gaggle64

"Well, looks like this is it. Hold."

My college recently merged with some other stuff to become the University of Cumbria. Doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me and my fellow art students, but reading in the local press about the almost constant, childish bickering about where to build the new main campus has already provided literally dozens of hours of entertainment. As far as I'm aware, they've just about settled on an abandoned car park, but aren't decided on which bit should be built first.

You weak minded fool, can't you see it's a Jedi Mind trick!

Bit short on cash at the moment. I'll see you on front lines 'bout Xmas time, if not before.

I think Nintendo have finally cracked the family market they've been persuing for so long, and that's the family in a very real sense. Those accusiations of being "kiddy" were always as a result of attempting to make they're games family - and, by extension - kid friendly. Now that they've succesfully marketed to consumers both considerably older and younger then the usual video game demograph, being "kiddie" is hardly a valid argument that can be leveled at them.

The Dambusters Worth watching again just to see how much George Lucas ripped off the dam bombings for his own Death Star attack. I'm literally talking whole lines of dialogue and sequences here. Seriously, all that's missing is a sodding wookie. 8/10 Any of these sound slightly familiar? "I'm going to cut across them and try and draw their fire." "How many guns do you see?" "Say about ten guns: some on the surface, some in the tower." "What about that tower?" "You worry about keeping her in the air, I'll worry about the tower!" "Look at that thing: it's enormous!" <Cut to tense control room>

Ah, Halo 1. Back when the Covenant were cool. Before all that unpleasant Arbiter-business.

I ain't no Dragon Ball Z fan (if the game was anything like the TV show it would probably just be badly dubbed, barely animated characters talking and scowling at each other for three hours - but just ignore me) but the last Wii game sounded pretty fun. Will definitly give this a look see if it has online.

Shop around for console/game bundles. The 360 deals in Game and Gamestation are a bit lousy at the moment - check your local Virgin and HMV store for some uncharacteristically decent bundles.

Looking forward to this. So long as I don't have to keep tellling them to eat or anything like that in regular Sims. I think this should sell big, with the Sims name and it's family friendly fit. Just build them a town and watch them go! Like a voyeur.

I call him The Millennium Dom. Happy birthday!

The Damned A quintsentially British and intelligent, character driven sci-fi drama. Involved radioactive children. Nuclear family ect. 8/10

Happy Birthday foo!

I just can't see myself using the 120gb. The only thing I'm ever likely to download off there is The Daily Show and that's on More 4 twice a day anyway. Personally I'd rather exchange the 50 for an extra controller and a sandwhich.

Nintendo must get a bit annoyed sometimes. When they made Wii Sports they left devs a perfect instruction manual showing them a glimpse of what a great Wii game could be. Unfortunetly most seem to have taken it as the best example of a final product.

A couple of home truths: 1. Halo 3 would probably sell bucketloads if it was just a piece of paper with "3" scrawled on it and retailed for the price of a block of nazi gold. 2. Nobody buys core. Not ever.

Damon says he has no idea where these Kirk rumours have been coming from. If I was him I wouldn't touch this project with a barge pole anyway. Anyway, just to reiterate: it's this kind of film making that makes me hate and despair for hummanity. Lets just paper over the last couple of movies and Scott Bakula and move on to something new, please?

It's true though, someone really needs to start producing some actual full-blown Wii-Sports titles.

I hope they integrate the whole Mii system proper. Those things aren't utilised nearly enough yet.

Happy Birthday dude. You're name sounds like an awesome anime super-spy show.

Homer: A woman is a lot like a... a refridgerator. They weigh 300lbs, they make ice, and... ooh, actually, a woman is more like a beer. They look good. They smell good. You'd step over you're own mother just to get one! But one's not enough, you have to drink another woman... <Some time later> Homer:(Hopelessly drunk) So I said yeah! You want the money? Come get it because I don't know where it is. You make me wanna wretch! (Falls asleep)

Bender: Are you saying it's simply coincidence that Zoidberg here is desperately poor and alone? Leela: If you must know, it's because he's hideous!

No hope here: just solid grey across the whole horizon.

I'm awfully tempted to run right out and buy a 360 now, but my gut's telling me that some very attractive new bundles aren't too far off in the future. Of course one darn't wonder about the rush on stores that would surely be occuring by then. Decisions, decisions.

There's a sexy new preview vid on 1up right now, showing off some mega hot character customisation features and flirtatious cross-species small talk. Oh hell yeah. http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/13855