With Andy Ashwin off snowboarding and Gideon missing in action, it's been a bit hectic for the other half of the team left to cope with producing this week's issue. Things weren't helped by the arrival of Crazy Taxi in the office, with Andy Smith abandoning all pretence of work, instead seeking his fortune ("I'm off to make some ker-azy money!") on the streets of San Francisco. And on the pavements, in the parks, in the sea and wherever else his madcap driving took him. Never, ever get in a car with this man...

Mark, meanwhile, has managed to avoid being roped into Future Gamer's five-a-side team and has instead succumbed to the silky-smooth virtual charms of ISS Pro Evolution, along with all the technical bods who share Future Gamer's luxury office. One-off friendlies have turned into mini-competitions and the prospect of a fully-blown official tournament by the end of the week, that'll be taken all-too seriously by some, seems inevitable. At least Mark's second-half losing streak has ended, and has turned into a simple all-out losing streak. This has only been rivalled by that of the boy Jarvie (designer of our nifty FGC_Shell ads). Still, he's Scottish so at least he has an excuse...