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Sales figures are looking positive at the moment for this - in Europe and America anyway. Japan aren't quite as taken it would seem

Mass Effect 3 has become the latest game they will not be stocking, either in store or online. A statement released today reads; This follows news that they won't be stocking The Last Story or Ubisoft Vita games. Worse still are reports that they won't be stocking any EA games after SSX this week. Which sucks. My ME3 pre-order is with them, and I often use them for pre-orders. Would be sad to see them leave the high street - I don't think my town will be the only one with just CEX as the nearest thing to a dedicated 'stockist' of computer games if GAME and Gamestation disappear It's also claimed their won't be any further Nintendo games either - startng with Mario Party this week

Videodrome is **** brilliant, definitely my favourite Cronenburg film. I guess noiseheads/power electronis artists must have a similar taste in cinema, as that is sampled a lot. Propergol did a wonderful track using a bunch of samples called Nicki Brand, and I've used it too - Brian O'Blivion's "Battle for North America" speech LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

It's that time of day in the office again - very few here so I can whack the iPod on \m/>_____<\m/ Fugazi - Provisional Propagandhi - Gifts (OH GOD I HATE THE SONGS JORD SINGS ON) Naked City - Obeah Man Atari Teenage Riot - Death of a President D.I.Y.! (ONE OF THE NOISIEST ATR STUDIO TRACKS THEREFORE IT IS GREAT) Bastard Noise - Stationary Flight Passage I'm still listening so heres my next 5 Kyuss - Thong Song Pixies - River Euphrates 14 Year Old Girls - Run Lolo Run AIDS Wolf - We Multiply Five Knuckle - Individuality? and still a.P.A.t.T. - Young Free and Parasite Orchid - Pledge Madeline Ferguson - When Employees Attack Charles Bronson - You Average Run of the Mill Straight Edge Bomb the Music Industry! - FRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRD!!!!!!!!!

Must admit I do like Mark Hunt, very old school, reminds me of Tank Abbott And gosh that up kick was horrific.

**** a duck.

It became very clear to me that this was the tipping point of many of our fans from being not really very anti-mcleish to becomcng slightly anti-mcleish. He spoke of the 'silent majority' a few weeks ago, in regard to the protest before the Citeh game - I think there were quite a few people who decided to remain silent no longer yesterday, and with good reason. Myself included. I am going to Blackburn next weekend, but am very, very worried at may happen. It could get ugly. Blackburn offer so much more in attacking strength than Wigan that a performance even remotely resembling yesterdays will lead to defeat, in which case the flood gates will open unto mcleish and the last few months of the season would be horrific. Had to chuckle at the fact the broadcasters decision not to include Heskeys 'shot' though - despite the fact they put in his one a few weeks ago that went out for a throwin. This one was far closer!

Call of Duty, MMOs in general (I guess I can specify Warcraft as 'acclaimed' though, tried it, couldnt get on with it), Far Cry, but the major one would have to be Tomb Raider. Everyone used to rave about, but I just thought...guh? Just didnt find it fun, interesting, exciting...or anything at all really. Fast forward from the PS1 era, I tried the current gen one (it was free on PS+) and found I had the exact same issues with it.

Ah, are you building it in creative then? Or is that classic? There was a really useful feature with the 1.1 update which allows you to generate a perfectly flat world, which would be perfect for building on. I kind of like the background with the hills and trees in the background though...plus there's the quirk of having VP next to the ocean Here's some more recent pics from mine ^ You can tell here that teh entrances to the North Stand are all level with the rest of the ground, which isnt accurate, but hey ho. In fact, neither are the entrances, but when building the interior (the stairs initially) I realised that there was not way to build the stairs properly, not as they in the North Stand. So I compromised, and moved the entrances to suit. ^ I got bored of making the stands and interiors at one point and made the road and that basket ball court instead Unlike the North Stand, the entrances do correspond pretty well with their real world counterparts

AWESOMMME another VP project. We can totally geek out about the dimensions of our models and shiii' The biggest **** up I've made on my model is building it all on the same level - which isn't accurate as there is a substantial incline on the corner of the Trinity & North stand. I havent built the exterior for the Trinity yet, but I know I do have enough height to play around with outside that stand so I can build the Trinity road steps, but the 'slope' down the side of the players/officials car park (and the few steps at the front of the North Stand, actually) is pretty mch impossible for me now, without redoing a **** load of work.

The Pine - You're the Only One I Hate Electric Wizard - Supercoven Comanechi - ROMP (Revenge of My Pussy) Five Knuckle - Feel the Force OvO - The Owls Are Not What They Look Like

Yeh the FFXIII crystarium is very simple, just go into it and spend your points whenever you have a sizeable chunk of them, pretty much. It was rightly criticised for being too simple though. The FFXIII-2 system is very similar but different in quite a subtle way that makes it alot better and more flexible. I ended up looking up a guide for the part of FFXIII-2 I was on, and got through it ok. Turns out that is pretty much the end, so I thought I'd go on and finish it off. Made a save before hand so I could go back and that. In typical Final Fantasy fashion you face a myriad of final bosses, some of which appear to have no relevance to the plot at all The ending can be quite simply summed up thusly :shock:

Everytime I log onto the PS3 you seem to be playing that I'm going to have to investigate it at some point. ha yeh pretty much. It's incredibly sad, but it really is a staple of my normal weekday. Finish work, get home...play sarp. Do other stuff, eat dinner...play sarp If you ever give the demo a whirl let me know and I'll hook up with you for some matches

