Thursday Next

I think trophies are a good benchmark for how much of the content I've seen. Got a platinum? Then I've probably done most everything I want to do with the game.

Can't beat a good old 3 pin, earthed, fused plug, pumping out 240v of Newcastle coal fired electricity. *cries a single tear*

I loved "throw momma from the train" but have never seen strangers on a train. I'm familiar with Judge, just not familiar with this film beyond the vague plot synopsis of "People hate their bosses, plan to kill them, hilarity ensues (or rather a couple of resigned sighs ensue)."

Went on a little spree... Also got a poxy free D&G bag with the Issey... wasn't sure whether to be pleased at the freebie or annoyed at the extra weight.

The issues with Parasite Eve are more likely that the game is not licensed for EU release. When companies merge, get acquired, etc it can be difficult to find out who has the rights to a game. For example, Parasite Eve was published by Square in Japan, they are now Square Enix. It's possible that the company that owned the license to PE was dissolved, so now it's a pain in the butt to sort out who owns the license. Worse yet, PE was published in NA by EA, who may have had some exclusivity either by region or time limited, etc. So yeah, re-releases are a ball ache for publishers, especially when the original launch was not worldwide under one publisher. On topic, the only justification I can see for splitting regions is to maintain good online multiplayer experience, something that Nintendo have never been big on. Since WiiU is more single player focussed, I'm not sure how keen Ninty will be to drop region locking.

@WTF If your business model is to limit your distribution then it makes sense (to me at least) to drop region locking. Nintendo would save themselves a lot of headaches if they just allowed people to import. It worked wonders for Demon's Souls on PS3.

Fairy nuff, just the Anniston and "I hate my manager" thing in common then.

Is this like a spiritual successor to Office Space or something?

Dungeon Seige 3. Well, I didn't buy it, I got gived it. Finished Alice, so not sure whether to (a) Finish Infamous "Good" playthrough, or jump into a new game altogether.

He looks pretty girlish... It might not even be that gay.

Feel sorry for that Joel guy. He seems like he genuinely wants to engage with the Kotaku Community, don't think anyone told him that that's not how things are done around there. I think the biggest problem that Crecente in particular had with our Dean was that Dean provided worthwhile content to Kotaku in the form of the Kotaku Haynes Guide, spent a lot of time in the comments talking to the community and before too long held more sway and more respect amongst the Kotaku Kommenters than many of the editors, not least Crecente himself. When Dean posted (in the Off Topic section IIRC) his list of suggestions / comments on what had changed in the site recently including the movie reviews that were unrelated to games, the new crappy non-articles without images, headlines or links to comment and others, there was a significant groundswell of agreement from established commenters and newbies alike. Crecente sought to silence Dean by banning him, underestimating how popular he had become and the rest as they say, got all fucked up. TL;DR (I realised I hit my four paragraph limit) Crecente was coming second in his own private popularity contest, so he banned the competition, and lost most of the active commenters in the process.

Emerson Cod stole pushing Daisies. Fin de jambe.

Here's a (possibly) interesting thing check out the Hollywood Career-O-Matic here: http://www.slate.com/id/2296070/pagenum/all/ (you need to scroll down a bit) note that it's based on the Rotten Tomato scores, not individual contributions, but it's interesting none the less. Check out Caine and Cage's stats. They are both prolific and both schizophrenic in that they star in some classics and some shit. Also, just for funsies, compare Miyazaki to Boll. That said, as stated in the article actors aren't *really* responsible for the rating the film gets. Directors are more consistent due to increased creative control.

It's more that EA doesn't want Valve to own consumers of EA content to the exclusion of EA. EA wants to be able to sell DLC to consumers who own their products directly, without having to go through a third party (and therefore having to pay them). On the flip side, Valve don't want EA to deal direct to consumer, cos then Valve miss out on "their" slice of the DLC pie.

Oh man! That is utterly priceless! I love it. Hahahahahahahaha.

Isn't that true of Nintendo hardware generally? First party stuff is great and uses the hardware to the max, third party struggles to make any impact because Nintendo kept the hardware under wraps until 6 months before launch.

Red Faction Armageddon on PSN: £57.99/€69.99. Ho-ly jeeeeeebus. Some folk just don't "get" Digital Distribution.

Dualshock. Owned a PS1-3. Never owned an Xbox. Put it down to indoctrination, Stockholm syndrome, whatever. It's the one I always use, so other controllers feel odd. KB/M is better for some games, FPS and RTS being two prime examples, but the Dualshock is better for FPS than KB/M is for Racing games.

First Jamaica say they regret leaving the Brits, then America starts adopting our superior traffic control measures... the days Empire are returning.

This one is really not the consumers fault. If you want to blame anyone then, it's PC devs for making games for the highest spec machines and expecting the consumer to catch up, and the hardware manufacturers for claiming that their PC is the highest spec available even though this claim is usually no longer valid by the end of the day it is made. EA went through a phase of making "Laptop Friendly" games (mostly The Sims 2 titles) but I don't think they do them any more. Public perception is that Laptops are slimline PC's, so this is more like buying a PS3 slim and expecting it to play PS3 games.

Shadows of the Dayum! That was a blast. Not the prettiest game I ever played, but fun none the less. Need to finish Alice, next, then the good run through of Infamous and then Infamous 2: Infamouser.

I mentioned the Wang thing to Origin team and it is now fixed, not implying causation by correlation, I certainly didn't get a "Hey thanks for raising it buddy" message from Origin, but at least it's fixed.

I think England has more words for a bread roll than any other country ever. I've heard them called everything from rolls, to baps, to buns, barm cakes, butties, cobs and stotties, all used to describe a bread roll, sometimes dusted with flour.

First property purchase? Is this in real life or GTA or something?