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By our estimation Channel 4 is home to the UK’s best news bulletin - no presenters pretending they want to shag one another, the self-discipline to wait for the facts rather than report speculation, a world view which extends beyond the US and a commitment to produce a high quality product - and it’s now available on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. We’ve been playing with the app since it launched in … [Read more...]
Could there be a more perfect app for Apple’s iPad than this official Star Trek database? Taking its cue from the 1995 Star Trek Omnipedia, the Star Trek PADD is packed with pictures, technical specs, episode details and biogs of the various Star Trek characters, casts and production teams. Content is accessed via touch (and keyboard search) with articles cross-linked so while browsing the entry for Captain Kirk … [Read more...]
He may be best known as the creator of the Civilization franchise, but Sid Meier is also the man behind the best pirate-related computer game ever released and it’s now available on the iPad. The beauty of Pirates! has always been that you get to decide what the game is about. You can choose to search for your family, brutally kidnapped by the evil Marquis de la Montalban (boo!), fight infamous pirates such as … [Read more...]
Sid Meier’s legendary ‘god game’ Civilization has launched on Facebook with an all-new version designed specifically for the social networking site. Since it first launched in 1991, the game has spread beyond the desktop computers to consoles and and Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Civilization V, the latest computer instalment, has been met with mixed reviews, with some long-time players complaining gameplay has … [Read more...]
Steven Spielberg’s epic dinosaur trilogy Jurassic Park is coming to Blu-Ray for the first time this October. The three films, which generated nearly $2 billion worldwide at the box office, turned Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel into one of cinemas most spectacular film franchises of all time. Although the trilogy boasted an impressive, all-star cast including Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. … [Read more...]
More than a year after the iPad launched the media are still getting excited about ‘iPad killers’ which then sink without a trace. Hyperbolic ‘sales’ figures (seemingly actually distribution figures) are repeated without question, tech specs are lauded and then, suddenly, all goes quiet and the great new device is quietly forgotten. I think those who say consumers aren’t interested in tablets, they simply … [Read more...]
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