Once again, recent events have turfed video games into the media spotlight and for all the wrong reasons. I am, of course, referring to the horrible day in Finland, where a single person killed and injured innocent people at a school. The fact that he played video games, particularly "shooters", has made various big-wigs foam at the mouth, once again.

Which is, naturally,...

My faithful test machine finally decided to give up the ghost last week - the motherboard had seen countless CPUs, coolers, graphics cards, RAM sticks, etc and not only were the slots knackered, electrically it was getting iffy too. So it was out with old(ish) and in with a spiffy new CPU, motherboard, and RAM - everything else stayed in the case.

Now despite the fact that I've built,...

That might seem like a stupid question to ask on a PC gaming website, because we all love PC gaming, but, you know, I sometimes wonder if publishers actually do. We all know that the money is in consoles because the base units are cheap and they appeal to a huge age range, but I'm beginning to wonder if certain companies are simply bailing out, under the cheap guise of using poor ports, ridiculous...

I'll be totally frank with you all right now - this is my first ever blog; in fact, it's my first ever "diary" of any kind, so if it's boring, full of mistakes or whatever, then tough! When I was a lad (dinosaurs had //just// stopped roaming around the world I think), diaries were for girls and wierdos, but later in life I discovered that a great many quality books had been written from...