I observed the other day that Sony Magazine has little to justify its seemingly imaginary cover price of £4.50. However, as Charlie Brooker points out (today, spookily), there are much worse examples of this “hilariously desperate” genre of magazine. Specifically, something called Nespresso magazine.
This is the magazine for people who own Nespresso coffee machines. It [...]

I was fortunate enough to be sent the first issue of Sony Magazine in the post today. This 100-page Haymarket publication, edited by Loaded co-founder Tim Southwell, is, for definite, an actual proper magazine and in no way a Curry’s Digital newspaper insert printed on slightly thicker paper. Oh no.
Apparently,
Sony Magazine is all about heroes. [...]

Proving political correctness is almost certainly dead, Nuts magazine has a semi-nude photo spread this week featuring disgraced posh racist Emily from Big Brother. (For those unfamiliar with the intellectual tour de force that is Channel 4’s summer schedule, she got kicked out for calling a fellow contestant the N-word… apparently in jest, blah, blah, [...]

Jamie Hewlett, of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame, has created the art and costume design for a new production of a Chinese “circus opera” to be staged as part of the Manchester International Festival, which starts next week. It’s called Monkey: Journey to the West and features music by Damon Albarn.
Dazed & Confused has an [...]

I’ve just been reading about so-called “murder simulator” Manhunt 2, a game which has been banned this week in the UK and looks to be heading to a global ban, thanks to what the BBFC calls its “casual sadism” and “unremitting bleakness”. The game was earmarked for the Wii, which would mean stabbing people to [...]