Review Its name alone could be enough to suggest the origins of Lollipop Chainsaw. It’s a title that somehow immediately resonates with Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture Inc, whether you knew it was one of its titles or not. Bright squeeze With his studio already responsible for the “out there” experiences that are Killer7, No More Heroes Read more

Supreme Court judges have rejected Julian Assange’s bid to get his extradition case reopened, which means the 40-year-old WikiLeaks founder will be sent packing from Blighty in a fortnight’s time. However, it’s likely that Assange will now take his case to the European court of Human Rights to have one final attempt at getting his Read more

Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former US Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against any surveillance. The company, called Silent Circle, will launch later this year, when $20 a month will buy you encrypted email, text messages, phone calls, and videoconferencing Read more

American prosecutors have filed charges with a federal grand jury against accused British LulzSec member Ryan Cleary over hacking attacks on Sony, Fox, and several US hosting companies. Cleary, 20, is already facing charges in the UK that he hacked into the website of Soca (the UK police agency charged with investigating serious crime) and Read more

A Scottish council have said that a nine-year-old food blogger was misrepresenting her school dinners and distressing the canteen staff, by publishing a photoblog about her lunch. The media attention caused by the photos, such as the one below was causing “distress and harm” to staff the council said. The photos, such this one were Read more

Spammers have forced the Cabinet Office to close portions of the UK’s open data website. Comments have been disabled after the CAPTCHA gateway was smartly circumvented. “After a long analysis of the spam in our site, we have a strong feeling that human intervention is also at play,” writes Antonio Acuna, head of the data.gov.uk Read more

A dismantled Nokia sign at Oulu’s Technology Village, Finland Reg reader Andy Crofts snapped the above picture – after re-arranging the Nokia sign to read “ONKIA”, the Finnish verb to fish with a rod and line. Andy was inspired by a story on YLE, Finland’s public broadcaster, about the downgrading of Nokia’s credit status. “It Read more

Reg Research ‘Cloud Computing’ has been on the lips of every IT vendor marketing manager for the past two or three years and Reg readers have always been forthright in telling us what is happening in their organisation compared to the hype. While some vendors think ‘Private Cloud’ to be a contradiction in terms, Reg Read more

Nintendo has revealed an larded-up 3DS handheld console with a display almost twice the size of its predecessor, although the absence of other improvements has left fans up in arms. The Nintendo 3DS XL ups its two display sizes from 3.53in and 3.02in, to 4.88in and 4.18in, respectively. Battery life has been improved marginally, with Read more

Product Round-Up Focus in on the camcorder market and you’ll find a boom in active compacts underway. Despite the ubiquity of video in smartphones, there’s plenty of demand for pocket shooters that are more rugged and versatile than the average mobile. Typically, these compact cams are used to create clips for YouTube and social media Read more