Laser Quest: the story behind Ronald Reagan's Star Wars By Adam Hartley Star Wars Week Star Wars could have represented something entirely different and a lot more deadly, if Reagan got his way.
Bayan Audio Soundbook By Adam Hartley Mini Review There is a healthy and growing market for quality, well-built, sub-£200 portable audio systems built to appeal to the growing hordes of digital audiophiles out there.
18 years of fun: Happy Birthday PlayStation By Adam Hartley, James Rivington In Depth We don our rose-tinted specs and remember the fun times that PlayStation has given us.
30 best ZX Spectrum games By Adam Hartley In Depth Sir Clive Sinclair's greatest invention, the ZX Spectrum, is 30 years old today and to celebrate we've compiled our list of the top 30 Speccy classics.
10 3D movies and shows to watch out for By Adam Hartley Films and programmes coming to 3D TV and cinema soon
How better content can beat 3D eye strain By Adam Hartley In Depth Sony, Sky, Virgin and others on 3D fatigue
Apple to merge iOS and Mac OS in 2012? By Adam Hartley Some analysts are suggesting that Apple will fully converge Mac OS and its mobile operating system iOS at some point in 2012.
US price drop hints at next-gen Kindle launch By Adam Hartley Amazon has slashed the price of the Kindle e-reader in the US, sparking speculation that a new next-gen Kindle is set to be released soon.
Google funding Bletchley Park restoration By Adam Hartley Bletchley Park, the home of Alan Turing's World War II code-breaking team and the museum of computing, is set to get funding from Google to revamp some of its dilapidated buildings.
OpenFeint prioritises Android gaming over iOS By Adam Hartley Online smartphone gaming service OpenFeint looks to be prioritising Android gaming over and above iOS gaming.
Sony: slow 3D uptake 'not a concern' By Adam Hartley Sony appears to be not majorly worried about the apparent slow uptake of 3D TV and 3D games, according to comments from a Sony Computer Entertainment exec this week.
Intel drops $30 million on new cloud computing research By Adam Hartley TechRadar Pro Intel has made a $30 million investment in two new cloud computing research centres at Carnegie Mellon University in the US.
Facebook's alleged spam king nabbed By Adam Hartley Sanford Wallace faces up to 16 years in jail, if found guilty of a number of phishing attacks on half a million unsuspecting Facebook users.
New Intel Ultrabook takes on MacBook Air By Adam Hartley TechRadar Pro Intel is aiming to take on the MacBook Air in the superthin laptop category, with a new, surprisingly affordable range of Ultrabooks.
id's John Carmack sings praises of open source By Adam Hartley Releasing Doom 3 source code later this year
Sony's PlayStation Vita UK release date pushed to 2012 By Adam Hartley Sony has announced that it is not going to release the new PlayStation Vita in the UK or the US in time for the Christmas rush, with Kaz Hirai suggesting that it will not arrive until early 2012.
World of Warcraft subscribers drop again By Adam Hartley The number of paying subscribers for Blizzard's fantasy MMO World of Warcraft has dropped for the second financial quarter in a row.
Bethesda: No Xbox 720 or PS4 till 2014 By Adam Hartley Bethesda's Todd Howard, game director for the forthcoming blockbuster Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, says that gamers should not expect follow-ups to the PS3 and Xbox 360 until 2014, at the very earliest.
Analysts hit out at 3DS' 'underperformance' By Adam Hartley Exclusive Beginning of the end for the console?
Golden Joystick Awards 2011 voting open By Adam Hartley If you want to cast your vote in the 29th annual GamesMaster Golden Joystick awards, run by TechRadar parent Future Publishing, then you now can.
Nintendo chief apologises to 3DS early adopters By Adam Hartley In something of a surprising move, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has issued a written apology to the first wave of Nintendo 3DS buyers, following the recent hardware price cut.
Microsoft reconsiders usage of Live.com geolocation data By Adam Hartley Microsoft has decided to rethink its plans to use the geo-location data of Live.com, following renewed privacy concerns amongst users.
Official Skype for iPad app released By Adam Hartley Updated The official Skype for iPad app was released into Apple's App Store before being swiftly taken down.
PS Vita may double as PS3 controller By Adam Hartley Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Vita handheld may be used as a PS3 controller for certain games if comments from a Sony rep at the recent Develop conference are to be believed.
Tsunoda: Kinect encourages 'method acting' game design By Adam Hartley Microsoft's creative director Kudo Tsunoda thinks that Kinect encourages games developers to 'method act' their ideas more so than ever before.
