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He gets a new set of aliens for the sequel series Ben 10: Evolutions.  More money down the crapper for mums and dads everywhere.

Hope nobody minds my posting this....

Oh, Richie - this isn't the SFX forum, you know.

That's not Ben 10, it's Ben 10: Alien Force.

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You might want to make sure it's okay with Rebellion to post a full story - even in edited form - on their forum.

I approve in theory of such an undertaking, though - the 4th Letter edit of the nonsensical Ultimatum miniseries had the odd distinction of actually making more sense than the strip it parodied, even if the edit wasn't terribly clever or funny.  The odd good joke, though.

Hardware gets cheaper to produce over time, so the PS2 at this point is likely a profit-maker in its own right if it's cheap enough to make.  If it wasn't, I'd imagine they'd have stopped making them long ago and made the backwards-compatibility a part of the PS3 to encourage sales, as the price is still ridiculous.

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Sony's argument doesn't work for me...tis just a way to try and the put the PS2 'to sleep'...

Unlikely - it's far more probable they're denying B/C so as not to deter people from picking up a PS2 (which have been selling pretty well in the last few months), much as admitting the slimline PS3 was in the pipeline would have had an impact on the sales of the current wave of machines.  It's worth noting that the guy who says backwards compatibility is "off the table" is the same guy who - up until last week - flat-out denied there was a slimline PS3 in the works.

still no b/c though...get it sorted Sony.

The b/c will be installed with an upcoming downloadable update for the PS3 firmware - apparently Sony have set a date for the PS2 being definitively discontinued.

Not sure about the new look for the PS3, or the logo - but I suppose you can't argue with price cuts and more stable hardware (official numbers on the failure rate of PS3s was something like 10-11 percent).

They replace the same model PS3 when they pick up the duffer, but backwards compatibility isn't going to be an issue with the next PS3 firmware update, as it includes an emulation patch that lets PS2 games run on the machine.  I suppose they knew this was coming, as there's still an option on the machines to create internal PS2 memory cards.

We should schedule a board shoot-up.  I'm online as BearUnleashed, and am quite easy to smear across the landscape on Warhawk.

Sounds like a good thing to me too.  Hopefully it'll be more than just Millar on the writing chores, though.

It goes on a bit, and the modern 'Tarantinoesque' trappings didn't seem to sit well with others, but it was fun enough.

A few years ago, before I knew any better, I was reading Slaine and thinking "this is good, I bet there's a great payoff coming", and I think it was around that time I was thinking if I was the second-last man on Earth and there was only another fella around and no birds, then maybe.  So I think the science here might be sound.

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I know I don't read every thread, but... say what?

HBO is supposedly going to the dogs and AMC is 'where it's at'.

Congrats all round, Coxy.

Is this the same PS3 that wouldn't turn on remotely using the controller?  You should have got that replaced day one.