It looks like a mod chip, it acts like a mod chip, you have to install it like a mod chip, it's Wii Drive Doctor!

If anything it looks like it's more powerful than a mod chip, it says that you can control everything about the Wii from a PC, seems like talented people could do just about anything.

I'm pretty suprised they can be so open about this product, being that they're quite a big company.

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=685930&batuid=1000&WT.mc_id=101450

I think HMV have got this very wrong, or they've broken a worldwide exclusive! ;) Also note the date.

I just got a 30 day demo of Vista, I thought i'd give it a go seeing as everyone'll probably have to use it sooner or later. Here's my views on it so far based on Vista Ultimate.

1. You can't choose which programs you want to install when you install the system. You just get them all.
They just stay on your harddrive and you have to remove their shortcuts from multiple places. If you decide to 'remove' them in Control Panel, they're still stored on the harddrive for reinstallation. Currently my Windows install is about 14 gigabytes and apart from Firefox and Messenger, which I installed seperately, there's nothing I'd actually use. Even if you use Vlite, toy only shave about 2 gig off.

2. It takes a lot of memory.
It's no wonder the memory requirements for most programs double for Vista over XP. At the moment I'm only running one instance of Firefox, yet i'm using over 500mb in memory from countless other programs in memory, which are totally unknown to me. This is compared to 150 in XP.

3. Games run really badly.
Perhaps it's the memory issue (but i've got 2 gig of ram) but my games run like rubbish in Vista, regardless of patching. Could it be because the OS itself makes a strain on the graphics card?

4. It treats you with kid gloves whether you like it or not.
It hides pretty much all the system files and hides filename extensions. System options are hidden under layers of 'user friendly' icons and options. I'll get used to it eventually but there should have been an option for 'advanced users' compared to people who have never used a PC before.

5. Sound quality is severely compromised. If I play music, any thing that moves the screen in any serious way, or remotely taxes the computer makes the music garble. Many people have this problem and it's got nothing to do with the drivers and nobody knows how to fix it.

6. User Account Control. "This wants to do that! That wants to do this! Do you really want to open this? This could be dangerous! I'll freeze the screen and make it grey while you decide. Are you sure you want to do this? Do you want to open this file? This program you clicked on wants to open, should I let it? You want to install a program, are you sure? Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no? " ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
If you turn it off through a series of hidden options it just keeps asking you if you want to turn it on again and makes a series of system alerts.

7. Many programs don't work any more or behave strangely and crash.

8. "We've already installed 3 gigabytes of drivers on your harddrive. You WILL use our drivers. You want to use yours? It's older than ours, you don't want to use that. Our drivers make the device run incorrectly? You've installed your own drivers? I'm sorry, we'd rather you have ours, look, I'll uninstall yours and put ours back on, how about that?"

9. Windows Security Center. It's like your Dad. It cares about you and only wants what's best for you, but it has to do everything in the most over-bearing and over the top way possible in a way that makes you want to rebel. But you can't rebel, because as long as you're in it's house, you have to play by its rules.
Windows Defender. THOU SHALT NOT USE ANY PROGRAM BUT ME.

10. Windows Sync Center. "Hello! Oh, me? I just let myself in. I see you've got an mp3 player! Let me pop up everytime it's plugged in and stuff the music you've been playing on it, and clash with whatever better program you're trying to use with it."


Things I don't care about

1. Pressing Windows + Tab to scroll through programs in 3D. It's that thing that everyone shows, don't think i've used it more than once.

What I do like

1. How fast you can search

2. Nice icons and folders that always show what's in them in a stylish way.

3. The taskbar being transparent.

4. Previewing programs from the taskbar, the preview moving if you're using video or something animated.

5. It feels good being up to date.

So, due to being really slow, incompatible and loving the ram like a fat boy loves cake, I can't use it for work and it has to go.

If you have a new PC with a new hi tech motherboard, core duo or quad and fast ram, does it handle them better because it's 5 years newer? I have no idea but it doesn't affect me.

We bought another 360 after being impressed with the games coming out soon and getting a good deal at Gamestation.

I put a disc in, and... well, listen to this and guess how it turned out:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XC7CV8OJ

After seeing E3, I'd really like Ace Combat 6, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Littlebigplanet, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Heavenly Sword. I'm sure a lot of other people would too. However I can only afford one console, so I won't buy half of these games due to them being on different expensive consoles. This makes me sad. What I want to know is, is the exclusivity clause the games developers have signed lucrative enough to lose so many sales? I've never experienced this dilemma before because Xbox had nothing on the PS2 and Gamecube was so cheap. Oh well, time to get a job with an obscene amount of disposable cash.

Orange and white catsuit, plunging v-neck



Orange and white hair, catsuit, plunging v-neck + midriff



She's got to be uber leet, urban combat with no vest.



Black leather, check. Midriff, check. Big rifle, check.




I love how there's a door knocker there between the knockers, nice touch.

