Finally got to see this film this weekend after hearing 30 or so people since its release say something to the tune of ‘the ending is disappointing’ (I’m wildly paraphrasing here). Anyway, I will now be adding my name to this facebook group. The film on the whole was great; a tense cat-and-mouse thriller where Tommy Lee Jones acts like his brain is slowly being eaten away by a parasite. Sadly, it proves quite grating after a while seeing every shot of Jones talking complete gibberish and theorising about waves and old age. The other two characters, however, the older brother from the Goonies and Frankenstein’s monster are quite brilliant, also there was a swimming dog that gets shot about 20 minutes into the picture (not sure who he/she was but they played their part well). Sadly though, the great culminates into an unsatisfying finale that leaves a taste of rat’s back in your mouth (I’m wildly over-exaggerating here). Overall, 3/5 Stars.

We took it upon ourselves to hand the caricatures of the RG team around the Imagine office and ask people who they think the pictures remind them of. Here are some of the best suggestions that we received, enjoy. And there’s a Part 2 to follow.

Mike Tooley / Frank Lampard

Richard Burton / David Beckham

Martyn Carroll / The Mona Lisa

You have to ask yourself, why did Asmik think this image would help shift copies of their game? Two teary men in a fuzzy stadium sharing a tender embrace and looking longingly at the Playstation logo. Seriously, it looks like propoganda. They might as well have opted for an image of two laughing cows taking a grass dump on a compact disc or two catfish flicking elastic bands at a wristwatch. 

Right, the game’s called Jewel Master so clearly the intention here was to have some jewels and some part of a ‘master’ feature on the box somehow, somewhere. 

Apparently, according to this picture, in this game you get to play a giant girly hand adorned with giant girly rings, and must use them to spray a badly drawn phoenix with a triangle of girly looking water. Sounds truly unwonderful. Neither Darran nor I have played the game, so in the unlikely chance that this game is absolutely amazing and has some huge web-following that we’re completely unaware of, we’ll apologise for lambasting its artwork in advance.

As far as we’re aware, this is the first and only time that an image of a lizard, a fern, a gem and a silhouette of a family have ever been used on a boxart.

It kinda gives the impression that the family are playing the game on a big television and are experiencing the most photorealistic graphics ever created. Sadly, Animal Vegetable Mineral is simply a way to educate your computer by playing Twenty Questions - which means you’ll be staring at a bunch of words and answering stupid questions. 

Ever been to Berwick-Upon-Tweed’s Spittal Beach Arcade on a Saturday? Nope, neither have we. But if anyone’s wondering why it’s worth a visit, here are some exquisite pictures that were sent into us by Paul Blackwood (we think he’s the one pictured, playing the Sega Rally cab). He took a stroll into The Pavilion Family Fun Centre over the weekend and took a few snaps of some impressively pristine looking arcade machines. Cheers for the relatively easy blog update Paul.

Here’s a picture of the Pavilion Family Fun Centre. Apparently it boasts a snack bar, an arcade and a pool.

A Konami Simpsons cab in pretty good nick, we got Steve (our designer) to zoom in on that credit sticker and, yes, it’s 20p a go.

Our mistake, the Sega Rally pro in the picture is actually Paul’s son Luke. Would it have killed you to put your hand in your pocket though Paul?

A broken Prop Cycle machine ironically propped up in the corner. Apparently, Paul also spotted a Donkey Kong cab getting a donkey ride and the Ice Climbers clubbing a seal to death.

Yep, not retro in the slightest, but we couldn’t resist.

  Needs no explanation really.

Seeing as no one managed to topple Darran’s score on Strider last week, I get to select this week’s game; the gorilla-charging flame-hopping classic, Donkey Kong. Here’s my effort, an easily beatable score of 84400 points.    

Last night’s episode of The Apprentice finally saw the show’s producers stop asking the teams to wash and press 1,000 pillow cases or become pub landlords and set them the commonsensical task of creating a product (which, in this instance, was two ridiculous sounding flavours of ice cream), market test that product, and sell the product. One team was lead by the timid Lucinda Ledgerwood, who, thanks to not immediately jumping down everyone’s throats or pointing fingers at the first sign of pressure, seemed to hold her team together well – demonstrating easily the most ‘with it’ approach to a task we’ve seen on the show so far. The other team, led by mouthy Claire Young, were the complete opposite, nonchalantly stumbling at every hurdle and yet annoyingly, thanks to bagging a large deal at the 11th hour, still managing to walk away with the task. Eventually it was Lindi Mngaza who was ousted by Sugar, after it came out in the board room that Lindi had been left in charge of the sales team and they’d essentially lost the task by not selling hard enough.