Nate Lanxon
Nate Lanxon is CNET UK's Senior Editor of News and Features, and covers every aspect of technology for Crave. He also enjoys popular-science books, obscure Japanese animation and plays 'technical metal' on the drums, whatever that is.
Monday 2 November 2009, 4:52pm
Digg that anatopism!
In a moment of what I shall call 'Gladwellian mis-thinking' earlier today, the universe suggested that I spend too much time on the Net. And digg.com. Walking back from lunch earlier today, I saw a yellow poster on the back of a lorry. My first, split-second thought was, "Weird. Why's there a 'Digg This' button on the back of a lorry?" Click here for more
Friday 16 October 2009, 4:30pm
Giraffetweet: A geek, a girl and a weird use of Twitter
If you've never had a restaurant get in touch with you because it heard you had a crush on one of its waitresses, you might not fully appreciate how weird I found Twitter recently. Click here for more
Monday 21 September 2009, 4:05pm
Who the hell buys Crane Simulator games?
If you've exhausted every adrenaline-lined avenue of excitement thrown your way in life, perhaps it's time to sample the very latest in high-octane industrial lifting-machine simulation. Behold: Crane Simulator 2009 is now available! Click here for more
Tuesday 8 September 2009, 6:25pm
Twitter coming to Sonos
"See you at our stand tomorrow? Have something I want to show you." That was a message I received from Fiede Schillmoeller -- European PR for Sonos -- on Twitter, while on the site complaining about my hotel. Appropriately then, what he wanted to show me was a brand new Twitter-related Sonos update. Click here for more
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 5:11pm
Problems plague GoW2's Horde mode
Gears of War 2's Horde mode is the greatest multiplayer game ever made for a console. It's better than anything in Halo or Call Of Duty, and anyone who tells you otherwise is certain to be one of the fly-bitten foot-lickers who plays Gears 2 with a golden Lancer and have upper-case letters interspersed throughout lower-case in their Gamertag. But several problems prevent it from attaining perfection. Click here for more
Friday 21 August 2009, 10:36am
A bullet: I'd take one for Dropbox
If I ever meet the stranger who suggested I try Dropbox, I'll buy them ten beers. See, when Dropbox earned its place in my cloud storage feature, it also bagged itself a spot in the deepest recess of my aortic pump. For sharing files with friends and family, it's unrivalled in my opinion. Click here for more
Monday 17 August 2009, 3:09pm
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta DLC tested
A vast, eclectic wasteland of disturbed, often deformed bi-polar characters created a schizophrenic atmosphere in Fallout 3. New downloadable expansion Mothership Zeta abducts you away from all that -- and took my love of Fallout 3 with it. Click here for more
Tuesday 11 August 2009, 5:48pm
Gears of War 2 Dark Corners DLC tested
Shooting a Brumak in the face: is there anything more satisfying?
Watching Lars von Trier's Antichrist with girls, sure. Though to be fair, these two activities share several common themes. It's the Brumak choice we're focusing on today, however, because I spent a whole bunch of time shooting the waste out of one at the weekend. Click here for more
Articles by Nate Lanxon
Firefox coming to PlayStation 3?
Crave Tipsters have been fingering keyboards, and apparently "sources very close to Sony" say Mozilla's Firefox Web browser might be in the process of being ported to Sony's PlayStation 3
Camino 2.0 tested: The Safari alternative you've been waiting for
Crave Camino has been one of the simplest and cleanest Web browsers for Mac OS X for a while. It just hit version 2.0 and we've loved every minute of testing it for you
The greatest CNET features you've never seen
Crave You may not even have known CNET UK when we published some of most popular features. Collected together here are our essential collection of favourites from the entire history of CNET UK
Modern Warfare 2 headshots entertainment industry records
Crave Activision Blizzard, which publishes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has said it estimates the game has made entertainment industry history by raking in over half a billion dollars in just five days
Win a Sonos S5 music system and CR200 controller worth £600!
Crave In our recent Sonos ZonePlayer S5 story we said the S5 was the most affordable entry into the world of Sonos. That was a total lie, we're afraid: the cheapest way is to win one from us
Asus G51J 3D: Nvidia 3D technology comes to gaming laptops
Crave Asus has built Nvidia's 3D image-processing system into its latest high-end gaming laptop, the G51J 3D. Although the laptop itself might be great, we still hate 3D glasses with a passion
Terrestrial 3D TV: A short history
Crave To celebrate the week of 3D TV coming our way on Channel 4 this week, we thought you might enjoy an excursion down memory lane and into the history of terrestrial 3D telly
Google to penalise slow Web sites?
Crave Should slow-loading Web sites be pushed down Google's search rankings? According to one Google engineer, possibly. The company is mulling the idea over
