Monthly Archives: October 2006
PNY – 2GB Outdoor Attaché
PNY has built its considerable reputation on flash memory and drives, as well as high-end memory upgrades and, more recently, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards. So when a new USB 2.0 drive appears it pays to take notice, even if on the surface it looks like a standard product in gimmicky clothing. The basic idea was…
Electronic Arts – FIFA 07
Rather than churn out the usual “it’s not changed much / Pro Evo is better / cynical EA Sports”-esque review of the new, annual FIFA game, this reviewer thought he’d set himself a challenge. Could he remember the last time that a FIFA game really took him aback? The answer? Christmas 1997 and, more specifically,…
McAfee – Internet Security Suite 2007
Every Autumn you can depend on a number of certainties in life. Leaves will fall. Christmas stuff will start to appear in shops and on the TV. Electronic Arts will bring out the year’s crop of sports games. And Symantec and McAfee will release the year’s crop of protection suites. So it’s out with 2006…
Virgin Mobile – Lobster 700TV
There are already plenty of TV-like services for mobiles, delivering various clips and made-for-mobile type materials. But the Lobster 700TV, exclusive to Virgin Mobile, is something different. It is a mobile on which you can watch TV just as you would on your main telly at home. Well, up to a point. The Lobster 700TV…
Canon – EOS 400D
An evolution of Canon’s 300D and 350D digital SLRs, the EOS 400D is a digital SLR camera aimed at what you might call ‘pro-sumers’. Professionals might occasionally be found with these and your average photography enthusiast might aspire to own one. Two generations on from Canon’s initial breakthrough into the world of consumer digital SLR…
THQ – Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
For adventure gamers the arrival of a new Broken Sword story is like discovering an oasis of creativity in the midst of a desert of mediocrity. As comfortable as a favourite pair of slippers, this fourth outing for slightly dim American treasure-hunter George Stobbart is a return to traditional point ‘n’ click gameplay after the…
Hawking – Wireless-G Range Extender
With the muddle of ratification of official 802.11n wireless standards still causing many to stick with their ‘g’ rated equipment, the issue of range remains, for some, unresolved. But one solution that neatly sidesteps the urgency of greater range that 802.11n will bring is the wireless extender, and with the asking price of this particular…
Canon – Selphy CP720
Described as a ‘Compact Photo Printer’, the Canon Selphy CP720 is little bigger than my hand and little more than six centimetres thick. It’s a thermal dye printer designed for printing photos direct from digital cameras or memory cards, at home or on the move. In recent times, high street digital photo processing has caught…
THQ – Company of Heroes
“Oh no”, you groan, “not another World War II RTS game with the usual resource gathering, base building and mass charging that have characterised the genre for so long, together with bad acting and repetitive oaths?” Well, fortunately not, as developers Relic have instead chosen the brave course of taking a well trammelled game theme…