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Superfast 80Mb Fibre Optic Broadband is here

TalkTalk customers are now benefiting from great value Superfast Fibre Optic Broadband with download speeds of up to 80Mb. We’ve had a great response to pre-registration and now even more TalkTalk homes can enjoy some of the fastest broadband speeds around. Our new 80Mb Superfast Fibre Optic Broadband also offers unbeatable upstream speeds of up to [...]

The appeal of retro gadgets in a digital age

"The past is a foreign country," said the writer L.P. Hartley. If so it's one we're increasingly keen to visit. Mad Men helped kick-start the craze for mid-century fashion and furniture, and every aspect of 80s pop culture has been repurposed for today's tastes. But its not just retro clothes, music and Sly Stallone action films that have made a comeback. Gadgets once consigned to the attic have been dusted down and rediscovered by a generation weaned on iPods and Xboxes.

When will video games get a sense of humour?

When did you last laugh at a video game? And not because of some wooden dialogue, or unintentionally hilarious glitch that wasn’t ironed out during development. No, I mean when did you last laugh because your character said something witty? Or due to a well-executed sight gag or piece of slapstick? A while ago, I’d [...]

Thought 2010 was good for video games? See what 2011 has to offer…

Did you race through your turkey dinner and sneak out on the Queen’s speech in order to get in some quality gaming time over the festive period? If so, who can blame you. Last year delivered a bumper crop of brilliant titles to play over Christmas and New Year. The likes of Mass Effect 2, [...]

Why reports of the death of PC gaming have been greatly exaggerated

In the late 1990s, just after my 16th birthday, I decided to build myself a PC. It was constructed, Frankenstein-like, from a couple of older computers and new parts brought from a specialist shop called, if I remember correctly, Micro Bytes. At the heart of the machine was my most extravagant purchase: a 3dfx Voodoo [...]

Gaming may be going mainstream but online play remains a niche activity

Until the latter days of the 20th century video games were sandwiched between train spotting and prog rock on the “things adults should never admit to liking” league table. Saying you were partial to a bit of Super Mario Bros. from time to time caused non-gaming friends to stare at you as if you’d just [...]

Which motion controller will win over gamers?

Microsoft and Sony are finally set to throw their hats into the motion control arena later this year with the release of Kinect and PlayStation Move. Both companies have jealously eyed Nintendo’s dominance of the casual gaming market since the Wii shook up the industry in 2006. The only surprise is that it’s taken them [...]

Would you watch the eSports World Cup?

After months of build-up the remnants of England’s golden generation are taking their final shot at world cup glory. Rio’s out, Rooney’s fit and now only five more games stand between us and the Jules Rimet trophy. The final is expected to attract around 350 million viewers across the globe. But how many of them would [...]

Why social games are changing the way we play

Has someone you know recently become obsessed with melon farming? Or spoken ominously of ‘whacking’ a friend? If so, they’re probably a fan of Farmville or Mafia Wars, two of the most popular social games on Facebook. Perfect for whiling away a few minutes of your lunch break, or a fallow period in the TV [...]

Win a Sony PSP by playing classic computer games

There’s no doubting that computer games have come along way in the last few years. Games like Call of Duty 2 come with Hollywood-style budgets and bags of controversy.