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The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this December, focusing on the 8-bit scene — musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 30 [...]

As of yesterday London’s Leicester Square will have free 8mbps ‘no catch’ Internet access. The connection is available 24 hours a day for anyone with a wifi enabled laptop or device. The service is being provided by PR company Four Communications. The PR company state: No longer will you have to purchase a coffee, a [...]

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman is the highest paid film actress according to the Hollywood Reporter’s annual list. The 39-year-old Australian is paid $17 million (£8.7m) for each film, moving ahead of last year’s leader Reese Witherspoon, who can command a $15m (£7.6m) fee. Renee Zellweger is in third place, also banking $15m per movie. Julia [...]

Finally, after more than five years since the launch of Windows XP, business users can now upgrade their computers with Microsoft’s new operating system. Vista is a replacement for the firm’s current Windows XP operating system and today (November 30th) marks a significant time for the PC market. However, the delay of the new OS [...]

Lilly Allen the 21 year old UK pop star known for her brash behavior and topping the UK pop charts with her single ‘Smile’ forget the lyrics to her own song halfway through a charity bash. Sheepishly halfway through singing ‘Everything’s Just Wonderful’ Lilly Allen had to stop and apologize to the audience. Whilst someone [...]

The Nintendo Wii which is slated as the must have Christmas present for 2006 and due for launch on the 8th of December, can be a lil harmful to health as our US buddies have already found out. In America, where the console was launched earlier this year, gamers have noticed the effects it has [...]

The Sims on the PC remains the best selling franchise from EA Games and Maxis. And after appearing on different formats in particular the consoles, the makers of the most successful game will now turn their attention to the Nintendo Wii. On The Sims 2 website, EA announced that a new Sims game is being [...]

Redoctane’s Guitar Hero II is now setting the trend for guitar rhythm games from the likes of Konami’s original Guitar Freaks, now Tenacious D is now paying homage with a Flash-based web game. Check out the link at the bottom of this article to play Tenacious D’s new flash based Guitar Hero knockoff. To play [...]

Japanese game manufacturer Nintendo will be pleased this week as the Wii console has sold more than 600,000 units. This is an amazing achievement when you consider that it’s only been eight days since the new game machine went on sale in North America. This figure is more impressive when you compare to rival Sony, [...]

The sequel to the Pirates of the Caribbean has become the UK’s fastest-selling DVD of all time, says distributor Walt Disney. Nearly 1.5 million copies of the Johnny Depp film have been sold in just one week – one in every four DVDs sold in the UK. Demand has been so great that Disney says [...]

Worldwide ‘Love” Listening Event In celebration of the LOVE album coming out thebeatles.com is having a worldwide listening event to allow everyone a chance to hear the whole album online. To take part, login using your e-mail address and add your LOVE “pin” to the map, enabling you to view all the other people who [...]

This seems unbelievable at first, but it seems two candles can be used to control the Infrared’s movement via the Wiimote. Light two candles and spaced them apart approximately seven inches (the same width as the sensor bar) and the naked flames emitted by the candles is bright enough for the Wiimote to detect movement [...]

Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima, admits the lack of a rumble feature on the new PlayStation 3 joypad has reduced the experience of enjoying the new adventures of Solid Snake. Kojima reveals this in the latest edition of The Official PlayStation UK Magazine when talking about his upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of [...]

The Prestige Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie Duration: 128 minutes Year: 2006 After the success of rebooting the Batman franchise last year with Batman Begins, director Christopher Nolan has teamed up with his two finest actors from that comic book adaptation – [...]

Based on the popular Nintendo game, Animal Crossing: The Movie, will feature Tom Nook and co heading to the big screens in Japan’s movie theatres. Doubutsu no Mori: The Movie will be showing in cinemas across the nation as of December 16th. Tickets are already on sale at our local convenience store run by that [...]