The Bold is a little bigger than most recent Blackberries have been, making it feel all the more like a multimedia device, as much an email tool as a phone. Typing emails or text messages is still fiddly, but far more comfortable than only most smaller devices. Battery life wasn’t the best, but that’s the price you pay for your ‘always on’ status.

When Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity), Harry Tasker (True Lies) and Xander Cane (XXX) were still wearing nappies, the ultimate gentleman spy had racked up forty years of bedding hot Eurobabes, crashing his way out of exploding underground strongholds and using superhuman skills to vanquish despotic villains.

As a huge source of entertainment, tax and employment revenue the influence of games on our culture (and vice versa) is being treated as a legitimate media and cultural phenomenon.