There are lots of great writers. Even within the professional community, let alone the general public, you'll have a hard time getting two people to agree on who was the best ever. Shakespeare? Orwell? Joyce? Sega Zone-era Jonathan Davies? The arguments echo timelessly through the ages.

I've got many heroes and inspirations of my own – Steven Wells, Miranda Sawyer, Barbara Ellen, Craig Kubey, Rosie Boycott, Douglas Adams and plenty more. (Including the fictional composite entity Lloyd Mangram.) But the greatest writer of all time is someone whose name I don't even know, and who to earn the accolade only had to write a single word.

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I didn't see this coming. I have no words. Bear with me.

It's a beautiful day today.

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Ask a thousand people what the best videogame of all time is and you'll only get back a tiny handful of names (including variants thereof) – Super Mario, Half-Life, Grand Theft Auto, Call Of Duty, Naughty Ones, all the usual suspects. But ask the same thousand people what the worst game ever is and you'll get a thousand different answers.

It's time someone stood up and made a decision.

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This frankly incredible piece of clearly deliberate skill from Matty Burrows of Glentoran, astonishingly, did NOT win the World Goal Of The Year 2010 prize at the FIFA Ballon d'Or awards ceremony on Monday night:

When I explained this startling fact to a popular cultural commentator, his instant and heartfelt response was "What's that all about, eh?"

(In fairness, he also said that when I asked him how many sugars he wanted in his tea, and who the current President of the USA was.)

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And possibly the entire internet. And most assuredly the only time I'll ever say anything like that relating in any way to World Of Warcraft.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10543100.stm

Also: blimey, that's fast service.

Can be found here.

I wouldn't call myself a fan of the Daily Telegraph by some way, but I've never seen it sink quite this low. And I speak as someone who doesn't give a donkey's danglers about global warming.

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For one of the greatest games ever made, Mervyn Estcourt's 1983 Spectrum classic Deathchase (often inaccurately called "3D Deathchase") still doesn't get appreciated enough for my liking.

Mr Estcourt isn't a knight of the realm, there's no blue plaque on the wall of the house where he was born, and there isn't even a statue of an armed motorcyclist on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.

In the absence of any such formal commemoration, then, WoSblog has decided that in order to mark the 27th anniversary of the game's release, from this date forward April 2nd shall be International Deathchase Day.

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Is this okay, or really really not very okay at all? I just can't tell.

"Finally a SNIPER game where you play as a soviet soldier to help liberate the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp!"

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Earlier this week I directed a friend of mine, online poker impresario Matt "Mango Fish" Dale, to the splendid Squid Yes! Not So Octopus! on XBLA (where it sells for the kerrayzee bargain price of 61p), and he bought a copy.

While I don't exactly fully agree with his feelings about the game, which he shared with me via MSN the next day, I do quite genuinely feel that his comments on it constitute possibly the best videogame review there's ever been (and one of the most objectively accurate), so I've posted them in their entirety below the jump for WoSblog viewers to enjoy and debate.

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Is, I've today concluded after 33 years of videogaming, this one.

But hey, don't take my word for it – you can give it a shot for yourself.

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