This video game has the dubious honour of winning the Wired Vapourware Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and has now shut down, but maybe all hope is not lost

Of all the terms that one hears in IT, the most ominous one, which is designed to send shivers down your spine and make you feel as if somebody is playing Rachmaninoff up and down your spinal column if one is permitted to borrow from the inimitable McLean are the words 'Real Soon Now'. For, RSN, as this is usually called, could mean anything from the next five minutes to eternity, or even beyond.

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