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Fringe Division: Droning On Again

Earlier this year I was able to review the first version of the AR parrot Drone. Since I had quite a positive experience with the device, I was more than happy [...]

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Fringe Division: Have We Peaked?

I remember the last time I upgraded my computer. I believe it was in 2008. I managed to scrape together enough cash to get myself the latest mid range nVidia [...]

Fringe Division — Patents Gone MAD

Now I know this is last week’s news but if you didn’t know already Apple has recently been awarded a cool billion US dollars in its ongoing war against Android [...]

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Fringe Division — Some Thoughts On The Imminent Dota 2

Having been an avid DotA player on Twilight for many years, I’ve always wondered how long DotA and particularly the Twilight server would last. Would people ever lose interest in [...]

Fringe Division — Chronological Snobbery And Brothels

Hello there readers. Long time no write. I suppose I should give a good reason for my absence from the column scene for the last month, but I’m afraid besides [...]

Review: Diablo III

Diablo III is finally here, and despite my absolute rebuke of the game in my hands-on preview of the beta, I’ve been given the opportunity to play the full game [...]

Fringe Division – Game Making: A Brief Personal History

Hello there readers. Now to be honest with you, I really couldn’t think of anything to write on this week, and I’m quite vehemently opposed to churning out mindless ranting [...]

How To Make An Insta-Billion

So I’m sure most of you have heard of Instagram and its recent sale to Facebook. Now if you’ve actually used Instagram, you’d know that on the face of it [...]

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How DotA Ruins Lives: A Personal Testimony

Back in 2007 I used to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed. I didn’t really play games in too much of a competitive fashion since, multiplayer was mostly done [...]

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Hands-On: Diablo III

As the title of this particular piece of literature might suggest this is a hands on preview for Diablo 3. Since this is possibly one of the most anticipated games… [...]

Droning On

Hello there dear readers. As you know from one of my previous articles, I’m quite the radio controlled vehicle-o-phile. I blame my parents for not purchasing more RC toys for [...]

Gamenomics

Hello there friends. Today I’d like to start by relating a story to you: The year is 1996. The date is August 1st. A ten year old boy wakes up [...]

Hands-On: Path of Exile

And so the republic of hack and slash role playing gamers was plunged into despair and chaos as the evil galactic Blizzard empire announced possibly another year of development for [...]

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Board Of Gaming

Hello there Readers. Long time no column as usual. To be honest there’s not much to say from me in the mobile arena so I thought, in true Monty Python [...]

Tab-letting [Column]

Hello friends. Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been experimenting with the idea of purchasing a tablet computer. So I thought it might be appropriate to give you my thoughts [...]

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The Dancing Bear [Column]

Hello everyone. Long time no column. Well, it’s been a month now. My apologies, but I was on a train back from the Kings of Leon concert two Wednesdays ago [...]

Camera Capps [Column]

So as a columnist I suppose I should be writing about the death of Steve Jobs, the problems with the BlackBerry network or something else of general news and mobile [...]

Bury The Berry [Column]

So it’s been two weeks already which means it’s time for me to do some column writing. Now some of you are asking what I think about BlackBerry and how [...]

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Smart Phones: A Brief History [Column]

Foreword: It’s time to shake things up a little and in doing so, we’re proud to introduce FailMaT_T to our column-writing regiment. He will be alternating Thursdays with Richard and [...]

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