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Yeah, but the Go definitely isn't undercutting the physical alternative. I think once Gamestop and co realised that the Go was going to be more expensive than the PSP hardware and the games were going to be more expensive they thought "what the hell" and stocked it. Leading up to launch there was some very bullish talk from Gamestop and other specialist retailers. Like I said, I would like for Sony to tell specialist retailers to like it or lump it but I don't think they are confident enough in their digital sales to take that risk so they will continue to price digital games on par if not more expensive than their physical equivalents, irrespective of how transparent and retarded that is.

I'd be surprised, not least because retailers would be most displeased by the move and may refuse to stock the Vita. I would love to think that Sony had the stones to tell Game and their ilk what we already know (that physical media's days are numbered) and that they can either stock Sony titles and limp on for a while or not and die all the quicker, but I don't think they will.

I quite liked the review. It recognises that CoD MW3 is a highly polished, technically well executed example of its genre. The reviewer just didn't like the singleplayer because it was more of an interactive movie than a game. He raises good points with regard to the follow thing. Why not just have a destination marker and have your squad follow you? Why not allow you to open doors? Before anyone else points it out, yes, CoD is the enemy. However, I'm no fan of MoH or BF3's singleplayer either. I'd be happier if it was replaced with an offline bot mode with split screen for up to four people. At least that way you could get some practice with the jets, helicopters and other new-fangled gadgets without burning up your teams precious resources and drawing the ire of all the professional pilots out there.

A lot of it is down to the way systems were set up. There's probably a field for code expiry dates that has to be completed. We would normally suggest that something ludicrous like 10 or 100 years be given as the expiry date, but occasionally that doesn't happen and it's only a couple of years. Like I said, if you bought it new and the code is expired I reckon most CS agents would give you a new code.

I love it. Of course gay people can get married to other gay people. They just have to be of the opposite sex... Riiiiight.

It's a teething thing, DA2 is one of the exceptions rather than the rule. I don't think the codes for new games do expire, and if you contacted CS a penny to a pound says they'd give you a new code for free.

Gods be praised.

We say what now?

I think it's more common to say either "to-may-to" or "to-mah-to" than "po-tay-to" or "po-tah-to". Pretty sure Potahto was just for the song. Battra will likely know as it's his era sort of thing.

Surely you mean "Mee-tane" or "Meh-tane". ;-)

"beater" and "beeter" are the same aren't they?

The whole bee-tah, bay-tah, bet-ah thing really makes me cringe. I heard another one the other day. A radio advert for "My week with Marilyn" the guy pronounced "Lang lang" (which I've only ever heard pronounced as in "Bang") as "Lung lung". Made me shudder!

Don't think it has a DVD drive mate.

You can have corn bread and southern fried chicken, but there is no way Americans are laying claim to the barbeque. There's too many variants and too many other colonies that use the various methods for outdoor cooking for any one to say that they gave the world that cuisine. Australians are stereotyped as putting anything edible on a barbie and South Africans have a "braai" to name just two others. I don't for one minute adhere to the stereotype that "all American food is processed junk", there's a wealth of different and very good food available, clam chowder in sour-bread rolls is a fantastic "American" dish (in that I associate it with San Fran), it's especially welcome when the weather is colder. By the same token, not all English food is bland, and many French wines are utter crap. In short badly prepared food is bad. Go anywhere and you can find crap food, no country has a monopoly on it. America doesn't do its food image many favours though, the whole renaming (Belgian) "French Fries" as "Freedom Fries", the fact that many see McDonald's as the blue-print for US cuisine, the perception that American food is about piling tonnes of artificial flavoured, heavily processed "meat". The shady labelling of "Cheese Products" all conjur up a poor image of American cooking. As to English cooking, aside from proper bacon, some regional dishes like Haggis and Cornish Pasties and the Roast dinner, I think that we tend to assimilate and adapt other cooking styles. Chicken Tikka Masala being a good example.

Does she chase you out of the kitchen if you offer to cook for everyone?

Normally do onion gravy with toad in the hole. I tend to stick to pretty simple food, all that complicated fancy schmancy stuff tends to be a lot more effort with not much more tastiness. Learning how to cook meat properly without burning it is waaaaay more important than remembering recipes. I have a decent crack at doing a roast dinner every now and then. Including roast parsnips, carrot and potatoes and usually cauliflower cheese on the side. In fact, feeling somewhat inspired to do one this weekend.

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I make a pretty mean toad in the hole. Also, pretty good at chilli and bolognese. I tend to make meals that are easy to share around rather than discrete plated up meals, comes from having a Mediterranean background I think. I used to make my own pizza bases when I was at uni, but I don't have the time these days. EDIT: I don't make the time is more accurate.

If it's free DLC, no drama. If it's paid, well, still no drama. But meh.

I too find "Backronyms" irritating. Here's some more to wind you up... http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithAcronyms James Bond's "S.P.E.C.T.R.E." was always a favourite of mine. SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

I just discovered this one. People who compare the price of data storage cards to the price of media players wind me up.

I liked Sucker Punch too. Thought it was a pretty slick production. I liked the visuals. The Steam Punk - Alice in Wonderland-ness of it all. It was a fun film. It's not exactly taxing on the noggin, but it was a good bit of cinema. EDIT: I also really liked the soundtrack. So there!

Personally, I ticked "Labour" because I wanted Blair in. I would not have voted Labour if Brown had been in charge. Swapping leader is no different to swapping policies imho. In fact, one was a direct cause of the other.

It was a tongue in cheek comment. Nevertheless I still expect only a minority of that vocal minority to actually even download the game, even then, I bet that the majority of that minority of the vocal minority will do so out of principle rather than a desire to play 1943.

Never really liked Street Fighter. Was more of a Tekken fan. I did really like Fighters Destiny on the N64 and still have nightmares about Joker. The only other fighting game I really got into was Bushido blade. I loved that with that game you could pretty much disarm your opponent before going in for the kill.