I used to make jokes about my Twitter addiction, both on Twitter itself and to less 'connected' friends and relations when they made embarrassed enquiries as to what Twitter actually is. I don't any more; Twitter doesn't make me feel like laughing.

Twitter, we are told, can be...

The technology market is a brutal place, where gadgets and innovations are largely guilty before proven innocent, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of video games.

Games pundits love to kill things. Much has been written in the past year about the need...

You'd be forgiven, looking at this holiday season's blockbuster line-up, that the video games industry is suffering from the worst kind of content-churn.

The bestselling games this Christmas are so entrenched in sequelisation as to border on ridiculousness. We have the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the 14th...

When Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO in August, it seemed he would remain involved for an extended period as the company's chairman. It was said at the time that he would be a hands-on, God-like figure, still very much involved in product development and a...

The Italian murder case that has gripped media in the UK, US and Italy for nearly half a decade took an incredible turn this week as Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, found guilty alongside Rudy Guede of killing Briton Meredith Kercher in 2007, had their convictions overturned.

While...

Sony's confirmation of a date for PlayStation Vita - its next generation take on hugely successful gaming handheld PSP - may have been the flashy headline from the firm's Tokyo Game Show keynote this morning, but it wasn't the most important.

Vita, a powerful device easily...

Sony's PlayStation Vita emerged as a Japanese frontrunner from this week's Tokyo Game Show (TGS), leaving Nintendo in a dire situation with its intrinsically flawed 3DS.

Vita, the successor to portable gaming device PSP, was confirmed for a December 17 release in Japan at TGS, with two Sony...

Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor, a peripheral camera for Xbox 360 that tracks movement for video games, has been a great success. The hardware add-on sold more than 10 million units and 10 million games in its first 60 days on sale late last year, with Guinness World Records...

Patrick Bach, a chief developer at Swedish video game studio EA DICE, answered with a resigned air this week when asked whether or not he's out to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

"We're not playing the same sport," he said. "We're not planning on being the same game...

While investors have twitched at news of Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple's CEO this morning, it's an overdue move that clears the way for a well-earned retirement and the destruction of the myth that Jobs is some kind of Atlas, holding aloft the world's most prestigious computing firm...