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For me, it's all about the Star Wars theme. It would lose most of its charm if it didn't have Lego men acting out scenes from the films. There's no way I'd bother with it if it was based on something I wasn't in to -- Lego Lord Of The Rings... Lego Batman (they're doing that one!)... No thanks.

Sounds to me like fairly standard footballer stuff. I'm sure there's some reason why every detail has been so heavily publicised - I mean, did Arsenal really need to make such a big stink about the tapping up affair? Not that I'm a fan of Ashley Cole, or any of his type, but he doesn't appear to have done anything different from any other footballer who demands and gets a transfer. The most notable things about this case are that Ashley has a pretty girlfriend and earns loads of money. Unlike most other players, right?

I'm loving Dead Rising! Haven't got very far, since I miss so many thing that I keep on restarting, but I'm at Level 12 and finding secret stashes of goodies all over the place. Last time I restarted, I had changed costumes a couple of times, so in the next game, during the helicopter opening scene, my bloke was wearing a nice pink dress and a teddy bear's head. If anyone's playing it on a normal TV via the rubbish composite lead that comes with the console, I can recommend the official RGB scart cable. I bought one today and now I can actually read the text.

If that was possible, there would be a lot of premiership players who never get paid.

Ohh, I feel ill. Who's your daddy, Wayne? Darth Paul - good call on Big Bad Brad, I'd completely forgotten about him. Next time Micky G goes out on the town, Brad can be his safe pair of hands.

Bit of a shame Rooney is getting his back slapped on the front page of the Sun for punching out a bloke who was not only drunk, but is probably not the fighting type either. Out of anyone in the Rovers squad, who do you think would stand the best chance of lamping young Shrek? Andy Todd, maybe? Maybe if we talked David Speedie out of retirement -- powerful headbutt for a little guy, and you've got to watch out for the small, psychotic ones. They'll go straight for the nose or ears. Anyone else?

Coleen Mcthingy is a minging, pram-faced chav. Micky G must have had his beer goggles on to even suggest such a thing.

The fact that GTA is going to be on Xbox 360 as well has put me off the PS3 a bit. I mean, the PS3 is going to have to have some amazing exclusives to make me consider spending all that money on a machine that's going to do pretty much the same thing as the one I've already got. I doubt if the delay will affect that, though, as Sony will still have a first Christmas in the two most important markets - Japan and the US.

First I've heard of that Rovers incident, or, indeed, Ralph Welch. Does anyone know why Rovers didn't want to report it?

Back on the 'sugar daddy' / Russian billionaire question, I had a weird dream last night that maybe Uncle Jack's investment was, on balance, a Bad Thing for us. Don't get me wrong, we had some great years, saw some great players, beat the kind of teams that in the past we'd have been dead chuffed to hold to a 1-1 draw at Ewood in the FA Cup 3rd round before going down fighting in the replay. But now... plenty of our fans are upset that we're losing players to Liverpool; that we've only bought one Champs League winner in the summer rather than a whole team of them; that we might not finish in the top half of the Premiership. This is Blackburn Rovers we're talking about. Maybe forgetting your history is the price of having a super rich owner. Yes, I remember when it was all fields round here...

The whole point of football for me is following Rovers. If I want to see the best players, I'll watch the champions league, but I'm glad we're not Chelsea. I think I prefer us having players I can vaguely identify with, rather than watching a manager fish £20m out of a bottomless pit of cash, blow it on a nobody like SWP and have no problem leaving him in the stiffs when he turns out not to be up to the job. We're a proper club. I don't care if we can't compete with Man Utd or Liverpool. It never bothered me in the 80s.

But we had our go, and did (continue to do?) extremely well out of it.

By 'lead', I mean the platform the game is primarily intended for. There's usually one, even if it appears simultaneously on multiple platforms. With PES, it's clearly optimised for the Dual Shock controller layout, and wasn't quite so easy to play on Xbox. To be honest, I doubt they did sign any kind of deal with MS. It just happens that they're going to be spending a lot longer on the PS3 version, for whatever reason, and if it's significantly different when it's released then I suppose we'll know where Konami's priorities lie.

I take Pro Evo and Winning Eleven to be the same game -- which they are. The only differences are some of the licensing and, obviously, the language. Anyway, I haven't seen it first hand, but when I spoke to somebody who did, 'knocked out' was the phrase he used. The reason it's out so late on the 360 is because they did the previous one as a PS2 lead. They would have done this one as a PS3 lead, but since PS3 doesn't exist yet, they can't. It'll be on PS3 in Spring/Summer next year, apparently.

Pro Evo on the 360 seems a bit rough -- like they knocked it out because there was no alternative platform for it. The only reason it's on 360 at all is because it's going to be ages before PS3 is a mass market machine. You can rest assured that the 'real' next gen Pro Evo will be the eventual PS3 version, since Konami is a Japanese firm and the market for 360 in Japan is non existant. If you're that much of a Pro Evo fan, you 'll be slightly underwhelmed by the 360 version (not that I'll ever be rushing out to spend £400 on a console!)

I've had a brief crack on Saints Row. It's like a really lightweight GTA except with loads of stupid punch-kick combos and stuff. The animation for carjacking is exactly the same, and the guy makes the same sort of comments as he drives along. Bodies fade away quite quickly unless you start kicking them across the floor. Totally unfunny cutscenes. I think I'll wait for GTA 4 -- playing too much Saints Row might put me off the whole GTA style of game.

Classified 18 on August 4th. The long wait is most likely so they can co-ordinate the European marketing campaign. Has anyone noticed how it's optimised for HD only? The tiny text is almost impossible to read on my old TV, and from the reviews I've read there's a lot of text-based mission instructions that are easy to miss. Capcom's official solution -- use component connections (ie buy a HDTV!)

It's plug and play, isn't it? You get an ethernet cable with the Xbox, so just whack that in your router and you're away.Setting up an Xbox Live account is all done through the console. Have your credit card handy.

Remember to keep hold of your hard drive, otherwise you'll never see your game saves again.

That doesn't sound good. I assume you've tried pressing the synchro buttons on the controller and the Xbox. Are you still getting no video? If there's anything wrong with the video cable, you should get a red light.

Well, after this injury he probably has little chance of getting back to the level he was at a few years ago. Give it up, Owen -- your natural home is with the BBC's team of pundits.

I wish Owen had been honest enough to say that maybe Lampard, Gerrard, Terry and -- most of all -- Michael Owen aren't anywhere near as good as they're made out to be. I could have some respect for the spineless little sod if he could admit in public that he's a player in irreversible decline, and point the finger at some of his underperforming mates rather than aim cheap shots at the ex manager. England went out because they're not very good at international football. They've never really been good at it. Since 1966, the one and only time England have beaten a higher ranked team in World Cup finals was thanks to a dodgy penalty against Argentina last time. The only reason they qualify with any regularity is because they're seeded into easy qualifying groups.

Are you Ian Wright in disguise? I had hoped Henry was, like, the Gandhi of cheating following his comments post-CL final. Well, if not Gandhi then at least somebody prepared to call an opponent a girl for taking a dive.

Henry: "In my head I'm not a guy who does go down or cheats." In reality, though?