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July 30 RSS feedsIn one of life's strange little conicidences I have just written a short piece on RSS feeds for another section of the site, and lo and behold my blog RSS goes and breaks again.
Wondering what's going on? I can give you a definite answer. I definitely don't know, and neither (it seems) does anyone else.
If you currently have the http://msnuktech.spaces.live.com/feed.rss one running anywhere then youmay well find it's forever stuck on the dual-blogging and HP post from about 10 days ago.
Anyway - a more reliable feed is this one http://msnuktech.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss - so, should you want to, change it over to that.
Thanks :) July 26 Running out of spaceStorage, storage, storage.
There was a time when a handy punch card or an audio tape were all you needed to back up your data and a gigabyte was probably the combined storage of every PC in the land. Admit it, every time you've bought a new computer you've thought to yourself 'I'd like to see how long it takes me to fill THAT baby'.
But the alarming thing is that you do. As I sit here writing this I am seriously considering buying a second hard drive for my PC at home because 120 gigs just isn't enough. Weighing down the end of my desk is a PC with a terabyte of storage - I'm sure that if you'd told me that term ten years ago I would have thought you were taking about a dinosaur. And, yep, I'm sat here thinking 'I'd like to see how long it takes me to fill THAT baby'.
With games and programs you can at least begin to justify it - near-photo-realistic graphics take up a lot more room than the stick figures and sprites of old for instance - but I genuinely find it alarming that although my computer habits are not a million miles away from what they were a decade ago, the amount of storage I need to get on is not far off a million times bigger.
In fact, although I don't want to be accused of 'blathering on' (thanks Jez) space and the lack of it seems to be constant refrain in my life. I'm already spilling out over two desks at work (my box collection saved me from having a neighbour) but that is, in part, due to the Alienware PC sat at one end.
July 25 Disasters, technology and the iPlayer Water water everywhere etc etc. I'm prepping an article for next week about the role of technology plays in helping avoid disasters these days. Obviously the major use uses are things like prediction and communication, but I shall also be venturing into things like detection as I touch on terrorism.
A major article on Friday will be on the BBC's iPlayer which arrives in 'public beta' which, as we know from everyone else that uses these terms, means that they can absolve themselves from blame for all bugs because it's purely for test purposes.
There's been a massive media furore about a poll that's been signed by 10,000 people - which, without wanting to labour a point, is only twice as many as voted on our poll on the greatest gaming icon and can hardly be considered that big a number.
I'm all for the iPlayer and I'm all for the Beeb - which despite its failings is still a near-perfect concept in an imperfect world. July 23 HP, sauce and feedsWell I'm fresh from blogging about HP book 7 and back on T&G. Phew! Like any holiday it's nice to be home.
Anyway let's ketchup* on what's been going on. You may have noticed that all my pretty little RSS feeds are now not showing on the blog. Apparently there was an update to Spaces and it's caused a few problems...
Who says change is always for the best?
It's going to be a mixed and exciting week here on T&G starting with today's digital garden piece. Now, I do realise that publishing an article that's pretty sun specific may seem particularly cruel at this time (Mike the celebrity content manager's house was flooded for instance) but hey, sun optimism is what the British summer is all about isn't it?
Anyway, this is the first article that's come from the people at Wndows Vista Magazine - and it starts a whole chapter of collaboration with several of the best magazines around to make T&G the best...channel...ever.
Tomorrow I'll be bringing you an article on the vote to find the greatest gaming icon. More than 4000 votes, which more than justifies the decision to run the poll on the site methinks. You might be surprised by the result**
Also coming this week - I'll be complaining about the government's stance on cyber crime, we'll be taking a look at the hottest smart phones around and I'll be discussing facebook faux pas****.
Next week look out for an article called 'easy phone home' which is a fairly typical example of me liking a headline and then working out what the article is afterwards.
*I had to justify the HP Sauce joke somehow...
** But only if you've lived under a rock*** since the release of Donkey Kong.
*** Not the wrestler
****Singular: a faux pas. Plural: two faux pas. Those crazy French! July 20 Dual blogging for HP & Guardian Ts & CsI'm doing a Harry Potter book launch blog this weekend, which you can follow on the entertainment blog.
Meanwhile, in the world of the internet...
