At X08 this year Pure from Disney Interactive Studios made a pretty big impact. It managed to fly under the radar with minimal hype and press. When we saw it at the show it really seemed to cut through the visual clutter to stand out amongst all the other titles being exhibited so we were keen to see the finished product.

Introduction
The game by Black Rock Studio nestles itself in to a nice niche in your game library for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or Windows. It’s a racing game but negotiating turns efficiently isn’t enough to ace the events. There is a heavy emphasis on tricks and personality in the game too. It’s definitely not a simulation though, remaining very accessible with an arcade feel so anybody can pick it up and play without frustration. That being said, it isn’t shallow either. The game rewards skill, showmanship and risk, allowing it to successfully walk the line between accessibility and rich experience. continue…

If you go to Beijing for the Olympics you can see some really expensive architecture. You can also find some cheap knockoffs – something China is infamous for.

As with retail, the architectural knockoffs can be just as amusing. Perhaps they don’t recreate the original faithfully but they give you something for the effort, even if a kind of commentary on the value of the original.

Of course these images show mimicry of the ‘birds nest’ and ‘water cube’ facilities built for the Beijing Olympic Games.

If you were serious about your body being comparable to a well oiled machine, and if you were serious about your well oiled machines insisting on only the finest in Italian precision engineering, you would probably already be wasting your time reading this copy. For the rest of us it is potentially news that Ferrari sells something called the Unica. This thing is adorned with only the most masculine of ‘prancing horses’ and will run you a mere €12.5K. What are you waiting for? This way you can fulfill your new year’s resolution and your mid-life crisis all at once. You should at least go read the details of this beauty for your self although before you do you should be aware that the precision engineers over at Ferarri apparently don’t take as much care into designing the usability of their website as they do the machismo of their branding.

A little while ago it was revealed that Canadian wrestler Chris Benoit may have committed a murder suicide, killing his wife, then son, and finally himself. As tragic and bizarre as the details in this case already are, it has since been discovered that his wikipedia page had been edited to reflect his wife’s death just hours before the police discovered this on themselves. The plot thickens.

The Setting is Nathan Phillips Square. The time is three o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the twelfth of May. The weapons of choice are pillows. The expected outcome? Some ‘n00bs’ are about to get ‘pwned’ with some feathery headshots and the number of cameras will match or exceed the number of pillows.