Hasbro - masters of publicity. A month rarely seems to go by without some story about the venerable Monopoly updating place names or property values or something. Here's the latest. First, out with cash, in with debit cards and a little machine designed to enable electronic transfer from one player's account to another's. What's more, it's goodbye to the dog and the iron, and hello (appropriately, in the case of the dog) to a burger and a mobile phone. The old version of the game will remain on the shelves. The new version - called, snappily, Monopoly Here And Now Electronic Banking - will cost twice as much. It's already been available in Germany and France for a while, and has apparently done well. Sounds joyless to me.