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Thanks conzer! "games expert" right :P

Last week I did a short interview with a journo from the Irish Examiner for a Manhunt 2 ban feature he was doing, and contributed a small piece attacking the ban (a miniturised version of my editorial for the site really). I just got word it was featured in today's paper, but alas I cannot get a copy of it up north here. So if any of our Southern forumers could grab a copy - it's primarily based in the Cork region - for me, and put a scan on the board, I would be forever grateful! My onslaught on print media begins!

Escape Artists Never Die and Streetcar were the encore songs last night! The band left the stage, and the lights went dark... people were waiting about for something to happen. We had been at the belfast gig the night before, so we knew what was coming.... once the ringing of the Streetcar track started the place went mental. edit: why on earth would you decide against going to a FFAF gig?

You should check out Casually Dressed and Deeps in Conversation if you haven't already BeerMonkey, and grab some songs from their EP online. And yeah, the whole 'emo' thing is really old these days. The word doesn't mean anything any more.

They weren't supporting actually, I caught Shikari a few months back in my union (Mandella again). The pits is essential for the Shikari spirit. Replicate the video for Sorry You're Not A Winner. Supporting last night were Delamore, who were pretty decent, and The Haunts, who were alright... but we were wishing them off the stage to get FFAF on. Recent gigs include Alexisonfire, any fans about?

I love the Lost Prophets' latest album. Delightfully poppy. I did a bit of moshing, but I usually leave it to the professionals.* Preferred to jump and sing with my friends. *except when I saw Enter Shikari, when it was pretty much demanded.

It was - only my second time in Dublin shockingly (first was obviously the Wii event at the RDS, good times eh?). It's a really good venue, much better than the previous night's (the Mandella Hall is in our union, it is literally just a hall). And they had popcorn for sale! I was getting shocking love in the crowd with my 'corn, randomers kept asking for some. We weren't sure where the Ambassador was, ended up strolling up O'Connell Street alcohol still in hand, singing FFAF and getting tourist pictures. Got a few "bloody northerners" looks lol. Quality times. Oblivion is pretty excellent, it's similar to some tunes from their second album, 'Hours'. Songs earlier than that are much harder (and probably better). Conor recommends: This Year's Most Open Heartbreak She Drove Me To Daytime TV Streetcar Red Is The New Black The Art of American Football

Aye, they're as Welsh as they come actually! Different strokes I guess, Conzer. I can't get excited about Metallica to be honest.

Anyone attend? I was at both gigs - Mandella Hall in Belfast and the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin - and they were bloody amazing. Shouted back every line at them. Genuinely life-affirming. Any fellow FFAFers on the boards at the gigs then? Peer opinions would be welcome! (first emo insult gets a ban )

Some photos up on the blog - http://www.n-europe.com/blog - full video/pictures/impressions coming soon! Hope you had fun Chris!

Howdy all, If you're free on Friday, and fancy helping NE out - we need someone to go to GAME, in Oxford Street, London with our good friend Ollie and cover the Mario Strikers launch event there (even Ian Wright will be there, ooh!). None of the staff in the area are free (read: are lazy) and we don't want poor Ollie to be lonely. You'll produce an event video, including short interviews with GAME and Nintendo reps, and you can obviously chat to any members of the public, get their thoughts on Ninty, the Wii, Ian Wright - all the things we're concerned about round here! (we're trying but we don't think they're going to chat to Mr. Wright, him being so important and everything) If you want your face on the website, and can definitely make it to GAME on Friday morning/afternoon, then post here! We want you to post some questions (max 3) you think would be good to ask a GAME or Ninty rep. The less boring, the better. Whoever posts the best q will be chosen to star in the next NE event video (the excitement!). We don't have much time, so we will pick the person tomorrow evening at 8pm. You guys have until then. Good luck!

Sorry Chuck, no reviews - just features. And applicants can be of any age, we're not going to discriminate! Just, you know, against people who are rubbish. :P

Want To Write For N-Europe? That's right forumers, we're looking to expand our staff at NE. Regular features is something we try to provide, but with changes in the staff and the demands of higher education (yes, we have proper lives too) we're simply too short of time and manpower. That's where this comes in. Obviously you guys like talking about Nintendo - we want to know who is interested in taking that a bit further, and contributing to the main part of the site on a pretty regular basis? What we're looking for are people to write features on Nintendo, and relevant gneral gaming issues and news, that sort of thing, submitting an article at least every fortnight. If you enjoy writing on the boards about the latest goings-on in the world of Nintendo, and need something extra to fill in those hours in the evening, then we want to hear from you! Applying is simple. We want a sample article, around 700 words. It can be on anything Nintendo or games related you want, but if you're stuck here are a few potential topics: 1 - Sonic arrives on the Wii. Is Nintendo Sega's new spiritual home? 2 - Ocarina of Time gets released on the Virtual Console, and everything throws around 'Best Game Ever' titles again. Does a title like that even mean anything anymore? 3 - The PS3 seems to be receiving little but scorn and derision from the media and consumers, while the Wii races ahead: a pattern for the future of this console race? Just pick a topic you can connect with, start bashing those keys, and mail off the finished product to our Features head honcho, Mark, at [email protected]. We'll be keeping this open for two weeks. After a while we'll throw it open on the main site, but for now we want to give you guys a chance to get in. All the best, Team NE.