I'm a big, big fan of The Guardian's online presence - unlike many papers they quickly realised that the internet wasn't just a repository for their old paper stories and they have been rightly praised for their continued efforts to innovate and push the boundaries of what an editorial news site can do.
But, today I read this fabulous little snippet in the Guardian's newly revised rules for people who post on their blog:
"Remember that by registering for Guardian Unlimited you have also agreed to our terms and conditions. These guidelines may change - so please bookmark this page and check back frequently."
Legality is always a bit strange on the internet - and I have posted in the past about people's odd reactions to the anonymity of the internetand what they feel is socially acceptable.
But has anyone, ever, actually bookmarked a Ts & Cs page and checked it every so often in case it has changed? Really?
I'm very sorry The Guardian - you are one of my most valuable favourites but I can admit right now, I shall not be taking you up on your kind offer to bookmark your rules and check for any changes...
Sorry. July 19 The genius of the tea randomiserI don’t think anyone can deny that the most important thing in any office is tea. People suggest that the lifeblood of the economy is money – but everyone knows that the City would plough to a halt if you took away its kettles and hot water boilers.
Within our office, a surprisingly small amount of people have got into a tea ‘round’ which is, as is the nature of these things, becoming increasingly fractious. Early jokes like ‘what do you hit a golf ball off?’ or ‘what’s the letter on the keyboard between r and y?’ gave way to cruel jibes about sugar quantities*, and descended quickly into bitterness.
But of course, the internet being the legendary place that it is we managed to come up with an answer; the tea randomiser.
You stick people’s names in, hit the go button and it randomly decides which person should be making the tea. I used it in my last job as well – but by the time it arrived in the office it had already sunk into the infighting and squabbling that spoils any atmosphere.
So don’t let tea misery descend – let the tea randomiser keep things sweet
*Apparently taking two sugars– which is obviously the best way to take tea – is taking over from smoking as the thing that people think that they need to point out as ‘bad for you’. With smoking there is a least the passive anti-social aspect, but does liking sweet liquid really constitute the need for a full on intervention?
For the record, I am well aware that sugar rots my teeth, that it makes me fat and probably addles my brain, but it also makes my tea taste nice and adds a little sweetness to my day. Halo free!Halo 3 is nearly here - and as the Xbox 360's most eagerly anticipated game to date, the first few free screensavers, wallpapers and stuff like Live profile pics are now available.
Fill yer boots. July 18 Simpsons avatar and iPod competitorsWith The Simpsons movie on its way out ("Spider-pig, spider-pig, does whatever a spider-pig does") there's loads of cool Simpsons marketing out there at the moment.
On the official site you can create an avatar of yourself (and screen grab = not needing to register - woohoo!). I'm sure many of you saw the picture of the enormous 'chalk' Homer that has apparently annoyed pagans everywhere.
Anyway - if you haven't already you should go watch the trailer.
As you may have seen, my main article today is a load of iPod competitors. It's always fairly tough doing a piece like this and covering all the bases, but I think it's a fairly decent summation of what is out there.
Personally, I remember having a Creative Zen Xtra Jukebox that was absolutely brilliant for its time - although it's sat on a shelf gathering dust now because I borked its operating system trying to install an upgrade.
Still - it lasted longer than my shuffle which went walkies out of my pocket one day and is probably now attached to someone else's lapel somewhere. I just hope they listened to Cola Bear's classic track 'Second Time Today' before they wiped it... July 17 Why theme parks are like childbirthOn Saturday I was catapulted hundreds of feet in the air, accelerated to 80mph in a heartbeat and spun on my axis over crowds of onlookers – and in six months time that will probably be all that I remember of my trip this Sunday to Thorpe Park.
Because, by then, the pain that was queuing for 94% of my day (3% eating, 2.8% walking between rides, 0.2% actually on rides) will have been forgotten, and all that will remain is the brief but heady shuttles on the rides themselves.
I say this because, without fail, every time I go to a theme park (and it’s exactly the same at all of them from Euro Disney to Blackpool Pleasure Beach) I end up leaving well before the final death-defying loop has been looped, purely because I cannot face another interminable trudge along chain-ringed, concrete paths amidst all the other adrenaline-junkie zombies for the brief spurt of pleasure at the end of it.
