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  1. david.dakota
    How accurate are VGchartz? They state Darkside has hit 260,000 - thats 180,000 in the US and 80,000 in 'others'. No. France + Germany = Europe. And stuff everyone else.
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    As far as i'm concerned, I couldnt care a rats bahooty. As long as he delivers a great performance, and the stories are there, I don't care how old he is - and to be entirely fair, he looks older than 27 (sorry, Matt!). You simply can't judge from 30 seconds, but I think Smith looks quite promising.
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    After weeks of rumour and speculation, leaks and videos, Goodle announced their first venture into the world of Smart Phones - the Nexus One. Running the most recent release of Android (2.1, or Eclair for those who like cakes), t Nexus One also boasts some impressive hardware. It features a zippy 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, which Google says enables the phone to seamlessly run multiple applications at once. A trackball allows users to navigate the interface, and also uses different colored lights to send various alerts–such as a new call or e-mail message. It also sports a 3.7-inch touchscreen AMOLED display with a native resolution of 480×800 pixels, a five megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM and ROM, and a microSD slot that’s expandable up to 32GB of storage (it ships with a 4GB card). It has a compass and an accelerometer, and light and proximity sensors allow the device to save power by dimming or shutting off the screen. A metal plate on back is designed for personal engraving. There is no hardware keyboard. Impressions are so far favourable, but still no 'iPhone Killer' (as they say).
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    Sorry to bump. £20.00 in store at ASDA.
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    Sorry, I forgot what you were saying.
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    No. That would be clever, really clever. Most of the audience don't give two hoots about a games' development; its just a handful of geeks (and i include myself in that statement) who do - it really doesn't matter if a Zelda Wii slips a generation. The fact is that Zelda TP sold incredibly well - especially when compared to the 360s leading launch title, COD2 (we forget few games on any of the HD machines have matched the LTD sales of Zelda TP) Nintendo again needs to ensure it creates a large market as quickly as possible; that means their mission needs to be to engage with the casual market with titles like WiiSports, but they also need to better maintain the momentum with the core gamer. Nintendo absolutely needs a major core title for launch, they need to emulate the Wii's launch as best they can and create that large market they promised to the third party this generation; a strong casual-centric title and an established core title - and we know Mario and Metroid are much further along than Zelda, making Zelda the only feasible launch title for any new hardware. Nintendo can't afford to skip a beat this launch; and rolling out a forgotten franchise, like Icarus, is no guarantee of launch success. I'm not willing to place money on the next Zelda being on next generation hardware, but i'm happy to put my neck on the line and say it would be prudent to do that.
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    Do we really beleive that though? Surely, since visual style is held together by character models, textures, effects, the overall gameworld. I'm pretty sure visual style - or at least the basis of it - is one of the first things to be discussed and decided in some form of tone meeting. However, I tend to agree that we'll not see Zelda for a while yet. I'd be happier to see Zelda launch Wii 2 actually.
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    Tony Hawk bought a music game?
  9. david.dakota
    I think third parties have struggled to mirror Nintendo's 'on-legs' strategy - Nintendo proved 'ever-green' titles like Mario Kart and Wii Fit can sell all year round. However, the likes of EA haven't inspired the market in the same way. However, I beleive Shattered Memories has had a good start. The only comparable game I can think of is Resident Evil 4 (but even then thats a re-release) so lets work with that. In all, RE4 sold about 1 and a half million copies worldwide; according to VGcharts it sold less than 500,000 copies in its first 12 weeks - so thats 1 million outside the lunch window. Impressive. Incidently, compare that to RE5 on 360, that sold nearly all its 2.5million in that 12 week window, and little since. These sales figures for Shattered Memories seem comparable to RE4 so things, in my opinion, do look rosey for Shattered Memories.
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    Agreed. This looks mindblowingly good.
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    I cracked this open last night, and i'll sit in the camp of liking it. For me, it doesn't feel like an on-rails shooter. I know thats an odd thing to say because it clearly is, but it does feel like an adventure horror to me. Perhaps an on-rails shooter that does that little bit further. It drips atmosphere, and so far the narrative is done well - although the VO work is not extraordinary. I can understand why people wouldve prefered a full movement game - because, i would too - but for what it is, its damned fine.
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    I think The Conduit, while being a pretty great game, suffered for a number of reasons. Firstly, its new IP up against some strong competition in the COD series. The reviews, even positive ones, perhaps unfairly made comparisions with titles on the HD machines. I also think some decisions over at HVS reduced the attractivness of the title - the choice of the title doesn't resonate with the general public and the cover wasn't that intetesting either. There were also plenty of missed opportunities too - how often can games make topical references, linking the illness in the game with the current swine flu pandemic (at least in marketing materials) would have been a shrewd move, hitting a better street date - earlier in the year, or later would have been much better. The quality of the game was there. It was a good, if flawed, experience that was worthy of more attention at retail than it got. Hopefully, HVS have taken the opportunity to carry out a post mortem on the final processes up to release and rethink them for future releases (because I want The Grinter to kick ass)
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    Or, how about "Now You're Playing With Shite"?
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    Done actualy. The sixth Doctor managed to fix the chameleon circuit to 'humourous' effect. Its hinted that The Doctor is quite fond of his Police Box though Thats an image of The Doctor and Peri walking out of the newly changed (and rather poorly disguised) TARDIS.
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    Whats that then? I've spent so long out of the Nintendo loop.
  16. david.dakota
    Picked this and Another Code R from Game.co.uk Arrived this morning (thank you, postie). Cost less than a tenner for both using Game points... GET IN. I do have Cursed Mountain to complete first....
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    And well lubed... very well lubed.
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    Where are those stats from Dante? Is there a more comprehensive list?
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    And 860,000 downloaded HOTD Overkill? So, people did play it - and lots of them. They just didn't pay for it.
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    I think the best cases for CDs and DVDs are in the the ones with the 'ying/yang' style push areas. As long as they contain that, with a good few milimeters under the disk, they can package the rest in paper - for next generation machines. Don't mess with the look of the collection at this point (NSMB burns my eyes).
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    I don't understand. They're still plastic, right?
  22. david.dakota
    I've offered to sort out a PC later this week, its lost connectivity to the net. However; i know that it lacks any virus check too so intend to get one on there. I'm not spending my own cash on it though, and doubt the owners of said PC would kep up subs anyway. Now, I recall AVG offering a free virus check in the past- do they still offer that? Any other sources of free virus checks about?
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    Hyrule Field This is excellent work
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    Metroid Prime Trilogy is an obvious must. Resident Evil 4 too, Madworld springs to mind too. Zack and Wiki, Mario Kart Wii and New Super Mario Wii are all worth a look.
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    Picked up the vaule edition today for 50 shmackers - HMV is the place. Anyway, i'm loving it (although slightly disappointing its using WFC rather than EA Nation but hey, Jude, the rest of the package is super su-weet. A really special product. Excellent.
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