News has emerged that Valve will be releasing a demo of its 4 player co-op zombie shooter Left 4 Dead. The demo, which should be out shortly before release, will more than likely be the first two maps of the game. The two missions start outside in the streets and later lead you into a [...]

The search engine we all know and love has turned 10 years old today. It’s odd to think that they’ve been around for only ten years to be honest – Google is intertwined with our online lives everywhere now. I personally use GMail, of course, Reader, Notebook, Analytics, Sitemaps, Video and Youtube, Maps and Earth, [...]

Those of you who have read my recent post on the failings of EA support, will know that it was impossible to get through to them. Well, I can now say the problem is solved and it is in no way down to EA’s help. A member of the team at DICE, the company behind [...]

I don’t know if you’ve ever owned any EA games, and I don’t know if you’ve ever needed their support with them – but trust me, don’t bother because you are going to get nowhere fast with the support team. I have been a long time owner of EA Sports and Electronic Arts games generally [...]

Think of the unhappiest times with your computer.. What happened during those times? What would cause your face to freeze and your jaw to drop? In my experience it has almost always been because data was lost. It’s normally the realisation that everything you had was gone – when you stare blankly at the computer [...]

Pushing around the internetz, minding my own business, I fell upon an old Gizmodo article of a year ago about a cat that you can buy, from Japan. No ordinary cat, no, but a robotic electrocute your-family-and-take-over-the-house sort of kitty. Scarily realistic, you would wonder if children would be able to sleep at night after [...]

With news that Google have just got that little bit closer to providing users of Google’s Maps and Earth a more detailed than ever view of where we live, I wonder if it’s all such a good thing.. The GeoEye satellite, 423 miles about the Earth, peers down as you’re outside doing the gardening. Little [...]

I’m not sure if this is a Microhoo story or not, but I do know that Yahoo’s shares have dropped to a 5 year low – at what point does this equate to “Shareholder Value” exactly Mr. Yang? Of course, The Register were one of the first (even ahead of me!) to jump on that [...]

I’m the sort of person that looks at something and wonders why it isn’t as good as something else I have. Example: In your modern browser you have tabs, and you can click-drag these to reorganise. Something you don’t need to do that often, but it’s nice to have the option. So I wondered why [...]

I know, we shouldn’t be getting the pallbearers ready just yet, but after the release of Google’s Chrome it does raise the question of how it will affect Firefox & the Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation is largely funded by Google so it presents a complicated situation for the two groups. On one side you have [...]