Wrestlevania

And what's all this knobbery about the game being first-person only. Balderdash! Bethesda have made it explicitly clear that you'll be able to position your viewpoint from first-person right up and back to the traditional Fallout isometric view -- and anywhere in between! Personally, I think being able to pick your targetted attacks in first person in #3 is going to really add to the experience.

Excellent -- thanks for the notice!

My last "proper" PC was like that, no expense spared, each part loving hand-selected and then slotted/screwed together by yours truly into a great, matt-black-and-anodised-red-jet-turbine-of-a-case. 6 months later, I had to get rid of it for space concerns and settle for a laptop, whose spec was the equivalent of being at least 18 months out of date. And the DVD drive finally died in it last weekend. And I'm horribly skint. :\

If your business model hinges that much on one particular "customer", then your business model is ultimately fucked anyway. So you can either go down fighting, have the respect of your peers and invariably be rehired for something else. Or you can take it up the arse and publish lies, assuming you can live with the shame of it. There is a third option, though: recognise this situation before it gets out of hand in the first place. Or hire someone with some business acumen to actually do this sort of thing for you, even if it's just part time. It's this sort of amateur attitude to business, coupled with the excuse-making, that has people laughing at the Video game industry (and media) in the first place.

There's a daughter board soldered onto a standard 2.5" drive, which has their bespoke connector running into it I believe. There's some clever software gubbins and preformatting required before it'll work too, which I imagine MS do at production.

I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? They left three young children, unattended, in a badly secured apartment whilst they trotted off to get shit-faced. Why not just hold the door open for Death on your way out, you selfish irresponsible fucks. As a parent of 3 myself, my blood runs cold at the thought of leaving my kids like this. There simply is no excuse for this -- it's unforgivable and heart-breaking, no matter what the eventual outcome is proven to be.

I need me some jet-settin' PC gamer friends...

Honestly, I'd be going for the Wii; it's more realistic in terms of achieving the referrals and it's completely different to the PS3 or the Xbox 360. For me, PS3 and Xbox 360 just have too many parallels to validate me owning both. Wii is like an exquisite little tray of sushi compared to Sony and Microsoft's steak-and-ale pie 'n' chips.

Agreed -- Vista is a usability travesty.

Pray for their poor underlings' souls. Alternatively, send them aid now!

Are we really supposed to care about this? Is this not just an opportunity to pretend to be all business-like and high brow? Shut up and get back to pretending you aren't a virgin, you knob. This has nothing to do with games beyond the number of zeros associated with each *gag* "IP".

But it has won!

Lovely, thanks for the heads up.

Oh dear. I did wonder if you'd come back with the "Lager lager lager!" argument, which this sounds like. I'd recommend checking out Second Toughest in the Infants as it's probably their most accessible album. Please, for us Thumbs..?

You can thank the abhorrent Contract J.A.C.K.* for putting that series to the torch. * Yet more 4-letter abbreviation stupidity from Monolith.

+1, sadly. You really should give them another go, Norfolk. Which albums have you heard?

Oh, sorry -- I've corrected my grammar now.

RE4 called, he says you're talking bollocks and smell of wee!

OK, this does in fact sound like compulsive viewing. I'll make a point of watching one of the numerous repeats the ITV carpet bombs their alternative channels with.

It strikes me that this is one big parade of double-bluffing and "don't ask, don't tell" in the industry. There's a vague sentiment, perpetuated endlessly now, that releasing all the top games around Thanksgiving is the optimum strategy to market for Video game publishers. It's fucking stupid and really winds me up. I don't have the money to splash on more than one game from one month to the next usually, and even then I have to trade in something else to get it. But aside from my own personal circumstances, it's impossible for your average games player to cover all the worthwhile titles released around this time of year in anything like timely fashion. I know the press hate this frenzy as well; nothing worth reviewing (typically) for likely months on end, then a glut of titles to complete *cough* and review in about 6 weeks. I applaud any publisher with the cajones to put out a major title in, say, April and consequently hoover up all the cash in the face of zero competition.

Christmas shoppers. All of them, without exception. "But it's 3-for-2!" "So's this, bitch!" *whack* Machetes should be standard issue this time of year.

Oh to be a care-free, jet setting millionaire geek... Any word on podcasts/downloads this year?

And cold!

OK, much appreciated gents. It sounds like I've made it through most of the chuff already, so I'll just pick up season 3 from episode 17 onwards.