Overall I like where this is going, and with a few improvements I believe it could work well. I do have a few niggles/comments though. Apologies if they've been covered already.

Great news, but just like Starbreeze with their (still rumoured?) Syndicate sequel, and 2k Marin's take on XCom, they must not balls it up.

I foresee another lawsuit in California brewing after a leak of this magnitude.

@Sega: Yes but I've always wanted to learn Japanese, duck racing seems as good an excuse as any to learn.

@kiramon15: Yes why is the tree still up. Aren't decorations normally taken down for Twelfth Night, which was last week? Oh wait some people wait until Candlemas Day (Feb 2).

I need a Dreamcast and a crash course in Japanese, can someone make this happen for me?

Now that's taking wiinjuries to a whole new level.

Hopefully they can deliver somewhere close to the 30m/100ft range and 1ms latency apparently possible with wireless HDMI. I've had to use 802.11g projectors in the past and thanks to lag I certainly wouldn't want to throw anything more intensive than a simple powerpoint presentation at them.

@beanspeppin: I had some time to kill whilst a report at work completed, so here you go.

@gsilverfish: It's not really copy protection that stops iQue DS games from being played on a Rest of the World DS. The firmware chip on the iQue was larger to accommodate the Chinese character sets as well as the character sets from the rest of the world.

@majortomm: Yes it would be silly to buy an arduino just to do this. On the flipside though if someone were to have an interest in both Minecraft and embedded programming, this could be a nice little project.

@majortomm: There's nothing at all wrong with the in-game clock. That is of course except when you're only about 20 minutes in and you've not yet sourced the gold and redstone you need to make one.

What snow? Oh you mean the stuff we had here in the good old UK that landed in the tail end of November and again the week before Christmas? The latter has only just started melting here in Manchester, mostly thanks to the rain we had last night. It once looked pretty, now it's just a mess.

@biko: Depends on my mood, it certainly helps it.

@biko: Milk, cream, eggs, sugar, various spices (usually cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla) -edit- oh and booze if you're lucky -edit-.

@Parsifal: My guess would be the Agressive Present System.

@porkyownsu: It was made with the PS2 and first Xbox in mind, but some felt it went too far with simplifying the core game mechanics from the first to shoehorn it into the consoles. It might have faired better though if it hadn't had Deus Ex in the title.

I speel my eggnog!

@reducks: Better safe than sorry I guess

Well if the Smurfs try to leave the village, I'm going to have to go in there and teach them a lesson!