Help FACT and Innovation Labs build their new mental health app, MiniMe
FACT are teaming up with Mersey Care NHS Trust and Red Ninja Studios to create a mental health smartphone app, developed by and for young people. The app, called MiniMe, is one of seven being funded by Innovation Labs. With support from Comic Relief, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Nominet Trust and The Mental Health Foundation, Innovation Labs aim More...
Upcoming Kickstarter projects to keep an eye on
On the February 8, 2012 a project was posted on Kickstarter, an adventure game to be developed by Double Fine. It aimed to raise $400,000 what it achieved was $3.3m! This could potentially bring a new era for video More...
Should you buy Devil May Cry?
I never played the original Devil May Cry games. To be completely honest, I’ve never been much of and hack and slash game fan. So it’s hard to compare the new DMC:Devil May Cry to other Hack and Slash More...
My Code Year: Week 4
Week Four begins with a recap of the primitives of JavaScript, including () {} and ; placement, boolean operators and accessing the pieces within an array, or list. It also goes over adding strings together, which More...
My Code Year: Week 3
I have a bit of a confession. I am totally addicted to codecademy. Gripped by the urge to rush ahead, I am happily tapping away on my keyboard of an evening. It’s partly because I like making it work, but More...
My Code Year: Week 2
The second week of Code Year concerns Functions in JavaScript. To begin with, this just looks like a complicated sequence of (), {} and ;. With a little practise though, it becomes possible to create complicated More...
My Code Year: Week 1
Code Year, a programming learning tool created by Codecademy, takes the user through a lesson each week to begin their journey in coding across various languages. Programming became the buzz word of 2012, with everyone More...
A Student’s guide to buying a cheaper Tablet
2012 will be remembered as the year the Tablet war started. Tablet have been around for a few years now, but it is this year that will be remembered as the year that they finally became a mainstream consumer good. More...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the best game you aren’t playing
XCOM was a franchise from the nineties that released its last game in 2001, around the time turn based strategy games started going the way of the dinosaur. Turn based games haven’t really had a good decade, More...
5 reasons you should buy Halo 4
Halo 4 has been a long time coming, the agonising years of waiting for every Halo fan will finally come to an end, 5 years after the release of Halo 3, Master Chief returns! This is the eighth instalment in the More...