It's a slow news day so back to that bizarre Sony press event in Greece. The company has furnished Kotaku.com with its side of the story. Predictably, it turns out that the goat was not slaughtered onsite and games journalists were not invited to eat offal from its still warm body cavity. The goat was apparently 'sourced' already dead from a local butcher. I wish I could have heard that phone conversation.

None of this makes it 'okay' - it was still a really weird thing to do and someone somewhere should have thought it through, but The Mail on Sunday's hysterical treatment, based on a secondhand irony-filled report is almost as questionable. I mean front page news - an animal carcass at a private press event? This on the day Britain's second in line to the throne packed his kit bag and headed off to Iraq.

The Mail has, of course, waged a long and often happily fact-averse war against the videogame industry for many years, but selecting this 'story' as a lead is astonishing. If the newspaper wanted to go with animal cruelty, I'm sure the RSPCA would have been only too pleased to share one of its many harrowing stories of daily animal mistreatment perpetrated on our animal-loving isle. All very, very odd.