The iPlayer will soon feature integrated radio stations, as the BBC continues its steady improvement of the already popular service. According to the What Satellite blog, Anthony Rose, the BBC’s head of digital media technology, told Broadcast’s digital channels conference that an all new iPlayer would be available in a few weeks. Currently radio is [...]
In what has been seen as a landmark legal victory for the man on the street, Universal Music has lost a court battle to stop people selling on its promotional CDs. It all began when music fan Troy Augusto bought some ‘free’ CDs from his local second-hand music store and then re-sold them on eBay. [...]
Playing games for hours on end may not be the healthiest activity in the world, but gaming doesn’t turn you into an antisocial nerd, an Australian study has concluded. The study, by Australian psychology graduate Daniel Loton, found that 15 percent of 621 adult respondents surveyed spent more than 50 hours a week playing games, [...]
Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has divulged the first plot details for the next Africa-set survival horror instalment. Speaking to Game Videos, Takeuchi revealed that after choosing to focus the fifth game’s story on the origins of the Progenitor Virus, he had “no choice but to set it in Africa”. “The main reason that we [...]
A recently-released trailer for THQ’s Saint’s Row 2 has been criticised as being “unusually pompous” for its digs at Grand Theft Auto IV. Industry analyst Mike Hickey commented on the trailer, which makes fun of GTA’s in-game social activities like bowling, watching TV and going to a cabaret club. “The trailer directly attacks Grand Theft Auto IV in [...]
The MS Surface, which features a 30-inch, 360 degree, touch-screen,coffee-table style display, will make its gambling parlour debut at Harrah’scasino in Vegas. Flirt, drink, chat Harrah’s has also specially developed a suite of”hip” new Surface apps such as a food menu and ‘mixologist’ drinkordering system which also lets you deliver drinks to anybody across the [...]
Picture the scene: you’re showing off your brand-new telly, all 47in of it. And while you admire its Full HD glory, one of your friends pipes up and says, “yeah, that’s all well and good, but the stand’s a bit standard.” No, we don’t think that would happen either but LG has just shown off [...]
Apple announces a new product and the world’s peripheral manufacturers wet their collective pants and start dreaming up every device they can think of. As inevitable as death and taxes. So that’s why we’re not surprised by the new Honlai Qingbar MP101, a pico-projector with an iPhone dock built right in. In fairness, it also [...]
AMD claims that it can now achieve Xbox 360 quality graphics on a handheld system. Engadget reports that the company “has announced it has achieved Open GL ES 2.0 mobilegraphics technology compliance with hardware that cranks out the same AMDUnified Shader Architecture as the Microsoft gaming console.” AMD takes on Tegra The new AMD graphics [...]
Native American actor Adam Beach will play Turok in the upcoming feature film. Mostly known for his roles on TV’s Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and the movie Windtalkers, Beach is one of few prominent Native American Hollywood stars. His credentials for playing Turok go farther than that, though – he was the voice of Turok in [...]
