It's officially Spring and by Pisces it's lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the changing seasons. If you're in need of more artificial stimulation, however, and are squirrelling all your spare cash into your ISA before the end of the tax year then......

Last night/early this morning was the official launch of the Playstation 3 and eager gamers set off on a midnight excursion to try and beat the crowds. This in itself has been the subject of much hand wringing over the worry that muggers would descend on console geeks and nick either their large wads of cash (a PS3 will set you back over £400) or the thing itself. Being a dab hand on GTA......

There's an 'image overhaul' planned for the eastern end of Oxford Street. It's 'tacky' at the moment apparently, so more Starbucks should put that right. Lots of grumblings over the McDonalds Olympic sponsorship news. And rightly so. We can't decide if Billy Zane's decision to play a dance teacher in the West End is a bit of a career boost or evidence of further, post-Kelly decline. Looks like London will get its first glimpse......

A couple of months ago we reported on the fact that Rockstar Games were opening a London office, and as part of the post we raised this question: So, could the new studio be a sign that a GTA: London is in the works? Well, the forthcoming PS3 will sell like hot cakes when Sony can bundle it with a GTA game, and where better to set it than in London? And, what do......

Looking for a new job? Fan of thumb-based mayhem, violence and controversy? Us too. And most of the rest of London. So the news that Rockstar Games are to open a new development studio right here in the Big Smoke will cause a flurry of CV writing amongst the hoards of would-be game designers in the capital. Rockstar, of course, are the software house behind the hugely successful, achingly violent Grand Theft Auto series......