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I've been looking forward to this for a while, it sort of looks like Pac-Man crossed with Katamari plus wind. Nobi Nobi Boy is also out next month actually.

Just got back from Milk, and I have to say it stands up very well to my favourite few films of last year. Some pretty exceptional performances; Penn was peerless.

"This will blow you, your job, car and home away!" - IGN.com

I always imagine it as "Amigaaaaa, you've gotta see her".

None of them are particularly challenging, but I'd suggest doing the Arefu one first, then Those!, then pursue the main questline. Geographically it makes sense. If you find the game too challenging then I'd seriously consider moving the difficulty down to Easy or Very Easy, it makes the game much more enjoyable and it's still surprisingly challenging.

I'm listening to the Tapezilla podcast, and that guy's laugh is sumpremely annoying. These are the kind of assholes that don't treat gaming with the kind of respect it deserves as an art form, and what they say seems to be total conjecture. Remo said something about people that moan about Gamasutra and ask things like "WHY ARE YOU EVEN TRYING TO ANALYSE GAMES? THEY'RE JUST FOR FUN! YOU GUYS ARE RETARDED". Yeah, Tapezilla is that.

I know it's implied, but Home truly is awful. Except for baiting nerds.

I mean I was one of the lucky ones whose campaign save didn't load, it literally was broken. Their workaround failed too, and it was a month before it was fixed. Far too long if you ask me.

I just finished watching the first episode of Skins Series 3. Was great. Not sure many others here fit into the target demographic though

I hate the way Sony seem to be doing the whole "incremental" thing with PSP, it's bad enough with yearly updates to games, but it gets a bit ridiculous with a whole platform, especially when the updates are so minor. They should just put a halt to it and release one with two analogue sticks, longer lasting battery, a big hard-drive and similar visuals but with the power to run most games at 60FPS. There's your formula. If they went fully downloadable it would be a great avenue for small one or two man devs to get other games out there to a good audience at a low expense (I'm thinking App Store).

I was not once frustrated though. I didn't die continually through the campaign, I found all the routes pretty easily and never struggled much with encounters, even on the first Hard playtrough when I didn't use guns. Obviously in the Speed Runs I had a little trouble, but not when taking it at my own pace. Gears of War 2 was like the first one, but the campaign was broken for me and any multiplayer other than Horde was impossible to get into for a long time. You can't release a game with that level of hype and charge £40 for it then tell people to sit it out while you fix it so it can at least be enjoyed. It's overrated anyway, but I don't think Epic took enough flak for that abortive mess of a launch.

I do admit that from time to time I, like many atheists I imagine, am guilty of being an arrogant and self-important arsehole with that "I'm better than you" attitude, but I like to think that the fact I recognise it and try to tone it down absolves me slightly. Then again, I'm allowed to say that religion is demonstrably more a divisive force than a unifying one etc. till the cows come home, and if a religious person tries to push their shit on me I'm not going to hold back. Live and let live, and that applies to nonreligious people just as much as religious, however little we'd like to think so.

Great tangent at the end of your post, but my theory is that although a sense of belonging and communal beliefs is a factor, people just like arguing.

There are several of us on another forum that absolutely adore Mirror's Edge, and none of us can see where people are getting the "frustration" from. I found it challenging, but hardly insurmountable, on Hard. I actually enjoyed the combat, liked the fact that the guns were awkward and thought DICE almost perfectly framed every aspect of gameplay. The story was clichéd and the cutscenes were dire, but they weren't important to the central experience whatsoever. People don't nitpick stuff like that in games like the inherently inferior Gears of War, they just see big explosions and guts and think "YEAH AWESOME!", then see something new and fresh like Mirror's Edge and run in terror. I hate the way gamers (and the press) moan about the lack of originality, but there's plenty on display right now, it just get buried under the same old run of the mill shooting games. I have nothing against shooters, some of my favourite games are all about the explosions and guts, however there's no way Mirror's Edge deserved to get eaten up by the tidal wave of the Christmas release window Call of Duty et al.

Interesting move for IO, just a shame it's not a Freedom Fighters sequel. Looks quite intriguing though, the aesthetic reminds me of the fairly underrated I-Ninja.

I imagine that there are now as many nonreligious people in the west as there are theists, so I think the whole point is that it's not really a group, it should just be taken as the norm. If you went by that token then atheism and agnosticism would probably be bigger "religions" than Christianity and Islam.

I haven't spoken to a single guard in Fallout 3, haven't committed any big crimes (other than a power of undetected stealing).

Hold it hostage until they announce Jak IV! I better finish the campaign mode in this game and start making levels.

I liked her, atheists seem a little persecuted in the US and although she reminded me a little too much of fundamentalist Christians in her attitude, her anger was exactly what was required to bring attention to the fact that atheists are Americans too. Most people I know over here are either atheist or agnostic - it just seems to be the default now - which can only be a good thing in my mind. If you want to follow a religion it should be on your own terms, not through indoctrination. And saying "no religion" basically is the definition of atheist (a theos - "without God").

I raise you cartridge.

For me it's Steam that boots the game, but as soon as it starts it relinquishes control to GFW. I can bring up the Steam overlay if I want, but they both have separate folders for saves (one is a directory up from the other), and when GFW didn't start one time it only gave me the saves from four hours in, so I just copied the other ones over.

I linked my GFW Live profile for Fallout to my gamertag. After four hours of play. If I cared about achievements I'd be annoyed that I'd missed the early ones, but I really don't care enough to do it again until I actually want to. Which may be never.

People on the internet are such moaners. This generation we've truly been spoiled by so many Triple A titles and the appearance of so many great new franchises. The resurgence of 2D and variety of publisher and developer locales and sizes means we see some great creative output from all facets of the industry.

I loved the fact it was like a slapstick British Blade Runner.

When that theme from Freezy Peak kicked in I nearly wet myself. I've mentioned in the past that this is exactly what to do with a generational (in this case double generational!) leap, just go nuts and reinvent the franchise. It's a crime that this was so much lower reviewed than Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, a game which adds nothing new to the formula. The critics were way off in this case. Had N&B just riffed massively from the originals it would have been panned and Rare deserve much more credit than they got. And Miffy, it takes maybe an hour to get into, and the vehicle creation is the most fun aspect. Even non-Banjo fans like it, including Brad Shoemaker, who hadn't played one before but placed it as his game of 2008. Then again, you may hate it, and if you do, don't blame me