Lik-Sang has the colour version with six games for under £40. You wouldn't mistake the graphics for the proper Neo Geo console but the joystick is great and it does your daily biorythm horoscope if you switch it on without a cartridge in it.

The 360 has the most amazing light synth thing built in - rip a CD or plug in an iPod and four people can 'jam' to the music with colours and shapes. It's the only reason I want one. On the subject of doomed consoles - I managed to avoid Jaguar and 3DO but I did buy a Virtual Boy. And a Neo Geo Pocket.

That's pretty amazing stuff. Apple would be insane to allow the next version of OSX to be cracked like that, because who's going to buy their overpriced hardware when you can run the OS on any old PC - and have Windows too? I certainly wouldn't bother spending on another Mac. And what about all the different PC setups, drivers, etc?

I was under the impression there was a lot more to it than just the processor - wouldn't the different motherboard make it impossible to run an OS on the 'wrong' machine? Somebody would probably have to hack the OS.

Yay!

Rio Ferdinand. Inexplicably dodges a drugs test - an offence for which he would have been banned for two years in any sport that gives a damn about drugs cheats. Spends eight months on holiday, pocketing an obscene salary, while his employers - presumably grateful to have the greatest defender of all time on their books - criticise the FA for dishing out such a draconian punishment. Turns his nose up at the fans and the club that supported him, refusing to sign an even more lucrative contract. Turns on his team mates while his management criticises the fans who, understandably, aren't happy about a player holding their club to ransom. Does schadenfreude encompass hoping somebody gets beaten up in a Chelsea nightclub?

Judging by my company's experience, it's cost. Designers need those huge G5s costing £2,000 a piece (monitor not included) because page layout software is miles better on a Mac. Everyone else gets a crappy little Dell that probably weighs in at around £300 including a 15" LCD. Web browsers are noticeably quicker on the Dells. Even Apple's consumer machines are too expensive for the mass market - the £1,200+ it costs for an iMac would get you a much more powerful PC.

I work at a publishing company where half of the staff seem to have been stealthily migrated to PCs over the last couple of years. That's around 400-500 users lost in one of Apple's core markets, so I wouldn't be surprised if even the 2% figure was an overstatement.

I just got back from holiday to find out about this, so I haven't read all the details, but I noticed philipl mentioned a first year release clause of £6m a few pages back. If that's the case then unless he signs a new contract next summer, haven't we effectively got him 'on loan'?

British taxpayers: start saving for that one-use-only canoe course

Are you Sepp Blatter in disguise?

It's definitely good to see such powerful hardware heading for my living room. And I'll probably cave in and buy the lot, just like last time - Jeff Minter's light synth for Xbox 360 looks amazing. Cutting edge stuff, though, is always going to be on the PC. For all the power of PS3, you're still talking about a machine that's going to cost less than a decent graphics card. Things look as nice as they do on a console because you're developing for a closed architecture, ie there's no need to make sure your game runs on a thousand different types of machine.

Typical Eurogamer. Where's the sense of perspective? Why has nobody mentioned that for all the impressive stats touted for the new consoles, all we've seen are a bunch of pre-rendered tech demos? These machines don't exist yet. All the Xbox 360 stuff is recorded frame by frame from Mac G5 dev kits, and I'm sure it's a similar situation for PS3.

It does look amazing, but then you've got to temper that with a spot of realism. When the last Sony console was announced they wheeled out George Lucas, who claimed that the power of PS2 would be enough to render scenes from Phantom Menace in realtime. Which was obviously a complete load of tosh. Now they're doing the same with PS3 and Spider-Man. I don't care how many HDTV streams it can decode simultaneously - I can't even watch one, since nobody I know owns an HD-compatible set. And if they use all that power to make a nicer looking version of Killzone and a few hundred racing games...

The Xbox 360 is supposed to be November, and probably worldwide too - I doubt we'll see PS3 in Europe until late 2006. But looking at the specs, PS3 will probably make the 360 look a little bit underpowered. And I'm angry with Microsoft for effectively killing the original Xbox, which I've only had for about a year. Then there's the Nintendo Revolution, or whatever it's going to be called, which comes with a wireless download service for retro games. Too... many... consoles...

Released Spring 2006. Sadly they announced they'll be making The Getaway and Killzone for it.

Erm... can Jon Obi have his topic back please? Last report I read suggested the player has been whisked away to Chelsea and Man Utd have backed off for a while. At least he won't be getting kneecapped in an alleyway somewhere.

That's true of any club. I expect Glazer will push for a breakaway Euro league, individual TV rights and anything else that will get Man Utd a bigger slice of the cake in the long term. In the short term, though, why shouldn't Man Utd ticket prices be on a par with Chelsea and Arsenal? And if the fans don't like it, maybe someone can let them know there's a whole cluster of 'proper' football clubs within easy driving distance.

Glazer's representative on Sky Sports News last night referred to Man Utd as 'the biggest franchise in the world'. Nice choice of words.

That's crazy - why would he do something like that? And who would have loaned him the money if that was his intention? I don't see it as a bad thing for United fans. They're moaning because they don't like the thought of the club being owned by a fat, ginger American pensioner, when the reality is he'll probably want to see them do the Champions League before old age gets him in a couple of years' time.

Which one? Seems to be three or more involved, plus the reps from Man U and Chelsea, assorted lawyers, the Norwegian police... If this was the subject of a Footballers Wives plotline, I'd probably have dismissed it as far-fetched.

What a seedy story. All these (presumably white and wealthy) men claiming to own a young lad from Africa. I get the feeling something really nasty is going to happen with this one...

How can you tell?

I was well impressed by Stead's first touch. Must have been wearing his velcro boots last night.

Arsenal are definitely beatable if we start hacking their ankles right from the kick-off. Henry versus Nelsen... clash of the titans.