The digital music revolution is hitting Bermuda’s music retailers where it hurts. Music Box owner Eddie DeMello said bootleg CDs, Internet downloading and a new tech-savvy generation who listen to music on iPods have led to an approximate 25 percent...
I was surprised to find a lengthy article about Bermuda’s community of tabletop role-players in Saturday’s Royal Gazette. Reading it brought a nostalgic smile to my face. Throughout my teenage years, I was an unapologetic geek, an avid player of...
Poor old Rudolph King is really having a string of bad luck at the moment. There he was, looking forward to hosting a jolly awards ceremony in Bermuda, when suddenly everything started to go pear-shapedi First it turned out that...
I'm glad that Crash won Best Picture at the Oscars last night. It's an outstanding movie, with particular relevance to Bermuda. I wrote a brief review last year. If you haven't already seen it, do yourself a favour and rent...
I'm having problems with my iPod. Again. Worse, my warranty expired nine days ago. This is the third iPod that my wife and I have had in the last two years. It's also the third that has developed problems within...
In Azeroth's Eastern Kingdoms, on the borders of the Burning Steppes and the Searing Gorge, is Blackrock Mountain. Surrounded by dragonkin and orcs, its molten interior teeming with the fearsome Dark Iron Dwarves, it's a hostile, unforgiving place where even...
About half-way into this evening’s season finale of The Apprentice I thought that the only fair outcome would be for Donald Trump to hire both Rebecca and Randal. So when Mr. Trump told Randal that he was hired, then interrupted...
One of the great traditions of the festive season in the UK is the Christmas pantomime. At this time of year there’s scarcely a town in the land that doesn’t have one. Men dress as women, women dress as men,...
One of the most surprising things about last night’s finale of Survivor wasn’t so much that Danni won (though I thought that Steph deserved it more), it was the complete absence of local ads during the two-hour show. While it...
Here’s a cool idea from the one of the guys who gave us boxoffice.bm: online movie rentals. Nice to see that Bermuda isn’t always stuck in the electronic dark ages when it comes to useful online services. Now if only...
After reading about the heated debate going back and forth between Tony Brannon and Gene Steede, I am torn. Although they both have some valid points, I can’t decide who is correct: (i) Tony Brannon, who feels that our ever-growing...
They killed me off in the first sentence?! Pah.
Paul Haggis’ Crash was released last year to rave reviews. Readers of the Internet Movie Database rated it an impressive 8.5 out of 10, making it the 53rd most popular movie on that site. But until readers of this site...
I'm beginning to wonder if iPods aren't just a little bit overrated. About two years ago my wife bought one. It lasted just over a year and then it died. It was probably a battery failure but the screen had...
It's rumoured that Bermuda is being considered for location shooting for the next James Bond film, Casino Royale. If this works out it could be a bigger boost to our tourist industry than a thousand Pop and Sizzle flags. [via...
I went onto iTunes this evening to try to buy the song that was playing at the end of Six Feet Under last night while everyone was dying. To my chagrin, I discovered that that track was not for sale...
Six Feet Under was never the most cheerful television series. Considering it was a show about death, set in a funeral home, that's perhaps not entirely surprising. But even the black humour that laced the episodes seemed to get blacker...
Hott 107.5 no longer covering the Bermuda Music Festival? Gary Moreno and the rest of the media must be breathing a sigh of relief.
One of the other things that I wanted to mention in today's column, but decided to omit for reasons of space, was what the future holds for Bermuda's CD, DVD and video game retailers. In short, unless they change their...
At long last, CableVision is making Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) available to its customers. The model being offered is the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 MR. It has an 80GB hard drive, enough to store up to 50 hours of programming,...
Several weeks ago, a fan of the computer game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas wrote a piece of software (known as the Hot Coffee mod) that lets players view hidden sex scenes in the game. In the uproar that ensued,...
WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead! I love the original Star Wars trilogy. I still find the story, the characters, the humour, the sound and the score as thrilling as I did the day I first saw them. I don’t remember when...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 28 April 2005 Hi. My name is Phil and I’m addicted to video games. My relationship with my father is to blame. Back in the 1970s, when I was growing up, video games were starting to...
A reader recently suggested that I make the reviews currently posted in the sidebar of the site into posts in their own right, to enable others to add their thoughts and to provide an archive of previous reviews. I'm going...
I've had a couple of emails this week recommending Blizzard's new online role-playing game (RPG) World of Warcraft and asking whether I'm playing it yet. I'm not. Right now I'm trying to defeat the Combine in Valve's atmospheric shooter Half-Life...
Ace and myself will be playing Battlefield 1942 online at 8pm Bermuda time this evening. Anyone interested in joining us need only sign up with Xfire, add me (limeyinbermuda) to your buddy list, and be online at that time.
As promised, I've just signed up with Xfire as a first step in pulling together Bermuda-based PC gamers for some online fragging. It's essentially an instant messaging application that lets you see which games your friends are playing and allows...
Today I'm going to take a break from politics to gripe about something far more important: the availability of computer games. I've been keeping an eye out for two games recently: Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic, and Price...
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