The alarming regularity around this time of year, of the big games makers and manufacturers pleading to us to part with hard earned cash, is something akin to the likelihood that anything Jeremy Clarkson says will be insulting to just about everyone. Gene

With the final sunny hours of summer fading into the distance, individuals up and down the land start to consider the nights drawing in, temperatures falling, and the slow, inevitable death march towards the 25th of December. There is a silver lining to t

Twenty five years after Microsoft came up with what many people consider the definitive representation of who they are in terms of their logo, they decided to change it. In its place is a coloured Segoe font representation of what the company hopes to be

With the kind of groan that old people make when they bend down, youngsters all over the nation are lamenting the end of the summer holidays. The good news is that we can expect " Dredd", and "The Walking Dead" soon after they return to school. Both sta

There is no doubt that there is a problem with some gamers today, just as there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the games industry has gotten lazy, and more bloated than Jabba the Hut after a weekend at the Chicken Shack. Are we so naive to believ

ummer finally arrived this week. The United Kingdom bathed in glorious temperatures in excess of thirty degrees Celsius. The world arrived in London for the Olympic Games. True to form temperatures and expectations dropped faster than the Greek currency a

This week we heard another story of someone having died as a result of spending far too much time playing video games.The knitted brow of consternation that always follows this sort of news, along with the phantom outrage of the Daily Mail inspired middle

Rather than deal just with one issue in the weekly rant, we’ve decided to cover some of the stories in this week’s episode of Geekout. Enjoy. The Dark Knight Rises This week it was announced that Hollywood is getting even closer to securing a “Justi

The nonchalance with which Apple assumes that because it is so cool , that whatever they make people will buy, was rocked this week with Google throwing their hand into the tablet wars with the nexus 7 announcement. Apple, kicking back on a recliner, was

So the annoying ,but increasingly loud sucking noise that Hollywood filmmakers are hearing is coming from that enormous black hole of profit hungry,  lowest common denominator oriented, vacuous, self-absorbed, and depressingly stupid executives that are