McPhee

I'm happy with the French Revolution as long as they don't start being stupid with it. As soon as we have stupid shit like Napoleon being a Templar and Arthur Wellesley being an Assassin I think I'll give up on the series, just a shitty black and white view for such a colourful period of history. I'd still like to see them remake London circa 1890 though. Perching on Tower Bridge, looking out across the Thames would be absolutely awesome. Maybe too difficult/large in scope for Assassin's Creed III but I'm sure it'll happen eventually.

Thats... your mum? *says nothing*

I know someone who can't afford to eat for the next month after shelling out £500 to get a ticket to see Take That. That's got to be the biggest idiot I know. Oh, and the sad fact is the eBay seller had 0 feedback and could barely string together two words of English so there's a good chance it's a scam, a fact I'm reluctant to point out. Oh, and I know a lad who used to fetch trollies for a supermarket who got sacked because he was caught in the pub while clocked in. The dolt accidentally chose the pub where the management were having their Christmas do. Credit due though, he'd been getting away with it for a good 10 hours a week every week for 2 years!

It matters enough to me that I'll Jailbreak just to fix it. Double tapping the home button, scrolling left, hitting the lock button and then tapping back on to the app is just awkward and long winded for something that's used regularly and that used to be simple. It turns out the switch ain't actually a mute switch. Found out today when I tried using it as one. All it does is turn off the non-existent ringer and audible alerts (push, email), all other audio will continue to play. Useful. Really useful. Thanks Apple.

At this rate the thread will be heading back to 'Other Consoles' lol. Maybe we should just bounce it around a bit. Wii board next?

They also changed the lock switch on the iPad to a mute switch. Apple have lost the plot with this one...

The guy should take up high-stakes gambling, at least something can be gained from that Isnt this a General thread really? Got more in common with idiocy than FIFA 2011.

My Xbox just deleted all my saves. Not too upset about most of them; another play through Fable III and Assassin's Creed: BC ain't the end of the world, but it's gonna be a bitch to play through Mass Effect 1 and 2 again in prep for the third.

Just completed it. Got confusing towards the end, but the story has turned out very intriguing. As others have said, overall probably the best of the series. Still wish they'd bring back city-wide alarms though, it's too easy to kill a bunch of guards and walk away. Multiplayer is amazing.

Each to their own I guess. I thought MW2's multiplayer was awful. Really badly balanced, over-powered killstreak rewards and some really crappy maps mixed in with a few really good ones. Admittedly there's no real stand-out maps in BlOps but there's no really crappy ones either and the game is balanced much better. It feels more like an FPS to me than MW2 ever did.

I'd take the Milestone 2 over the Desire Z personally, though I don't think the Milestone is out yet.

It's odd, everyone seems to love Nuketown but I hate it immensely. Keep thinking there's something I just don't get about it.

Wicked! I was expecting some mediocre sub-game. I was buying it anyway but I doubted it'd live up to the first two.

Did they actually say that they're going to make email obsolete? The example I was given was that they want Facebook to bring all of your ways of communicating together in one place in a similar way to how Fring handles IM.

It's times like these when I wish I had cable. Still, might get fast speeds here one day, Philips have come up with a new tech that allows 750Mbps over copper with only minor modifications to the exchange. Once that hits the market hopefully BT will upgrade us (I'd even happily pay, but right now they'll only consider upgrading us if 75% of the 750 houses in the area petition them).

It's times like these when I wish I had cable. Still, might get fast speeds here one day, Philips have come up with a new tech that allows 750Mbps over copper with only minor modifications to the exchange. Once that hits the market hopefully BT will upgrade us (I'd even happily pay, but right now they'll only consider upgrading us if 75% of the 750 houses in the area petition them).

Was having a look for a release date for this and stumbled upon something interesting. Apparently Gearbox aren't just finishing Duke Nukem Forever, they've actually purchased the Duke Nukem IP and are now the sole owners of the franchise! Can only mean good things for the game really, and hopefully further Duke games in the future. Game is out sometime next year btw.

Had a blast at multiplayer tonight. Loved it! So much better than MW2! My only big gripe with it is sound. Hazards need to be louder (RC cars, dogs, people walking), getting killed comes as a complete surprise all too often.

The campaign in this game is ass. Boring, frustrating, confusing, badly designed levels with a heapful of bad AI on top just for good measure. The game also forces you t run and gun way too often, with some sections being impossible to get past without a kamikaze run at the enemy. CBA to play any more tonight. Might go back to it in the morning, might just trade it in for New Vegas. Can't decide. I'd give it maybe a 6/10 so far. It's a decent looking game and I'm intrigued to see how this story is going to end. Still the worst FPS I've played all year though. Roll on Bad Company 2: Vietnam! I wonder how much all of those 90% plus reviews cost Activision? Or did reviewers get sent a different game?

It's just part of the slow decline of CoD in my opinion. I'm in Nam in the single player and I'm really not loving it at all. At the moment definitely CoD4 > CoD2 > WaW > CoD > MW2 > CoD3 > BO. Still, trade in value should be high.

Sainsbury's it is for me then. Can't complain at Black Ops + £30 worth of shopping for £49.27 really (staff discount). Been off all week, just praying my store isn't one of the ones doing a midnight opening (right now I have literally no idea, just heard rumours that 200-odd stores will be ).

