There was an excruciating advertising feature in today's Metro newspaper. The section, sponsored by the sci-fi channel, had a feature on the "new gaming geek", a "cool and sexy" female reviews ed on a gaming magazine. "Yes, that's right. She's a girl. And she games", was how the breathless article continued, before wondering whether she had been "stuck on the same level for the past 800 hours". Rather than asking the important questions, like how anyone can afford to be "cool and sexy" on games magazine wages, the article simply couldn't get over the shock that a woman was a keen gamer. Aleks - you'd have loved it.