They’re back. The small colourful birds, squeeking when they get hurled with your trusted slingshot to get their eggs back from the green pigs. This time in none other than Rio – the fabled city of Brasil. It seems that the Angry Bird trend never stops.

The insanely popular smartphone game Angry Birds is making it’s way into the offline world.

OMG this is looking great! If it is going to be as easy playing games, watching films and having web cam talks as this video shows, it really is looking like Microsoft has some goodies coming our way with the Xbox Kinect motion controller. You just have to use your hands and body! No wand like previous systems.

Get ready to moonwalk the floor off your living room. Nintendo Wii is introducing another dancing game but this time the King of Pop and his classic hits are involved. Get moving to Beat it, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, Bad and several other MJ hits.

When visiting Japan, I was once again surpriced to see how technology so seemlessly flow in the streets of Tokyo and how gadgets, digital living and gaming seems to be an absolutely natural part of life from toddler to senior.

The original super game babe was of course the ever so hot Lara Croft later played by Angelina Jolie in the movie version of Tomb Raider. Kicking bad guy ass while jumping over canyons, fighting reptiles and handling knives. What a job- the perfect combination of power, action and just looking damn good while doing it. There is a new game in town featuring tough power women.

These days most film and tv shows now have a game plan. Sometimes it is the game version of a movie (The Matrix) sometimes it is the movie version of a game (Tomb Raider). Gaming is big business so why not make popular crime hit series such as “C.S.I” into a game? Or how about the popular british cartoon “Wallace and Grommit”? This winter we can prepare ourselves for game remakes of two absolute film classics.

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Squeeze your screen till it hurts!
If you just plug in the stress ball to the computer USB port. You can now squeeze, twist or hit emails, pictures websites, you name it – or you can just unleash the frustrations by hitting, smashing or squashing the ball, instead of the computer – or whatever brought on the anger in the first place.
We all know the situations. The computer is crashing in the middle of a very important email or that piece of code you have been working on for weeks and …

Gamers are socially challenged teenage boys who spend their time eating pizza and obsessing about online war games right? Soooo wrong. A gamer is very likely to be a 30-something woman who uses computer games as tools to exercise, for business training or of course for plain old entertainment. According to WomenGamers.com 35 % of console gamers and 43% of PC gamers are women and the trend is on the rise.