Nick Hide, Games & Gear Editor at CNET.co.uk

Prototype: Having its gore-soaked cake and eating it with a tentacle

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:02 +0000

You don't remember great lines or subtly drawn characters in games. You remember wonderful experiences, like accidentally killing someone because you didn't realise you could throw a car that far

Mass Effect 2 will blow the roof off E3

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:20:01 +0000

This is where games have a huge advantage over movies -- a sequel can take the world the original created and improve everything that everyone complained about

Street Fighter IV: Don't fail me now, postie

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:17:02 +0000

Will the postman chirpily deliver my little green box full of awesomeness before the weekend? Seriously, it's keeping me awake at night. My fingernails are a disgrace

13 hours without electricity: Personal hell

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:39:02 +0000

If you're lucky enough to live in South East London you'll have had a nasty shock yesterday morning when you woke up to no power. This sort of thing only happens north of the river, surely?

The gunshot heard around the world

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:33:01 +0000

The winds of a thousand worlds blew unfelt past vast piles of discarded weapons. But in one place, noise burst into life: "LCPD!Getoutofthevehicle!Ratatatata"

Facebook Chat: IM for the real world

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:22:01 +0000

The new Facebook Chat is great for freaking out your technophobic friends. "Arrghh! Where is this electronic Nick voice coming from?" responded one of my dimmer buddies.

Rock Band is how much in the UK?!

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:25:02 +0000

Rock Band sells in the US for $170 (�85), but it's going to cost a jaw-dropping �179.98 over here. For you drummers struggling with the maths, that's more than twice the price.

Hey Koreans, get my mum to design your stuff

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:44:01 +0000

My mum doesn't respond like I do to seeing an unfamiliar button: I press it and see what happens; she's worried it'll break the damn thing

Mass Effect presses all the old buttons

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:08:02 +0000

Maybe Mass Effect isn't the cutting edge of next-gen gaming, but I love it all the same -- it's the same comforting gameplay in a beautiful new universe

Football Manager 2008: Unbelievable, Jeff

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:45:02 +0000

Football Manager is utterly compelling despite having no fancy graphics, no gore, no stereo sound. Just numbers, the same as always. Now that's game design