skate by EA is a superb game. It has everything, including an original and organic control system that makes Tony Hawk’s look and feel like a game aimed at children. The presentation is immaculate, the city is vast, detailed and believable, and the gameplay is varied. It has met with universal praise from all sides of the press, and I’m yet to find someone who tells me that they don’t like it.
All this from a brand new IP. Fantastic work EA, bravo.
Then this happened (photo credit Bojangle):

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The release candidate for WSUS 3 was excellent. Installed fine first time, everything worked. It didn’t even try to mess with all of my IIS sites like the beta did (which killed OWA for me).
A few days ago, Microsoft released WSUS 3. Features include:
- Upgrade from WSUS 3 Release Candidate to RTM
Lies.
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What are you people getting out of Massive games? I’m not kidding around, I really don’t understand. I tried my first one recently, and I’m certain it’ll also be my last.
Let me backtrack slightly. 14 days ago I signed up for a trial of EVE Online, partially because I’d always wanted to see what all this MMORPG fuss was about, but mainly because a few of my friends had recently signed up for it. These things are all about social interaction, right? Living another life inside the game with all your buddies helping each other out, PvP battles, joining guilds, ascending through the ranks, all whilst having a jolly good laugh with your mates. All this, and spaceships! Frankly I’m amazed I only just signed up. I’m a real sucker for spaceships…
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