noun (not a real word) –

1. a preoccupation with, or deep knowledge of computing and/or gaming
2. boring or socially unattractive behaviour

Dave is, as you may have noticed, an enormous nerd. Sometimes he writes about that.

Currently trending on Twitter is the hashtag #GrandTheftAutoMemories – presumably because the trailer for GTA V has just been released. I’m quite a fan of the series, so I thought I’d have a look to see what people were saying. Don’t. It’s terrifying – the topic is moving pretty quickly, and every other post is [...]

If you’re familiar with Xbox Live then you’ll be aware that it allows you to make a little avatar of yourself and dress him how you please. This doesn’t achieve anything (there are a few games which use the xbox avatars, but they’re pretty universally shit); your avatar pretty much just exists as a representation [...]

Videogame companies enjoy rehashing old ideas; it saves time, effort and – most importantly - money. This is why we’ve started seeing two Call of Duty games each year, and way Microsoft refuse to allow the Halo series to have a dignified death. Gamers are to blame for this, too – ‘more of the same’ is pretty [...]

Twitter feed fixed (by which I mean ‘different, less breakable plugin installed’). Posts should be G+ compatible now, too (I’ve had to go to the effort of creating a Google+ account for this, you know. Although I already had a gmail account, like everyone else on the planet, so ‘effort’ might be going a bit [...]

My son has just completed his GCSEs, so I was paying a bit more attention this year to all the hue and cry about exam results – but I’ve not been immune to the fact that, for as long as I can recall, we’ve been saying that exams are getting easier. The other way of [...]

Some of you have already noticed, but I finally decided to drag my blog into the early 21st century and add Facebook and Twitter connectivity. Which in layman’s terms means there are buttons all over the place. Please feel free to run around clicking on them and trying to break things (if anything does break, [...]

And the results are in! Despite a long and difficult struggle against adversity (in which I had to try and remember what the controls were, because I haven’t played Dead Rising 2 in yonks), I pulled through and killed what is being officially described as ‘quite a few’ zombies. I am assured by, er, me [...]

It was suggested in the comments to my previous post that “If you are so concerned set up your own fundraising event”. Okay then. The premise is simple – on Saturday 13th August 2011 I’m going to play a computer game for a couple of hours and kill as many zombies as I can. For [...]

You might have noticed that’s it’s gone a bit pink around here - that’s how secure I am in my sexuality. I was also getting a bit bored with all the red. (we also got a bit fatter, but you probably won’t notice that so much – it’s only 100 pixels) In other news, my hair is [...]

(Yes, it’s been a while since I updated. My monitor exploded) Dr Liam Fox MP, our current Secretary of Defence, has called for the new Medal of Honor game to be banned by retailers. This isn’t an unusual step for politicos of a conservative stripe – although admittedly not as common in the UK as [...]