"...whiny lump of emotional instability"

9 was the better game, but 7 was the cultural icon.

This is one of those things where Android owners say "This is why we love Android" and iOS owners say "This is why we love iOS".

You probably have, but just in case, have you enabled administrative tools on the Start Screen? I think its the left charm (Win+C), then Settings->Tiles. this adds all the admin tools to start.

All the families we know in the UK have these.

The legal definition of racist (in the UK at least) is anything that is perceived as being racist by the offended, not the by the offender. The same goes for most other discriminatory illegal acts.

I never said you should.

Therein lies the problem, and why the PC is in fact not really a solution when you think it through. When you boil it down you still end up with a situation where several devices are distinctly better than one, unless you really throw a lot of money at it. I already have all my streaming and gaming needs met across a…

Alpha Centauri - so misunderstood. Genius game.

I meant the new Xbox is running Windows 8 (more or less).

Yeah I use the Start screen a lot on a 13 inch touchscreen laptop.

I've tried everything getting a pc to work in the front room. Price, game performance and quiet are mutually exclusive.

Windows 8?

I'm still waiting for that ideal device then. I really want a box in my front room that can converge all of my current media. Networked stuff, streamed films & TV, music, games and (ideally) my online photo albums as well. Is that so much to ask in one set top box?

Given Sony's troubles over the last decade (company wide, not the electronics division alone) and the fact they are a consumer not an IT company, I doubt they will be able to introduce the number and breadth of servers needed to constitute a cloud service. My guess is that they'll link up with Amazon's platform to…

One word. 'Murica.

The existing system is to have disk in machine. Having that or online check ins is a wider choice.

Kotaku this is divisive and antagonistic and you should know better. I'm hard pushed to think of a comment I've read that said we should not have disk based verification at all. Almost every commenter, like me, who is fine with an online check in also agrees that an alternative of disk based verification makers total…

Cat's videos of hipsters... that could work.