Now it's Terrance Dicks' turn to regenerate: Golden-age Doctor Who mainstay dies aged 84
Obit My terrifying childhood with the man who made the Time Lords great
Bootnotes05 Sep 2019 | 35
Having a scientist Dad, Lucy Orr grew up close to CERN and FERMILAB. Although surely exposed to high dosages of radiation, sadly her mutant talents never manifested, so she had to resort to playing MUDs, programming BASIC and reading comics. Now an expansively tattooed lecturer in digital arts and animation, she finds enough time to review games in between petting ferrets, drinking cider and listening to pop punk.
Nintendo Labo: After a day spent fiddling with flaps, you may be ready to, er, Lego
But for real, this kit is great for fooling kids into liking STEM
Personal Tech22 Jun 2018 | 18
Are meta, self-referential or recursive science-fiction films doomed?
They're certainly difficult to make well
Bootnotes05 Apr 2018 | 136
2001: A Space Odyssey has haunted pop culture with anxiety about rogue AIs for half a century
But Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's monument could've been a very different beast
Bootnotes03 Apr 2018 | 168
Hollywood has savaged enough sci-fi classics – let's hope Dick would dig Blade Runner 2049
Early signs might be positive, but this is holy ground for some
Personal Tech04 Oct 2017 | 95
Industrial Light & Magic: 40 years of Lucas's pioneering FX-wing
Star Wars New Hope @ 40 The roots of multithreaded rendering software
Bootnotes25 May 2017 | 46
Master of Dredd: Judge inker John Higgins speaks to The Reg
Meet the artist who helped shape Watchmen, Batman and, yes, the drokkin' LAW himself
Bootnotes04 May 2017 | 20
WINNER! Crush your loved ones at Connect Four this Christmas
Using science to own old-school games
Bootnotes15 Dec 2016 | 65
Brain plague or estate agents? I know which I'd prefer in Virtual Reality
Utopian dreams of the concept's creators blur into crappy reality
Personal Tech26 Sep 2016 | 20
Hello, Star Trek? 25th Century here: It's time to move on
Star Trek @ 50 A fragmented franchise and tired direction demand a new medium
Legal08 Sep 2016 | 60
I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture
From Asimov to Blade Runner and beyond – for the humans
AI + ML29 Jan 2016 | 122
Total War: Warhammer, Blood Bowl and other Games Workshop table-to-screen delights
Game Theory Giant chess with a Terminator? Bring it on
Personal Tech22 Sep 2015 | 27
Reviewed: Shadowrun: Hong Kong, Until Dawn, Hearthstone expansion and more
Game Theory New games for all sorts
Personal Tech14 Sep 2015 | 15
Wangling my way into the 4K gaming club with a water-cooled whopper
Feature Catching a glimpse of uncanny valley
Personal Tech04 Sep 2015 | 56
Mad Max: High-octane dystopian desert demolition derby
Game Theory Create your own car, crack on with combat collisions
Personal Tech03 Sep 2015 | 37
Feeling a physical present: Ten summer games and gadgets
Product Roundup Something for the silly season, Sir? Maybe robots versus ferrets?
Personal Tech17 Aug 2015 | 38
The Breakfast (Table) of Champions: Micro Machines
Antique Code Show Desktop gaming in every sense of the phrase
Personal Tech30 Jul 2015 | 28
Project Morpheus VR headset hands-on at the Sony Summer Showcase
Video Plus The Reg strikes back! Gaming on Star Wars: Battlefront
Personal Tech20 Jul 2015 | 9
Gaming's favourite fly by night. Batman: Arkham Knight reviewed
Game Theory Holy franchise finale!
Personal Tech22 Jun 2015 | 15
Reg scribe feels disturbance in the force at secret Empire Strikes Back screening
Film Review Ahh ... father. Powerful Jedi was he
Bootnotes21 Jun 2015 | 17
Stand-up and be counted²: Nerd is the funny word
Comedy Review A geek, a boffin and a dork walk into a bar ...
Bootnotes06 Jun 2015 | 5
Against Captain’s Orders – a half-term swashbuckling, squash-clutching adventure
Theatre Review One for young maritime fans
Bootnotes24 May 2015 | 3
King's Bounty (1990): Enter the kleptomaniac dragon
Antique Code Show Employ a mighty army, locate a symbolic staff
Personal Tech21 May 2015 | 8
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – a true monster in the making
Game Theory It started with a kiss
Personal Tech19 May 2015 | 29
Cylon is golden: Backstabbing bank holiday board games
Product Roundup Four ways to crush friends and enemies alike
Personal Tech02 May 2015 | 29
Golem: Prominent plasticine phallus caught in tech consumerist nightmare
Theatre Review This ain't no Morph, dear readers
Bootnotes26 Apr 2015 | 10
Mortal Kombat: Brawler gaming's quintessential gorefest
Antique Code Show 'So real it hurts'
Personal Tech21 Apr 2015 | 11
Alice's Adventures Underground: Don't be late for this very important date
Theatre Review Directly be directed in the right direction
Bootnotes19 Apr 2015 | 2
Playing by stealth: Twelve gaming headsets to plonk on your noggin
Product roundup Keep the kids - and neighbours - happy this Easter
Personal Tech03 Apr 2015 | 19
Bloodborne: An immersively thick cut above its gaming rivals
Game Theory It's bloody and it's marvellous - even when you're dead
Personal Tech25 Mar 2015 | 7
Rezzed: Indie gaming shows off its finest
Game Theory Includes Schrödinger’s Cat, an alien mayoral candidate and more
Personal Tech17 Mar 2015 | 7
Fiction: Go into a room and walk into a dream
Theatre Review Anxious fantasies of a shared reality
Bootnotes07 Mar 2015 | 4
The Order: 1886 – Round Table gaming's all right on the knight
Game Theory 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!'