Not had any time to write a proper review, so here's a quick summary: Set-up - easy but prone to problems. The idea is that you just type in your Live ID and password (and your Facebook ID and password) and your good to go. If you're new to Windows Live and Xbox Live it's dead easy/simple. If you have everything on one account and ready to go - again, simple. the problems start if you have multiple IDs, for example Xbox Live and Windows Live under different email addresses. I wound up with a new gamertag and had to jump through hoops to switch it with my actual gamertag. UI - really fluid, well laid out and touch response is fantastic. Overall best in class I'd say. A few things have taken a bit of getting used to, like using the Search button to search the web instead of going in to the browser. The back button was an odd one too, wasn't expecting it to work like it does. Basically it takes you back a step in the OS rather than back a step in the app you're using. If you exit the browser then hop back in via the IE icon and hit back it doesn't go to the last web page, it goes back to the Start screen instead. It took a while for my mind to adjust to that way of thinking but now I've got the hang of it I really like it, makes switching between tasks really quick. Games - very different from the iPhone. I'm divided really. Price is really poor for the most part, with some developers really taking the piss (Flight Control is on "sale" at £2.49 yet the iPhone version is only 59p) but others have created titles good enough to justify the money. Microsoft Game Studios seems to be the big ace in the hole so far, they've created some really cracking games that will be exclusive to WP7. So far I've not been stuck for choice, there's everything from short pick-up-and-play puzzle games to titles that wouldn't be out of place on a handheld console. Trials are a nice feature too, avoided a couple of bloopers already. Apps - a work in progress. There's some really slick stuff on the marketplace and almost everything I want is covered already. All I'm missing from the iPhone is Urbanspoon, Time Out: London and National Rail. There is a rail app out but at a fiver I'm waiting for them to add a few more features. Media - Nothing that radical here. Just a standard music/video app with the Metro UI seen in the rest if the OS. Zune Pass is excellent though, downloaded quite a lot so far and streaming works well. Music selection doesn't seem quite up to Spotify's standards, there's a few things I've not been able to find, but overall I prefer it. Spotify was always too playlist-focused for me, it's good to get back to downloading albums. Pictures - You can set WP7 handsets to auto-upload to Skydrive and Facebook. A really neat feature, but I turned the Facebook posting off because it posts literally every photo to Facebook automatically (meaning if the first attempt is crap it still gets uploaded). I still send everything to Skydrive though and Posting to Facebook only requires one button to be pushed. Photos come back the other way too, in the gallery you get every photo on the phone and on your Skydrive and Facebook accounts. The phone pulls down thumbnails of all the photos and downloads the full pic when you select it. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff I've not touched upon there, but itll have to do for now. Overall I'm happy with the OS. It's a step up over iOS and feels much more polished than Android (which always left me with an awkward Windows Mobile-like feeling). Theres plenty been said about lack of copy & paste and multitasking, but to be honest it hasn't caused me any issues. Lack of multitasking in iOS never bothered me much (I just wanted to listen to music over Spotify while using the browser) and after that feature arrived I very rarely made use of it on the iPhone. Copy & Paste isn't as much of an issue as I thought it would be either. You can still select text in the browser then perform a search on the highlighted terms, which is 99% of what I use C&P for anyway. As a wrap-up, there's definitely now a third player on the mobile phone scene. WP7 does a lot of things right, a lot of things different and a lot of things better than any other OS on the Market right now. It's got some catching up to do, but its definitely well in the race. The hardware is a different story. The Trophy is going back, I'm giving Vodafone a call tomorrow and asking for a replacement. It's an alright handset, but HTC haven't done the best job of putting it together. There's a noticeable air gap between the glass and the screen beneath, causing cloudy looking patches to appear on the glass. The LED under the Windows key isn't properly aligned either, it's too low down causing an odd looking gradient of light on the button. From what I've read, these are common issues with the handset so I'm not sure what I'll do next. The LG Optimus 7 is a possibility but I had a play with one at the weekend and it didn't feel right in the hand. After my week with the Trophy I know I want to stick with WP7 for a while, so I might see if I can get a replacement with a decent value then sell it on to fund a Dell Venue Pro. Oh, and of course, any questions?

Is it just me, or does nobody type on a phone by prodding their index finger at the screen? I doubt this "revolutionary" typing method is really that much quicker than two thumbs on a regular QWERTY keyboard (with autocorrect and autocomplete). I would give it a go though, but I haven't got an Android phone to test it out on.

To add to that list: Flipboard Zinio Marvel Comics DC Comics Press Reader Epicurious Urban Spoon Dropbox Twitter The best apps are paid though sadly. They're also nowhere near as cheap as their iPhone counterparts, it seems developers have caught on and aren't pricing everything stupidly low like they did with the iPhone (I've noticed this on the WP7 marketplace too). Still, there's some sales on at the moment that are well worth checking out and some apps are universal, so buying the iPad version wouldn't be completely wasted.

O2 Simplicity for iPhone isn't unlimited Internet anymore anyway, it's 500MB (and up, depending how much you're willing to spend every month). I've just come off Vodafone's iPhone tariff. For £20/month you get 600 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB Internet and 1GB BT Openzone WiFi. Or Three do similar tariffs. GiffGaff are the only ones still offering unlimited Internet AFAIK.