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
Oculus Rift

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. …

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10/12/2014
Chris Smith

musicMagpie’s Christmas Gaming Gift Guide

Buying someone a game for Christmas opens you up to all kinds of potential problems. What if you buy them something rubbish? What if you buy them something they already have? Well, panic no longer: here’s our Christmas games gift guide! The games in this post are guaranteed to go …

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08/12/2014
Chris Smith
Bad Santa

7 underrated Christmas movies to enjoy this festive season

The first weekend of December is traditionally when people dig out their Christmas DVDs and treat themselves to some feelgood schmaltz. Watching movies like Miracle on 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life and Elf feels as warming and comforting as slipping on your favourite pair of (festive) slippers. But…well, don’t …

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05/12/2014
Chris Smith