Michael Jackson is dead, according to several news sources including TMZ and the LA Times.

The self-proclaimed King of Pop has reportedly suffered a massive cardiac arrest in his LA home and had stopped breathing by the time paramedics arrived.

Sport hurts. And if these clips are anything to go by – it hurts a hell of a lot.

Even compiling this list of the worst sports injuries hurt – so God knows what it must have been like for the people involved. Put it this way, broken legs are only the tip of the iceberg when compared to having your throat cut, being impaled by a javelin and having your eye gouged out. Seriously, they are all on this list.

It’s enough to put you off playing sport for good. So if you have a weak stomach, please look away now.

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It’s time to grab your joysticks and join us on a trip down Memory Lane, as we look back at the best computer games of the 1980s.

Now, some of our younger readers are probably thinking there were no decent games during that time. And they would be at least half right. Let’s face it – nostalgia apart – there was a lot of games which sucked around that time. We love to reminisce about these old games – but have you actually gone back and played on them? Sheesh!

They usually involved breaking your joysticks or C64, Spectrum or Atari keyboards…

Forget the various industry events and announcements at E3 – it’s time to get down to business.

In other words, which games were good and which were bad.

Now, I have adopted a very scientific approach to this – I basically played or viewed demos of any games I liked the look of during the three days and rated them either in the ‘buy’ or ‘don’t buy’ categories.

It was tough and took me ages, but I just wanted to let you know I really wanted to go the extra mile for you, the Hecklerspray public. Enjoy!!

With E3 over with for another year, I thought it was time to take stock.

Well, I have had a great time and really enjoyed trying out lots of new games.

The highlight of the trip was meeting McLovin from Superbad, but really, I have to say, my celebrity quota has been quite poor – maybe they have actually heard of us.

In fact, the only thing I’ve probably caught is pig flu.

Anyway, I thought now was the time to reflect and being the bloke who does most of the lists on this site, I thought I would go through the biggest winners…

Victoria Beckham was the last person I expected at a video games conference.

Before yesterday, I would have thought the chances of it happening were on a par with Susan Boyle doing kids’ TV and Jordan saying anything out loud that doesn’t immediately make me want to hurl myself under a train.

But in she trotted with her small army of publicists and scary-looking bodyguards to have a look around the centre with her kids Brooklyn, Romeo and the other one.

Fancy playing the drums as badly as Ringo Starr?

Well, now you can, thanks to a new video game which allows you to sing, strum and drum along to your favourite Beatles tracks – and Octopus’s Garden.

The Beatles: Rock Band was officially launched by Sir Paul McCartney and Starr at the start of E3 in Los Angeles and will be released in September.

They were even joined by Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, the wives of the dead half of the Fab Four, John Lennon and George Harrison.

If your idea of fun is talking to your TV and jumping around your room like an arthritic monkey with an itchy bum then we have some very exciting news.

Microsoft has come up with a way to play console games without controllers.

Compatible with any Xbox 360 system, the ‘Project Natal’ sensor was finally given its first public outing by Microsoft at a celebrity-packed press conference, prior to E3, in which they also unveiled a strategy for making the company’s game console a gateway for movies, television and social networking.

So what does it do? Well, it’s basically a piece of kit…