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Last month Mark Vilder announced he had come to the end of ‘bastard pop’ road, to go on (and in typical mus-o type) and focus on other projects.

At the time he released “This Was Pop (2002-2007)”, which forms a retrospective (or ‘best of’ I supposed) on the whole she-bang. It’s definitely worth a listen, but only if you’re open enough to hear Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre over the top of Crowded House and/or The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” and The Monkeys’ “I’m a Believer” in perfect harmony

Anyway, you can get it in two parts (96 & 13MB respectively) and an alternative download can be found on the GHP website.

Mark has also put “GHP Complete” - the entire GHP back catalogue - available for download. The OMFG torrent is over 1GB, but has some rare tracks that have been (until now) difficult to get hold of. It’s available at thepiratebay: Go_Home_Productions_-_GHP_Complete.torrent.

Whilst the countdown over at 24trailer.com still reads 20 hours to go, various people have already leaked the trailer onto the Interwebnets.

…and boy does it look good. They’ve killed off ***, shifting the whole dynamic of the show and hopefully breathing some new wind into its sails.

Last night saw Nintendo’s Wii Sports walking away with six awards from the 4th outing of the British Academy Video Game Awards (The BAVGA’s?), this year held at Battersea Evolution, London.

The family-friendly ‘putting the fun back into gaming’ title scooped: Best Multiplayer Game, Best Gameplay, Best Sports Title, Stratergy and Simulation, Innovation and finally Best Casual Game. Making it, I suppose, the most innovative casual sports, stratergy and simulation multiplayer game (ever! (volume 2)).

‘Sports did not manage to take the crown of Best Game, that honour went to 2k Games BioShock (I really must get round to playing that) and The Sims creator, Will Wright, walked away with a BAFTA Fellowship.

Full write ups can be found on SPONG and the good ol’ BBC.

Gerhard Florin, an EA senior suit, wants to see the console wars of recent years become a thing of the past - making way for an ‘open platform’ for which games can be developed and delivered.

It’s an interesting concept, with EA in particular re-packaging a lot of its games to as many of its 14 supported platforms as possible in an effort to rake in the cash make titles available to everyone.

I’m not sure the rest of the world will necessarily share his somewhat pie-in-the-sky dream though, people are too ambitious and the desire to be the best will always come first, perhaps this is more a scheme for Mr Florin to be able to lay off another couple of departments.

What I can see happening (and will be welcome with open arms), is the standardisation of net code within the games themselves, allowing people playing the same title, but on different platforms, the ability to shoot each other in the head.

Source: BBC News.

The increasingly popular (and quite handy) tv-links.co.uk website has been shut down and the one man has been arrested in connection to the web site by police yesterday.

The move brought about by FACT (the Federation Against Copyright Theft) is of particular interest as the site did not host any of the videos, merely providing the user links to sites which did host the content.

Is the message that it’s less criminal to host illegal content on YouTube than it is to to link to it from a site such as TV Links?

Which begs the question, if they’re heading down this route (which I suppose could be seen as the ‘distribution’ layer), how long before they take on the likes of Google for providing links to, and indeed hosting content on their YouTube service.

Jack Schofield from the Guardian has more comment on the whole situation.

We’ve come a long way  in the last 5 years, mostly idling by on the hard shoulder of the information super-highway, with a couple of gems in between (Teuilea Slamcakes, anyone? Mr Vodaphone as another example).

Ok, I’ve tried. I really didn’t want this to be a “don’t worry, I’ll be posting content this time” post, but I feel the need to call myself slack before putting the full stop at the end of the last chapter.

Now that’s over and done with, I can stop filling, post this item and carry on tweaking the themes and plugins I want to use in this install of the fantastic WordPress.