http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/littlebigplanet-release-delayed-in-europe

Supposedly because Sackboy is a muslim hatin' racamalist: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BuPMgf6T4UIJ:community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message%3Fboard.id%3D611%26message.id%3D8388+%22tapha+Niang%22+quran&hl=da&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=dk

Off you go Jim!

Here it is. I used to have several consoles, but sold them all when I came to University. The PC in question is:

DFI Lanparty NF4 SLi-DR
Athlon X2 2.2 precariously overclocked to 2.5
2GB fairly shitty ram
Geforce 9600GT, which is great
A multitude of hard drives totalling about a terabyte.
Vista (sigh)
It's the Antec P180 case, I prefer the stealth look to windows and neons, etc.



For extra lols, here is the view from my window. I live overlooking the sea, its very beautiful on a nice day. However, when the UK is experiencing severe storms, it looks a little more like this:



And yes, those people got completely drenched about a half second later.

Microsoft have announced today that Europe can expect price cuts to each 360 SKU on March 14th.

The new prices are:

Elite: £260 ($522 USD)
Premium: £200 ($402 USD)
Arcade: £160 ($321 USD)

With the money saved, you could buy at least 2000 HD-DVDs.

Do you think we'll see a PS3 drop anytime soon?

Greetings and ovulations,

If you'll indulge me, I'd just briefly like to reintroduce myself around these parts. Some may know me from posts that span a while back, which mysteriously dried up all too quickly. Unfortunately I'd headed off to study, and sold most of my gaming equipment in a foolhardy attempt to pretend to be something I'm not.

Having seen the light (translated: failed) I'm slipping back into my old ways. With a new graphics card and a weighty overclock, I'm using my PC as the games machine it always ought to have been. I'm currently playing UT3, Cod4, World in Conflict and The Witcher.

(At least, I would be if I hadn't just wiped my media partition, and thus I'm having to stay up past 4am to restore its contents.)

I despise these narcissistic 'look at me' blogs, and I suspect you do too, so please accept my apology for having little to say here, but expect the win to start stacking up shortly.

Hot damn... It's good to be back. I'll leave you with my favourite slice of internet... treasure it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iShb6NBtCI4&feature=related

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Free stuff:



With thanks to the brilliant podcast/radio show One Life Left, I present the depreciation guild, a sad looking game-rock experimental duo from Brooklyn. They're offering a whole album free online (yeah, music on the internet, who'd have thought it). I'm sure some of you will love it - I stress some, don't go whining too hard if it causes your ears to shit kittens.

http://www.inhergentlejaws.com/


Just click 'album' for the link. For those cursed with short attention spans, click 'songs' for an instant listen.

Personally I can't make my mind up, its very unlike anything I normally listen to, and yet I kind of like it. Maybe being free has something to do with it...

Review here

As you know, Dtoid was nominated in the category of 'Best Non-Commercial Website or Blog'. How did we do? See below for the complete list of winners. Eurogamer and its writers took the most gongs, future publishing did well, and Dtoid... well, take a look.

Specialist Games Media (Online)

Games Website - News
Winner: Eurogamer.net
Finalists: Gamespot.co.uk, Joystiq.com, Kotaku.com, Spong.com

Games Website - Reviews & Features
Winner: Eurogamer.net
Finalists: GamesRadar.co.uk, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, IGN (UK), Spong.com

Games Podcast
Winner: Gamespot
Finalists: Cheap Ass Gamer's CAGcast, Gamesweasel, One Life Left, PC Gamer

Non-Commercial Website or Blog
Winner: UK: Resistance
Finalists: Destructoid, Game Over, Yeah, Idle Thumbs, Wonderland

Writer in Specialist Digital Media
Winner: Tom Bramwell (Eurogamer.net)
Finalists: Alex Sassoon Coby (Gamespot), Andy Robinson (cvg.com), Gary Cutlack (UK R), Ryan King (oxm.co.uk)

Mainstream Media

Games Writer on a National Newspaper
Winner: Steve Boxer (The Guardian)
Finalists: Greg Howson (The Guardian), Jonathan Weinberg (The Sun), Nigel Kendall (The Times), Rebecca Armstrong (Independent)

Games Writer on a Lifestyle Magazine
Winner: Simon Munk (FHM)
Finalists: Chris Burke (Loaded), Daniel Booth (Nuts), Rob Waugh (Live Magazine), Tony Horgan (Stuff)

Games Writer on a Mainstream Website
Winner: Darren Waters (BBC)
Finalists: David Clack (FHM), David McComb (Empire Online), Mark Gilbert (News Of The World), Stephen Daultrey (Maxim)

Regional Games Column
Winner: Ewan Ross (Liverpool Echo)
Finalists: David Crookes (Bolton Evening News), Steve Lawson (Daily Record), Steve Wollaston (Midland Weekly Media), Steven Fox (Metro)

