Dodgy devices and hideous handhelds

There’s a Hong Kong-based online retailer where, hidden away from the official console bundles and realms of third party peripherals, there’s a peculiar section titled “Other videogame consoles”. Here you’ll find a variety of dubious looking handhelds of all shapes and sizes, pre-loaded with hacks of NES games and more. We don’t condone piracy here …

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Gaming’s fittest birds

We’ve spotted a worrying trend recently on a few less established websites – articles based ‘gaming’s sexist women’ and the like. We’ve decided to put a spin on our very own round-up though, so here’s our top six fittest birds… of the avian variety. Oh, it’s not what you were expecting? That’s a pity. 6. …

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Winding up the birds

After finally warming up to Whale Trail last week, Jake spent this week having a fiddle with Tiny Invaders. Exploring the depths of blatant IP theft, Matt has been dabbling with Cut the Birds, whilst Adam has been poking around with wind-up toys and helicopters. Wind-up Knight It looks a bit like Clockwork Knight on …

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Unfashionably late to the iPhone party

There have been some really good science documentaries recently: Wonders of the Universe, with physics megastar (pun intended) Prof Brian Cox; TV’s Ben Miller getting to grips with temperature on Horizon; and BBC Four’s Everything and Nothing. Properly entertaining, and properly mind-bending. It’s fun to stimulate your brain’s big number region. Like this: there are …

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