gaggle64

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.

Blackberry. Lots of thorny protection.

Browsing through the 360 library, it strikes me that the choice available to me ranges across four different genres - shooters, driving sims, sports and Viva Piñata. Perfect really. Wii for gaming, Xbox 360 to sate my incessant lust for speed, violence and candy.

Does EDF have online co-op?

Just my cup of tea Stefkov. I've personally prefer GRs ranged, semi-tactical game, particularly in multi player, to the high action claustrophobia of R6. I'll most likely get both eventually at any rate. Bah. Well, at least the door's open for downloadable content. Why on earth would wide levels be a challenge for online co-op specifically?

Now, we all know the kidz are just crazy about The Gears, but how's the GRAW? Would you recommend it to someone who had serious fling with GR2 in his youth, and can a man still get a good game on the first one or should I just skip straight to the sequel?

Alright, I already posted this in the Miscellaneous Links thread, but everyone simply has to try this at least once. Don't ask me why it's so funny, but for some reason I can't stop chuckling until my lungs explode every time I play. Basically it's a bitchslap simulator. Hope this becomes a Wii Ware title. Enjoy. http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php

Seeing as how it's one of the most popular series in recent years, I'm willing to bet lots of all kinds of different people look at GTA in shops. Hell, I'll bet some even buy it sometimes too.

Huzzah! Should be great! Actually I'm surprised those kinds of sports sims are so slow in coming. They could make an absolute bomb with a decent tennis or boxing sim.

I'll probably pick that up too if I see it cheap. I just love the PGR series. Will you be investing in PGR4?

BF2 is my game, going on 40 hours of total active service. Still haven't learned how to fly helicopters.

360s plays DVDs out of the box doesn't it? Is that multi-region?