Best Broadcast on Mainstream TV or Radio
Winnner: Johnny Minkley (Radio One)
Finalists: Game On (BBC Five Live), Gamer.TV (Bravo), Matt Cuttle (Gamers), Re:Loaded (Channel M)

Specialist (Print)

PlayStation Magazine
Winner: Official PlayStation Magazine (Future)
Finalists: Play (Imagine), PSM3 (Future), PSU3 (Imagine), PSW (Future)

Multi-Format Magazine
Winner: Games™
Finalists: GamesMaster (Future), Edge (Future), Retro Gamer (Imagine)

Xbox Magazine
Winner: Official Xbox 360 Magazine (Future)
Finalists: 360 (Imagine), 360 Gamer (Uncooked), X360 (Imagine), Xbox World 360 (Future)

Nintendo Magazine
Winner: Official Nintendo Magazine (Future)
Finalists: NGamer (Future), nRevolution (Imagine)

Best Writer on a Specialist Magazine
Winner: Kieron Gillen (PC Gamer, Future)
Finalists: Darren Jones (Retro Gamer, Imagine), Jon Blyth (PC Zone, Future), Martin Mathers (Official Nintendo Magazine, Future), Tony Mott (Edge, Future)

Overall Games Magazine
Winner: GamesTM

Games Media Legend
Sponsored by SYSTEM 3
Winner: Gary Penn


Sadly, no gong for Dtoid, who were pipped to the post by UK Resistance who I've never even heard of, but no sour grapes from me, the site features Sony bashing and therefore I like it. Ain't my robot though...

Now, I am a Halo fan. I really like Halo 3. I also really like playing through the Halo games on legendary. Hard indeed, but a fair challenge. Imagine my delight when forced into the ludicrous brick wall I've spent the last hour banging my head against.

(Spoiler, naturally)

Near the end of Halo 3, you're required to take down two identical scarabs in a large snowy area, using the same technique you employ two other times during the game. These encounters elsewhere are fun, and indeed when playing through this same encounter in co-op, it's an absolute blast. However, who on earth (or any Iain M Banks inspired ring world) thought this would be remotely enjoyable for the single gamer who enjoys the legendary difficulty?

This section is so clearly built for two, or more obviously four gamers that it defies logic to ask a single player to do it.

I speak not of the twin scarabs who for some reason completely ignore the carnage around them and choose only to attack master chief (regardless of which vehicle he is driving or which scarab he is attacking). These hulking beasts are mere annoyances compared with the absolutely abominable A"I" displayed by the ditch-fucking, threat-ignoring, suicidally-narcoleptic incredible fucktards you're supposed to be able to rely on to complete this task with.

Give an A"I" the wheel and he can't even make his way to either scarab, preferring instead to drive head first into or off of the nearest dangerous landmark. I loaded my save four times just to see what new and inventive way they would find to instantly kill themselves and their passengers. Give them the turret however, leaving you free to weave heroically between the legs of the scarab, and they resolutely refuse to attack the various grunts and brutes which mercilessly hammer ammunition into your warthog. Even after acknowledging their existence with a well chosen audio clip, and even if the scarab is wobbling on its knees ready to receive your red-hot payload, chances are you won't have a vehicle to get back into after scarab number one takes a tumble. Your trusty warthog will often blow up with the scarab, usually after its been commandeered by an over-enthusiastic Australian who promptly drives it back into the blast zone. If you do somehow get it clear and make it back to the scarab, and if it's not helpfully driven back into danger by a fucktard monkeywank, you'll probably find the gunner will continue to hammer the scarabs knees, completely disregarding the vehicle toting enemies which have appeared out of nowhere, until his inevitable and quite warranted death at the hands of the aforementioned enemy units.

Of course, this appalling and unsightly AI would be funny if it didn't matter so much. On any other difficulty and in co-op it scarcely matters, and while I want my legendary experience to be a tough one, these is not the reason why. I can't count the number of times I've parked my vehicle out of reach of wraithspam, only to have it helpfully driven back into the line of sight and promptly blown up, usually taking me and the complete donkey cock behind the wheel with it.

Enemy AI is on the whole great, whether they're mooching around in corridors, standing about outside or manning a vehicle. So why is the friendly AI so incredibly, utterly poor? Not once did I attack an enemy vehicle to have it react by flinging itself into the nearest ditch and then remaining motionless while I riddled it with bullets. These issues don't amount to much when there is little to medium challenge, but if you're relying on these abortions for a little solo legendary action, as is a little tradition of mine, you might as well throw water on the console for all the help it'll give you.

The one good thing that came out of this is that I typed 'Ai' into google image search, which returned masses of pictures of lovely Japanese ladies. Which is nice.