In the second episode of series 10, it is Father's Day and Dave Lister, who some three million and forty something years ago was found in cardboard box, in a pub, underneath a pool table, is honouring his good old dad Dave Lister. This is not a typo. It is...

This is an SOS distress call from a Red Dwarfer's sofa. The crew are dead, wiped out 3 million and 24 years ago by a radiation leak. The crew are dead (Dave) - they're all dead Dave. Dave, they're dead. Oh wait, no they're just really really really old!

Most...

I was saddened to hear that Paula Radcliffe pulled out of the Olympics due to a foot injury, especially since she still holds the World Record for the Marathon at 2:15:25 (set in 2003) which (interestingly) smashed the previous record of of 2:17:18 set in 2002 by... Paula Radcliffe.

Being...

Since I cannot be there I decided I may as well get as close as I can by watching it with my 3D TV.

The ceremony started off quite well, the 'condensed history of Britain' was interesting but an hour in, the performance lost its enthusiasm and the BBC commentators...

The London Olympics are less than two months away and the government machine is trying drum up enthusiasm within the souls of a nation of island complainers, pessimistic about the reality of the Olympic legacy but who also find public transport gruelling and delay-ridden enough without the added injection of...

On perusing the Xbox Live marketplace the other day I came across a playable demo for Capcom's upcoming release for the Xbox360 Kinect: Steel Battalion Heavy Armour (SBHA) which is due out a little under a month from now. In the game, you pilot a VT (Vertical Tank), or a...

We often hear about the Technological Singularity: The moment when machine intelligence becomes better than human intelligence and the biological transcends into the digital world - ideas popularised by authors such as Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross. But a new type of socio-cultural Singularity has been waiting in the wings...

GAME has been a high street institution for gamers with a large wad of cash burring a hole in their pocket for what feels like a couple of decades, so news that GAME group is going into administration saddens me a little.

When I was younger, when...

If Philip K Dick, Michael Stipe and Danny Boyle were to somehow merge their creative genius then they would probably give form to something like Mike Cahill. Cahill's Indie Sci-fi 'Another Earth' is his debut as a filmmaker of fiction and carries the accolade of having some success at this...

Ok. So T1000 walks into a bar. As data streams down his field of vision about the people around him he registers status updates, re-tweets and foursquare reviews. Comical non-starters aside, a perceivable data stream is essentially what Augmented Reality (AR) is. Tom Caudell, a researcher for Boeing, coined the...

I recently saw an advert for the new Sony PSP E1000 handheld console. This is a little confusing as I thought the PS Vita - a handheld device that seems to have had every conceivable theory for the way we play games and digitally interact with each other...

Six months ago, Sony was the recipient of a massive hacking attack that took down a number of its services including the Playstation Network (PSN). Millions of frustrated gamers were plunged into a gaming Dark Age when the network that allows gamers to play online against hundreds of other gamers...

Clouds are forming above the digital world and companies like Microsoft and Apple are asking us to enter them, to enter 'the cloud'. But what is this cloud and why should we care? Is this a genuine leap or, like Icarus are we just going to get burnt.

The Oxford...

Mario and Luigi in illegal back-alley drag races, Princess Peach turning tricks to support the Mushroom Kingdom, and Donkey Kong on Celebrity Big Brother. Could this be the future for some of Nintendo's most iconic characters?

The 3D revolution of 3DS didn't happen. Despite an impressive launch with Nintendo shifting...

'Hello, my name is Electronic Programme Guide, you can call me EPG for short'. I am Guy Montag in some twisted Digital S&M reboot of Ray Bradbury's Apoca-Literature dystopian reality; Fahrenheit 451. I am totally 100% Montag, I am a Transmission Controller instead of a Fireman but the effect is...

When I heard that Katie Price was about to launch a new Reality TV show called Signed by Katie my first reaction was 'oh no not another one'. Then I thought: 'why do we need another Reality show and why is Katie Price a suitable celebrity to front it?' Let...