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So how good is the PS3 then? Many good titles due out? Im somewhat tempted, more down to situation than anything else. Work have some good deals in, I get paid on Friday, Staff Discount goes up to 15% soon as a little easter present.

FROSTING!!!

Can you take the policy after you buy the console? £30 is well worth it for peace of mind. Im guessing i wont be covered if i put a custom case on though?

But Elitists never make any money, to make money you need to do what the people want rather than mock then for being artisticly 'inferior' Going to see this at the cinema next week. Aquired me a copy but its terrible quality so probably wont manage to watch it all the way through until the Cinema

Just picked up LCD Soundsystem's new album after work. Loving it so far, seems to be flowing a bit nicer that their debut Got Enter Shikari's album too but not had a chance to listen to that yet

Was in my local Gamestation today, holy crap did they have one hell of a deal on! Gears Of War Crackdown WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007 PGR3 Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Extra Wireless Controller Xbox 360 Premium Pack £304.99! Limited offer though so probs only gonna be on for a few days. Works out at a very cheap spare 360 too if you wanted these games. Take the price of the games, controllers, cables, power supply and HDD off then you are getting a spare 360 for £10! (based on new price for games + controllers and avforums prices for hdd, power supply, hd cable)

So it is real... Hopefully Shopto.net stock the back controller at the same price as the White, then i can get 2 more (dont want them all the same colour)

Thats one for next time http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/haggisclopedia.cfm?part=1

Im a late nineties, early naughties person: The Strokes, The Libertines, Hundred Reasons, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Charlatans, Linkin Park, Biffy Clyro, The Cooper Temple Clause, Feeder, Ash, Gomez, The Hives, Hot Hot Heat, Kings Of Leon, Nickelback, Queens of the Stone Age, Placebo Shame most of these bands seem to be dying out at the moment...

Perfect. No need for him to be a good actor either, Fenix is hardly going to be difficult to pull off. Grunt here, curse there then a mumble about Locust. Shoot some more bullets, chainsaw a few grunts and repeat. :p

Want us to neg rep him for you? I really cant stand Racists, unless they can justify their racism with a decent reason (some people can, and thats fair enough) I love Live, most people are ok and a good laugh. If you find a good host and use him/her regularly you soon get to know people. My whole friends list is people i met on here and on Live, dont know anyone in real life who has a 360 and uses Live

I'd cast Gerard Butler as Fenix, they look similar and the voices are reasonably close. I cant see IGN's suggestion of Bruce Willis tbh

same here, the videos will be available via 'other means' anyway

The 120GB HDD for under $200? That doesnt sound good. I'd be better off buying the new 360 and using my old one as a spare in case of breakdown! Quick convert into sterling and we can expect to be paying £120 for the HDD and £300 for the new console! Yup. Why? Were you expecting the HD-DVD to be built in? Too pricey, would bump the price of the 360 too close to the PS3. There will probably be a black HD-DVD drive now though

I doubt Super Saiyans will be in the game. If they are then there'll be some sort of power meter system where transforming to SS uses a lot of power and can only be done for a short space of time, leaving you very drained afterwards

Tried the demo and it put me off, i just couldnt get into it. The camera angle makes batting hard and the demo gives you about 3 seconds to read the controls before it throws you into the game TBH it felt like the sort of game that would be fun if you put a lot of practice in

Just installed Vista. All i can say is what a breath of fresh air! Ive been stuck with Sabayon Linux for months, and although the Sabayon boys are doing a cracking job the OS was just too darn complicated (more a Linux problem in general). I really am impressed with Vista, running Home Premium but with Aero turned off because my comp cant handle it. It looks good and is running well, even though half my software is being emulated (seems to be a lack of Vista versions around ATM). Only problem ive had so far is getting the WiFi to work, using a USB dongle until i can get the built in card to work. More down to Acer than Microsoft, i need a certain driver for the 'button' on the front of the laptop that controls the Antenna.

Not bought a ticket yet, waiting for the metal/punk tent to be announced and then getting them off Scarlet Mist or eBay just before the festival (they usually go for under face value by then). Couple of mates got V weekend camping last year the night before the fest for £60 each! They just met the bloke there Theres a rumour going around of no Dance Tent and a 3 Day Lock-Up type thing this year. In a bigger tent, hence the lack of Metal + Punk on the main stage. Could be good, in reality its probably going to make me cry from all the clashes

Good list, everyone is always gonna have their gripes though. Personally i cant believe Rome: Total War is above Medieval: TW, sure its prettier but its a step back in terms of battlefield AI (there were 2 tactics in Rome that guaranteed a win every time on the hardest setting) I prefer Halo 1 to Halo 2 in some ways, the multiplayer is a bit more pure for instance and the story is far better. Halo 2 in multiplayer usually turns into Get Sword, Hide, Jump Out and Kill. Repeat.

Or you could fix you're current one. Go to xbox-scene.com for guides on repairing + modding xboxes, could even dump all the games on a HDD and run them from that

Its not half bad, some bands on the main stage that i'd have expected in the tent and bands in the tent that i expected on the main stage though. Oddly there arent any surprise acts this year, was expecting some older acts low down on the main stage ASH IN THE TENT!!!! That night is gonna be awesome! Shame about having to choose between LCD Soundsystem and Nine Inch Nails and Biffy + Bloc Party though Looks like all the Metal/Punk acts have been moved to the Lock-Up, hopefully they announce that soon (Alkaline Trio FTW!)

Nah, ive got a feeling that 1 night will be someone reasonably big i.e. Sonic Youth or Ash. Theres always 1 tent headliner who's been around a bit. Primal Scream in 06, The Tears (aka Suede) in 05, Supergrass and Graham Coxon in 04 Just been looking through some old line-ups, 2003 was amazing! Every year i see it and every year it looks better because more and more bands from it break through http://www.virtualfestivals.com/festivals/festival.cfm?eventid=480&dbtable=eventgroup&section=lineup&day=0

Looks good. Can you request specific games or is it a case of build a list and they send out random titles from it? What are prices like in their store and with the Love It? Keep It! thing? im up for that, watching 24 at 9 though

2 words. Beer Breakfast. The main reason for going to a festival over a gig, its ok to be smashed at 10am

Headliners look pretty much set at: (Leeds Days) Friday: Smashing Pumpkins Nine Inch Nails Saturday: Razorlight Kings of Leon Sunday: Red Hot Chili Peppers The Arcade Fire Bloc Party With Klaxons headlining 1 day on the Radio 1 with the other 2 days being taken by any 2 of: Ash, Sonic Youth, Biffy Clyro, The Gossip, The Good The Bad and The Queen