Take ‘Stealth’ for example. It’s a brilliant ride – fast, furious and about 40 seconds from getting in the car to staggering out at the other end. Of course, when you’ve queued for, I’m not exaggerating, 75 minutes to get that experience you do question whether it was all worth it. And for the next few days at least I will know that the answer is a firm ‘no’.
But I know I’ll be back – maybe not to Thorpe Park, but to a near identical place where I will tick off the precious seconds of my life as I look longingly at the front of the queue. Because Theme Parks are a bit like childbirth* – when the pain is past, your chief memories are of the good bits.
*apparently – I have no desire to test my theory. July 16 E3 - the edited highlightsIt may have been scaled back from previous years, but E3 2007 certainly was not without the intrigue, excitement and controversy of the past events. Criticised for downsizing from the behemoth show that it had become by 2006, the major stories were reserved for the major players – with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all making major announcements – to vastly different reactions.
It was perhaps Sony that will look back in anger at the past few days, after their big PlayStation 3 price cut was shot to pieces by a combination of a savvy press and their own press machine.
After announcing the cut of their 60GB version to $499, European journalists soon pointed out that the price cut would not be hitting their shores – and to compound matters there were statements from Sony Computers Entertainment Europe (SCEE) president David Reeves who suggested that the price cut was to get rid of old and discontinued stock and from the United Stated calling this statement ‘not accurate’.
The argument appears to have been settled by SCE’s president and CEO Kay Hirai who admitted the 60GB version WAS being discontinued, but there was plenty of stock around – which yet again has stuck the latest PlayStation in a mire of poor publicity.
There were some brighter notes for Sony; they unveiled a slimmer, lighter version of their PlayStation Portable (PSP) which was well received, as well announce console exclusivity for UT3 and again causing a stir with Little Big Planet.
Xbox has suffered recently, with Microsoft admitting that hardware failure is such that they will spend more than a billion dollars in fixing people’s beloved machines – but their E3 was more positive with the announcement that the Elite version of the console will arrive at the end of August and that a special green version would be released as a special tie-in with Halo 3.
Indeed, from a games perspective Microsoft could hardly have been happier with the new Halo looking like the kind of ‘killer app’ that could buoy the entire console, Mass Effect looking like one of the best forthcoming titles and Project Gotham Racing joining a fantastic coming-soon line-up .
Nintendo understandably allowed themselves a little smugness over the continued success of the Wii and DS Lite – but did not rest on their laurels, announcing three hardware add-ons as well as showcasing the eagerly awaited Mario Galaxy.
The Zapper, a strange fitness balance board and a wheel for the Wii version of Mario Kart left fans salivating – but it was the further exploits of Mario that most caught the imagination, with demonstrations suggesting an exciting new gameplay style.
July 12 Daily Mail catch MSN T&G fever!For those of you that buy the Daily Mail, if you happened to look at page 39 you'll find 'Gadgetitis' which is from my Irritating Tech article.
For those that don't buy the Mail - here's their online version
Compare and contrast with my article and play 'spot the MSN spokesman' :) Maybe my 15 minutes of fame truly was that time I was the football expert on UK Play's rock and goals show.
Anyway - nice to be covered by the papers... E3 phone home!Whirlwind! I'm finally 'reaping the benefits' of trying to say yes to everything so I'm now cowering under my desk with headphones on hoping that nobody asks me do anything more.
This week I've interviewed the founder of I Want One Of Those, Tim Booth, about his new project in Second Life (full article tomorrow), watched my page view figures go through the roof because of a couple of things I wrote, tried to come up with the keywords for the site (many, many, many keywords) and failed miserably to do any of the more extraneous things that I am trying to do in readiness for the sweeping changes.
Phew!
It's also been a busy couple of days in the brave new world of E3 lite (last year's behemoth has had its wings clipped by the industry) - and although there's been some grumbling from the likes of Konami and MGS man Hideo Kojima, it's still been fairly frenetic.
Here are some highlights
Here's my round-up of these things and a few others from the event.
Spore and Mass Effect have both been trailed - can't wait for either. July 10 Irritating tech!I've just been finishing off an article on the most irritating technology - which was prompted by two separate incidents. Firstly, I've moved desks and I now have a view of the printer - which means I can be entertained by the amount of people swearing and punching it when it suffers it's bi-hourly paper jam.