Good luck Chris! If everybody could throw their stuff in the thread here but gather it all up and post it on the site on the weekend. 23 hours to go. : peace:

I took some pictures of my cool new Wii, but the camera kind of has no juice now, and my computer has actually completely broken down... otherwise my gloating face would be on the front page. Shall do some hardware surgery and hopefully get some up tomorrow. By the way.... Twilight Princess is feckin' ace. *taunts Fierce some more*

hey all, Hoping to get you guys in on the launch coverage this week on the main site. We've previews, features and media going up before Friday, but once the big day hits we think it'd be awesome if we could run loads of stuff you lot have got from your launch experience. What we're after is on the ground articles about what was happening on thursday night/friday morning in your local games store, videos of you or your friends queuing up for it, pictures of you getting it home and booting it up... all that jazz. It's going to be a grand day for all of us, so it'd be great to get as many people involved as possible. Spread the love. Thoughts/volunteers?

hey all, Hoping to get you guys in on the launch coverage this week on the main site. We've previews, features and media going up before Friday, but once the big day hits we think it'd be awesome if we could run loads of stuff you lot have got from your launch experience. What we're after is on the ground articles about what was happening on thursday night/friday morning in your local games store, videos of you or your friends queuing up for it, pictures of you getting it home and booting it up... all that jazz. It's going to be a grand day for all of us, so it'd be great to get as many people involved as possible. Spread the love. Thoughts/volunteers?

hey guys, Great job last week with the Hot Topic thread, hopefully we can get a similar response this week! We chatted in the new podcast, just up, about our plans for launch day, so we want to know what you guys are getting up to on the Euro launch (which is now technically 8 days away!). Thanks to different reasons, you have like two and a half days before we record pocast 14, so try and squeeze it in. Cheers lads!

hey guys, Great job last week with the Hot Topic thread, hopefully we can get a similar response this week! We chatted in the new podcast, just up, about our plans for launch day, so we want to know what you guys are getting up to on the Euro launch (which is now technically 8 days away!). Thanks to different reasons, you have like two and a half days before we record pocast 14, so try and squeeze it in. Cheers lads!

hey guys, We're motoring ahead with a new Hot Topic. Check out the latest show, where, among other things, we talk about what Virtual Console games we want to see on the Wii. So we want to know what titles YOU guys want to see on the VC, apart from the list Nintendo have already released. Post your titles, and reasons, below, and we'll go through them in the next show! Update!- Podcast is now up! http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=9829

hey guys, We're motoring ahead with a new Hot Topic. Check out the latest show, where, among other things, we talk about what Virtual Console games we want to see on the Wii. So we want to know what titles YOU guys want to see on the VC, apart from the list Nintendo have already released. Post your titles, and reasons, below, and we'll go through them in the next show!

Well, Nik's back. We'll be chatting about the trip in the next edition of the n-europe show (recording scheduled for friday), so if you guys have more questions about Wii gameplay, hit us up. We'll be answering as many as possible on Friday. Nik, want to clarify for the forum folk what you ultimately got to play?

hey guys, Podcast is in a bit of a flux this week, so forgive the chaos. I'm throwing out for discussion the topic we chatted about in the NES #8, which went live yesterday (expect number 9 tonight or tomorrow as well), which was about the Wii first-party lineup. With WarioWare (and Excitetruck) slipping into next year for us, the lineup's looking a bit slim on top-tier titles. A problem? With only Wii Sports, Wii Play and Zelda from Nintendo on the Wii this year, is there a shortage of top-tier titles? As usual, we'll air replies on the next show. If you want to leave a voicemail on this subject - or anything - Skype us at 'neurope'. Opinions ahoy.

Yes, you read that right. Our Nik's heading to Nintendo to play their first-party titles later today (monday). I was going to give this more time, but I thought he was going later on in the week, so sorry for the short timespace. Basically, Nik's going to be playing the following games: Wii Sports Wii Play The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess WarioWare: Smooth Moves Metroid Prime Corruption Super Mario Galaxy So if you guys have any questions about how these titles play you'd like him to keep in mind, hit us up with them. Bear in mind, he's probably leaving in about six hours or so (god, is it after 4am already? damn battlestar galactica), so hit those keys quick! Cheers guys.