Younger siblings can be such a pain sometimes: embarrassing you in front of friends, getting you into trouble with your parents, or draining the blood of genetically mutated humans with a big syringe.
Yes, welcome back to the ruined underwater metropolis of Rapture, ten years after the first Bioshock put an uneasy end to the civil war raging between the city's mutated citizens and freed the Little Sisters from their barbaric blood drive.

So far I've just about managed to avoid using this column as a soapbox to stand on while I bitch and whine about my own personal issues with the games industry. Therefore, as I'm about to blow enough hot air to make myself a viable option for NASA's next spacecraft prototype - I thought it only fair to give you a little bit of warning.

There are games for people who like football, for people who like puzzles and for people who like shooting aliens/monsters/other people in the face. Then there are games for girls.

The concept of 'Splosion Man is simple. Your character has one ability: he explodes. You must make your way through 50-or-so increasingly convoluted platforming levels, using the momentum generated by your self-detonations.

The BBC reported this week that climate scepticism is on the rise in a rather hastily created poll which has emerged after the world press has leapt  onto the back of the UN’s recent admittance that they made a mistake in asserting Himalayan glaciers will have disappeared by 2035 like John Terry onto a French underwear model.