The Gardeners' World Blog

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Inside Sport blog of the new series. For those who haven’t yet clocked it, we return on Monday, 3 September, 2305 BST on BBC ONE.

I know a lot of you wondered whether the show could run in an earlier slot but, as I think I said, it’s not a decision for me and I really hope you will continue to stay up and watch the programme whatever time it’s on.

Empire of Sports is a massive multi-player online role player game (MMORPG to use the jargon) which has apparently been more than two years in the making and is costing several million euros.

A closed beta version is due to be launched at this weekend's annual Games Convention in Leipzig with a public beta said to be going live before the end of the year.

I’m not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination (I quit when I found myself dreaming in the character of Lara Croft ) so don't take this as any kind of expert view.

But for what it’s worth, I think I may have seen the future – and I can’t work out if it is very exciting, or very scary.