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Turning back the clock with Star Wars: Empire at War

Crave Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, certainly not since George Lucas redefined the word 'disappointment' with his godawful Star Wars prequel trilogy. Star Wars: Empire at War is old-school in more ways than one, and we're not talking about the...

Tags: lucasarts entertainment, war, star, enemy

20 January 2006, 7:45

More Aliens: the Darkside PC

Crave Let's hope these new Star Wars PCs don't share the same vunerabilities as the Dark Side's other machines -- the Death Star was famously flawed. Alienware have been busy little lunatics this week. No sooner had they sent Crave two Area 51s than they...

Tags: alienware, edition, star, dark side

18 May 2005, 11:38

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Poor man's Xbox 360

Crave When our editor first said we'd each be given £5,000 Virtual Crave Pounds to spend on whatever Christmas gifts took our fancy, I immediately logged on to the Autotrader Web site in search of a second-hand but still terrifyingly fast TVR Chimera.

Tags: microsoft, console, hard drive, value

2 December 2005, 17:00

Alienware takes tranquilisers, gets calmer

Crave What do you do if you're manufacturing the world's kookiest-looking PCs but you want to sell your Alien-headed weirdness to lawyers and accountants? No one is going to take their bank manager seriously if her PC has purple neon underlights and a...

Tags: alienware, case, alien, chassis

12 August 2005, 11:22

Downtown and Zboards

Crave If our egos weren't already inflated from having killed our way to Lance Corporal ranking in Battlefield 2, we're now going to seriously bring the pain to the infidels with our Zboard. The latest in a long line of peripherals for totally l33t...

Tags: keyboard, battlefield, face, adjust

9 August 2005, 11:23

Fast as hell: Alienware Aurora

Crave So you want to know how fast the Alienware Aurora 7500SLI is? You're despicable, you speed junky. Isn't anything else important to you? Alright, just this one time we'll give in to your relentless badgering: It's VIOLENTLY fast, the kind of fast...

Tags: alienware, aurora, frames, air

20 June 2005, 11:54

Nick's Christmas Shopping: Alienware supercomputer

Crave Here's my problem: I'm a complete klutz, but I love computer games. This means consoles are a no-no, for most kinds of games, because the handheld controllers are too clunky. PCs, on the other hand, offer the greatest, most klutz-friendly interface...

Tags: alienware, samsung, gaming, processor

19 December 2005, 16:55

Exclusive: Alienware Star Wars PCs

Crave Someone handed a Star Wars fan an airbrush and four Alienware PCs, sat them in a room with John William's famous soundtrack blaring at a hundred watts and screamed, "Paint little Star Wars fan, paint!

Tags: mac os, wallpaper, pcs, marketing

20 April 2005, 16:39

Freecom MusicPal: Video won't kill this radio star review

Crave Freecom may not be the household name for music streamers, but the Dutch manufacturer has come out with an attractive £100 solution for the home. The MusicPal can pull MP3s and WAV files from a PC (or a Mac) over your home network, and can suck Net...

Tags: freecom, streamers, feeds, kit

1 November 2007, 9:08

Last.fm: Video marries the radio star

Crave Community music portal Last.fm has announced it's going to be launching a swanky video version of its popular Web 2.0 music service. The new music video portal will work in much the same way as the music side of the site, where streaming radio...

Tags: stations, portal, mtv, music video

10 May 2007, 12:21

InFocus ScreenPlay 7210: Death Star Projector

Crave The projector world moves fast, and sometimes you've got to stop and take a look around. No sooner have we finished lusting after the InFocus ScreenPlay 7205 than the new model arrives to make us moist with anticipation once again.

Tags: infocus, definition, high definition, projector

13 December 2005, 11:28

Video killed the games star

Crave Portable Video Players. We love 'em here at Crave -- we can watch The Office on the way to work, show off to our fellow commuters and get cool I-nearly-got- mugged anecodotes, all at the same time. Now we've bought a 1GB Memory Stick Duo, we can do...

Tags: sony computer entertainment europe, psp, memory stick, commercial

14 May 2005, 13:09

iPod 5th gen and iTunes 6.0: Video killed the radio star

Crave If the launch of the iPod nano seemed like the Second Coming thanks to its complete unexpectedness, then the new standard iPod with video was greeted with stifled yawns in comparison. Perhaps it was all about build-up -- the iPod nano was preceded...

Tags: apple uk, nano, ipod nano, abc

13 October 2005, 10:57

Student hopes Web site will propel him into space

Crave Anyone who has seen Star Wars, Aliens or Crave's personal favourite, Space Balls, will have thought, 'Space is cool'. He's called Michael Halls-Moore, and he's set up a Web site called BuyMeToTheStars.com, which features a fictional star chart and...

Tags: star, space, student, dream

23 November 2006, 11:30

Where's my hoverboard? And other movie tech we want now

Crave Lightsaber from Star WarsKnife, torch, wound cauteriser, soup warmer, skeleton key, cigarette lighter -- the lightsaber is the coolest and most versatile gadget of all time. If the Star Trek transporter existed, you'd simply press a button and hey...

19 February 2008, 14:24