Monthly Archives: April 2008
Sierra – The Spiderwick Chronicles
Games based on movies have rarely scored highly amongst gamers, not least because of the strong (and usually justified) suspicion that they’ve been rush-released as a quick cash cow on the back of a successful film, with little attention to plot, graphics, gameplay and storyline. Movie-based games in the fantasy genre have fared slightly better…
Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Ubisoft has unveiled its latest offering in the Tom Clancy franchise, the aerial combat game HAWX. HAWX is an acronym for High Altitude Warfare (presumably the X is just stuck on the end to make the name sound cooler, and less like a posh person laughing). The game’s set in the near future of 2012,…
New DriveStations from Buffalo
Buffalo Technology has extended its popular family of DriveStation external storage products with the addition of the DriveStation Combo4 TurboUSB, a range of drives with four interfaces. Available in three capacities – 320GB (HD-HS320Q), 500GB (HD-HS500Q) and 1TB (HD-HS1.0TQ) – all the drives come with eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0, the cables…
N-Gage comeback finally goes live
After a notoriously poor first foray into the mobile gaming market, Nokia announced last month that it would be revising and re-releasing its N-Gage brand, but this time in the form of a service rather than a mobile phone hybrid. N-Gage First Access is a gaming platform that will eventually be supported across the majority…
DDR3 for Intel’s Centrino 2 platform
Nanya Technology has announced that its 1,066MHz DDR3 SO-DIMM has been certified for use with Intel’s latest mobile platform, codenamed Montevina but better known as Centrino 2. The new DDR3 SO-DIMM is rated from PC3-6400 all the way up PC2-8500 with a 7-7-7 latency and has been designed to have both fast performance and lower…
Codemasters – Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Where would strategy and FPS games be without World War II to use as source material? When the developers at Spark Unlimited decided to return once more to this fertile well for their latest shoot-‘em-up, the problem was in trying to come up with some new angle on such a well trammelled theme. The answer…
Fujifilm up the stakes with J-series digital cameras
Fujifilm is one of the most prolific manufacturers in the digital camera market and true to its forward thinking ideals it has now launched a brand new J Series of digital cameras, in the shape of the FinePix J10 and J50. Designed for consumers seeking an affordable digital camera that doesn’t compromise on features, both…
Revo – Blik WiFi Internet radio
IQ test: what are the next letters in the sequence AM, FM, DAB? It would appear that the answer is WIFI, assuming the sequence is for methods of receiving radio. Actually, WiFi is only part of the answer with the Revo Blik, as its station connection is via the Internet, but it’s standalone and receives…
Bigger My Books from WD
Western Digital has just announced the next generation of its popular My Book Studio Edition external drives, the Studio Edition II. The new drives come in 1TB and 2TB capacities and use two of WD’s GreenPower drives (2 x 500GB or 2 x 1TB) in a factory-shipped RAID 0 configuration. Western Digital’s Green Power drives…
Brother – HL-2150N
As long as there is a need to print plain and simple documents, there will always be a demand for plain and simple mono printers, especially those that can get through the load with the minimum amount of fuss, as speedily as possible and with the maximum clarity. It was with these last three factors…