Nick Hide

Nick has been playing videogames for 20 years. He believes games are as valid an art form as music or film. They are interactive sculptures capable of profound emotional impact, so it really annoys him when games come out where you can mug old women.

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Tuesday 26 May 2009, 6:20pm

Mass Effect 2 will blow the roof off E3

The video team on our sister site GameSpot UK today asked me to come in and say a few words to camera about what I'm looking forward to at the upcoming, restored E3. After I'd stopped sweating and shaking at the thought of being filmed, there was only one thing that came to mind -- Mass Effect 2. Click here for more

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Wednesday 18 February 2009, 4:17pm

Street Fighter IV: Don't fail me now, postie

Here's a string of letters and numbers to chill the ardent gamer to the very core: 'Delivery estimate: 20 Feb 2009 -- 23 Feb 2009'. Amazon has me on tenterhooks. Friday 20 February, you see, is the day Street Fighter IV is released in the UK. Will the postman chirpily deliver my little green box full of awesomeness before the weekend? Seriously, it's keeping me awake at night. My fingernails are a disgrace. Click here for more

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Monday 9 June 2008, 5:39pm

13 hours without electricity: Personal hell

If you're lucky enough to live -- like me -- in the best place in the world, South East London, you'll have had a nasty shock yesterday morning as reality intruded on our balmy Kentish paradise. Waking up to a leisurely Sunday morning of coffee, toast and Something for the Weekend, there was the rude realisation that there was no power. The electricity was off. This sort of thing only happens north of the river, surely? Click here for more

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Wednesday 30 April 2008, 2:33pm

The gunshot heard around the world

It was the greatest armistice in history. Battlefields across the galaxy fell silent. The winds of a thousand worlds blew unfelt past vast piles of discarded weapons. But in one place -- a dirty, crowded metropolis -- a noise exploded into life. It was something like: "ScreeeeeeeeLCPD!Getoutofthevehicle!Ratatatata." Click here for more

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Thursday 24 April 2008, 3:22pm

Facebook Chat: IM for the real world

If you've been on Facebook since yesterday morning -- and you will have, unless you're one of those poor, deluded refuseniks -- you'll have noticed the new Chat bar at the bottom of your browser. One of your friends might even have tried it out on you. "Arrghh! Where is this electronic Nick voice coming from?" responded one of my dimmer buddies. Click here for more

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Tuesday 8 April 2008, 6:25pm

Rock Band is how much in the UK?!

We've been lucky enough to have had a copy of Rock Band -- should that be a set? -- in the office for a few weeks, and it rocks brutally hard. Okay, the drums make an annoying tapping that makes the drummer look like a particularly special child, but it's awesome fun on a Friday night after a few beers. Click here for more

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Thursday 24 January 2008, 12:44pm

Hey Koreans, get my mum to design your stuff

When my mum was growing up, everything was built in Britain with the British way of doing things in mind. If remote controls and instruction manuals were designed and written by middle-aged women from Wiltshire, they'd be ten times easier to use. And ten times the price, of course Click here for more

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Thursday 29 November 2007, 3:08pm

Mass Effect presses all the old buttons

I got my eager, nerdy hands on a copy of the Xbox 360 sci-fi epic Mass Effect just over a week ago, a few days before its official release. My friends on Xbox Live were not happy -- "You jammy git!" was about the friendliest response to them seeing what I was playing. Forget Halo 3 or BioShock -- for dorks of a certain age, Mass Effect was why we bought a 360. Click here for more

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