Sneak has always fancied himself as a bit of a bit of a secret agent. Many’s the weekend he has spent in his bedsit with a James Bond box set on DVD, a large crate of beer and an industrial sized bag of cheesy Wotsits. Sneak has never dabbled in espionage computer games though; it just seemed a little too, erm, sad for his liking. Shame though, for it seems a love of thrilling spy games could be the computer geek’s one way ticket to the glamorous world of international espionage.

It appears that GCHQ plans to appeal for new recruits by embedding ads in video games such as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent or Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Sneak wonders however, whether the UK intelligence services’ surveilance arm has really done its research this time around. Most of ther hardcore gamers Sneak has met are less licensed to kill, more licensed to kill time, on their own, in their bedrooms, surrounded by posters of Buffy and Gillian Anderson.