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Halo 2 Super Mario Kart (SNES) System Shock 2 Championship Manager 01/02 Civilization 2 Deus Ex Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Half-Life Comman & Conquer: Red Alert Thief 2: The Metal Age Yup, that's it.

MS will still profit from this immensely. Remember that the user overlap between the 360 and the Wii is much smaller than between the 360 and the PS3. MS has been promoting the idea of owning a Wii and a 360 because they know that they have different functions and approaches to gaming. If nothing else, every month that goes by without PS3s in shops will mean more people buying 360s - and very, very few people are going to buy a PS3 if they already have a 360. In terms of the 'cleaning up' comment, I think it's perfectly justified. With Live, MS are making stupid amounts of money from flogging Arcade games and developers likewise with add-ons. Production costs for 360 games are still relatively low because of the similarity with PC architecture. All of these mean that the 360 might actually be a profitable product for MS, as unbelievable as that seemed after the loss leader that was the original X-Box. Sony, on the other hand, can potentially lose a bomb.

Exactly. It's one of the reasons I still can't make myself like Logan - and why I unreservedly worship Keith.

Thread's an interesting read for me, some great nostalgia. I thought I was so sly for guessing Aaron Echolls before it happened, but you got it a good couple of episodes before me Minus points for thinking Duncan for so long though ... too obvious!

How is the video of the year that is by a group not the best group video? It was also nominated for best rock video which did not win. How a video can win the overall best video, but not win the best in its genre is beyond me.

Well Gallas was free to talk to other clubs in four months. I'm sure once that was the case Arsenal wouldn't be his favoured destination, so fair play to them for getting this deal. I'm just surprised no Italian or Spanish clubs expressed a strong interest purely for the purposes of disrupting this deal and talking to him in January.

Well, in all seriousness, I've seen two good theories as to why this might happen. The logic I heard on another board was that MSI are doing this so they get a payoff now, in a year when West Ham make the transfers permanent and in 2-3 years when they inevitably fuck off to United, Chelsea or whoever. Players constantly moving clubs is productive for the middlemen. Also, MSI were rumoured to have been interested in taking over the club. One poster on a board claims his 'inside sources' are indicating the club's again in talks with the group about a takeover, and this would be an excellent sweetener in those talks. The conspiracy theorists will tell you that Abramovich's money backs MSI and that he's using this deal to see how well the pair adjust to the life style in London. Kia Joorbachian, the Iranian billionaire behind MSI denies any investment from Abramovich or Berevosky, the other Russian magnate involved. Should be interesting to say the least...

Oh God, I'm a West Ham fan and this is one of the best best pieces of news I've ever seen. Transfer of the millennium! I just discovered the Male Multiple Orgasm.

Fry from Futurama, c'mon. From Arrested Development it's definitely GOB, followed by Tobias. I'm loving Ari Gold in Entourage too. Keith Mars possibly my favourite dramatic character of all time, and his relationship with Veronica is stunning.

It's just as easy to discuss foreign language films, since the boards has English in common. In terms of genuine contenders for my favourite film overall: Shaolin Soccer, Oldboy and City of God had most impact. All in my top ten probably.

Nope, not even from an I-pod.

Let's just keep the over-arching storyline a little less complicated this time. I got pissed off last season when it became obvious there were at least 10 characters that could convincongly have been revealed as the big baddie - the only defining clues were in the last two episodes.

Awesome, maybe I can get 25 quid for mine. It's currently sitting next to the bin in my living room

IMDB - Arkadia/Mondes engloutis... Dunno, never heard of this thing, but possibly this is what you're talking about. Sounds confusing.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo I've been dreaming of a live action Discworld for years and it's come too early for me to direct Chances of securing role as the Patrician slim for another 10 years or so too - even worse.

You're allowed ... maybe three 24 year old players I think. Possibly it's for the sake of giving experience to the team.

Tabloid speculation has West Ham buying Milner for £3.5M. If so I'll be happy - wish we hadn't wasted money on Bowyer though, the thug.

Arsenal scum, my Hammers destroyed the legend of Wenger this year! Also, that ESPN article was full of appaling mistakes - and why was he interested in the team's sponsor?

Veronica Mars renewed! I'm so relieved, I thought this was going to be another horrible case of an awesome show killed off prematurely. Seems like it's a 22 ep series reducible to 13 depending on ratings. AND they got moved to directly after the Gilmore Girls, just the spot they wanted. Yes!

Also on that Valenzetti page, right at the bottom, are 4 'ABC' links. Two of them lead to the ABC network site and 2 of them lead to space science websites, one of them NASA. Seems incomprehensible, but surely it's not just included because of the shared acronym?