Gaming

2009: A year in review, December

December started with a bang at the 6th annual Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards. The public and 50 experts from across the Web cast their votes as to which were the best gadgets of the year in a whole host of categories - from music to cameras to GPS to games to phones...

2009: A year in review, November

The hairiest month of the year has to be November. For men across the world it's the chance to down razors for 30 days and partake in Movember - a charity moustache-growing marathon in aid of the fight against prostate cancer. This year, team TechMo - spearheaded by the...

2009: A year in review, October

In October, the headline event was always going to be the release of Windows 7. Microsoft's latest operating system emerged blinking from the beta lounge, through the release candidate double doors, into the real world. It was met with a warm welcome from the world's...

10 techs that failed in the Noughties

There are always winners and losers, just ask anyone that has watched X-Factor or American Idol, so which tech didn't make it through to the end of the decade and were rather left rotting in "fail" hell for eternity? Here are our favourites:

Arh it was...

2009: A year in review, September

On to September, which started with a bang at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin. Not one of those flat, comic-book style bangs, either - a massive 3-dimensional bang as just about every manufacturer in the world unveiled a 3D product.

There was 3D home cinema - Sony's...

2009: A year in review, August

The only people who weren't on holiday in August seem to be those in the camera industry. It was a bumper August for imaging with the superb Canon 7D breaking cover, while the company's compact range exploded to life with the launch of the fantastic G11 and PowerShot...

2009: A year in review, July

As the summer months arrived, the tech world seemed to slow down a touch, but that didn't stop the rumours and releases coming in. Ebook readers had a bigger show than usual with information on two upcoming Sony Readers leaked, the launch of a Samsung device and the announcements...

10 technologies for the next decade

Having experienced the technological wonders of the last 10 years, what have gadget and technology fans got to look forward to over the next 10. What will be big in 2020?

Here are 10 buzz areas that you'll be talking about for quite some time, changing the way...

Polaroid back from the dead: new products promised

Polaroid will live another day thanks to a new licensing agreement meaning new cameras and other devices will be launched in 2010, according to the new owners.

The new company, PLR IP Holdings, has announced the signing of six licensing agreements which promise...

2009: A year in review, June

Two events of large and massive significance happened in June - the Apple WWDC took place as did the launch of the iPhone 3GS and the legend that was Michael Jackson passed away.

Whereas the Internet was on tenterhooks as the Apple Store went offline for Phil...

2009: A year in review, May

With E3 coming right at the beginning of the month to come, it was of little surprise that much of May was dominated by game news and blurry shots of entertainment hardware. Word was dropped on Wii Fit Plus, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Tony Hawk Ride and the...

2009: A year in review, April

April always starts with a large bag of salt to pinch at with the 1st of the month designated fools day. This year saw the BBC iPlayer toaster, some satnav shoes from Firebox, the Guardian goes Twitter only and YouTube appearing upside down all in order to cause us mirth...

10 technologies that defined the Noughties

At the turn of the century the gadget and technological world that we now live in was a very different place. For the most part we were still reading books on paper, taking pictures with 35mm "wet" film, playing video games with our mates from next door and heading down...

2009: A year in review, March

With February's frost thawed, March was a chance for all in techland to get back on its feet once more. The last of the economic low trickled away with more job losses at Nokia and Google, and with the closing down for good of Wikia Search, Microsoft Encarta and music...

2009: A year in review, February

In February 2009, it snowed. With even London covered in winter, it should have come as no surprise that this would be the darkest month of the global recession. While children and adults alike played on days off work, little did knew that they wouldn't have any jobs...

2009: A year in review, January

2010 is fast approaching and with it the top gala events in technology. So while we wait for MacWorld, CES and friends, it's the time of year that we take a look back over the last 12 months and see how much we've grown.

January is always the most exciting...

VIDEO: Megawhat takes a look back at the decade in tech

Stuart revisits the technology of Christmas past, takes a look at the current gadgets of Christmas present and even leaps ahead to predict the technical wizardry we can expect of Christmas in the future.

Take a trip down memory lane as Miles gets in mentions...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Pocket-lint

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Pocket-lint and thank you for visiting Pocket-lint in 2009 - it's been an amazingly busy year for gadgets.

Hopefully Santa has brought you all the gadgets and gizmos you wanted and if he didn't, don't forget to check out...

VIDEO: PS3's Sodium One shown off in swish demo video

We've brought you news of Sodium One previously, so when this demo vid showed up in the PlayStation YouTube feed, we thought we'd share it with you.

Sodium One is an extension to the Playstation Home social gaming environment. Users can step into a Sodium "Teleporter"...

3D Blu-ray spec finalised

The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced the finalisation of the "Blu-ray 3D" specification that will see the three-dimensional content hit consumer's living rooms over the next year.

Claiming to offer "unmatched picture quality", as well as for standalone...

Red vs Blue Christmas Special comes to Xbox Live

A Christmas special for machinima series Red Vs Blue and a new episode of the anime series Halo Legends have been created and will be showing on Xbox Live over the festive period.

Halo Waypoint will be screening a three-part holiday special of Red vs Blue between...

BBC iPlayer stats revealed on service's second birthday

As the BBC's iPlayer service heads towards its second birthday on Christmas Day, the BBC has released new stats that reveal 2009 to be the most successful year to date, with Top Gear again bagging the top spot as the most watched programme of the year.

The BBC...

Guitar Hero: Van Halen appears on US shelves

You hear that? That's the sound of a lot of very happy dads. They're happy because Guitar Hero: Van Halen, the third band-specific expansion for the Guitar Hero series, has gone on sale in the USA.

The game has 25 Van Halen tracks, along with 19 other songs from...

Modern Warfare 2 nabs Christmas number one spot

After enjoying 6 weeks topping the game charts, it's been revealed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has nabbed the all-format Christmas number one spot, according to Chart Track data.

Although not as prestigious a position as getting the number one in the music...

Police called on 14-year-old gamer

It's being reported that a Boston mother called the police on her 14-year-old son after she discovered him playing GTA at 2.30am on a Saturday morning.

Angela Mejia woke up to find the light on in her son's room. She marched in and unplugged the console, at which...