Perhaps the most familiar and comforting franchise on the PlayStation system, the Ratchet & Clank series found its fun groove very early on and has been repeating and building on it for eleven games. If you’ve played one you know exactly what to expect with any of the others and the latest, A Crack In Time, is no different. You have platform puzzles, action-adventure worlds, a crazy arsenal of weapons and gadgets, items to collect, and zany characters that act out scenes of satire and slapstick. The main difference this time is that the series has never looked so good, delivering one of the most visually stimulating games on the PS3. [More]

I've received a number of requests for fun Halloween games this week, including several from people looking for the wisecracking Halloween Hangman game I featured years ago, so I've gathered up five fun, free Halloween games that suitable for all ages. Enjoy and thanks for the kind feedback. [More]

We all have bad hair days or moments of creativity or a desire to experiment with our looks (a good thing regardless how poor the results are), but at Don't Judge My Hair you'll find those who were brave enough to step in front of a camera with theirs. The new blog allows users to submit photos of hair disasters and in addition to featuring photos of regular folk, many who posed for the camera years before the internet arrived, a move they'd probably like to take back now, you'll also find pics of professionals too, those who work in fashion or the arts. Personally when it comes to disasters, I prefer cake.  [More]

It's a trick as old as the invention of the phone itself. To take someone's handset and turn it into a listening device, allowing you to hear what the phone itself hears and spy on the oblivious owner. Symantec has released a report on a new version of this scheme, one that targets Blackberry users and centres on a malicious app with the name "Phonesnoop". Once activated, it allows the malicious individual to remotely connect to the victim's Blackberry and activate it's speakerphone. The result is the same had the person planted a microphone on the victim and can now listen in on everything happening within range of the phone. The good news is that the threat is only theoretical, there's no reports at this time that anyone has actually been targeted with such a trick, and that the reality is, in order for someone to plant this on your Blackberry, they'd have to have direct and physical access to your phone and you'd have to ignore the obvious signs [More]

MAC Cosmetics has leaped into the Halloween spirit with a number of freaky looks including an amazing Comic Book costume that my be the best I've seen this year. As show in the video below, their senior artists have come up five "freaky" looks including a ghoul, playing card jester, zebra stripes, and a wild faerie-like creation. You can find more photos from the session on their Facebook page as well as face charts for those of you with the know-how to try to reproduce this. 

As a solitary beacon in the night, a Lighthouse is sure to attract it's share of insects, but what if one night the lighthouse you're in charge of would attract something a little larger than your usually moth? I mean, really big. Just in time for Halloween here's another fantastic short from that wonderful animation school in France, Les Gobelins. The Lighthouse Keeper is by David Francois, Rony Hotin, Jeremie Moreau, Baptiste Rogron, Gaelie Thierry, and Mailys Vallade.