Become the thing you hate you will, hmm. It’s been a long time since I wrote but there’s a certain comfort in that statement. The black and white mythos of Star Wars can dandle you on a white-plastic knee and tell you such things, but the fact is we oscillate between so many things from…

They say a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Thankfully I don’t know who ‘they’ are, so I guess I’m relatively safe. This week I have been mostly involved in skulduggery, piracy and random acts of violence. Which is all fine and above board for a games journo (which I’m starting to claim…

//Main Details// Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum £45 Roxio //Strap// The biggest selling CD burner proves simple and easy to use, with more features than an auto-da-fé //Body// Easy CD has long played second fiddle to Nero when it comes to CD burning, mainly due to the latter’s greater technical flexibility, and unfortunately this release…

Far West Mary Whitehouse would be pleased. There seems to be a trend in games coming out of Eastern Europe whereby all signs of violence or death are excised in favour of folk-dancing. We saw it in Heist where cops would chase your villains in a conga line, we saw it in Celtic Kings, where…

Strange it is, hmmm. Tonight for the first time in months with the aid of friends I overcame my fear of clubs, those dens of sedition, and went dancing. And in dancing I seem to have been invited to apply for a job I have a good chance of getting, if I swot up on…