BBC iPlayer comes to freesat

From December 7th a beta version of BBCiPlayer will launch on the freesat platform. This test version is believed to be available to journalists and industry insiders with the full version made available to all before Christmas.
This will be the first time that BBCiPlayer will be made available via a free to air broadcaster
All existing [...]

What we’re playing: Xbox 360 FIFA 10

As someone who had been a long term fan of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series, I have to admit that in recent years EA Sports’ FIFA games have proved to be the more satisfying of the two main footy contenders.
As with previous generations the presentation in this game is superb with animation and player likenesses [...]

Disney – Pixar’s Up set for take off

I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview of Disney – Pixar’s latest animated feature Up.
As previously covered by Seenit.co.uk Up centres around Carl Fredricksen – a 78 year old widower and former balloon salesman who is in danger of being hounded out of his home by property developers. When it appears inevitable [...]

What We’re Playing: XBOX360

For those of you who have been enjoying the aerobatic excitement when flying fighter planes in Battlefield 1943, you could do a lot worse than download the demo of IL-2 Stormovik: Birds Of Prey.

Arise Sir Charlton Brooker!

It has been so refreshing to see an alternative take on the news in the form of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe on BBC4 (the beeb don’t seem brave enough to unleash CB onto it’s more mainstream channels).
Maybe it’s a sign of me becoming a grumpy old man, but I can’t help but agree with Charlie’s satirical [...]

Watchmen

This  comic book adaptation has been a long time coming. Alan Moore (the un-credited co-creator of Watchmen…at his own request) was once asked how he would make a Watchmen movie & he is reputed to have said ‘I wouldn’t’.
The original comic book is a rich and dense story with many strands and sub-plots, which would [...]

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