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Oh that kinda makes it seem a bit cruel now.

I'm cool with the community (though lately not so much. With great size comes lots of crap. Also they seem to have got rid of the mods they had over summer) The writers not so much. Totilo is great. He could do better elsewhere though. Owens fine too, though sometimes maybe adds a touch of unnecessary political commentary to some posts and he unfortunately (though good for him I guess) is covering one of the least liked genres in gaming (though if he eyed up football more often and the PC, well Football Manager 2010/2011 were the best selling PC games in the UK last year. But he doesn't really touch much up on those) Ashcraft could be a cool guy, but he's a shite games journalist. I think him being in Japan is about the only reason he's on. And he rarely takes advantage of it (you could be outside of japan and still follow 2chan, Japanese news n TV etc) Luke covers more gamin stuff, but as others has noticed tends to be a bit more inflammatory than the others. McWhertor is meh. He slides from good to bad like a yo-yo these days. (.e.g last nights 'arizona shooter was a gamer'). Fahey can post some pretty good stuff. He lost quite a bit of respect from me over his OTT iPad coverage. But I dunno if that was jsut his excitement, or some higher ups wanting some cross-posting opportunities with Gizmodo. However none of them quite reach the soaring heights of Crecente. The dude running the show who lets all this go on below him. None of these guys technically able to post what they do without his go ahead. He's currently got an article on the Verizon iPhone. None of that matters to gaming in anyway shape or form unless Verizon are also coming out with a selection of Verizon exclusive games. But they're not so. Meh. If they changed from Kotaku: The Gamers Guide to Kotaku: Random Shit, then I wouldn't have much issue, but they tout themselves as a games site, then post a crap ton of inane drivel with sometimes the weakest connection to gaming. What sucks is there's so much game news out there that they shouldn't even have to resort to that. I think it's a Gawker thing though. Gizmodo is very much the same. you can compare Gizmodo to Engadget, n Gizmodo will have some thing about Australian floods, and Engadget will have a tear down of a tablet. So yeah these days I'll have a glance at the stories, certainly don't read it like I used to, mostly sticking to TAY n #speakup, where the community hangs out. Then I get most of my actual news from my RSS feeds.

I'm up for 8 too.

I think it's too similar to the DS. I get they're going for familiarity. But I reckon it'll work against them with people just assuming it's another iteration of the DS. The Gameboy, then Color, then Advance all looked distinctly different, then with the SP n Micro too. Also the naming was easy enough to figure out what was a new version n what was a remodelling. But the 3DS is named like a DS, it looks like a DS. But it isn't the DS.

I played MNR back when it was out. But then hit a brick wall with the campaign and never really touched it since. Which is a shame cos I loved the track creator. Miles above LBP's creator in usability.

So Link to the PAst n Minish Cap to check out. Minish Cap is a Gameboy one isn't it?

Q is awesome. Any show with John De'Lancie is suddenly much better.

Same for me. I think with Arkham City they've talked about having it so you can do the Detective mode stuff without kinda losing the visuals the art guys had worked on. Though I've not been following too closely.

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2066351/1/MinecraftSMP?h=f2d0ac - From the Kotakuites SMP. Most of it's from the first month/world. Here's my second house Which I also had this suggestion to make exploration bunkers, so you could go exploring, knock up this bunker n stay in over night (just alt-tab in inventory screen to idle) You can see the main 'castle' in the background, bottom right hand corner. My buildings got more pretty overtime, So I had a seaside complex, with beach mansion, and my latest world in SP has a huge castle with mine built on the back. And I'm slowly working on making an underground and above ground village.

I'd assume so. He posted in #speakup with a"nooo gappoi is down" ..I think last night.

The recent news on the battery life really bummed me out on the idea. I'm interested in 3D gaming, but not so much on a small dinky screen. Not many must have games for me really. Still got the DS library to play through first. Which I guess would be the main reason for liking the 3DS. Cheaper DS games.

I used to have a slim keyboard. Wireless thing that came bundled with my PC. Was pretty horrible. At first I was like 'ooh this is kind of cool' but typing doesn't feel "right". It's lighter, but feels.. I dunno. So yeah I'm back on a meaty keyboard. Nice clack of keys. Also less slip sliding about. Oh n much easier to clean. The mechanism for keeping the slimline keys down doesn't like it when you pop them off like a chunky regular keyboard.

Yeah I've yet to play Guild Wars, kinda looking forward to GW2 but I'm liking the subscription model or lack there of. Means if I want to one day hop on for a couple of days, I can. But things like WoW I'd have to put down a months subscription with no idea if I'm gonna be on for a couple days or more. Which in turn makes me less likely to play on it at all. The freemium model certainly has legs within the MMO space as Turbine have shown. Though many of their current Freemium titles were once paid for products, and I think that's what helps. Other freemium titles may be free from the get go and therefore be shitty due to lack of budget. Maybe a paid model for a year or two, then go freemium could be a good model? Then you've got the best of both worlds with a paid for gaming meaning a bigger budget and higher quality, and then later on the freemium appeal to the cheap skates, with the high quality appeal to make it more likely they'd sign up.

Okay well 8pm GMT sound good? Means I can get food before hand. I'll go have a shot at nap MK II

Counter Strike?

I didn't manage to get my nap but I'm still up for it. Though maybe not uber long hours. I guess maybe do something in a few hours instead? I've got nothing tomorrow morning so I can play late.

btw picking up the DLC a good idea? Not sure on UK price but if it's good I'll pick it up. I might need to top up my Wallet though.

So my work load is now a bit lighter so I'm totally up for some later on. 5PM-ish as 'usual'

I've shared a few of these in the past but here is Maru the cat. Internet superstar He likes boxes

So which would you recommend to start out on for someone with say access to a PSP with a bunch of emulators on it (so GB's, NES, SNES) and to a degree a Wii. (Yeah never touched a zelda game, would like to at some point but not something that too archaic)

Yeah that was something that only makes sense with external information was why it mattered about the fleet of klingon warbirds been destroyed. Cos the guys were imprisoned then waiting for when Spock arrived through the blackhole too.

See FFXIV was just shit. I don't think it was lazy cash-in though.

There's normally a pretty short gap of about a week (the less time the disc is made n able to get in pirates hands before release the better, just ratio'd to how many you need to print off to meet demand. Big game could be about 2-3 weeks before release). Coming up with the idea, making, QAing it then getting it up on services CMS then obviously waiting for launch. And Dragon Age 2 will not be at the printers now. Stilla month+ to go. It's DLC's they've planned months in advance, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to make it in the game other than them purposely not putting it in. It's have to be pretty big for them to come up with it months in advance and still be unable to complete in time for the presses.