Personal Tech19 Feb 2015 | 28
Drinking games: Tapper 1983, this Bud's for you...
Antique Code Show We can't vouch for the taste, but the ambience is great
Personal Tech12 Feb 2015 | 26
The Paper Cinema's breathtaking Odyssey comes to London
Theatre review Live animation heroics in this agonisingly short run
Bootnotes07 Feb 2015 | 4
Undead nights: Zombie FPS Dying Light shines bright
Game Theory Dead Island all grown up and covered in putrefying flesh
Personal Tech30 Jan 2015 | 17
Grand Theft Auto 1997: 'Sick, deluded and beneath contempt'
Antique Code Show But oh how we love it
Personal Tech14 Jan 2015 | 86
El Reg's festive dating app guide, Pt. 2: The FEMALE perspective
Feature One lovely chap took me bin-diving
Applications28 Dec 2014 | 56
'I've got a brick feeling about this' - El Reg's guide to the best Lego films + TV
Ditch the Christmas Radio Times, surf this lot
Personal Tech26 Dec 2014 | 6
Hipsters ahoy! Top Ten BOARD games for festive family fun
Product Roundup Just in case you’re bored this Xmas
Personal Tech21 Dec 2014 | 83
Reviewed: LittleBigPlanet 3, Lara Croft's latest raid and more
Game Theory Festive family video gaming fun
Personal Tech19 Dec 2014 | 13
Immersive fairytale theatrics: Grimm Tales for Young and Old
Theatre Review The Pullman Show hits London's South Bank
Bootnotes14 Dec 2014 | 5
Guy Kawasaki's guide to social media, Hanif Kureishi's cash crash catharsis and more
Page File Tweeting for n00bs plus fraudsters and fakes
Bootnotes06 Dec 2014 | 9
I'll be back (and forward): Hollywood's time travel tribulations
Quick, call the Time Cops to sort out this paradox!
Science26 Nov 2014 | 100
World of Warcraft then and now: From Orcs and Humans to Warlords of Draenor
Antique Code Show The WoW factor
Personal Tech25 Nov 2014 | 30
Dragon Age, Inquisition: Our chief weapons are...
Game Theory Bioware's fantasy forces in fine fettle
Personal Tech21 Nov 2014 | 18
Stephen King, William Gibson and The Quantum Moment
Page File Scintillating stories of science fiction and scientific thinking
Bootnotes15 Nov 2014 | 13
Modern Panic V: A world of H.R. Giger, spunking unicorns and deeply unsettling puppets
Preview Live performance art-squared in Hackney
Personal Tech08 Nov 2014 | 12
Lights off, nappies on! It's Alien: Isolation and The Evil Within
Game Theory Fear, thinking and vulnerability abound
Personal Tech14 Oct 2014 | 26
Gaming gasm UK: Rubbing shoulders with LEGENDS and newbies
EGX 2014 Game devs flock to Kickstarter
Personal Tech30 Sep 2014 | 12
Divinity Original Sin and Wasteland 2 reviews: Turn-based gaming's not dead yet!
Game Theory Kickstarter funded fun-packed thrills
Personal Tech19 Sep 2014 | 24
Weekend reads: A new Poirot, drug-fuelled Champagne Supernovas and The Establishment
Page File Narcotics and the '90s revisited with Kate Moss
Bootnotes14 Sep 2014 | 13
Slap my Imp up: Bullfrog's Dungeon Keeper
Antique Code Show Monsters need to earn a living too
Personal Tech12 Sep 2014 | 50
Weekend reads: Perfidia, Fatherland and The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
Page File James Ellroy on form and doing what he does best ... again
Bootnotes06 Sep 2014 | 12
Weekend reads: Colorless Tsukuru, Kool Korea and strange encounters with IKEA wardrobes
Page File Murakami's bestseller translated at last
Bootnotes31 Aug 2014 | 10
Six of the best gaming keyboard and mouse combos
Product round-up Fingers on buttons, teams
Personal Tech26 Aug 2014 | 79
The agony and ecstasy of SteamOS: WHERE ARE MY GAMES?
Game Theory And yes it does need a fat HDD (or SSD, it's cool with either)
OSes20 Aug 2014 | 112
Running the Gauntlet: Atari's classic ... now and then
Antique Code Show Food shooting N00bs
Personal Tech16 Jul 2014 | 79
Battle ready: Valiant Hearts and Company of Heroes: Western Front
Game Theory War is Fun Hell
Personal Tech08 Jul 2014 | 11
Fantastic fantasy four-way fling – and family-friendly fun
Game Theory Just escaped a cave of dragons? This is what you've been missing
Personal Tech06 Jun 2014 | 22
Biting the hand that feeds IT
