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Well, it's here.... that's about it really. I will concede it does look pretty sexy but ultimately it's just a bit of a re-jig for me. My 20GB HDD won't stand up to many game installs so that rules that out and I can't see me using the party chat much.One thing I am impressed with is the friends list thing where your friends avatar stands in front of a load of items. Not sure where they come from but I like the idea that each friend's "room" (for want of a better word) is generated by their playing habits. Nice.Avatar-wise I realised I wasn't iconic enough to have one that looked like me and wasn't hopelessly generic so I went for pure goofiness. Meet INK1ing Read more »

 Mario is back in the INKling household in the form of my brand spanking new Nintendo Wii. I have been thinking about getting one for ages and now that I have paid off my San Francisco holiday (God, that was back in April!) and got a bit of overtime money I thought I would treat myself to an early Christmas present (the ones you buy yourself are always the best).Amazon have a pretty good deal on at the moment so I now have Mario Kart Wii and Mario Galaxy jostling for attention with Far Cry 2 and Dead Space. It really is a light and dark approach to gaming. Turn on the 360 and I can expect dark menacing corridors and violent landscapes whereas the Wii is all bright charming colours and harmless puffs of jaunty fire. It's all good. The sad thing is that there aren't enough hours in the... Read more »