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When you say you couldn't get it to control the Sky box, what were you trying to get it to do? It's my understanding that, until Sky and MS sort the software out, it'll act purely as a pass through so no control will be possible. You'll still need the Sky remote for that. Mine happily turns on and off the TV and AVR, and does the volume on the AVR too (in helpful 1.5dB steps too, rather than the useless 0.5dB steps I was expecting).

Haven't done that yet, may give it a go tomorrow.

Well that's no fun

SMB1 is rubbish. Seriously, I hate that game. EA phone support is quite helpful, you know. I had to call them earlier to sort out some issues with my gamer tag and origin, and the nice Yanks on the end of the phone sorted it out for me pretty quickly. Now I can go back to being crap at FIFA

He said "cheaper".

Anyone who does this mod is a complete and utter mongbucket of the highest order. I've never seen anything more stupid in my entire life, and I've watched Hollyoaks since it started.

Oh yeah, that second picture really shows them off!!!!11

SNES had SMW, N64 had Mario64. That's about it.

I was expecting a pic of Holly Pretty sky

GoW wasn't a 360 launch game, it didn't come out until almost exactly a year later. At launch you had stuff like PGR3, CoD2 and NFS:MW. Hardly a must-have game there either!

Forza is lush, and Clarkson isn't as annoying as I expected (we get Clarkson the journo instead of a Clarkson the oaf). Ryse is genuinely good fun. Not deep, but fun. Not played the others yet. Apps and snapping work very well. Kinect needs less space than even I thought. It's silent in operation. Games can be played after as little as 5% installed. Takes an age to install fully though, and you cannot install from disc and download at the same time. It's a delight to use. I cannot fathom the hate for it from some quarters, I really can't.

Sweet Jesus Ryse looks amazing!

Kinect works about 90% for me right now, however I'm having to whisper as I don't want to risk waking wifey so I'll forgive it for now. Incredibly slick stuff, using codes is so stupidly easy now it's unreal.

Got it 500MB initial download, only took a couple of mins, Xbone is just restarting then I'm good to go. Controller seems very good, lighter than I thought, and the box itself really doesn't look that big next to my Sky box or AVR.

Not northern, but Walshy does some great experience days at North Weald (Ferrari F430, Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche 911 Turbo, Audi R8, Aston Martin DB9, Maserati Gran Turismo, Lotus Elise). I'd go with him any day over others, although 6th Gear (Simon George's lot) would be a close second.

So I look 'ard innit

I wouldn't buy Pirelli either!

I'd buy part worms over ditchfinders. Or Toyos.

I might shave my head before I leave the house.

Pfft, that's for pussies

Hadn't realised you'd not entered mate, I have to say absolute much respect for that as your car would be an absolute shoe-in otherwise

I have a question: How do I get from the shop to the car without being mugged??!! A game can be hid in a coat, but a whole console? Tonight? It'll be pretty obvious what's in the bag, so what do I do? Semi-serious question.

Resistance is futile Less than 3.5 hrs to go, cannot wait!

Oh god please not the Daily Fail Terrible service, just glad you caught it on film.

Yeah, I want to go back next year with the MR2. Hopefully we can avoid the snow this time though!