Games: No-One Lives Forever, Perfect Dark Zero, The Agency, Alias

No, not this Rufus



but this Rufus



Only 3 days to go till I see Rufus Wainwright in concert! I can't wait!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84iUx8ghQM

I've had a Nintendo Wii console briefly. I actually quite liked it but although it was necessary to sell it, I'm not that sad about it going. I can't wait for the killer apps that they must surely be planning, just nothing too interesting on the horizon.

The Miis were fun, and some of you currently have my Miis walking around on your Mii town square thing. :)

I'm lucky enough to have a few friends with Wiis who are already bored of their consoles and lent me their games so I got to try out a lot. Bear in mind these are all only my opinions, which you'll mostly disagree with hehe. I'm not really a complainer, I think I just like to get things off my chest on my blog. If you can't do it here then where?

Resident Evil 4 Wii edition - I couldn't really stand this much. It's like playing Time Crisis with a mouse. Sure it's a better control scheme but it's just plain boring and cheating. It's the first game that has got a decent amount of accuracy and speed out of the Wii pointer though. The game was weird in the fact that I constantly had to hold the wiimote at boob height and close to my body for it to register the crosshair, which soon got tiring. The graphics were also quite washed out, which made me often quite paranoid simply because I couldn't see everything, and so often got my head chopped off.

Call of Duty 3 - Just shocking, not very responsive. It doesn't help that I've played the PS3 version and this isn't really my kind of game either.

Cooking Mama - It was okay but not as good as the DS version, and the Engrish was a bit embarassing. I thought the egg cracking was ingenius and hilarious, it has made a permanent in-joke between me and a friend.

Eledees (Elebits) - I really liked this, but it really made my arms tired. I felt like a Ghostbuster ^_^ I think this would be good as a PC title, but a budget one. It reminded me too much of those physics demos and bridge building games on the PC.

Kororinpa - it reminded me of this game called On The Ball and it was quite enjoyable, my favourite ball was the basketball. I really liked the blancmange land.

Mario Strikers Charged Football - It's not charged, it's not football, I don't think it's particularly fun or challenging, and multiplayer is unrelentingly frustrating. Did they have to make that charge animation so long, and exactly the same each time? It also seems quite empty and soulless compared to other games like it...

Sonic - This was a rental and I couldn't really get past the tutorial levels without feeling angry, bored and frustrated. I had to send it back after that and play Sonic 2.

Super Monkey Ball - What's with the jumping and the bosses? I prefer the first Gamecube one but i'm sure the multiplayer modes are great. I love the new monkey! She looks like Yotsuba!



Super Paper Mario - This is where I spent the majority of my time on the Wii. I really enjoyed the game but couldn't help feeling that it would have been better suited for the Gamecube. I also didn't like it as much as the last Paper Mario, but I still thought it was very well made, albeit a bit short and easy. I miss it being an RPG and having proper partners that are useful. Just as it ended it felt like it was getting started.

Twilight Princess - I'd already completed this on the Gamecube and wasn't such a big fan of it. This version makes me realise why the Gamecube one wasn't very interesting for me. The controls are quite clumsy on this, so they made all the enemies easy. They kept them the same for the superior Gamecube controls and so THAT must have been why on the Gamecube version I got bored of the fights and ran through half the game avoiding enemies, completing it in under 15 hours.

Wario Ware - Wario Ware was fantastic as always but strangely the multiplayer wasn't that fun as the games were't the same and you constantly have to hot potato. I really enjoyed single player though, they really used the wiimote controller well.

All in all I enjoyed myself playing the games but I don't think it's there yet, and I still think I will get a lot more out of my PS2 and Gamecube for now. Bring out an expansive online Animal Crossing and a truly unique long lasting game and I'll get another Wii when I can afford it.

I am very tough to please and I think i'm getting jaded. The only games i've truly loved in the last year have been FFXII, Okami, Katamari, Osu Tatakae Ouendan and Animal Crossing DS. I hope you think i'm not too grumpy ^^

I've been thinking of getting a second hand 360 sometime soon, from eBay. They seem to finally be getting somewhere with their games, what with Beautiful Katamari, Ace Combat, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Bio Shock etc. But then I thought after the recent Xbox 360 bans that a lot of people would be wanting to get rid of their systems. I could end up with a console that doesn't go on Live which is no good at all. With all this uncertainty perhaps I should get a new one. A second hand Premium with Forza 2 over here in the UK can be around $360 while a new one with the same game is $500, after a money off deal and discount. That's quite a big difference.

Soul Calibur - 1999 - 36C - Boostier size C



Soul Calibur 2 - 2002 - 36DD - Boostier size B



Soul Calibur 3 - 2005 - 36C Boostier size C



Soul Calibur 4 - 2007 - 36GG - Teenager's bikini size A




Lady, they're fighting with swords and axes! You're fighting with a weapon that requires grace, not a trip to the osteopath! Nina, is that you? I see, after Dead To Rights, Nina Williams, after a spiral of despair, drugs, booze and boob jobs, has been given the role of Ivy in the next Soul Calibur.