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Totally worth it.

Happy B-Day T-D! Have good one!

3rd June? Consider my schedule cleared.

This... actually looks quite good. I really like the idea of an alien invasion from the point of view of some average urban kids in a typical estate, as opposed to a group of marines on a spaceship or something similar. If they can build proper tension and avoid too many "Durr hurr chavie chavs"-type jokes I think we could be on to something promising.

To borrow a quote from our Lord, Master and wise Oer'seer (Stephen Fry): "There isn't enough vomit in the world."

Artificial wet races? You may as well replace whole sections of track with grass, or have the drivers get out and run in clown shoes for a lap. Actually screw the racing, lets just cut to the chase and replace all the circuits with Thunderdome-style facilities where teams of drivers & engineers alike are pitted to the death in tight leather panties.

/ecstacy Saints Row 2 was revelatory for me. Bring it on and bring it hard.

There's a whole genre of sci-fi literature specifically about that.

Ha, you're all light weights! 7 silver bullets in and I can still spell "light weights"! Up yours, Firefox spell checker!

I agree, but in this case all the data collated by both commercial and government bodies has always demonstrated clearly and consistently that women as a group are safer drivers. Somehow I doubt your average insurance company would hesitate to raise premiums if there was any doubt to the contrary.

I can't say I agree with this particular ruling, women are proven to be lower risk road users so I don't see why they shouldn't enjoy lower premiums. All this going to do is make driving even more prohibitively expensive for everyone.

Happy Birthday good sir!

Well, I've got no problems with any of the balance or design of the weapons or equipment which are all very satisfying to use (except the SMG's which may as well not even be there, but it's not really a problem). The game types are all good fun and provide enough variety to keep me coming back. I think the maps are well designed. I also like how fast and busy it is and the various equipments and kill/death streaks always keep you on your toes. I'm aware of the general backlash against MW2 in recent weeks but I really can't pay it any heed. I've been playing multi player shooters since the year 2000 and almost every major title has had the same backlash - Counter Strike Source, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2, Halo 2, Halo 3 and every iteration there ever was of the original Counter Strike. Halo Reach will be getting it's proper by the end of this year. If Battlefield 3 releases this autumn people will be raging over it how easy/hard/unbalanced/badly designed/1337 infected/how much of a "noob fest" it generally is by Christmas 2013. I can appreciate people falling out of love with something and moving to something different but "disaster"? Stow that hyperbole soldier. There's plenty o' war to go around.

So's your face.

MW2's multi player was/is awesome, the best in it's genre. The campaign was fun but stupid as hell. I'll try before I buy with the third. I've only got so much room left for modern military war shooters in my library, and that'll probably be Battlefield 3. Probably.

But violence isn't the same as "conflict," they're two completely different things. When we talk about conflict we talk about rivals, struggles, competing interests, ideologues - contexts for any actions that may or may not be violent. Right now I feel we have too many video games that are just endless violence with no conflict that provides any actual narrative drama, no story, to really engage the player. That's not to say all games need narrative but I think the mainstream as a whole really needs to step up it's game.

Hotel Dusk for the DS? Yet to play it myself but it's squatting at the back of my head for ages now. I really should get on to it.

Serious though F-Tank would be amazing.

It's apparently been rescheduled in Barcelona for the 8th. It's the only sensible option really.

I's official: Bahrain GP Cancelled The season will now start in Australia on the 27th of March.

Uh-oh, here we go - Bahrain test expected to be cancelled - official announcement expected some time after 4pm. Also, how's this for an image -

Fabulous. Ab. So. Lut. Ly. FABULOUS.

Yep, I've seen it before on BBC4 but I'll probably watch it again. Great doc, lots of fantastic archive footage, well edited.