Because this isn't just a printer - no it's also a photocopier / scanner / coffee maker which is the size of a small family car and contains more sections than the Encyclopaedia Britannica*. Obviously it has an incredibly complex fault spotting system which tells you which of the numerous drawers to open to find the jam - but being technology it seems to revel in selling people a dummy and leaving them hunting through its various nooks and crannies and it beeps at them in giddy delight.
Secondly, someone parked a car next to my flat the other day that had an alarm that wasn't best pleased if anyone walked within ten feet of the car - emitting five shrill beeps every time someone went close. This was annoying enough, but someone walked a very large dog past it at about 4 in the morning and the beeps set the dog off barking which was loud enough to wake up, possibly, the coma victims in the nearest hospital.
Irritating.
Gatsos, security lights and predictive texting all make an appearance - although the most bizarre suggestion I got was from Tom in our News team who mailed: "The things that cats wear on their collars so that they are the only cat that can come in through a cat flap." It nearly got in for sheer wackiness.
* Note to children - Enycyclopaedias are what people used to use to find stuff out before we had the internet. July 09 Live Earth repriseI'll be honest, a birthday party and flat hunting all but killed my chance to watch any of the Live Earth concerts this weekend - but technology being what it is, it's rather nice to be able to catch up on the highlights today.
Even better, I can merrily sit through the brilliant Foo Fighters without having to listen to Madonna (nothing against her Madgeness, but I fell out with her post Ray of Light). Rock out to Razorlight without abiding Damien Rice and David Gray and go for Bloc Party rather than Corinne Bailey Rae.
A couple of people have suggested that they are a little 'big concerted out' after Glasto and the Princess Di tribute last weekend - to which I say: nuts. Music's always good, and you'll be glad of a few easily attainable (and free) live performances of genuinely good bands when the rain finally ensures that going to a live concert means being swallowed alive by the 12 foot deep mud. July 06 Forza Motorsport 2I've been playing a little Forza 2 on my Xbox 360 and, hot dang, it's good. As my girlfriend kindly pointed out as I rolled over a curb at Asda - it's not done any good to my real life driving - but if I could drive my ol' 306 with an Xbox controller I'd be 99% positive I could beat my lap time home.
It occured to me yesterday whilst playing that driving games are pretty much the only thing that I don't start out on the highest difficulty. Shooters I ramp up to the maximum setting before I start (exception: Doom 3) or it's just no fun at all following years of Counter-Strike to hone my aim.
But when it comes to racing I find it almost impossible to judge a corner without a handy racing line painted on the virtual tarmac. When it gets to the stage that computers can do the same thing and 'paint' it on your windscreen to follow I'll be happy. (Oooh oooh and splits for regular journeys!)
On a similar note - when I was at Goodwood's Festival of Speed I saw a Pikes Peak - which for Gran Turismo fans is the car with the ridiculous spoiler (looks like a remote controlled toy) which destroys all-comers on pretty much any track. Stupid meets iPhoneBrilliant story here - women pays $800 to take come blokes place in the queue for the iPhone hoping to buy masses and sell on e-bay. Finds out that she can only buy one - and the guy she paid strolls in to get his iPhone anyway.
July 05 How it should have ended, an about-turn and coming next weekBit of a mishmash post today because it's been that kind of week...
First up - if you haven't seen the alternative ending to Star Wars IV from http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/ then I advise you go visit - and while you are there watch all the rest of the clips... Genius.
There's a lengthy leader in the Guardian Tech section today about cybercrime and the fact that the police aren't tacking it in the way they should. It's something I've spoken at length about, and my interview with MS security guru Ed Gibson sees his take. Ed told me exactly why the police aren't really tackling cybercrime, saying:
“Fraud, cyber crime and crimes against children online – the numbers don’t get counted in crime figures so what do the police concentrate on? Of course they look at addressing the crimes that they are held accountable for. The chief constables simply don’t have the resources to fight this crime."
It's pretty incredible.
On a lighter note - I accused the nicotinell whoopie cushion of being useless earlier in the week. As the picture below shows, I was wrong...
Coming up in the next week:
The most controversial computer games - that horse aint dead yet so flog it! Actually, computer game controversy has been around for so long I thought it was a valid article idea to go and dig out the old favourites. It does seem funny in these days of photorealism that deathrace 2000's pedestrian monochrome pixels could stir up outrage...
