Elf Musical Christmas

Don’t be bored this Christmas: watch these exciting new TV shows!

Nothing says ”˜Christmas’ quite like lolling about, munching Quality Street and watching TV. There’s been a quite a lot of controversy about this year’s Christmas TV offering, however. According to the Daily Mirror, 63% of the shows on the main 4 channels will be repeats. The horror! What else are …

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17/12/2014
Chris Smith
Christmas Tree

musicMagpie’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 …

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17/12/2014
Chris Smith
Sickweather

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 …

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11/12/2014
Chris Smith
Holiday Armadillo

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 …

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11/12/2014
Chris Smith
Arkham Knight

2015’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 …

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10/12/2014
Chris Smith