gaggle64

Hold on to it. The new releases are going to start rolling in like insults from Halo 2 fanboys over the next couple of months.

This is my No. 1 anticipated game for the 360 by a long way. I currently spend my days playing the extended trailer over and over again while foaming at the mouth.

Any opinions on Chromehounds then? I heard the multi player can be pretty fun. One or the other will end up in my disk tray at any rate.

Is Armoured Core any good? I like my big, stompy robots I do.

Ahhh, Beach Boys. Your soft summer sounds warm the heart in any weather.

Holy Shigsy in heaven. Mass Effect looks like a freaking Pixar movie. A Pxar movie directed by James Cameron.

I have something in my pants for Call of Duty 4.

My only gripe is that at the end Clarkson claimed that "two men with little knowledge and mostly drunk" made it across thanks solely to the car. I'd love to see them try again without those Norwegians picking up after them. I'd take the dog sled any day.

Top Gear special tonight at eight anyone? They're racing a 4x4 against a dog sled. Across the North Pole. Just don't think about the carbon footprint.

Of course it will. But will it sell enough?

Oh poo to you. Lack-lustre? Third party titles? Go play Madden, Rabbids, Sonic, SSX, Heatseeker, Eledees, Metal Slug... oh hell, just get yourself to a game store will you?

No, we have 24-hr licensing laws now. Liver disease for all!

There'll be a 360 version with a skateboarding mini game, in about, ooooooh... two years time? Seriously though, this rumour isn't going to die any time soon. The CEO of Xbox Japan turned up to the big Kojima/MGS do, and why? "I'm a personal friend."

I just hope we don't get a Halo 2-esque situation on Live, where Halo 3 is released and nobody plays anything else ever again.

I was surprised to see so many pre-owned copies of GoW in my local Blockbusters actually, especially since it's status as the most celebrated thing on the console to date.

I remember this. It was alright show actually. Never really grabbed me, but I do think the franchise could use another outing.

Just buy a pass. Shit costs money, get used to it.

Fable. Don't know why I hate hate game, I just do. Being able to kill your wife and make up for it by bravely challenging a few bees just doesn't sit with me some how.

Me and martinist played one player Crackdown together. "Crackdown" is a bad name. I think it should be called "Awesome in a Box".

Sideways Fuck 80s resurrected toy-franchise shite. Fuck kids-book-based paedophilia. Fuck budget genero-horror slashers. Fuck 20-odd male models crying in some polystyrene and fuck theme park ride trilogys. My local multiplex can burn to the ground for all I give a damn. Give me films like this, with characters, and believable dialogue and, praise god almighty, no constant cutting to "keep the audience interested." Apparently this is "art house" now. Long live art house. May the rest of Hollywood burn in the hell. 9/10

Whoa! Calm your beans, what will do if you need that PS3?

That whole thing was nuts. My man of the race was Massa who put in a simply fantastic drive for almost the whole race, don't know what he lost to give away first place to Alonso. Unlucky for Raikkonen with his hydraulic failure and Hamilton with all assorted events coming together to keep him stuck at the back, spitting lap times into the wind. Also kudos to the Red Bulls for pulling through. This has really thrown the Championship up in the air. What a fantastic season it's been. I think we could look forward to an equally spectacular finale at this rate.

I've been soaking in the bath and it's started to bother me: Why is it called the "360" again exactly?

So the stage is set for a another brilliant race. This weekend it's the classic Nurburgring with Hamilton and Raikkonen already slugging it out at the top in the Friday Practice. Hamilton set the fastest time overall but Raikkonen's Ferrari seems to be faster in the wet. They pretty much seem to be trading blow for blow. A HEADS UP: Murray Walker himself will be doing this weekends coverage for BBC 5 Live, so if you're not already in the habit of muting the TV in favour of the radio commentary, now might be the time to give it a whirl.

Right, so apparently Too Human and Darkness developer Silicon Knights have filed a law suit against Epic Games, developer of Gears of War and the Unreal 3 engine, over claims that Epic made fraudulent assertions about the Unreal engine and failed to offer proper support for it. Here is the full overview from Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/silicon-knights-epic-sabotaged-us-280491.php You can download a copy of the suit from the original page as well.