In the pub last night the subject of SLAINE came up. Or more specifically, “Is Slaine still going and if so, how in Gods name?”.
 (What’s that? Oh, OK. A comic strip in 2000AD, m’lud, about a barbarian with a big axe.)
A litt[…]

There was a divide in role-playing between people who treated it as a small-scale, modular wargame and people who treated it as a way to tell stories interactively. (You could argue for a third type of player, who treated the games as a way to enact […]

Ultramix 93: Party like it’s 1993 with this EPIC online mix – part of an ongoing series. High on chart hits, club classics and more unusual rarities – maybe even a bit of indie…how many do you remember?[…]

Nintendo Wii – Wifi on nintendo’s site, but not officially announced as yet.
(oops, updated, i linked to the wrong bit – it’s the wifi page that’s unannounced)
another update: THEY TOOK IT DOWN THE SWINES. We are so ahea[…]

 POKEMON COLOSSEUM
Dreadful goth nonsense with rub music but POKéBATTLES IN 3D omg HURRAH! Still, ghost steel etc etc pokémon are RUB bring back the original 150 etc etc.[…]

One of the biggest bugbears I have with the Pokémon games is the ongoing rubbish that each game only has ONE SAVE FILE POSSIBLE! It’s not even so much down to the fact that there’s a choice of three Pokémon at the start that you can on[…]

Mercury Prize Shortlist day is always a time of much pontificating over the state of the musical nation, the uselessness of prizes, the evils of marketing, the injustice done to [yr favourite here]. It’s also a marvellous opportunity for some […]

Let’s hope the rest of us are deaf then!
Well after hearing this single from the lady named after a particularly uninteresting chain hotel, I know exactly how the Greeks felt before the Trojan War. I too would launch a thousand ships to put pa[…]

Having taken in more geography than is becoming to a lady of leisure, my mind turns to other avenues of improvement. So, dear reader, I will for now spare you some of my lesser global adventures, such as hearing both the Orinoco flow (a beautiful res[…]

Now, I’m not a great one for petitions myself, they tend not to have any effect on whoever they are sent to, yes the outcome might be achieved, but this is much more likely to be because it’s what was going to happen anyway or politicking[…]