Despite the increasingly obsessive reporting of the BBC News Technology section, I don’t believe that we’re overwhelmed by information pollution. Adverts, spam, pop-ups and so on are a matter of technique rather than overload. In fact, […]

Is it our fault subversion is dead? If our interaction with the media of derision (I’m thinking Graham Norton here) is causal, rather then symbiotic, then the prognosis for satire is bleak. Researchers and developers of reality humiliation ha[…]

It barely needs saying that the best project Stephen Hopkins has ever been involved in, and by some distance, is 24. But the others haven’t been awful either, apart from perhaps Lost in Space and The Ghost and the Darkness. Hm. Argument seem[…]

The fight is so big this weekend some players have bundled in already. Most shops have jumped the gun on Pro-Evolution Soccer 3’s intended launch date ‘ if you haven’t found it by now, its only because you haven’t looked prop[…]

For all the trumpeting, there’s precious little to tempt a gamer on Friday. Various consoles see releases such as ariel racer Freaky Flyers and stateside tinted sports sim NHL 2004 , minnows one and all, and the Club Soccer myriad which failed[…]

Be sure that there is a storm brewing, as too many games jostle for too few release dates, but this is the calm before, and we’ve just time to take stock. Within a month anyone will be offered the chance to buy Pro-Evolution Soccer 3 and its r[…]

Sorbet! It’s like ice cream that hasn’t happened.
But it did. It happened so much, capping off a superb if classic meal at The Atrium in Edinburgh ‘ a far better restaurant than many of its London equivalents. And it led me to th[…]

It would not be accurate to say the City in London is gill-filled with the aspiring literati, but it does have sufficient numbers of commuters to squeeze a handful of bookshops between its coffee and sandwich bars. Whilst browsing in one of these la[…]

Since the Christmas schedules are crammed with big news titles squaring up for a fight of Harryhausen proportions, the third quarter is closing to the sound of decks being cleared. The year’s poor sellers are being dumped onto high street conc[…]

Cool Britannia’s star has fallen, The Pharmacy had to go.
It always seemed out of its element ‘ it would have been much more comfortable in Dean Street. The only time I ate there it was full of mismatched couples and media types not to[…]