Author: Stuart Dredge
Thursday Top 10: Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star
I'll spare you the blurb about YouTube being a revolution in online media, a truly democratised broadcasting platform, and the pinnacle of user-generated content. You know this, and if you didn't, 768 high-brow articles in the press have already…
Grab yourself a Star Wars battle droid on eBay
It's not surprising they're being sold off – there's thousands of the buggers, and they don't seem good for much except cannon fodder. Anyway, Bayraider has turned up someone who's selling a seven-foot battle droid for just £850, or…
Tuesday Tunes: new music to download
A new feature this, rounding up some of the new tunes you can download this week – focusing on the exclusive / special stuff, rather than bog-standard releases. And it's a bumper day on iTunes, with a sack of songs…
Tuesday Top Ten: the eBay Robots are back
I love robots, they’re my friends. At least, they are until the batteries run out, or they go on a laser death rampage. Thankfully, the former usually happens before the latter. Anyway, it’s Tuesday, so it’s time to round up the best robots available to buy on eBay. And this week, I’m upping the number to ten of the tinny fellas, because there’s just too many good ones.
Monday interview: OMG's Julian Morris on motion capture advances, camera tracking and, er, road signs
Andy Serkis might not have got his Oscar for playing Gollum, but there's no doubt that motion capture technology has well and truly arrived in Hollywood. And in games too, for that matter – nowadays no self-respecting football game…
N64 Kids console up for grabs on eBay
If you haven't already seen the N64 Kids video clip, click below to watch what happens when you give an excitable American child the console they've spent the last 12 months badgering for. Unsurprisingly, it's become a hit on the…
Jazz up your love life with, er, an eBay spinning love swing
What's the best way to fend off that tricky 7-year itch? Why, a spinning love swing of course, like the one Bayraider found as part of their Freaky Friday blowout of weird eBay items. It can support up to…
Friday interview: ex-Egg man Tom Ilube on how garlik will fend off the personal-data vampires
Personal information can be a touchy subject. Who's holding data on you, and what do they know? What are they using it for? Should you do something about it, and if so what? These are increasingly common questions, but…
Are these the weirdest mobile games ever?
Unfortunately, Indian firm Mobile2win didn't get into today's 'Top 10 mobile games' post, as I haven't had a chance to play any of their games. But by hell, I'd like to. Take Spank The Ass for example, for its…
Thursday Top 10: Mobile games worth giving yourself RSI for
Mobile games are rubbish, right? Snake's the only one worth playing, especially since you paid a fiver for that rubbish movie game when you were drunk on the train home last year. Never again. But wait a second. Mobile…