Monty's Gaming and Wireless Outlook - Issue 105

It was a case of "No thanks for the mammaries" for Hollywood starlet Kirsten Dunst this week after she demanded the size of her breasts be reduced for the Spider-Man 2 videogame.

The flat-chested Dunst is right to object to the sexualisation of her character even if the Spider-Man videogame character does seem to have an extra glint in his eye during foreplay, er I mean, gameplay. One gets the impression that if there were more female games developers they would make male sexual characteristics in videogames smaller rather than larger.

Perhaps it's summer and those dreamy days of rain continually pissing down, but sex is all around us. TV reality show Big Brother has seen its first 'bonk' (the tabloids' favourite onomatopoeia for casual sex) and a report found this week that the over-50s enjoy a shag (a much cooler onomatopoeia) just as much as their younger counterparts.

But not everybody is a sexual Olympian... As MP Nicholas Soames was reminded this week. The rotund Tory was accused of anti-Semitism by a table of diners at the Dorchester Hotel. Cue fevered journalists gleefully raking up a comment made by an ex-girlfriend: "Making love with Nick was like have a double wardrobe fall on top of you with the key still in the lock".

On the subject of small things in big packages, the final word this week goes to the stock market debut of Virgin Mobile. While there is scepticism that the company is worth £500 million, it seems balloonist Richard Branson's decision to reduce the company's listing price by 20% was a good one. Kirsten Dunst would be proud of him.