anguskidman

Angus Kidman | Lifehacker Editor Angus has been writing professionally about technology since 1994 and breaking it for even longer. He is based in Sydney but spends a frankly unhealthy portion of his life on the road, tracking down the latest stories. In 2011, he won the IT Journo Award For Best Consumer Technology Journalist and Consensus IT Writers Award for Best Technical Writer for his work on Lifehacker; about time too.
  • HaiTaku Returns: 8-Way 8-Bit Extravaganza

    Mark’s away and no-one else feels like singing for SingTaku today, especially after Lullyph immediately cracked Friday’s effort (it was Wonder Boy In Monster World — well done!). So this is a one-off revival of a previous lunchtime favourite: HaiTaku. But why solve one HaiTaku when you could solve eight?


  • A Flavour Of Death Games Have Not Sampled

    My grandmother’s feet resemble tortured bacon, but she has bigger problems. Sunk into a row of identikit beds in an overheated hospital, tubes inelegantly hanging from her nose and midriff, surrounded by the dull-eyed, the grey-haired, the paper-skinned, the terminally bewildered, her challenge is to simply stay alive. It would not make a great game.