gaggle64

"Next on FOX - Japanese Islamic extremists attck the offices of Time magazine! Wii're all gonna die and be incredibly entertained people!"

I'm fairly certain that the XTXs are already overclocked XTs. I'm not a big fan of overclocking things myself, what with it voiding your warranty and all, and I can't afford a replacement if it goes pair shaped. I'm happy with pocketing the extra £30 for the minor compromise though. Get BF2 or something with that.

Amazon for me. They haven't let me down yet.

Wii tennis sound absolutely mesmerising. Wario-Ware Wii = gaming inspired orgasam. Zelda with FHC sword, bow and FISHING ROD control. Run: Programme>Loin Explosion >Loin Explosion activated... >Loin Explosion now commencing... >Loin Explosion in progress... >Loin Explosion now complete. Run: Programme>New Pair Of Pants >Retrieving New Pair Of Pants...

I will admit I feel as if I've let my curosity get the better of me.

Yeah, I totally prefere places like Revo-Europe. It's more of an actual online community.

I must ask rokhead, why exactly do you watch it?

I believe the Wii will be more then capable of these effects in developers wish to use them. Although I personally feel that we are approaching a graphical ceiling. While the GC games have aged compared to the MGS4 real time demo, I've yet to see even the most idealistic Sony "tech demo" totally outshine the likes of Resi 4 or Prime. At least, in no where near the same way as the jump from PS1/PS2 or the great jump from 2D/3D. Maybe this will change once we start seeing DX10 in full effect on PC and possibly certain consoles, but it just seems like very soon the graphical potential of a console will be utterly inconcequential. Personally, I think it is already. As I said before, even if the Wii offered even no graphical improvement over the GC, (though I believe there will be a fairly significant improvment) that would still be more then enough for any professional developer to fully realise their vision. Sheer console horsepower just isn't a limitation anymore.

I'm on Gamespot every now and again. As I subscriber, E3 is always boom time for my download limit. Except this year, when I can only download a 30kbps anyway. I am going to kill Greendog. The forums their are fairly vicous sometimes. Don't go if you have a low tolerance for fanboys, though sometimes that is half the fun.

I missed the first 15mins. Where did he get the horse from? I presume it was on the ship. I also thought the final twist as to why they wanted her brain in particular was quite clever.

I really enjoyed tonights episode. Low on action, but very well scripted and D.T. looks like he's finally cracked the Doctors character. I feel like the series has finally taken off. Just lovely, wonderful sci-fi drama. Great performance from his lass too. Now eagerly awaiting next weeks episode. I don't care if it's a kids show. It's fantastic. If that makes me a kid, I don't ever want to grow up. It's just great, great television and sci-fi.

I'll almost certainly pre-order unless I find I'm terminally short of cash. In which case I'll probably just give up eating. It'll be the first console I've ever bought on launch day.

As much as I believe that it's not what you have, but what you do with it, I sincerely believe that many of the feature above ARE the way forward for graphical development. Not sure what Voxel tech is, but HDR and Anti-analising are great steps forward for graphical development and are already fairly standard features on most games such as Farcry and the Source games. Even on my old but faithful vanilla 6600 (I'm switching to ATI - nvidia can't do AA and HDR at the same time very well for some reason) these features, though not essential, have hugely improved my play experience. To simply deny their purpose would be madness.

It's a real shame too. This is Sega for gods sake. You expect them to know better - to have at least figured it out by now.

Don't listen to IGN - they're rather fond of touting rumour and speculation as exclusive "news" stories.

Why do puppies always look like they're planning something....

Hmm, very difficult to get excited given Sonics recent track record. Without some kind of major overhall of gameplay and level design I can't imagine this being any better, and so far the shots suggest the same, boring, pointlessly linear, bog-standard levels from the previous games..

I'm almost certain those are in-game. They're angled in such a way which to me would suggest promotional screenshots as opposed to art. I'm pretty sure the big dude centre-fold is art, but the rest is screenies.

I snapped this last October out of my college room window next to the mighty Clyde, with my trusty little Olympus C-310. Small, but sure can get the job done under the right circumstances. Easily one of my best pics ever.

Huuray for HD!

I look at that Aston and my faith in mankind shoots up by at least 20 points.

I like Cruise, but after MI2 I decided to stay clear. looks like I made the right decision. I'll get the original on DVD.

That's pretty damn high for a single disk. PS3s high dev costs are going to force gamers to really shell out for it too.

Does it really matter though? It's sort of like Zelda. None of the games fit into anykind of strict timeline, but that's fairly irrelavent to what happens in the game. I think 007s the same: Bond is all about gadgets, fast cars, action, fashion, villains and and being sexy and suave. Setting it in the past just to avoid upsetting a time-line which is never refered to anywhere else would be a step back and utterly pointless. It's not a period film. It's not really about complex character development over the course of several films. Just because we don't have the same cast or because it's set in the 21st century doesn't mean we can't have a film about Bond at the start of his career. You may as well complain that Wind Waker isn't really a Zelda game because it has a different graphical style to the rest of the series, or even because it isn't 2D despite being set earlier in the timeline.

Graphical improvement isn't what Nintendo are into anymore though. That's why the Wii has a bizarre remote-style controller, and not a GPU with lots of Xs and some kind of huge impressive number in the title. In fact I sincerely doubt anyone would be as excited as they are about Nintendos new console if that was the case. It's graphical performance is of course going to be intresting to find out, but it's pretty much at the bottom of everybody's list of priorities. Even if it offered very little, or even no improvement over the GC it could still easily compete because that's not what it is trying to offer. Leave it to MS and Sony to follow that well-trodden path in their fancy suits and well-shined Doc-Martins. Nintendo is stripping naked and going Rambo in the jungle.