musicMagpieâ€™s alternative Christmas playlist

musicMagpieâ€™s alternative Christmas playlist

Admit it: you're at breaking point, aren't you? You're sick of Slade, I Wish It Could Be Christmas is starting to conjure up some dark thoughts, and if you hear George Michael bleating on about last Christmas one more time, you can't promise that you won't go full-on Grinch and …

17/12/2014

Chris Smith

Music

What Series Should You Watch Next?

16/12/2014

Chris Smith

The Films You Should Be Looking Forward to in 2015: Part Two

2015 is going to be a ridiculously good year at the cinema, as we established in part 1 of our rundown of the most exciting films coming out next year (which you can check out by clicking this link). And, incredibly, the 2nd half of 2015 is going to be …

16/12/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

The Films You Should Be Looking Forward to in 2015: Part One

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes, but we're pretty confident we can add another certainty to that list: 2015 is going to be a ridiculously good year for movies. There are so many good movies lined up over the next year that when it came …

12/12/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Sickweather

It's Thursday, which means it's time for another surprisingly easy app of the week! This week, we're going to help you avoid getting ill before Christmas with Sickweather… What is it? Sickweather is "˜the world's first Doppler radar for sickness', which basically means that it tells you where sick people …

11/12/2014

Chris Smith

The 10 best Christmas TV specials ever

Ah, the Christmas TV special: a wonderful time when our favourite television characters learn the true meaning of Christmas by a) doing a lazy remake of A Christmas Carol or b) starring in a ludicrously sentimental episode where all of their problems are solved by the magic of Christmas/Santa Claus/buying …

11/12/2014

Chris Smith

2015â€™s most exciting new games

It's been a funny old year in the world of games. The Xbox One and PS4 had their first full year, yet neither really set the world on fire. Destiny, the world's most expensive game, ended up being…well, alright. There were loads and loads of remakes too. But let's not …

10/12/2014

Chris Smith

Games

What Will Be 2015's Top New Tech?

It's nearly 2015. By now, we were supposed to be living in sprawling skyscrapers on the moon, enjoying the service of robot butlers and traveling around in tubes. Unfortunately, only one of those predictions has come true. And it's not exactly the type of tube we were thinking of, either. …

10/12/2014

Chris Smith