I agree with dfb1977, it's a valid article to submit xhi4. This site has many different sections and yet certain people seem to get angry every time a non-gaming story is submitted and even feel the need to report them.

I haven't submitted or commented on N4G for a few months but it looks some things never change with people like WaggleLOL above waiting for people to bite on his flamebait!

Yesterday the Mac sites and forums were alive with comments as the announcements were being made, but it looks like hardly any of the users on N4G actually care. It's a pity, I'm thinking of getting a new Mac and it would have been nice to hear fellow N4G users' views on it.

Anyway, keep up the good work mate! Cheers. View

Nice one me old mate! After the crazy amount of stories you submitted last month you definitely deserved to win, there were a couple of challengers who came kinda close but you always managed to pull away each time.

I can't believe after all the PS3 related comments you've made over the months that you've actually put your money where your mouth is, as it were, and actually ordered that shiny, black beauty. I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Great timing as well with the exams being over and having plenty of free time to play on it.

What games are you gonna get for it, and more importantly, how long will it hold your attention before N4G inevitably tempts you away once again! Cheers :) View

I see that you've updated the link in your comment and it works now. How about adding an update to the article to give people the new link straight away?

Cheers :) View

Mate, I've tried the link you just gave and the source link and I'm just getting a webpage which has story titles none of which have anything to do with UT3.

I've attached a screenshot of the page I'm getting; I've selected the text otherwise it's hard to see. Don't know whether it's just a few of us who are having problems with the site. View

Hey man, I like Star Wars, just like any other red blooded male. I also said in my comment I didn't mind these type of stories, hell I'd like more of them! I agree with sak500, there are too many flamebait stories around.

The only problem I have is that I just know that if I submitted a similar type of story, not being News Bot, I'd get my story reported multiple times with the same old message, "What does this have to do with gaming?"

How many times have you seen people do that even though the story was an interesting one and had already got a high temperature in the Pending section only to be subsequently failed? N4G should add another channel, just call it "Other" or "Entertainment" or something for these type of stories. Am I right or am I right? View

It looks like the N4G staff have admitted (by NewsBot submitting this) that this is no longer a site devoted to Gaming and Tech but more to the kind of people who like playing games and therefore fall into the right demographic for this kind of news.

Why doesn't N4G just come out and say that they want all sorts of news on here (a more general news site) as long as it interests the user and they get the all important hits. I don't mind that and we do seem to be getting an increasing number of non-related news being approved.

But surely it's time to change the name, something like News4Males or News4Teens seems to be more fitting now!

How long before we start seeing the inevitable Paris Hilton stories appear, hehe ... View

Haha, I know what you're saying kewlkat007. Microsoft saw the whole Xbox project as a long term investment just as they do with many new markets that they enter. Unfortunately for them, because the PlayStation brand was doing so well and was so positively enriched in the perception of the media and public, it seemed Microsoft faced an impossible uphill struggle.

The fact that they basically came joint last/second with Nintendo in the last generation further validated people's perceptions of Sony's video game competitors. That's still there today, despite the problems Sony has so far faced with the PS3, there are many people who still believe that Sony will win this console race as well.

However, as time goes on and it becomes clear that there probably won't be any overall winner this generation (which is great for us consumers of course!) then the analysts, public and media may change their established views on Sony and Microsoft and more importantly the fine line between losses and investments.

They've already been proved wrong with the Wii which more or less everybody was critical of before it was released and it looks they may have to backtrack on the other two consoles as well. In the meantime it seems that one person's loss is another person's investment!

P.S. Are you the same kewlkat who used to have the Thundercats avatar? Cos that was cool mate, I mean kewl mate! View

That's very true mate, both Microsoft and Sony are currently losing money on this generation of consoles. But you gotta think of it more as an investment, where the money they make from games and accessories and the decreasing production costs will (hopefully) make it worthwhile in the end.

