@ILaen'Cythe: Same here. Emailed Friday morning after the site borked when ordering the CD - or reply as of yet.

No, that's total units - so will include the bargain bin priced copies. But it's still a thoroughly respectable amount of units in circulation. It's that rationale that got the similarly performing Dead Space a sequel, yet seems to be doing ME no good at all (the dev's original prediction 3m million sales didn't help…

@saturns2k: Two million units shifted for ME isn't at all bad. The biggest problem seems to be how slowly it sold.

@matrixdude: As I understand it, the Kinect contains the hardware/firmware for processing the speech recognition. Or something.

I was going to post about how this is a very long article based on a complete misunderstanding of what average life expectancy actually means. But lots of people else has already done so. So… Err.. I won’t. But, y’know… +1 to what they said.

@Gnarkiller: Mine was 7 days between dispatch and getting it back, and I know others with about the same turnaround. Not sure where you're based, but for me that included getting the console from the UK to Germany and back. I was most impressed.

@collex: New Roman Empire is menioned in passing in an Eccleston era episode, I believe.

@sui generis: @Histeria: Correction: The above should read "the two little people I know...."

@sui generis: the two little people (medically "dwarfs") prefer the term little people. And so that is the phrase I use. Thinking in terms of "what I would want if I were you" is kinda of irrellevant.

@sui generis: The only thing that puts me off this theory to an extent is that the child has an American accent, and River has an English accent. Doesn't discount it completely, but makes me slightly more skeptical.

@Jonas72: Actually, I vaguely remember a load of behind the scenes webisodes in the run up the the prequels in the late 90s. I think Lucas may have been one of the first film-makers to do this kind of thing.

I love that the choice is apparently accepting this kind of backward garbage, and being "easily offended".

@Arnheim: I'd imagine quite a few of use are in our 30s, and slightly ashamed that we didn't know better when we played Duke 3D back in the day.

I wasn't clear was I? I'm English, and so was referencing The Sun's moronic non-story to which the animation refers.

Always nice when our shitty media makes us an international laughing stock.

@Fauxcused: I actually think that DA2 has a much improved and more engaging story. Awesome as DA:O was, the main story was pretty much every high fantasy story ever. I like the moral grey areas and politics of DA2 much more. The re-used caves is indeed awful, but the combat is (mashing A aside, which will be patched…

Here is a nice example of The Sun's propensity to make stories up: [www.thesun.co.uk]

Picked mine up this morning. LOVING Street Fighter 4.

@LordDisco: The answer to your question is in the article.

@SpinachPuffs: Iiinteresting. Guess I'll see whether I'm feeling "worth saving £20 to go out at midnight" awake later. Cheers for the 411.