Gareth Halfacree
"Work hard, have fun, enjoy."
Categories: gaming | 1 Comment

Steam – Valve’s digital distribution mechanism – is having a sale at the moment with some reasonable bargains, including a decent deal on Max Payne and Max Payne 2.  Having enjoyed the original and never having played the sequel, I snapped it up. There are problems, however: while the original works fine, Max Payne 2 [...]

Categories: frog | 1 Comment
Santa's Little Helper, a.k.a. Gareth Davies

Well, not Santa per se…  More one of his helpers. Okay, it was company MD Gareth (no relation) Davies in a daft hat handing out the results of the Secret Santa we’ve been running. I’m pleased to say that I came away from it with an absolutely awesome toy crossbow – which is powerful enough [...]

Categories: legal | 9 Comments

Well, after deciding I was unable to post a copy of the Davenport Lyons letter – the one that was kindly scanned in and sent to me by a mysterious benefactor – owing to the threats of legal action the company is apparently taking against anyone who distributes said letter online, I was surprised – [...]

Categories: legal | 2 Comments

Well, it looks like Davenport Lyons has decided that going after alleged sharers of computer games isn’t lucrative enough. To keep the cheques rolling in now it’s approaching Xmas time they’ve come up with a whole new method of making money: porn. More specifically, accusing people of downloading pornographic movies from peer-to-peer networks.  If you [...]