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Microsoft are lurching around like a blind many armed giant trying to patch leaks in a giant metaphorical ship that isn't even sinking. Avatars! Camera! Weird back of head adverts! Different camera! Redesign Avatars because they don't work with different camera!  
 
What the heck are they going to try if Kinect fails?

If I where there I honestly would not accept that free xbox. Its dirty. It would be more obvious if they said "we are giving you all $200 cash!" but they didn't they gave out a console. Its a sweetener and its dirty. 

Loving Aquaria so far, I cannot recommend this bundle enough. Needs some exposure for the GB boys if you ask me :)

Like most Irish people the TV of my childhood was dominated by English and American accents. From The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles to the last days of the Seventh Doctor onto Batman the Animated Series and Gargoyles Irish TV played very little part in my day to day viewing*. In some ways I'm quite sad that there wasn't more of an Hibernian influence on the media of my early days but in another much more real way I'm just glad I got to grow up watching wonderfully terrible British "computer game" shows like Bad Influence!

Oh yes I watched Gamesmaster and Gamesworld, Cybernet and well... thats about all I can remember actually but its Bad Influence that sticks with me to this day. Oh Violet you still make my heart flutter.

Bad Influence! was an ITV show that featured news and reviews brought to you by the puberty quickening Violet Berlin and who ever the hell the male host was at the time. One of the shows main gimmicks was the game reviews written and delivered by normal kids, just like you and me! Also Violet's mystifying and prolonged championing of the Quickshot Supervision, a handheld not even the audience could pretend to care about. We had gameboys dagnabit! Heres some clips.

An average Bad Influence review segment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McU1ZBMICuU&feature=related

Bad Influence at the  Shoshinkai Show 1995

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dYqBQL6jEM&feature=related

Bad Influence on the Virtual Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5eEbNCYw0&feature=related

Bad Influence on the history of game controllers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUw_TI36j2o

And finally Bad Influence interviews Peter Molyneux

Yes once upon a time he did have hair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9f5hiMgpQ&feature=related

Not the best show ever, not even the best games show of the time but the one I have the fondest memory's of.

Next time, why the Seventh Doctors era makes it clear The Doctor is the reincarnation of The Other and a detailed lecture on why Mark Hamill is the greatest Joker ever.

Two more issues I'm having. The player isn't remembering my video settings, progressive and high and on the two quicklooks I tried to watch today the player stopped loading about a quarter of the way through (again on progressive and high).

Anyone have any advice for glimmerblocker?

Yes its an adblock problem. Both Glimmerblocker and adblock plus stop the videos from loading.

On a mac and no videos are working. Clicking play and nothing is happening. Tried with chrome, safari and firefox. Currently using Flash 10.1 beta 2.

Out of curiosity am I the only one who put Demon's Souls as number one?