‘Multifunction’ printer-scanners fall into two categories: models designed for photo enthusiasts and ones focussed on business features such as automatic document scanning and fax. As the name suggests, HP’s Officejet 6500A Plus veers towards the latter, being designed for home-office users. The big, glossy black device has a 35-sheet document feeder on top, so it …
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In a nod to a past era of gaming, it even includes so-called ‘couch co-op’, which means it can be played with a friend on the same screen, rather than online, and this is where it shines. You take the role of a hero from the 10th Legion, cast into the Kingdom of Ehb and …
One of our favourite games of recent years was Portal. It had a simple, focused premise: use your ability to create wormholes to get from one end of a test lab to the other. However, this was cleverly combined with some brain-melting physics-based puzzles and a very funny script too. Last year’s sequel was just …
The original Kindle Fire is available for £129, but £30 more buys you the Fire HD. The key difference is, as you’d expect, the screen: the original Fire relies on a very low resolution display, poorer than that of the original iPad, while this HD model has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. Compared to the …
This is a Touchscreen tablet that comes as a Microsoft product. The cheapest Surface model come with a screen cover that cleverly doubles as a keyboard. Key differences The Surface is made out of a black metal Microsoft calls VaporMG. The boxy appearance is understated but it feels incredibly robust. Unusually for a tablet there’s …
It would be easy to pigeon-hole Sleeping Dogs as yet another Grand Theft Auto (GTA) clone. Apart from being set in Hong Kong, there initially seems to be very little else to distinguish it from Rockstar’s infamous open-world crime series. It has a similar blend of driving and combat, a mission-based main story as well …