Android Police • 27th June 2024

The Sonos Arc headphones aren't perfect, but they've absolutely transformed how I watch TV

Sonos’s first headphones are expensive rivals to the flagship cans from Bose and Sony, but with one unique edge: interoperability with other Sonos speakers, allowing you to transfer audio from a speaker to the Ace headphones with the push of a button.

Braise • 3rd April 2024

Recipe: Rabbit ragu

This is not, to be clear, a regular weekday supper. Even at my poshest, I can’t say that cooking — or even eating, for that matter — a rabbit has ever felt routine, and nor should it. No-one’s yet cracked the economics of factory farming bunnies, for better or worse, and so they’re unlikely to feature too often in anyone’s kitchen.

Android Police • 12th February 2024

Withings ScanWatch Light review: Light by name, light by nature

The ScanWatch Light is a new addition to Withings' fitness tracker family and one with a simple pitch: it's a lighter, smaller, cheaper alternative to the ScanWatch 2 for analog advocates who find the main model a little bulky.

Braise • 9th November 2023

White rice congee

It’s a running joke between my partner and I that almost every argument we’ve ever had has been sparked by food. What we’re eating, who’s cooking it, and why did you slice the green beans like that? Of course, nine times out of ten we’re not really arguing about the cooking. It’s work, or money, or the cashmere jumper that accidentally made its way into the washing machine. Food is simply the spark that ignites the flame, ever-present in our life together and so ever a risk for disagreement. T

TechRadar • 18th October 2023

Hellboy Web of Wyrd review - great adaptation, rubbish roguelike

This Hellboy roguelike nails the ‘Hellboy’ but fluffs the ‘roguelike’. A brilliant recreation of Mignola’s art and surprisingly sharp writing are let down by thin, repetitive gameplay.

NME • 11th May 2023

‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ review: surprisingly safe sequel

It’s the hope that kills you. A trite epithet all too familiar to sports fans (RIP Arsenal title challenge 22/23, we hardly knew ye), and strangely appropriate to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Tech Advisor • 27th April 2023

Sonos Era 300 review: The Space Age

The Era 300 is part of a pair of new Sonos products intended to kick the company off into a new… well, you can guess.

NME • 25th January 2023

Feargus Urquhart is doing what he does best

Few have left as heavy a mark on the world of role-playing games (RPGs) as Feargus Urquhart. Across a decades-long career as both developer and publisher he’s worked on three Fallout games, most of the good Dungeons & Dragons titles, and even an unexpectedly successful RPG spin on South Park. That track record makes it all the stranger that the latest two releases from Obsidian Entertainment, the development studio he’s led since founding it in 2003, aren’t RPGs at all. The Honey I Shrunk the

Tech Advisor • 25th August 2022

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 review: Flippin' marvellous

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 marked a massive step forwards for the company’s foldable line. It was a revolution in design, practicality, and pricing that took the compact folding phone from niche tech nerd fantasy to a mainstream proposition.

NME • 27th July 2022

No More Robots' Mike Rose is giving games publishing the human touch

“If it goes badly, you look like a twat – and I do not want to look like a twat.” Mike Rose, journalist turned game publisher, self-described “egotistical maniac”, and among the more outspoken members of British games Twitter, doesn’t sound like most industry figureheads.

Tech Advisor • 10th November 2020

Xbox Series X review

The Xbox Series X is a somewhat paradoxical console. It’s the most powerful black box Microsoft has ever produced to play games on, launched at the same time the company keeps saying that hardware doesn’t matter, and all Xboxes are created equal.

Shortlist • 27th September 2020

Best coffee: beans and ground coffee for top espresso

There are few pleasures quite like making really the best coffee for yourself at home. It’s warming, it’s delicious, it wakes you up, and you get to start your day by throwing a metaphorical middle finger at the Starbucks and Costas of the world. What could be better? UPDATE:Pret has revealed that it is now offering a coffee subscription service. The first month is free, then you pay £20 a month for as many drinks as you want - it's not just for coffees, either but frappes, teas and other thing

Tech Advisor • 21st March 2019

Us review: Jordan Peele has somehow topped Get Out

If Get Out established that Jordan Peele is a filmmaker to watch out for, Us cements his position as one of Hollywood’s young best. Some Get Out fans might be disappointed to find Us is less overtly political, but by leaning into horror tropes Peele has developed his style further, delivering one of the most visually and sonically striking horrors in years.

Little White Lies • 14th August 2016

In praise of The Fly – the body horror that’s all in your head

Despite its venerable age, David Cronenberg’s The Fly remains the body horror to beat. Viewed today, it’s the film’s purity of purpose that stands out, the relentless commitment to breaking the human body down and putting it back together in all the ways it isn’t meant to be. It’s the platonic ideal of a body horror movie, a perfect 96 minutes of acid vomit and oozing flesh. And oh, the flesh. “You only know society’s straight line about the flesh,” Jeff Goldblum rants late on in the film. “You