100 days to the digital changeover - Whitehaven beware! Analogue TV will end in this Cumbrian town 100 days from Monday. In the research of this article I read about American War of Independence hero John Paul Jones who, according to some, invaded Whitehave but was so knackered by the sea crossing he took his men to the pub to get drunk. Great stuff from history once again...
Barbeque gadgets - Let's be honest, unless the weathermen are very, very, very wrong about things then this one simply isn't going to happen...ever. Rainproof gadgets here we come...(you think I'm joking?)
And loads more...
July 04 Edge's top 100 gamesEdge magazine has unveiled its version of the top 100 games of all time. It's hard to say how much I disagree with the list (I know it's all subjective but...) No original Half Life (there appears to be a one per series rule, which surely doesn't make sense), no Manic Miner, the usual ridiculous bias towards Nintendo. Zelda Ocarina is not the worst #1 I've seen (thought it wouldn't be mine) but where's Asteroids? Space Invaders? GRRR!
It makes me want to do a list to try to get the balance back...
1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2. Resident Evil 4 3. Super Mario 64 4. Half Life 2 5. Super Mario World 6. Zelda: A Link to the Past 7. Halo: Combat Evolved 8. Final Fantasy XII 9. Tetris 10. Super Metroid 11. Yoshi's Island 12. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 13. Ico 14. Super Mario Kart 15. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 16. Street Fighter Anniversary 17. GoldenEye 007 18. Final Fantasy VII 19. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 20. Civilization IV 21. Okami 22. World Of WarCraft 23. Metroid Prime 24. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 25. Sim City 2000 26. Advance Wars 27. Rez 28. Perfect Dark 29. Deus Ex 30. Shadow Of The Colossus 31. Katamari Damacy 32. Project Gotham Racing 2 33. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 34. R-Type Final 35. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty 36. Battlefield 2 37. StarCraft 38. Virtua Fighter 5 39. Secret Of Mana 40. Wario Ware Inc: Minigame Mania 41. Gran Turismo 4 42. Rome: Total War 43. Bomberman 44. Super Monkey Ball 45. Company Of Heroes 46. Quake III 47. Far Cry 48. Puyo Pop Fever 49. Animal Crossing 50. Shenmue 51. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire 52. Disgaea: Hour Of Darkness 53. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 54. Chrono Trigger 55. Counter-Strike 56. Guitar Hero 57. Soul Calibur 58. Tempest 2000 59. StarFox 64 60. Pac-Man Vs 61. Manhunt 62. Jet Set Radio Future 63. Lumines 64. System Shock 2 65. Darwinia 66. F-Zero GX 67. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 68. GTR2 69. PilotWings 64 70. Ridge Racers 2 71. Ninja Gaiden Black 72. Killer7 73. Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-Move) 74. Thief: The Dark Project 75. Burnout 2 76. Ikaruga 77. Football Manager 2007 78. Doom II 79. Secret of Monkey Island 80. Virtua Tennis 3 81. Robotron 2084 82. Lemmings 83. Nights 84. Phantasy Star Online 85. Silent Hill 2 86. Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast 87. Mr. Driller 88. Sega Rally Championship 89. Tomb Raider 90. Devil May Cry 91. Super Smash Bros. Melee 92. Resident Evil 93. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door 94. Gitaroo Man 95. God of War 96. Wipeout 97. Tekken 3 98. Sensible Soccer 99. Psychonauts 100. Crackdown July 03 The strange freebies you get at stationsI'll be honest with you - I love the freebie. Yoghurt, chewing gum, more yoghurt, cereal bars - I've willingly grabbed them all. In fact, sometimes, and I'm not proud of this, I even wend my way past all three exits of Victoria station to maximise my looting potential.
So when I saw someone handing out stuff in wrappers on Monday I was cursing the fact that I had missed two exits already but mollified slightly when the hand-out person stuffed not one, but three of the objects into my hand.
The excitment subsided somewhat when I saw what I had got.
Whoopie cushions.
Not the full-size rip-snorting farters of my youth either. Mini-whoopie cushions branded with 'Nicotinell: Lose the smoke, keep the fire.'
Now, skipping over what the hell a whoopie cushion has to do with quitting smoking (some comparison with breaking wind and what's socially acceptable in public spaces perhaps?), this is not an acceptable freebie for several reasons:
I can't eat it.
