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I think it varies massively. Inner city is expensive even for Zone 2-3 London but if you get out to say Solihull way it can get pretty reasonable. Basically it has a large spectrum from city to suburb and cheap dump to pricey nice in a pretty big myriad.

Can pretty much guarantee that a tester's salary will not cut a wage properly in London. PM me about what you're looking for and will keep my ear to the ground for you.

- Wonderful 101 seems like quite an original game but not exactly what I'd define as broad market accessible. - Nintendo Land is excellent at showing what the console can do but does not have the punch that Wii Sports did for a whole LIST of reasons. - Pikmin 3 is a nice and solid game but is an evolutionary entry into a relatively unpopular series. - NSMBU is competing with all of it's predecessors that people are still enjoying on the 3DS, Wii and DS. - ZombiU was good but not polished enough by a mile to attract the Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead crowd. I don't think that the lineup has been bad but there definitely isn't a system seller around yet. I'm not sure that SM3DW is going to shift as many units as Nintendo is expecting and going forward I don't see a lot of games that say "this has to be on Wii U" or more importantly, "I have to get the Wii U for this". But it's not just the games themselves, Nintendo hasn't particularly made an effort to make people believe that's the case.

Sheeeet girl, those are like from the same 3 companies. Plus many of them are not London. Surrey is not London. You should check out the Midlands scene. Oxford, Leamington, Coventry and the surrounding have a ton of companies. In fact Leamington is fast becoming the one area in the UK most densely populated by developers.

I'd say that's job done! So happy that you're having a good time. Well I assume it was fun sex, not "so angry I'm going to actually kill you by breaking your pelvis" sex.

Funny thing is, that Oxford's not much better! You get off the train, walk into town and BAM, Nando's bitches.

Part time employment to go back to full time? I think I got away with it!

Remind me why you're leaving again? :p

When a mummy transformer and a daddy transformer love each other very much...

Meh, I didn't like it all. It feels just as clunky as it did back on the SNES which was fine for then but poor for now. The graphics are very pretty but fuck knows what's going on with some of the body proportions. It's like they've tried to go for stylised and realistic at the same time and botched it. I'll stick to BlazBlue thanks.

Seriously don't do it. This thread is a perfect demonstration of why almost everywhere else in the county is a better balance of where to live. You can still visit London, you don't have to live there!

Wasn't aware that the manufacturer had changed. It would explain a few things, if not simply that Sony is not in direct control of their quality control and working conditions. I still think all of this squawking about the release hardware is a massive over reaction as it will be with the Xbox One when it inevitably happens with that just as it did with the Wii U.

I'M IN!!!

As you might have seen around the forum @bluey has set up a StreetPass group for Banbury and look at the bloody Nintendo Zone map for the area!

So it's ok to prosecute them once the person is already dead, rather than for them taking actions which drastically increase the chance of someone being killed? I'd prefer if the problem was solved before anyone got hurt. More likely to be because few women from this culture drive as it's generally seen as a male thing to do. It's illegal in Saudi for a woman to drive. Think you need to chill a bit though dude, seems like your trying to find a fight to have rather than posing a discussion.

*eagerly awaits signups*

Oh giantbomb... you actually thought that a console would be fully functional on release? Bless...

From the look of the unit, it's the standard one. If you press down on the menu screen, it takes you to a different carousel where all of the Indie games one. Four different playable ones :-)

Dude, did you try Octodad? So damn funny.

Yep, sounds pretty dangerous. I totally appreciate what Iun's saying and from my experience in these cultures have blended together to become the new concept of "us" I think that it's fairly well understood that the hijab is becoming the defacto standard and that it's a reasonable compromise considering how much of a cultural clash that the niqab causes. Personally, I think hijabs are pretty cool. I've seen plenty of women doing something really fashionable and interesting with it and (keeping in mind that I used to be a science teacher with lots of health and safety considerations) I've never seen it causing the issue that's mentioned in the OP. I do take issue with motorbiking and religious dress though. I know Oxygen Waste will probably jump on me for saying it but I really don't think that it should be legal for anyone to drive a motorbike without a crash helmet. I don't approve of the turban exception to the rule and genuinely feel that if we impose a law like this that it should be for everyone. What you wear is your business but you can choose to ride a bike or not. I don't think it should be regarded as discrimination in this scenario.

Finished Turnaround 3 last night and feel exhausted... I'm really enjoying the game but I do wish that it was a little harder. I struggle with games like this because when they are easy I make a lot of mistakes because I'm thinking 2 or 3 steps ahead of the game. Maybe it's the way it's been translated this time but it seems particularly prevalent. And you know what happens when you don't solve it in the exact way that the game wants you to? PENALTY *poof* On the upside, I'm loving the characters and animations. I'm happy that they seem to be keeping the main characters relatively 3-dimensional (HAH!) as it's something that I think the series is good at. There are just too many though and it feels like no one is getting enough screen time to develop properly. But hey, they can do more games right! Someone mentioned the lack of investigation earlier. I've noticed this too, it just seems to be much less a part of the game experience as they loaded the new mechanics into the court section of things. The game seems to be much more loaded into the style where you fumble into the truth rather than lead it all with evidence. It's a great game but I think I enjoyed Edgeworth more for some reason.

@Cube just out of interest mate, does your router use both 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz? Quick way to check is if it says 802.11 a/b/g/n. Having 802.11a would confirm that it does and that is likely to be the BIGGEST problem. Possible direct interference between your router and the link between the console and the pad. If you could turn it off then that's going to help things. Must admit though that your house sounds like a bit of a RF prison.

Yeah, I doubt that's going to happen for several reasons, mostly surrounding frequency misuse and how it would increase the chances of people doing so. That and "boosters" are the thing of the devil in terms of RF.

Bang on the money, the human body is an annoyingly large sac of water. Whilst Dcubed is right about having the controller between you and the consoles, that actual angle that you hold it at isn't going to make much of a difference I'm 99% sure that the wireless involved will be using SDM rather than OFDM. Yes the wireless range isn't great in a real situation but in free space it works pretty well. A lot has to be taken into account when they were choosing the design including: data bandwidth required, overheads that lead to latency, chance of interference from other common devices, RF isolation from the other stuff in the console, battery life in the pad. Sure they could have the pad cranking on 100mW constantly but you're likely to end up cooking your crotch or have a battery life of 15 mins. I'm pretty happy with how they chose it. Also keep in mind that this is a Japanese company we are talking about here... they have really think walls over there generally speaking.