Academia 500AF in FFXIII-2, complete **** tedium. Such an annoying level - and it really is a 'level', ala Mario. Ruined the pace of the story for me, which had really picked up around the 20 hour mark (it was that far in time wise for me anyway) with events taking a decidely interesting turn. I hadn't really been that much into it before, but recent happenings really piqued my interest and I wanted to get on with the story - only to be confronted by this horrible newly unlocked world. Merhhh...I think it's the penultimate place though, and given the fact I only have ~70/160 fragments, I'm going to work on getting more of them, unlocking some more monsters and building them up to make my paradigms stronger, and I want to get into the Chocobo racing too, which so far I have been terrible at. Spoilers for those who are playing and have not unlocked Academia 500AF yet, also FFVII spoilers for Stevo

Oh yeaaaaaah I don't think I'll entertain the idea of getting one of these for a good while yet, I only bought a PSP after it had been out a couple of years

What does NGP stand for? The only thing I can think of is Neo Geo Pocket...

Hey yeh I could nominate a track for a VT mixtape. In fact I would quite enjoy creating a villa-noise track using samples from interviews and stuff, and field recordings from in and around the ground on match day.

Sleepingdog on this playlist means it's a winner!! I just finished listening to Gareth's CD. There was some stuff I really didn't like (Ringo Deathstarr) and some stuff I really did (he ambient/neo classical in the middle from Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds), and some stuff I hadnt' listened to for years and years (Blood Brothers and 65dos) I don't think Brumerican wants my CD...so here is the tracklist in case anyone else fancyes it, in physical format or not. I've included genre descripts for yer assistance This fills a CD...missed so much I wanted to include. There's no noise/power electronics or industrial on there...and theres not really much punx or metal or ambiance either. Maybe that is for CD2 rite

FFXIII-2, a bit of UFC3, and I have an ME2 renegade femshep run to finish off. And SARPBC, ofc, always and forever.

Mentioned in another thread somewhere, but saw Kylesa, Circle Takes the Square, and KEN Mode in brum last night. **** exceptional, every band. I've been waiting to see CTTS for nigh on 10 years, KEN Mode are a more recent discovery, and I've caught Kylesa on their last couple of tours over here (gotta love double drummers). Any metal heads who have not listened to Kylesa should get on that asap pretty much. Here is the loverly Laura of Kylesa fame BORIS tee for extra awesome points! yeahhhhhhhh \m/>____<\m/

Ginko has it pretty much spot on about Paradigms - a 'formation' is a very good way of putting it. Yes, you will be using auto-attacks for pretty much the whole game. Getting the hang of Paradigm shifting is what becomes really important. When the bar (do they still call it the ATB in XIII?) turns red that means the bar will fill up quicker, due to haste. I think it turns grey when an enemy casts slow on you. The enemy bar in the top right is the enemies chain bar. Each attack you make will fill the chain bar by a certain %, some enemies have higher 'chain bar resistance' than others. A Ravager (magic attacks) will fill the bar quickly, but they can't stop the bar from depleting. A Commando (physical attacks) can slow down the rate at which the bar depletes, but can't fill it up very quickly. Therefore, if you have one of each (or 2 RAVs and 1 COM when possible) you'll have a perfect balance and should be able to fill the bar up quickly. When the bar is full, the enemy will become 'staggered', which greatly reduces their defence. COMs can 'launch' the enemy into the air when theyre staggered aswell, and you can 'juggle' them so they stay in the air. Obviously, the enemy can't do anything whilst in mid air (granted they're not already flying, which most arent) so it's really very useful.

I've been meaning to ask this for ages: I had to Google Minecraft, and I know what it is now, but... how can it be 1:1 scale? It would have to be literally the same size as the real VP. And given that it's a software construct, it isn't really to ANY scale, is it? Well, I've attempted to make it as close as possible to a 1:1 scale model as I can. The scale generally accepted in Minecraft when refering to 1 block in terms of real world measurements, is that a single block (I don't know how much you looked into the game, but everything is made out of cubes) equats to 1x1x1 metres. So, I started by building the pitch to the real world size using one block as one metre. From there I built the stands around the pitch. I didn't get a measurement of the height of the North Stand, for example, and make it exactly that many metre blocks high though.

5ive are **** incredible. You do mean the sludge 5ive, right? I have STILL not listened to Gareths CD, but will do my damnest to do so tonight. I went to listen to it the other night, honest, bu just ended up listening to Made Out of Babies and Silverfish instead... Curiously though, the first band on his playlist (I think it was the first anyway) played at the venue I went to last night - although I went to see Kylesa, Circle Takes the Square and KEN Mode instead. Pulled Apart By Horses are a band I've never had any interest in listening to, and judging by some of the haircuts walking into their last night, I think I might be right! Still, I will give everything an unbiased go when I listen to it (kind of)

I saw Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close yesterday, it's about this really naughty and mean kid who has autism or something I guess, and his dad dies in the twin towers on 9/11. THANKFULLY it is not a 9/11 movie (book), rather the journey of a boy attempting to extend the connection with father after his death. It's OK.

Half and half black n white shirt aswell as the ordinary striped one? Huh? Is is a 'european' or 'anniversary' kit or something?