If you are an ardent college football fan but aren’t really keen on playing on an actual synthetic sports pitch, then you simply must lay your hands on the latest offering from EA Sports- NCAA Football 11. Although you might be tempted to compare it to Madden-EA Sports’ other popular football game, this game is strikingly different.

NCAA Football 11, which has amazingly realistic visuals, is intended to recreate the experience of actually playing the game. The most significant Read more…

While running to my local specialist computer games shop last week (past a gruesome looking woman who had apparently just had Face lift surgery ,), someone shouted “Run forest, run!” This is not unusual. After having got a close friend to video-tape me running (this was after the first time someone had shouted the aforementioned thing and I was arguing with my friend, telling him I did not run in any way like Forest Gump) I have to admit that Read more…

For the extreme shooter in you, here is new challenge from Capcom for Xbox 360! If you think you are the best shooter and can really kill enemies and insects at will, then get the taste of the latest game – Lost Planet Extreme Condition. With this game you need to do nothing, just struggle through the snow-covered extreme world where DNA Testing has taken over, then you find the giant insects and shoot them. The game is based on Read more…

The Grand Theft Auto games are great fun to play and I have a particular fondness for the eighties-themed ‘Vice City’. But the only problem is that I never manage to finish any of the missions. The appeal of going off on a freestyle rampage is just far too strong and I will have oodles of cops hunting me down within the first five minutes!

So, when I first got ‘Mercenaries’ I was concerned that I might have the Read more…

Don’t know what an Eniscope is? No, it isn’t some kind of brand-new NASA telescope, if you were wondering. Don’t worry, before I saw the following link I didn’t either: http://www.enigin.co.uk/

Once you get to the main page, just scroll down to Enigin Direct on the right and click there.

That’s right, if you’ve just visited the link and clicked there (like you should have, so if you haven’t then go and do it now, please?), you will have seen Read more…

Until recently I hadn’t really thought about my childhood (I’d had a lot on my mind, mainly boring adult stuff like ’I wonder who the most economical central heating oil suppliers are’). I mean, I had thought about it, but I’d missed things out. Important things too. I’d thought about how we used to play as children, but not about how big trees seemed to me or how amazing butterflies were. I’d thought about how it was to build sand-castles Read more…

The they—that mystical group who have a lot to answer for, including why dog insurance is so expensive—say, in their infinite wisdom, that to become a professional therapist, hairdresser, or whatever, that one must first experience the therapy or whatever themselves. Only then can he / she fully appreciate what it must be like. What nonsense! The only time I think this is true is for becoming a driving instructor. I know this because I am one, and to Read more…

Simplifying things is definitely under-rated if you ask me. And energy-saving too: Global Warming, climate change, and all that stuff in general suffer from the complexity bug and end up being totally confusing for all but the geniuses. Which is a good thing in some ways; for example, the more complex something is, the more bad stuff we don’t have to know about. But is that really the attitude we should be taking to these horrendous problems? Imagine if nobody Read more…

What happened to etiquette? Back in the days of old it was considered the next most important thing to breathing and eating, but nowadays that philosophy is all but forgotten. In fact, you’re more likely to come across a rampaging wilderbeast while doing the weekly shopping.

But have no fear, there are some TV shows which aim to restore this once crucial staple of modern English life back to its former glory. One of them, if I remember correctly, is Read more…

Science teachers, if you ask me, have a lot to answer for. Don’t be surprised if by the end of this you too have a grudge the size of a small moon against this freakish (and usually balding) phenomenon.

Take my science teacher as a prime example. He had this thing about energy. He loved energy more than his wife (which was why his wife left him). At the start of every lesson he would make this big speech about Read more…