This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

In this week's world dominating iPhone app roundup: Your every whim, robotically indulged! Radio champagne, poured generously! Football stuff, assimilated! Your computers, turned into wirelessly controlled zombies! Death foods, avoided! And more.. If you'd rather view this roundup in a single page, click here. Siri: Speech recognition apps recognize speech. Search apps search. Concierge apps consolidate services. Siri does all of the above: To use the iPhone app, you just have to say aloud a com...

http://gizmodo.com/5465526/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps/gallery/

This week's internet previews

Michael John GristIn Japan, Haikyo is a word for abandonment and also a verb to describe the growing hobby of exploring its modern ruins. Photographer and writer Michael John Grist has an excellent gallery of his visits to derelict love hotels, decaying hospitals, factories, sport stadiums and museums. All are oddly fascinating, post-apocalyptical and strangely beautiful, especially the overgrown theme parks with their rusted rollercoasters and water slides that haven't seen action since the mid...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/06/internet-reviews-the-guide

EA's Road Rash Reboot, Oliver Twist Game Could Have Looked Like This [Electronic Arts]

Road Rash fans are likely aware that Electronic Arts has flirted with reviving the violent racer on "next-gen" platforms, a project that has reared its head in video and trademark form. But did you know that EA was also working on an Oliver Twist game? It got at least as far as the concept art stage, according to old artwork from concept designer Ross Dearsley unearthed by the man who prefers to be called superannuation. Dearsley's concepts cover all manner of Electronic Arts project, from the u...

http://kotaku.com/5465378/eas-road-rash-reboot-oliver-twist-game-could-have-looked-like-this

PAL PlayStation Store Update: You're Late, Squall [Europe]

Six weeks after it arrived on the North American PlayStation Store, PAL users can finally relive what I, at least, think is the best Final Fantasy game of the lot: FFVIII. It's the standout addition to this week's store update, though there's plenty of other good stuff to tempt you, from the Aliens vs Predator multiplayer demo (having been playing it, I hope singleplayer is the game's strong point) to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 demo, which I've also been playing (albeit on PC) with a little m...

http://kotaku.com/5464821/pal-playstation-store-update-youre-late-squall

PlayStation Store Update: That's Nice [North America]

If you like to dabble, this week's North American PlayStation Store update is for you, with five new PlayStation 3 demos to download and enjoy and at least one new game. And if you own a PSP, things get even better, with the addition of two new titles, one an After Burner game, the other an Armored Core game. But it's the Aliens vs. Predator and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demos that my put a strain on the PlayStation Network this evening, both available for download. Don't forget Tecmo's Fret Ni...

http://kotaku.com/5464581/playstation-store-update-thats-nice