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Top 10 selling Christmas gifts of all time. How many of these can you remember?

Electronic Monopoly board takes cheating out of game (and all the fun)

Monopoly Live, the new version of the classic board game, electronically monitors proceedings and makes sure no one cheats. A ten-inch tower sits in the middle of the board, where it watches your piece as it moves about the...

Tim Berners-Lee calls Facebook "a threat to the web"

Facebook may be the Number 1 online destination for many citizens of the web, but there is one key figure who's still more than a little sceptical: web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Rather than an open world wide web,...

Villagers in Rutland build own high-speed broadband service

Villagers in Rutland, so fed up of their snail-paced broadband speeds, have taken matters into their own hands after service providers such as BT said that it was not economically viable to provide the area with a network upgrade. After...

CES 2010: 3D gaming headed to the Palm family

Palm have announced the arrival of 3D gaming content, headed to both the Palm Pre and the freshly unveiled Palm Plus. The 3D titles announced were Need for Speed Undercover, Monopoly, Let's Golf, Asphalt 5: Elite Racing, The Sims 3,...

Monopoly, Cluedo and Who Wants to be a Millionaire hit the iPhone

A few classic board games hit the iPhone this week with the launch of Hasbro's Board Games Room. For 59p you get can blow your rival (or yourself as all games have a single player option) out of the water...

Video Review: Pictionary Man

Pictionary Man, featuring an electronic Morph-alike to help you channel your inner Tony Hart

Googlopoloy – organise the world's information and buy out Bill Gates

Bit of a mystery as to where this one came from or even if it exists in hard form, which I doubt it does unfortunately, but the concept of Googlopoly is surely the only version of the Waddingtons classic...

BBC plans to limit their VoD service to Microsoft Windows

It has emerged that the BBC plans to make its forthcoming Video on Demand (VoD) service compatible only with Microsoft Windows. An (arrogant) report from the BBC Trust states that such services will be unavailable to a 'minority of consumers...