HomeMonitor HD Pro Outdoor Security Camera

Protect access to your home from the outside

Developed by Y-CAM, the HomeMonitor HD Pro Outdoor Security Camera (model HMHDE05) offers to provide your home with a degree of security. This kit comes with the claim of being the only camera that stores the seven days footage in the cloud for free with no subscription required. The main camera unit, which does need to be wall-mounted in an appropriate position, comes with the required wall mount, screws, rawl plugs and tools for attaching the kit. Included in the box are an Ethernet cable, power lead with various adapter plugs, a wi-fi antenna and Quick Start guide.

Below

Capy gives new meaning to the pen-and-paper RPG

We’re bleeding. Our avatar might only be a tiny presence onscreen, but it’s pretty obvious we’ve been cut. There’s the trail of blood, for one thing, which has already been set upon by a group of leeches. Below’s UI is sparse by design – invisible, in fact, unless there’s something you need to see – so there’s no ignoring the sudden appearance of a heart slowly being drained of its ruby-red hue either. We should probably do something about this.

Edit Videos Everywhere

Video editors are on your PC, on the web and on your phone and tablet. Which is the best and what are the pros and cons? Roland Waddilove investigates

It was not so long ago that when you wanted to edit a video clip or produce a movie, you had to use a video editor running on your PC. These days you have a lot more choice, and it’s possible to shoot, edit and share videos on a mobile phone or tablet, which is super convenient and no PC is required. Everything is done on a gadget that fits your pocket, but do these apps have sufficient features?

For Honor

Ubisoft takes a swing at something different in this game of multiplayer sword duels

When Ubisoft Montreal needed help with Watch Dogs’ driving model, it enlisted the services of Driver: San Francisco studio Ubisoft Reflections. Sweden’s Ubisoft Massive has recently brought its multiplayer-specialist stablemate in Annecy, France, on board to help with The Division. Ubisoft’s greatest asset is its studio network, a global spread of genre and functionality specialists able to provide expertise when required, although the downside is that it contributes to a highly familiar house style across its games. For Honor, however, is that rarest of beasts: a new Ubisoft game that bears no immediate resemblance to anything in the publisher’s back catalogue, borrowing no mechanics or assets as the team puts together something that – in the context of this company’s output at least – is unique.

Alternative Operating Systems

Keir Thomas takes a walk on the wild side of desktop operating systems that offer an alternative to Windows and Linux

The desktop wars are over and the surprise result is that we don’t care who won. It’s all about what you can do online nowadays, and Microsoft’s even giving away the latest update of Windows. That said, the desktop is still the jumping off point for PC users, and those who find Linux as irksome as Windows might be wondering if there’s a third choice – something that’s neither, yet provides the basic capabilities we’ve all come to expect.

Mirror's Edge: Catalyst

To tell Faith’s origin story, DICE strips away city edges to give her the run of the place

The opening sections of Mirror’s Edge did a fine job of disguising their linearity, but freerunning protagonist Faith never seemed as if she should be constrained at all. Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst addresses that longing for a lack of boundaries by giving her an entire city’s worth of rooftops to dash across and buildings to infiltrate, and the rush of doing so is enough to put mission objectives firmly to the back of your mind when you start playing. Moving Faith, a character always meant to embody the joy of unrestrained locomotion, feels better than before.

Google’s Advanced Technology And Projects Group

David Briddock uncovers the latest technology from Google’s skunkworks-like group

The Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) is but a small division in the huge Google empire. Yet its impact on the direction of the company and the technology industry as a whole is enormous. The members of this skunkworks-like group are a pretty radical set of individuals – even for a free-thinking organisation like Google. In fact they define themselves as a “small band of pirates. Believers. Makers.”

Hitman

IO preps a world of marks for the coldest-blooded assassin in games

The latest entry in the Hitman series might have shaken the subtitles that have been tailing these games ever since Agent 47 first snuck menacingly onto our screens, but it’s not the reboot you might expect from such an act of nomenclative restraint. Io-Interactive instead sees its new game, which takes place after Absolution, as a distillation of everything that’s good about the series – its perfect assassin sim.

MIA: 10 Things Microsoft Didn’t Put In Windows 10

Mark Pickavance points out some obvious features that never made it to the all-you-can eat buffet that is Windows 10

Whenever a product like Windows 10 comes to fruition, those behind it create lots of lists highlighting the new features they’ve included.

These are good bullet points, especially for those that want to justify the upgrade or for journalists to provide a checklist for their readers.