Flight secrets: Why plane journeys are getting LONGER – despite new technological advances

Flight times are reportedly getting longer by airlines, in a bid to avoid compensation payouts. The new report by Which? Travel found that journey times had been increased by up to 30 minutes to make the flights seem more punctual than they were. Compensation can be claimed if a flight is more than three hours […]

Bowler – A Game Of Surreal Journeys & Sharp Headgear

Bowler has players guiding a green dude with a sweet hat through a surreal platforming adventure, hopping around some flashing, twisting landscapes. Bowler offers some wonderfully silly lands, as well as wild creatures and beings for players to meet and interact with. At the same time, things can grow suddenly dark and discomforting, its tone […]

Trailer Round-Up: ‘7 Guardians of the Tomb’, ‘Genesis 2.0’, ‘Journey’s End’ and More

To save you the trouble of clicking on multiple pages, we’ve compiled a whole bunch of trailers in on convenient location via a new trailer round-up. You’re welcome. Here we have Kelsey Grammer vs. spiders with 7 Guardians of the Tomb, the documentaries Genesis 2.0 and Do You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, the World War I […]

The more remote,the better: Why this adventurer loves difficult journeys

You run a travel company, Edge Expeditions, with your boyfriend Marley. On your site, you say: “We believe travel is often taken far too seriously.” What do you mean by that? I often feel this whole ‘adventure’ malarkey is taken too seriously—I’m convinced all those zip-off trousers and technical sandals somehow erode people’s sense of […]

What percentage of passenger journeys is made up by commuters? – The Saturday Briefing

GETTY Fifty-six per cent of train journeys are for commuting, latest government figures show Q: The media, particularly the BBC, like to refer to all train passengers as “commuters”.  What percentage of passenger journeys is made up by people commuting to and from work, as opposed to those travelling for business, leisure or other purposes?  […]

Great Canal Journeys review: A joyful experience that is about to end

Returning for a new series, jolly thesps Prunella Scales and Timothy West were drifting happily through the Norfolk Broads.  They’re so used to doing this show that they almost behave as if we’re not there.  That’s the secret of it.  As it began, however, Tim reminded the audience that this is “the final curtain”, something […]

Ashen expands on Journey’s passive multiplayer by turning real strangers into NPCs

Not many games have featured the subtle, passive cooperative multiplayer that players first experience in Thatgamecompany’s Journey on the PlayStation 3. But at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles, developer Aurora44 is demonstrating how it is building on that idea with its new game. Ashen is an open-world adventure with a […]