Feature, editorial Jason England Feature, editorial Jason England

Editorial: Slender Is Not Scary

I followed the advice: play Slender at midnight wearing headphones.  The psychologically troubling atmosphere and sheer tension my friends described was enough to excite anyone who thinks of the original Silent Hill as one of his favourite games.

I take a second to prepare myself, and I play, only to find a disappointly tame experience.  Why?

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Feature, social media Jason England Feature, social media Jason England

All about the new Twitter.com

So if you've been on Twitter over the past 12 hours, you'll have noticed that things look a little different to say the least.  The social microblogging service received a major upgrade, packing new functions and an all new design, forming the most significant update of Twitter yet.  Here's what has changed both on the face of it and under the hood.

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Feature, games Jason England Feature, games Jason England

Grand Theft Auto V Trailer analysis

"Why did I move here?"  A male voice asks.  "Guess it was the weather."  The countdown is over.  The Grand Theft Auto V trailer went live a few minutes ago, and it reveals a lot...through revealing next-to-nothing at all.

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Feature, infographic Jason England Feature, infographic Jason England

Infographic of the day: Sharing Trends based on 5 years

Welcome to the Panopticon.  Different statistics of your social habits have been analysed and presented in this infographic, courtesy of Clearspring technologies and AddThis.  Different burning questions in social media are answered: When are people most likely to share content on the web? How do they prefer to share it? What services are they sharing to most frequently?
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