Technology

Tim Biggs

Tim is the editor of Fairfax's technology sections, as well as a writer and reviewer specialising in video game coverage.

Fans get ready for the final IEM 2016 event in Katowice, Poland.

$260k global esports event announced for Sydney

Esports company ESL has announced that the incredibly popular Intel Extreme Masters series will be making a stop in Australia for the very first time this year, with the first event in the annual global circuit to take place in Sydney.

Moving from portable to home console and back again is as easy as dropping the Switfch into its dock, or lifting it out.

The Nintendo Switch is simple, but smart

Unlike any other game console on the market, the Switch lets you transition seamlessly between playing at home on your big TV and playing the exact same games on the go, Game Boy style.

The AWS outage lasted slightly more than four hours.

AWS outage causes issues across the internet

Cloud-based businesses including Xero and Expensify, as well sites and services including Slack, Trello and Medium, were disrupted on Wednesday morning due to a partial failure at one of Amazon's data centres.

The Xperia XZ Premium has a lot going on.

Chrome phone has a super slow-mo camera

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony has unveiled the Xperia XZ Premium, a monster of a phone that seems designed purely to fit as many high-end specs as possible into a single handset.

Knights, vikings and samurai take to the battlefield in <i>For Honor</i>.

For Honor is a bloody clash of cultures

Offering a realistic and incredibly deep system of melee combat, For Honor has the guts of the most complex of fighting games, but crammed inside the frame of a third-person action experience and skinned with a variety of ancient cultures.