They can charge higher prices at first because of the fairly inelastic demand of hardcore gamers and early adopters but after a year or so of release all consoles have to have a price drop to stimulate demand from the more casually minded gamers. View

It is indeed a good day to be a Sony fan. I'm lucky as I've got a 360 and Wii as well, so for me it's ALWAYS a good day, whatever bad news or fanboy rants that may occur, I know one of my system's always gonna have something in the way of positive news for it! View

I know people are supposed to love the games and not the console, but sometimes I look at that shiny, black, quiet, sleek looking beast of a machine, just sitting there exuding coolness.

Then I look at the 360 sitting next to it, with its white plasticy feel, loud fan, separate power supply and widespread propensity to break down (not mine personally though). Yeah, I love the games and Xbox Live on the 360, but do I love the hardware? Alas, no.

I don't know whether it's the beauty of the design or just my recent continued daily decline in neutrality, but I could kiss that PS3, oh I could kiss it indeed ... View

Ah mate! You shouldn't have said that, now you're just tempting fate. Still no matter what people say, I can't wait to play Lair ... View

It's alright mate, take some deep breaths, you'll be alright - it's "only" some game announcements. The funny thing is that you STILL don't have a PS3 and yet you feel so emotional towards it ... View

Cheers me old mate, glad to be of service. :)

Yeah that Little Big Planet screenshot is pretty interesting, can't wait to play it myself and see what kind of weird looking characters people come up with when the game's released ... View

Haven't you noticed mate, my avatar's starting to slowly change colour, it's starting to fade into black. Over the days it'll carry on in its transition and when it's fully black, Biased Gamer will be born!

Can't wait to have some fun with that ... :p View

I tell you this mate, despite it now being 60 days since I became a contributor I'm still suffering from the "refresh" obsession as you call it. I've currently got 7 stories approved this morning and I'm checking them all, watching them slowly increase in temperature.

Aahh! N4G is still too addictive ... View

I agree with the general consensus presented so far by the above commenters. Sony may have appealed more to the media and general public if they had released a console at a lower price with an increased quantity and range of games, but it would have been a disaster from their loyal hardcore gamer base.

Adding one year may have been enough to persuade a significant number of them to just go ahead and buy the 360 or even a Wii. All console makers need the hardcore gamers and early adopters as they're the ones who'll buy consoles at more or less any price just so they can be first. When the PS3 price does drop and there's a greater selection of games it'll be interesting to see whether more casual gamers will enter the market like they did for the PS2 after its price drop.

If developers and publishers saw that the PS3 was being delayed further they'd have to make a financial decision and create for the 360 and no doubt yet more exclusives would have gone multi-platform. Some people may think that things haven't gone too well for the PS3 so far and only time will tell whether Sony'll be able to pick up the ball, but imagine how worse it would have been if it'd been delayed further still ... View

Stan mate, maximum respect, I dunno how you do it. I do hope you pass your exams and hope that N4G hasn't prevented you from getting the degree classification you're hoping for! :p

So, are you finally gonna buy the elusive PS3 you've always been talking about when they hand over the $500 to you at the end of the month ... View

What I'd love to know is how often people who comment so much on this site actually sit down and PLAY some games on their own or with some friends?

Can't N4G add another section to the site called "Flaming", where an article which openly and unsubtly proclaims that a particular console, manufacturer or DVD format will "p4wn" its rival, can be sent?

Some people wanna read about new game releases, reviews, previews, new hardware etc. Not "my Dad's bigger than your Dad" style stories all day. I'm not saying get rid of the stories, just filter them so we have the choice rather than the site being littered with them. View

Soon gta_cb, soon my friend. The time for darkness is near, mwah ha ha ... View

The funny thing is that most people who get a new version of Windows get it with the purchase of a new computer and as that computer's gonna be much faster than your old one you don't notice the extra loading time and memory use, as the hardware upgrade offsets it.

Also simply wiping your computer and re-installing Windows every 12-18 months can make a MASSIVE difference to performance, if you got the time that is ... View