Here's a perfect case of life imitating art, or a computer game, which, depending on which side of the fence you fall, could be art or it could just be a pixel-polygonated escape from reality for fan boys, but anyway.

Here's an article about the release of the second expansion pack for World Of Warcraft, the online game for fanatics, as if anyone needs to be told. It's all pretty straight forward stuff but about a third of the way down we learn of a certain fate that befalls one Scott Hamshere from Bromley, which is in the county of Kent in England.

What happens to him is not just funny, in the schadenfreude vein of humour, but it also, strangely, mimics the gameplay of Warcraft...

A classic case of spawn camping, perhaps? Camped for 18 hours for a rare spawn with an even rarer drop, only to fall asleep 5 minutes before it spawned. Some n00b jumped and KSed him!

Everyone loves video-games, and the collaborative effort that goes into making them is immense and horribly time consuming. I should know, I've never worked on one!

With the imminent release of EA's innovative first-person action-adventure game, Mirror's Edge, here's the latest episode of maniaTV's Video Game Report on Arcade that shows the faces behind those credits that scroll up the screen once you've completed a game - names that you never usually pay much attention to because you're so relieved to have finished, after many hours of expletive ridden, hair wrenching, controller annihilating gameplay, no doubt.

There's interviews with the product marketing manager who talks about what differentiates it from other first-person games, and musician Lisa Miskovsky who wrote the theme song, 'Still Alive', plus you can check out other episodes. Groovy.

So go check it out in anticipation of the release.