It's ironic, isn't it, that after that whole nasty Lars Ulrich vs Napster debacle a few years back, that their latest CD is beaten in quality by a downloadable version of the album?

As mentioned in an earlier post over on my website, Death Magnetic, Metallica's 9th studio album, is horribly mastered, compressing the entire audio range down into a narrow band, making the whole affair sound like a wall of noise (not in a good way either).

Audio engineers have compared the...

Spore, the Maxis & Will Wright developed Life sim that was released the other day has been kicking up a shitstorm since release. Not because it's the "uber-est gaem to evar hit teh intarnets", but because of the completely draconian DRM and the unbeliveably strict user terms EA blithely expects their customers to agree to.

• You can only install the game 3 times. Ever. Even on the same PC, in the same installation of an OS (so forget about reformats). If you want to

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Well I'm getting my 3rd tatt tomorrow night, and it'll be a rather large-ish Quake 4 logo on my right inner arm.

Can't wait, and I'll be doing it without any numbing cream, as I've read they can interfere with the ink take-up in your skin, so I'll be grinning and bearing it.

Got my 2nd one only on Saturday just gone, which is the DNA helix from Heroes, which is starting to scab-off now, so another couple of days and it'll be healed up completely.

Mutant healing...

I got this out on Monday morning from Lovefilm, and I've been playing it a lot over the past week or so.

It's a great fighting game, one which I've enjoyed playing a lot, so I think I'll keep a hold of it until pay day and give it a purchase.

Still getting to grips with the various fighters, and haven't even tried half of them all yet. And then there's the Character Creation section, which lets you either modify an existing character, or better still, create one from scratch...