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TechTales from the Borderlands – Episode One: Zer0 Sum
Like a great televison series, the first episode of Tales from the Borderlands will likely leave you wanting more. For established Borderlands players, it wi... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
TechThomas Was Alone
Thomas Was Alone is an indie game. The title itself is achingly twee. The simplistic graphical style, though based on the earlier Flash game, is a product of... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
Tech
Never Alone (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa)
Perhaps the most significant paradigm shift brought about by the indie gaming revolution of recent years has been the representation of a much broader range ... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
Food And DrinkScotland Food News – December 2014
This month, we salute fine cheese, prepare for an onslaught of power ballads, and blast through the whole of the Christmas season in a couple of paragraphs Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
Fashion
Pre-Christmas Pop-Up Shop Guide
Our pick of the pop-ups! Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
Tech
LittleBigPlanet 3
With three core games and as many spin-offs, the LittleBigPlanet series is carving quite a niche as Sony’s cutesy platform flagship. Yet whilst Sackboy... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014
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Tech
First Look: Hyper Light Drifter
When starting work on Super Mario 64, legendary director Shigeru Miyamoto instructed his team to begin by making a simple cube move with fluidity and grace b... Read more »| 26 Nov 2014 -
Tech
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Looking back a decade and a half on, it’s difficult to comprehend the sheer embarrassment of riches that came out of the PC gaming scene in its late 19... Read more »| 26 Nov 2014 -
TechHisense Sero 8
The Sero 8 is a solid and useable budget Android tablet Read more »| 26 Nov 2014 -
Tech
First Batman: Arkham Knight gameplay footage revealed
The first gameplay footage from Batman: Arkham Knight, the concluding game in the critically-acclaimed Arkham series from UK developer Rocksteady Games, has ... Read more »| 24 Nov 2014 -
Tech
Opinion: State of Play
It's old "news" that half of gamers are women, but a recent gaming survey contains some more interesting nuggets about gaming culture Read more »| 19 Nov 2014 -
Tech
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
To date there's been eleven main iterations of Call of Duty, and whilst Black Ops 2 was the first to venture into the future, Activision's latest iteration, ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2014 -
Travel
The Skinny Travel Shorts
From hiking in Myanmar to a particularly memorable trip to Millport, we want to hear your stories about travel far, wide, and very close indeed. We're open to all sorts, just make 'em engaging and we might publish them in our February 2015 Travel special Read more »| 18 Nov 2014 -
Food And Drink
Mixing it up: The Whisky Sessions set for Manchester
The Whisky Sessions brings more than 20 bands and dozens of whisky producers together at Manchester's Victoria Warehouse – we look ahead to the two day event. Read more »| 17 Nov 2014 -
Tech
Opinion: The Cultural Podcasts You Need In Your Life, Now
Not so long ago the podcast was a relatively obscure audio medium, but today it’s a burgeoning cultural force demanding to be listened to... literally Read more »| 17 Nov 2014