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.
Wednesday 7 October 2009, 6:44pm
Prototype: Having its gore-soaked cake and eating it with a tentacle
I've come late to Prototype, having initially dismissed it -- based on only a few reviews -- as sub-par, ludicrous, unoriginal, over-violent and pandering to that appalling gamer stereotype, the 18-24 male. Click here for more
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
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
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
Articles by Nick Hide
Survey: Asus laptops more reliable than Apple, Sony
Crave US warranty firm SquareTrade has researched laptop failure rates and found that Asus is the top of the pile. Bad news for HP though
CNET UK's games console reliability survey: 60 per cent of Xbox 360s have broken
Crave We commissioned a survey of UK gamers to find out how reliable the different consoles have been. The results don't reflect well on Microsoft
Intel settles with AMD for $1.25bn
Crave The rival chip manufacturers have settled their bitter legal disputes in a massive deal that also sees them sharing patent rights for the next five years
OpenOfficeMouse has frankly preposterous 18 buttons, joystick
Crave With 18 buttons, 63 profiles and an analogue joystick, the OpenOfficeMouse by WarMouse is set to be the most customisable peripheral ever. And the most insane, by some distance
EMI Abbey Road Live: Instant gig recording
Crave The major label has announced a new service that will sell recordings of gigs, mixed and mastered at the gig itself, and sold to fans as they make their way to the car park
Sony BDP-S760 Blu-ray player: Super bit-mapping reality enhancer
Crave Sony's new top-of-the-range Blu-ray player, the BDP-S760, is jammed full of exciting new features such as Wi-Fi Internet access and multi-channel headphone mode
Nokia Booklet 3G hits US: Hands-on verdict
Crave Nokia's Booklet 3G netbook has arrived in the US and our chocolate-voiced NYC colleague Dan Ackerman has one in
IT execs: 'UK will never create a tech giant'
Crave Leading British IT executives believe the UK doesn't have the skills, economic environment or governmental help to make a global giant like Google or Microsoft
