Lasers, as a sci-fi staple they're up there with aliens, eternal night, robots sent from the future and Lance Henriksen, so it's good news to sci-fi fans to hear that a laser weapon is ever nearer. Hoorah! More weapons to eradicate our fellow man, just what we need in this current climate of fear, blame-mongering, hatred and contempt!

While lasers are something straight out of popular sci-fi, I think the world is edging ever closer to a sci-fi akin to that of Philip K Dick. If there's ever been a paranoid drug fiend, he's your man. He deals with the blurring line between the real and imagined, constantly confusing the reader with multiple realities, dead-ends that look like answers, cruel jokes, non-linear timelines and highly elusive conclusions. His characters are swathed in an eerie despondency, a hopelessness, a feeling of being trapped eternally in a mirror house of confusion and falsehood. That, I think, is closer to the realities we face each day.

But anyway, don't let that grind you down, lasers are cool! Imagine a laser this powerful in one of those laser toys for cats. Here kitty, kitty, here kit- ZIMP! MEOW!! Where'd kitty go? And where'd all this fur come from?

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.