It’s that time of the year when we swap the monotony of the daily grind for a few heady days of partying in a field with several thousand like-minded revellers. A liberating experience indeed, but one for which few are fully prepared. For that reason, Know Your Money recently held a competition asking users for [...]
By Daniel R Deakin Over the years, British mega-spy James Bond has defeated a plethora of idiosyncratic villains. Some of them weren’t especially taxing, let’s face it the bad guy in Quantum of Solace, Dominic Greene, was no Jaws (RIP Richard Kiel… actually that’s just one of those internet rumours, the 7ft actor is still [...]
There is such a thing in life as schadenfreude; a German loan-word which is used to describe the pleasure a person may gain from observing the misfortune of others. Essentially, deep down, we as a people love to see others fall by the wayside of life: we get off on misery; not to ourselves of [...]
Everyone enjoys a good, relaxing game of something; be it a board game, computer game, video game, outdoor game or mind game. Games are created for us to enjoy at our leisure and for fun, they are there to elicit various emotions in our moments away from work, school and the like and for us [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor If Hollywood is any kind of accurate predictor of the future – and I think we all know that it is – then the century ahead of us will be beset by extreme hardship, unforeseen peril and apocalyptic danger. And maybe some hover cars. Therefore, as the current [...]
Officially bigger than the drugs and prostitution industries combined, yet still held in lower regard than either by society at large, what will 2010 hold for the video games industry? I haven’t got an answer to that. I just thought it was a nice intro. What I do have, however, is the top 10 most [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor There have been some amazing, life-affirming occurrences over the past ten years. But you don’t want to hear about those, do you? Thought not. Here’s the most crushing letdowns of the decade… 10. The Y2K Bug: Crappest techno-crisis ever (1st January 2000) The disappointments started early this decade. [...]
Just as the title says, this is a selection of some of the finest undesirables in videogame history and what they would have going for them were they to quit their day job to dabble in things slightly more politically-orientated. It goes without saying that some may view the information contained herein as being spoiler-tastic, [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor While big-time Hollywood studios and investors throw massive piles of cash at CGI-filled slagheaps, many independent and first-time movie-makers are shooting films on shoestring budgets with the hope of hitting the jackpot. So, perhaps now the economy has nose-dived and easy credit is but an embarrassing memory we [...]
By Rassam Fakour-Zaker Know Your Money Editor After the astonishing (and entirely fictitious) success of my previous article, 10 Awesome Movies That Should Be Made Into Awesome Video Games – which became an overnight sensation, caused an internet breakdown, garnered several awards and proved instrumental in actually getting seven of the games mentioned greenlit by [...]
