David Field

David Field is the online editor of Atomic, and has been writing about technology for over two years.

Thanks to a passionate nature and an engineer’s mind, his writing reserves a special kind of venom for anything that’s been created with indifference -- half arsed projects, hollow marketing, false promises and things that make the world a bad place. Accordingly, he is convinced that there is a special layer of hell for anyone involved in a scam to steal people's money in exchange for obnoxious ringtones.

He makes short films in his spare time that isn't devoured by gaming, putting on sketch comedy revues and (attempting to) kite surf.

You know what the most appropriate use for triple SLI is? I hate to break it to you, but it’s not for gaming. It’s for kitting out the Nvidia booth at a trade show. We built a triple ...

I’d like to apologise to everybody in my Gmail address book who I inadvertently spammed yesterday. I’d also like to place the blame squarely at the overzealous marketing people at ...

Consumer digital displays (oh alright, LCD TVs and some LCD computer monitors) are getting steadily better across the board. But in an attempt to lure customers, the companies that make ...

Authors' note: It's dangerous to read on without starting from the beginning! Had the King been able to remember what was beyond his walls, he would have worried. For the King's rule ...

America knows how to do monuments. I'm writing this on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after ducking and weaving around the swarms of people entering the marble pantheon behind me. ...

Stereotypes exist for a reason. I touched down in Los Angeles just over a day ago, and could tell that everything is big by looking at the little things. In my case, it was the ...

EB Games is an evil place. And half of my former retail colleagues just gasped, while the other half nodded sagely. This evil can be pinpointed: EB Games is a business, specifically a ...

Here in the Atomic Offices, it’s unlikely that any given workday will end without Josh and myself having an argument. They all start off innocently enough. The most recent example was ...

The Land of 32 Bit is a simple and peace loving kingdom that occupies an area of exactly 2^32. In the centre is the sprawling Castle Kernel, where new wings are almost always under ...

Backups are for the weak! I have redundancy and a hardware card! Oh crap! There are many horrible, sinking feelings that any proper PC user is all too familiar with. Yet no matter how ...

David Field does a little bit of his own research into video game violence. Jack Thompson, Florida attorney and outspoken critic of video games, has predictably blamed Counterstrike ...

To my darling Adobe, The last seven weeks have been mind blowing. They really have. We've done amazing things together that I've never tried before, and they were everything I thought ...

Sometime last week while up in Brisbane for the Big Day Out, I got to play the new laptop game. Well, it was technically Voney who was playing, but I did get to sift through the ...

Here's a handy hint for everybody: always stretch before and after a midnight to dawn session of Zone 3. Your legs will hate you for some time afterward if you don't. As you may have ...

The invitation lured us to “the next big thing in games.” It was hosted by MTV, not a regular player of gaming, but we just had to go and have a sniff. It was only a matter of time ...