So it’s particularly useful that RevOnline has created a Ditto list of  the Best Star Wars Games.  Is it better to spend £30 on a copy of Lego Star Wars, or do you need to invest a few hundred in an arcade machine? And is Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace the worst Star Wars game ever, in line with the films?

On a more movie-related note…I’m pleasantly surprised to see I’m not the only one filling the list of the Best Swedish films ever.  Seeing as I’m trying to improve my Swedish all the time, it’s given me some other things to watch!

I’m pleased to announce some new quiz action for this month: we’ve got questions for music lovers, a quiz for film buffs and a fiendish test for the gamers amongst you. There’s a whopping £50 worth of Amazon vouchers on offer as a prize for each quiz.

In other news, you can win £100 worth of Forbidden Planet vouchers in our expert-level horror quiz, with more gruesome excitement to be had with our list of cinema’s grisliest death scenes (thanks, Empire!), the greatest films of George A. Romero and my new favourite list- classic 1970s Horror trumps. I urge you to vote for Maggot because, although generally weak, he’s quite a looker. Speaking of lookers, Pat has started a list about films with massive kill counts which is proving to be quite controversial due to his stringent rules about ‘kill count’ versus ‘body count’.

If that’s all a bit too dark for you, there’s still time to win some ace pop goodies in our Alphabeat quiz, vote for the best 80s Hip Hop videos or relive those times when you’ve held a lighter aloft with our list of the greatest live albums

Enjoy!

In case you hadn’t noticed, click on a thumbnail when looking at a list and there’s a whole new world of wonder and your fingertips… watch videos, vote, share what’s on your mind, see which fools are voting your favourites down etc. We spent a while building the page but it might be a little hidden away for existing members who use the quick vote interface and the toggle.

The new office is wonderful, thanks for asking. This one is less full of clothes and couriers.

Mainly because there are some quite surprising choices on there. Perfect Dark Zero wasn’t a great game, but the seventh worst videogame of all time? And the most played game on Xbox Live, and hugely popular Call of Duty 4 appears at 13?

Seeing surprising results is a big part of the fun of Ditto, but surely there must be some worse games we could be mocking? If you haven’t voted yet, go and share your gaming nightmares!

Or there’s always the Best Videogame Weapon ever!

I have worked on the ditto team since the coding began way back in May 2007 and looking back we have come a long way since those heady days of powerpoint slides and empty databases.

My role on the team varies from munging our entertainment data, through programming various parts of the site to looking after our production servers.

So, if you visit Ditto and see the “Oops! We are down for maintenance, is there any other kind?” page, that is my fault because I will have taken the site down to deploy the latest version of Ditto. Hopefully your initial frustration is soon replaced by euphoria for that missing feature being added that you’ve always wanted! Although, I probably won’t be able to take the credit because all of the exciting stuff is developed by Pat, Mike, or Oli

What I’m thinking about is the best list of videogames. For instance: Videogames where it’s more fun to be the bad guy, The worst ever movie tie-in games, or even the more worthy Xbox 360 games suitable for the under 6s.

There have to be better lists to be created. Best videogame scenes that look rude, best Japlish translations (Japanese to Engrish can be tricky), or best games which featured completely irrelevant celebrity endorsements, for example…

But there have to be loads more. Come on people, surprise me!

The new office is posh and corporate and I would imagine we should all make an effort to dress properly - and yes Pat, that means putting your feet away.

Here are some pics before we go.

Oli

When I am not gathering information to take to Human Resources to support my harassment case <joke/> I am working on the Ditto website. Basically I take all of David’s design work (codename 2004), Mike’s database work and Oli’s CSS, wrap it up into an ASP.NET website and try and get it past the watchful eyes of Jimmy.

As well as developing the website I try to keep an eye on the growing Ditto user community and what they are up to. I am always keen to hear people’s opinions on the site or what you think is missing so keep that feedback coming.

For those that are into Widgets, Gadgets and other thingamajigs that are oh so Web 2.0 we are releasing a beta of our Public API and hopefully Oli will soon be telling you all about a competition for the best use of the API.

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(if anyone recognises that they win the geek-of-the-year award, hands down)

Then laugh. At least someone at Google’s still  got a sense of humour…

John

In other news, I’m a musician and filmmaker (usually making short films about bands and monsters); you can find links to all my nonsense on my profile. 

So, while I still have your attention you should definitely check out the music of Man Man, Mississippi Witch, Holy F*ck and Clara Rockmore.

Enjoy!