V&A Dundee set to explore the fine art of video games

5 years ago

THEY are as big a part of Dundee as jam, jute and journalism. Video games have a serious history in the City of Discovery, and are now museum pieces. Tayside’s sleek new V&A this Easter will demonstrate how much design goes in to a product that, decades after launching, is not yet universally acknowledged as an art. The £80m venue, which has had half a million visitors since it opened last September, opens Videogames: Design/play/ Disrupt tomorrow. Forget what you know about Pong and Space Invaders, or immersive digital worlds. This exhibition dives deep in to the world of game design, and the maths behind it.

10 years ago

FORGET the Grand Canyon or Disneyland, for those on a budget, here’s the Great British Bucket List. As an antidote to spending thousands travelling the world in pursuit of almost impossible ambitions, this is a purely homegrown 50 Things To Do Before You Die list. It includes everything from travelling Scotland’s west coast by rail, climbing Ben Nevis to eating haggis on Burns’ night. But topping it all is thetruly British pleasure of tucking into fish and chips on a pier in a typical seaside resort.

25 years ago

CELTIC’S Swedish internationalist Henrik Larsson picked up the Player of the Year award in Glasgow last night then started his battle for fitness after sustaining a rib injury in the 1-0 win over Motherwell. Larsson, Johan Mjallby, and Paul Lambert all picked up injuries, but Celtic coach Dr Jozef Venglos is hopeful the trio will be fit to face St Johnstone at Mcdiarmid Park on Saturday. Venglos will be looking to field a full-strength side against the Saints who have already beaten his side home and away this season. Meanwhile, Morten Wieghorst, who replaced Lambert against Motherwell, is poised to pledge his future to Celtic until 2003.

50 years ago

THE average Scot spends three times a much on drinking and smoking as on providing insurance cover for his family in the event of his death, according to a survey. What is described as the Scots’ short-sighted attitude to family security is further accentuated by the disclosure that the average Scot spends three times more on car insurance than on buying cover for his family. The survey has been carried by the Legal and General Assurance Society, Ltd, who are embarking on a £500,000 campaign on the dangers of under-protection.

100 years ago

THE religious observance of Good Friday was marked yesterday by appropriate special services in many Glasgow churches. A fairly large congregation gathered in the Cathedral in the forenoon. A service in Trinity Congregational Church was conducted by a number of leading clergymen of several branches of the Protestant Church. The service was designed to symbolise the spirit of unity at the Cross, and among those who took part were the Rev Lauchlan Macloan Walt, DD, of the Cathedral; the Rev A E Warr, Hillhead; and the Rev Alex Spark, St Matthew’s Blythswood, all ministers of the Church of Scotland; the Rev A Boyd Scott, of Lansdowne United Free Church; and the Rev A C Hill, DD, of Elgin Place Congregational Church.