming, Tech Digest news

Steam for Mac gets a release date

There's not long to wait now before Mac gamers get their hands on the Steam gaming platform. After missing its April launch date, the popular game library and download software will now be hitting Apple's machines on the 12th…

30 April 20103 April 2017 Gerald Lynch Gaming, Software, Tech Digest news

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