Reviews

iPhone 5s review: lots to love

Apple makes great looking phones, and the iPhone 5S is no exception. It’s priced a wee bit too high to make it an essential…

‘Need for Speed Rivals’ review: the endless road

Need for Speed Rivals is the latest title to be spawned from the Need for Speed family and the first one born from the…

Samsung ATIV Book 8 review: a costly, underwhelming laptop

I think Samsung is playing a joke on me. Its US$1269 notebook, the Samsung ATIV Book 8 feels like a half-baked idea: one part…

Outlast review: survival horror at its finest

“Outlast contains intense violence, gore, graphic sexual content and strong language. Please enjoy.” These are the first words you are met with when starting…

iPad Air review: a heavyweight contender for the best tablet ever made

Apple makes amazing gadgets. Whatever your opinion on Apple is (it’s evil, it’s beautiful, why won’t it love me?), it’s going to continue making…

‘Gone Home’ and ‘The Stanley Parable’ review: no more tears

Games are an extremely potent and immersive means of conveying stories. Lately, it rings more true than ever. A lot of the latest AAA titles…

Lenovo Yoga review: is this the future of tablet flexibility?

There were tablets before the iPad, but none of them really made anything more than a splash in the market. Since then, Apple has…

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion — worth falling in love with

Over the years I have used and reviewed many operating systems, from Linux to Windows and sometimes MacOS. Well when the latest version of…

Panasonic TX-P65VT50B — 65 inches of home cinema heaven

While the Panasonic P65VT50 has stood imposingly on our test benches, it’s affectionately become known as the beast. Why? Because it’s arguably the most…

Asus Zenbook: The world’s most beautiful ultrabook?

For some time now it’s been pretty obvious who’s been leading the laptop stakes. I don’t want to say it, but let’s just say…

Instagram 3.0 is bolder, better, smarter

We all know Instagram, better known as the camera of the internet. For the uninitiated, Instagram is a social media camera app with built-in…

Brookstones Pocket Projector — a quirky little iPhone toy

The Brookstones Pocket Projector. I guess if you’ve got money to burn, really need some novelty aspect to your tech life and love only Apple,…

Asus Transformer Pad Infinity — a better benchmark

The Asus Transformer range has been the benchmark ‘tablet to beat’ in the Android space since the first Transformer launched about two years ago….

Sony Vaio S Series 13P — ticking the right boxes

Sony’s new Vaio S Series laptop continues the Japanese company’s tradition of stuffing its flagship device with the very latest tech available, then serving…