A surprise Player
The new Internet capabilities of Dreamcast,
PlayStation 2 and X-Box means that in the near future - by the end of the year in the case of Dreamcast - console players will be doing battle online

Dreamcast alive and kicking
With PlayStation about to take both the top and bottom end of the market and Nintendo somewhere in no mans land, Segas Dreamcast is poised to fill the middle ground. It is also ready to lead the way i

Heavyweight Lightweights
This Labs featured in the February 2000 issue, any pricing seen in these reviews were correct at the time of printing.


Reality has often not matched the hype of mobile compu

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Nintendo plays catch-up
The launch of PlayStation 2 is bad news for Nintendo. Its N64 has been falling behind PS1 for some time and it was expected that the company would have more news and hopefully even a prototype of its

PlayStation 2 in the flesh
The PlayStation 2, on the other hand, has a strong video games heritage, and it shows. It looks like a console and plays like one, albeit a supercharged one. Its black box design is practical, if a li

Seeing is believing
This Labs featured in the November 99 issue, any pricing seen in these reviews were correct at the time of printing.

For several years the industry settled on a 14in diagonal as th

State of Play
Sporting DVD, Internet access and amazing 3D graphics, the latest games consoles have everyones attention. David Hellaby reports from E3 in Los Angeles.

When is a machine that runs on Win

The next generation
Who knows where the next generation after PlayStation 2 or the X-Box will take us. It may finally reach the virtual world we have read so much about, but it is still several years away and we have yet

Wired for sound
For those of us who don't really have a lot of money to spare there's always one payoff that you can look forward to each year and that's tax time. Which means there is the perennial question of what