I can't drink it.
I can't chew it.
It isn't of the requisite quality to keep for comedy value
The reason for a whoopie cushion - it turns out (it's written on the back) is that it is th national comedy tour 2007 where amateur comedians perform.
Here's hoping none of them actually think a whoopie cushion is a worthy gag.
July 02 June - MailbagIt must be something they are putting in the water, but as we eagerly await the first ray of summer sunshine another month has passed us by.
June was a month of controversy in Tech & Gadgets - fortunately only 10% of it caused by yours truly, with Manhunt 2 responsible for most of the rest, after it was not granted a licence by the BBFC and sparked off the whole video games violence debate...again.
55 pages of message board comments show the depth of feeling about computer games and their violent themes and I would estimate 99 percent of those expressing their opinion had decided that censorship was a bad thing.
Saying that, MishaD kicked things off by answering my question of 'have computer games gone too far' with:
"Simply yes. Many are just sick presumably like the people who create them who are only interested in making money regardless of any social cost."
MitchA responded with perhaps the most widely held view:
"From the previews I have read Manhunt 2 is an extremely violent game, but it is our choice as adults to play these games. I think it should be noted that movies and other forms of entertainment have produced far worse than what features in this game and it is just video games that get a bad rep."
Many, myself included, believed the onus is on the parents to police the ratings system and stop sub-18-year-olds playing adult games
"Games should have freedom of expression. Manhunt shouldn't have been banned but it should up to the parents to make sure that they properly watch what they're children are playing. If they don't approve of it, they shouldn't play. Parents though these days are not looking at what they're children are playing, then they get all up in arms about this. If you care, see what you children are playing. I only hope they choose wisely in games like Civ, Age of Empires, Medieval: Total War etc etc," said QwentyJ.
Of course, perhaps the biggest event of the month was the launch of the iPhone in the US. A week of coverage and our iPhone special satiated most people, and the message board arguments were, interestingly, mostly siding with me when I explained why I wouldn't be queuing for one
Ursprung Buam had this to say: "...it's for posers over substance. I've used WM devices for years and even now they're still buggy, god knows what you're getting for your $600 with that. Yes, admittedly, it does look better than any WM device but I can't imagine any of the business community using this, it would certainly be a big let down for them. My girlfriend bought an Ibook a few years back and it's essentially just an expensive portable DVD player now while my even older laptop is still going strong. People should open their brains before their wallet with this thing."
exit_now was unhappy that a Microsoft website (Microsoft publish MSN yada yada) was critical of the iPhone: "What a surprise that a website with a big Microsoft logo on it would diss the iPhone. I have no doubt the iPhone will be a revelation. No doubt there will be bugs, of course the press will pounce on those, but you have to admit that it appears a pretty impressive piece of kit. Lets wait till it's in the UK before saying we won't be queuing for it, eh mate?"
The grev summed things up: "Overhyped, over priced and (eventually) over here. If you're dumb enough to blow your cash on something that will rapidly be overtaken in the market place (especially with THAT contract) and that basically just functions as a cut down i-pod you can make calls from, then serves you right." On to computer games icons - an article I did in a hurry and enjoyed a great deal. My list was always likely to be contentious and there was some argument about the missing link which I have already blogged about. I'll say it again; I DID include Link. Third row, second picture. Some of the feedback was great - Aidil said: "Well I agree to Link, Donkey Kong, Mario, Sonic, Pac Man, Lara Croft, Solid Snake, Lemmings, Master Chief and good old Gordon Freeman but I would like to see Samus, Sephiroth, Guy from POP, Someone from Street Fighter, Character from Resident Evil and Ryu from Ninja Gaiden." The Stee added: Im 26 years old. I spent my youth at the local fish and chip shop playing on the arcade machines.Where is RYU? GUILE? BLANKA? how could you not have a single streetfighter character in this? I'll confess; Ryu should have been in. Blame the movie - it was so bad it made me blot out the whole game. There was also a great deal of discussion about which Final Fantasy character should have been in. I included Aerith/Aeris and it wasn't that popular... Onto my section of the monthly mailbag where I explain what's fab and what's...erm sad. Fab.
Sad.
So that's it for June's mailbag. Next month...July. |
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