The coffee machine's been giving FG new boy Gideon Kibblewhite some trouble this week. It turns out, he's discovered, that you actually have to put WATER and COFFEE in the thing to make it work. Nobody's been complaining though - the stuff it makes tastes crap anyway.

On the gaming front, UEFA Striker and Toy Commander (both on Dreamcast) have both been vying for centre stage in the office - and Andy Ashwin's annoying habit of beating everybody at everything he plays is already threatening to upset this initially happy situation.

To be embarrassingly whipped six-nil by the young tyke of a News Editor, Mark has been finding out, is par for the course. And the course is where he'll probably be taking refuge again soon if his run of inept form and second-half crumbling continues for much longer - the Turf Masters course, that is. Everybody agrees, though, that UEFA plays a realstic and deep game of football.

Sega, it seems, have now got a raft of quality games together - games good enough, perhaps, to pull-in a few more of those reluctant punters still clinging desperately to their PlayStation in the hope that they can see out the year until PS2 arrives. The latest of these quality games is Toy Commander, with multiplay dog-fights in the bathroom and toe-to-toe combat in the kitchen getting the whole office behaving like, well, kids.

"That's not fair, Andy - you always win..."