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8th December! £179.99! Games between £35 and £40!

I'd seriously doubt it to be honest. The Wii-mote rotated through 90 degrees will probably suffice for most people, for the moment.

It should be kicking off any time now and ends early this evening.

It's very nice to have the top dog making the effort to announce all this personally methinks. If Nintendo announce a release here before Christmas, I think people will be cheering in the conference hall.

Don't forget the ever-present Nintendo Stigmata though; £170 would put the Wii dangerously close to the "superior" Xbox 360 Core pack, just revised to £199.99 last month. I think if Nintendo push the console price above £150 then they're idiots. And all their pre-release behaviour suggests they're certainly not idiots--not this time around anyway. Conversely, I think that making the price any lower might hurt DS sales, so I'm fully expecting a £149.99 price point announcement tomorrow (WiiSports bundle included, naturally).

I was under the impression that the browser will be integral to Wii, being built right into that odd dashboard thing they've got going on.

Jurassic Park III didn't work because you weren't given chunky plastic guns to shoot things with as you watched it.

Mmm, properly backward.

Downloaded this a week or so back and it's superbly violent. I can't quite get into it myself though, but it's definitely worth downloading just for the bundled replays. Something else worth downloading for the violence and quirky physics is Cortex Command -- it's like Worms but with more guns, explosives, blood and dismemberment. Oh and the seemingly-obligatory ragdoll effects too, naturally.

I almost worked for Acclaim as a 3D artist and animator, luckily. Instead, I decided to work as a designer and UI specialist in the software industry; I'm now staring down the barrel of redundancy for the second time in as many years--go me! :\

SPC was better than most - often much better - but got canned pretty quickly I think. It certainly vanished from UK telly just as suddenly as it appeared at any rate...

Tried to watch this again for the first time in ages last week. To no-one's surprise it's aged very badly owing in no small part to its near total dependency on CGI funk, and the entire cast being laughably shite. Except for Wayne Knight, who absolutely shines.

Not so. By locking down to region you can effectively limit supplies and control prices, to suit your business strategies. Exactly. What you're referring to is a fractional minority, easily less than 5% of total install base on something even as established as either the PS2 or the original Xbox. The majority are good little terrestrial purchasers, and only buy what the controlling company allows them to.

What? They'll just lock everything down by territory, based on your login credentials (including your IP's location if needs be). Control means power, power means money.

/me points at the silly monkey and laughs

That's pretty much the comparison I've made to friends who've not seen it yet. "Like that? Then you'll like this..."

Doubtlessly the innovation will come from using the stylus to unwrap the endless bombardment of Snickers bars...

Their involvement was confirmed a couple of weeks ago.

Someone's been listening to too much - alternatively, not enough - Cannibal Corpse methinks.

Wuss. 9 minutes and 43 seconds was my "best score".

Oh so you think that's bad?! Check out the cave-swelling spaz who decided to take this particularly smelly dump on the web: The Backyard Gaming Show

Ah! I'd forgotten about that particularly rough little diamond. I continued playing that in earnest, hoping it might blossom into the high-class VR game it desperately wanted to be. But it didn't.

The whole asking for permission to type CONTINUE from your supervisor makes me think Chet and Erik have rightly been kept busy over at Valve...

Ultima Online. Total pants, but heinously addictive: Oh and either of the Terminator FPSs by Bethesda, but specifically Terminator: Future Shock: I'd probably still cream my pants if something daft like a DS version was announced though...

You'll need a bleeding edge PC just to get even a modest frame rate out of the game; the 3D engine is appalling. Oblivion runs smoothly enough on my system and is quite playable, but Boiling Point ran at approximately one frame every 10-15 seconds in places during the opening sequences. I couldn't move from the spot where the game actually spawned me to begin play either, because of catastrophic levels of slow-down. I did try the official patch, but that had no apparent effect on framerates whatsoever. Oh and it also has possibly the most annoying installer I've ever come across, which blasts out a spectacularly shite theme tune over and over whilst the game takes an age to install. The whole experience made my piss quickly reach boiling point... but the game still sounds fantastic (in principle).