So there I was, listening to Abney Park's Lost Horizons, singing along happily. Herr Drosselmyer's Doll started and for some reason I've still to work out instead of singing ( Read more... )

The football season has come to a close, winter is settling in and life is turning through another cycle of rumour and anticipation.

The Ultras forum I'm a part of is full of rumour now the season is over, with just about any and all free players being linked with a move to Rovers, while just about every player *in* the club has been let go, has ( Read more... )

One of the games that will be listed in any 'top ten' I make will be the isometric 3d dungeon-delver Diablo. The mix of gameplay lack-of-story story and a certain ability to laugh at itself made it immersive and a very easy way to lose track of time whilst exploring its depths. There have been many imitators since then, but last night I found one ( Read more... )

Well, the day started off nicely when I read that Game Central is now going to continue on teletext when most of the rest of the service is stopped in 2010. It's good news, as I was not looking forward to losing one of my long-term daily reads. More details are promised, but for now knowing the campaign to save GC worked is good enough ( Read more... )

In readiness for the next snowboarding holiday, I planned to start getting a basic board, boots and bindings. Due to the new video camera I couldn't just go out and get the whole lot in one go, but instead go and get one item each month. This month sees the start of the plan, and also saw me able to pick up a new board for under 200 euro including ( Read more... )

One thing with getting into shooting video is suddenly noticing how things are shot. TV programs, films, even adverts, all have good and bad in them while the occasional one will stand out, or in this case walk out, taller than the others and showing just how good 'good' can be. Oddly enough, this like the last short film I highlighted is an advert ( Read more... )

On the tenth anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast being released, and many years after it was supposed to have died, someone has decided to release a new game for the console. It's a top-down "old school 2d racing game" which looks like fun, and a bit like Micro Machines, which if it comes close to that game's playability will mean it's well worth ( Read more... )

I`m writing this from my new toy... Thanks to Sony releasing a new slim version of the PS3 they finally dropped the price of their console to `hmm . . . ok` from `not happening`. This, plus Game putting together a bundle of the console plus two games for the same price as the console on its own saw my resistance dissapere into gadget-freak`s `it ( Read more... )

For far too many years to count I have had one daily read; Game Central, the gaming news and reviews magazine hosted on Channel 4's teletext service. It started out as Digitiser, and moved pages quite a few times before being changed to Game Central in 2003. Currently residing on pages 690-695 it still gives honest opinions of games, preferring ( Read more... )

There has been an on-going issue over the last few years with police arresting photographers and confiscating their equipment just for taking photos or video, something that is a legal activity normally. One of the acts that has been mis-used as part of this is the terrorism act, where the provisions for stopping people and confiscating equipment ( Read more... )