So I've been playing Beautiful Katamari, and I absolutely love it. I am though, rubbish at it. For some reason though, despite it being an absoute struggle to be declared even 'average' by the King of All Cosmos, I keep going. There's just something about the game that keeps me hooked, despite my obvious lack of skill for it.

 Dear Michael,

I write this letter to address your recent comments regarding the lack of an R18 certificate in Australia, particularly in regards to the following excerpt;

"It certainly does restrict choice to a small degree, but that is the price of keeping this material from children and vulnerable adults. In my view, the small sacrifice is worth it,"

So games have started arriving into stores with the new PEGI ratings on, which has made it really hit home that finally this ratings war is over. Still though, I believe that the government made the wrong choice in going with PEGI.

So, I've been playing Legends of Wrestlemania recently, and after seeing all it has to offer, I can boil the entire game down to one word. Unnecessary.

I could have understood the need to release another WWE game six months after SmackDown 09 if it had actually been better. Yukes seemingly decided that better wasn't going to be easy to do though, and just went for 'different' instead.

OK, because the discussion was taking up the Ubisoft thread, I'll bring it out here.

I play games mainly on consoles. Dreamhunk plays games mainly on PC's. Dreamhunk also, it seems is of the opinion that consoles and their games are pointless, and not worth bothering with. Whilst I don't play PC games, my viewpoint isn't the same of PC games.

So I got to wondering, perhaps we simply play games that are radically different to each other. This would explain why we have such opposing viewpoints. So let's find out.

It's no secret that the games industry does not like the pre-owned games market. The recent entries by HMV and Amazon into the market are likely to have further strengthened the push towards digital distribution, which can't come quickly enough for many companies, Frontier's David Braben being among the many recent advocates. But a move to solely digital would not be welcomed by every consumer; this one included, and could well hurt the industry as it might mean it loses out on purchases by parents and grandparents.

February 5th brought with it an update to Burnout Paradise. A multitude of tweaks were implemented into the game including the option to re-start a race. This is something that Criterion have long been resistant to. The question of restarts was raised during testing, but Criterion apparantly took an extreme dislike to loading screens, and vowed to eliminate them.