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The Church of England is a business that is in terminal decline. People prefer other brands of superstition and now the government has mass media it no longer needs the church to keep the populace under control.

So when Sony used the interior of Manchester Cathedral in their game Resistance: Fall of Man you would have thought that the Church of England would be happy. For once the inside of one of their buildings would be seen by a large audience. But no, they showed their complete detachment from the realities of society by having a big whinge.

And now they are at it again. The Very Rev. Rogers Govender, dean of the cathedral, is whingeing that the game has been nominated for a BAFTA (not that a gaming BAFTA has much credibility). He should be rejoicing. The decline of the Church of England is such that one day his cathedral will find a better use. As a car park, a shopping mall or maybe as a mosque. So the game will be an historic religious relic to remind of the days when such an important city centre site could be wasted on the irrelevant frippery of a Church of England cathedral.

He really should get out more.

So are you a fan of cucumber sandwiches and tea at the vicarage or do you follow the eminently sensible view that religion is the root of all evil (well, most of it)?

Sega have a great competition. You write an advert for Sega Rally on your vehicle and send them a picture of it. They pick the best photo and the winner gets a rally experience, a PS3 and a copy of the game. Done well this could get advertising slogans seen all over Britain. The problem is that they only have 5 submissions on their website. So either they forgot to tell the public or nobody wants the prize.

Maybe I should go and get my Caterham dirty and apply my marketing mind to a slogan. A rally experience could be fun.

So have you tried any zany marketing ideas? And did they work?

We are just approaching the time of year where we see that great annual British event in the video game business. I refer of course to the hijacking of a truck load of whatever is the hottest product this year. Will it be a truck load of Nintendo Wiis or maybe Halo 3s this year? We will see.

Whatever it is you can’t sell a 40 foot container of stock at a car boot sale. So it must re-enter the trade distribution channel somewhere. And that re entry will be completely organised well before the hijack.

Do you keep a pair of ladies tights in your drawers to pull over your head when you are out earning your Christmas bonus? Tell us about it and we will keep your IP address a secret. Honestly.

This picture is doing the rounds of the gaming industry. It depicts Ian McDiarmid playing the evil Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films. However it bears an uncanny resemblance to a long serving games industry person, hence the picture doing the rounds.

So who in the industry do you think this is a dead ringer for?