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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wednesday 3 October 2007, 5:45pm
Football Manager 2008: Unbelievable, Jeff
I managed to tear myself away from the mesmerising Halo 3 to install the demo of Football Manager 2008 yesterday. I didn't get into last year's version -- thanks, World of Warcraft -- but a few hours spent guiding the mighty Swindon Town through their gruelling preseason reminded me why I spent most of my university years playing its predecessors. Click here for more
Tuesday 25 September 2007, 3:48pm
Ignore the hype: just play Halo 3
Hype is, by definition, extremely irritating. It's people who don't know what they're talking about -- let's call them the mainstream media, shall we? -- trying to explain to the general public, who couldn't care less, why a certain group is very excited about something. I'm a gamer. I'm very excited about Halo 3. And today I got to play it. Everyone else can sod off. Click here for more
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