Use Your Illusion

God, it is unbelieveable how little they even have to try for the hysteria to propel sales and promotion alone.

I think I'll get the PSP version, I want to tear it up as Captain Marvel. Count me in on the Nick Fury lovefest as well.

He's still the idiot who greenlighted it.

Name the date and price, Axl Rose.

Well, I need something to ease the pain of Armageddon.

Anyone played Neo Geo Battle Coliseum? It's being released in PAL territories and I'm thinking of buying it. I have this weird softspot for SNK fighters, despite being reasonably crap at them.

Street Fighter Alpha Anthology anyone?

Ugh, friends have played it excessively and have convinced me to cancel my pre-order for the PAL version. I'd say I'm disappointed, but this is Midway.

I'm guessing they give shit all indication who actually survives Armageddon?

...and it seems i just solved my own problem. If anyone has anything like this happen to them in future, go here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 The Windows installation clean up nukes that motherfucker quicktime good and dead when nothing else will.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/738/738086p1.html IGN review is out - 8.5 out of 10

Long story short - I attempt to carry files from LimeWire over to my iPod through iTunes, it proceeds to shit itself and wipes my entire iPod clean, all 4GB of it. All play lists, all tunes - dead. So I throw shit and scream a whole lot and try to kill iTunes from my computer and reinstall the latest version. However, it wont let me do that because it cannot remove the older version of Quicktime. I've tried everything, going through the control panel, searching and then deleting necessary files etc. Nothing seems to work, it just will not let me delete Quicktime from my computer. The uninstallation wizard goes to start then just dies and disappears, unallowing me to do anything further. Has anyone encountered anything as frustrating as this? I don't even care about the music anymore, I can get that back, I just want my iPod, which was darned expensive and is barely 4 months old, to work.

Pokemon is flaying PSPs left right and centre in Japan at the moment.

...and here comes our first review of MK:A - four and a half stars out of five. Albeit, from GameDaily: http://ps2.gamedaily.com/game/review/?game...964&id=1342

IGN just featured a video about the Kreate-a-Fatality feature in MKA. Looks shit, I have to say. They all start with the same generic set of moves and all just seem to involve the pulling off of limbs. I'd rather put in the fatality code, sit back and watch Scorpion spear someone's head then rip it off. Achieves the same thing, yes, but is a little bit more interesting and unique. People will be tired of that after about 3 goes.

Don't expect Metal Gear till like December 2007 at the earliest, barring some kind of miracle. Kojima said it is still ages away from being close to ready.

I've watched a few clips of songs on YouTube, fuckin' unreal. Axl's voice is *on*. I think they've been just about everywhere in the world apart from Australia. What I wouldn't give...

I don't understand why I've read so many people find Scorp to be uber-tough. I thought he was one of the easier bosses, albeit by far the most fun. Funnily enough, Reptile kicked the tar out of me when I faced him, but was vulnerable and open to every attack when Shang was masquerading as him at the end. You could take down half his health bar while he was Reptile by just never letting him stand for longer than a second so he can morph back.

Yeah, just mauled the bastards with Liu Kang. Kintaro is so insanely easy. Likewise Shao Kahn when you get the hang of it and play like a cheap bastard. Keep distance, dodge projective, shoot fireball. Keep distance, wait for hammer shot, shoot fireball. I win. PAL versions don't have MKII. I find this out after buying it. I hear it is buggy as hell anyway though.

The final three bosses of Shaolin Monks are a bitch. Shao Kahn sure knows how to work a mean warhammer.

Lei Mei lasted all of two seconds.

Time to resurrect this one, Midway have released the official opening video for Mortal Kombat Armageddon. The entry at MK:Online can be found here http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/...ge.cds?id=89958 The video, available at IGN, is here http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/794/794354/vids_1.html Might I say, it's a pretty awesome intro, although MK always seems to have a really cool introductory video. Strykers pot-shot at Mileena is fucking hilarious. As was Jax's "What else you got?" *BANG*

Again, SD vs RAW this year will have someone in it that was released some time before the game was.

I think we did that at exactly the same time.

Australia Wii - December 7th, $400. That's a considerable price increase from the US version, which converts out to be around $333 AUS. Hmm...