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A fair bit - but I'd been putting cash aside for a while & threw my last overtime cheque in there as well. Something like:

£180 - console plus Wii Sports
£150 - the five games (incl. second remote)
£30 - second nunchuk + classic controller
£30 - 4000 Wii Points for spending in the online shop

Slightly embarassing amount of money to spend, but it's my big gaming buy of the year & a bit of a treat. Still, the whole lot came in at about the same price - or cheaper - than a new PS3!

Just got off playing Wii Sports & Red Steel. Wii Sports is great fun, though I'm not having a great deal of success with Tennis. Bowling & Boxing are the dog's nuts, and Baseball is quite fun as well. Definitely going to have to grab my brother at some point and haul him in for a game.

Red Steel is a real mixed bag. The controls work brilliantly in some parts & really roughly in others, there are some sections which look stunning & others which are basic GameCube level etc... but the game is surprisingly immersive & once you get over the initial impulse to wave the controller around like an idiot & start making more controlled motions it really clicks. Swordfighting is a bit basic, but still good fun.

Very impressed with the system so far.

Thanks to Amazon, my console arrived today & I'm now the proud owner of Wii - plus Wii Sports, Wii Play, Monkey Ball, Red Steel, Zelda & Call of Duty 3!

Just got everything hooked up, downloaded a few Virtual Console games & am creating some Mii & then I'm going to have a pop at Wii Sports.

My Wii number is: 1185 1841 9282 7323, so if anyone else out there wants to add me to their address book feel free. If you were lucky enough to grab a console, pop your number up here as well.

The interface is fucking great so far, and after the initial period of getting used to a new controller I'm whizzing round the menus & typing away on the onscreen keyboard with no hassle at all. Can't wait to see how the games play!

The Devil's Backbone comes highly, highly recommended, as does Cronos. Great movies, all.

Heh - pretty funny, though Tongue Cam creeped me out a bit...

Where's the Slaine Street Team, then?






;-)

I think it was planned but never published - I've certainly never seen a copy in the wild...

Um. Well, wait & see I suppose, but I'm not taken with the TARDIS sequence - though judging by the fannish whoops of joy there are actually people who want to see it bombing down a motorway like something out of a summer blockbuster...

It's alright Paul, just as long as you're one of the sanctioned True Fans (the ones who get Slaine) you should be all right ;-)

Check and make sure there's toner loaded - also worth looking to see if any seal on the toner cartridge is still on. Apart from that, dunno - maybe someone else with more printer experience can help?

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God, that's awful...

Sorry for shouting :-)

I've tried sending emails to the address your message came from, but I don't think any of them are getting through. Your prize - a TPB worth up to £15 or something of equivalent value - is still available, so just email me a note of what you'd like & where to send it and I'll get it off to you ASAP.

Cheers!

Could we just get it over with and run a comp here for the next Cabs novel?

Perhaps "Hell to Pay", featuring a demonic hairpiece?

Answers on a black silk postcard, please.

If I had any criticism of it (and it's really more of an observation than a criticism), it's that I had the feeling that the makers looked at the 'Bourne' films and realised that's the way to do Bond.

...and as the Bourne films are two of the best espionage movies in recent years, having Bond aping them is no bad thing. It really does look quite promising...

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Mine said that when I first ordered it, but I went back in and confirmed 1st class delivery - even though it was already selected - and the date changed to 8th-9th. Worth a try.

Mine's now listed as "dispatching soon" so I remain hopeful...

So - who'll be the first boarder to create a 2000AD Mii, then? Can't do costumes - unless and until Nintendo use firmware updates to expand the options available - but humanoid 2K characters should be a goer. Here are a few (wonky!) ones to get us started:

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