Posted by: Jane Douglas

T&G is hungry for your feedback. We feed on your feedback. We'd particularly like more on our first gaming podcast. Get in on the ground floor and tell us what you want to hear over on the message board.

As for the last month's feedback, here's a few of the best blog comments - this month we'll be scouring the message boards as well.

Byron Review

Patrick Goss, our gaming columnist, reflected on March’s Byron Review, highlighting parental responsibility when it comes to which video games children play. Tech & Gadgets reader Will responded: “Patrick Goss, Guardian of Sane Thought: ‘Adult games should not be played by kids.’

“There is no need for a new rating system. Games have clearly stated for years their intended audience, and even without the ratings it’s easy as anything to rent a game first to see if it is suitable for your child. That’s what’s missing. Parents taking an interest in what their children are doing. If parents are not strong enough to say ‘no, that game is unsuitable for you. When you’re older you can play it,’ then that says it all. Parents are at fault, not the industry.”

Technological Convergence

Following Tech & Gadgets’ article on the downside of increasingly multipurpose gadgets, reader Dave Horton wrote: “Just had to write and express how right you are, I really couldn’t have said it better myself. Camera on phone – sometimes useful, but a replacement for a camera? No!

“My biggest nightmare is the all-in-one scanner, printer and photocopier. One of them is bound to go wrong and I am the 24-hour tech support for friends and family (who, incidentally, didn’t seek my advice pre-purchase) who has to fix it or, more often than not with this machine, give them the bad news. Anyway, I am just moaning now really. Like I say, spot on article.”

Iain Lee’s ‘console wars’ column

Feedback was decidedly mixed for Iain Lee’s first column for Tech & Gadgets, in which he detailed his preference for the Xbox 360 over the Sony Playstation3.

“I understand this is a puff piece, and everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion,” writes Jason, “but fact of the matter is the channels are all wrong. Maybe if you had a comedy column this piece would have worked to better effect.

"However, to anyone in the know statements like, ‘Firstly, the 360 came out and is as close to perfect as you can get. Don’t get me wrong, I may be in the employ of Microsoft to write this column, but there is no way I’m taking dirty money,’ is a mild slap in the face because of the obviousness of his total disregard for certain facts, such as the 360 having the highest failure rates in console history… Although I guess this sort of thing is to be expected – a good thing many of us were taught at an early age to check our sources.”