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  • The Ready Up Podcast – Season 3 Episode 23 – “Twitch To Who?”

    Jon Brady joins the boys. Katamari, Diablo, Stanley, Wolfenstein and Sticking it to the man – with added Ants and York!

  • Face to face with new XBOX controllers

    Today at Microsoft’s panel at SDCC ’13, Creative Director Ken Lobb revealed what features we can expect from the XBOX One’s controllers. A prominently discussed feature was the Kinect camera’s ability to facially recognise different users, allowing a game controller to recognise the person holding it. In turn, it can automatically switch to that person’s…

  • Xbox One – The Specs

    Although subject to change with finalised hardware, here’s a basic run-down of the Xbox One as we know it: An eight-core, x86-based CPU 800MHz custom GPU 8GB of DDR3 RAM Slot-loading Blu-ray drive 500GB internal hard-drive 802.11n WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet HDMI-in port (for TV services pass-through) HDMI-out port Second-generation Kinect sensor An updated controller,…

  • Xbox One – The Overview

    After what we can assume has been months of planning – and following a similar announcement from Sony – Microsoft have finally unveiled their next generation games console during an hour-long press conference, held last night : the Xbox One. Not to be confused with the original Xbox, released way back in 2001, the name…

  • Alice in Gamerland – Pulling Faces at Ogres on the Holodeck

    If you’re an EverQuest II fan then you will probably already know about the new (and let’s be honest bit weird) technology that’s now available to you: SOEmote. In case this one has got past you, I shall explain. SOEmote is a new technology that allows your in-game avatar to mimic the facial expressions you…

  • Some Games That Went Over Your Head

    Gaming isn’t all about the Modern Gears of Warfare or Super Sonic World 3 you know. There are all sorts of classic masterpieces even from recent years that I’m sure you won’t have heard of. These are some of the true greats that will have passed you by in the last 10 years. Look them…

  • Reconnecting with Kinect

    I have a confession: I’m really excited about Kinect. Now only a few weeks away, I can’t wait to put friends and family through their paces and watch as we all flail around in the name of entertainment! However, this level of excitement was nearly killed altogether by that most evil of forces: lag! For…