Europe, and I suppose UK too, has always prefered Sony to MS. So I'm not too surprised at the price cut. I don't know if the U.S. situation is at all similar.
Personally, I'm still thinking of a PS4 before a X1.
I've been using backloggery a lot lately. I use it to select a new handheld game every few days. So far I've been playing a lot of the small games on collections like Atari's Greatest Hits on DS and Capcoms Classics Collection on PSP. I'm having a blast with it.
I still want to buy Auto Modelista even though I've heard it's not a great racing game just because it has a cell shaded art style.
I was so into Live when they were around.
Just watch the trailer for Excalibur. "Knights, Squires... prepare for battle."
SCTV. Loved that show. So much talent sprung from there.
Comedy is something near and dear to my heart so when I heard the news, I was moved. I've followed his career pretty closely. I saw his last movie Year One in the theater. It disappointed me, but it had it's moments. I think I heard an interview with him once were he confessed to be more into the writing than the acting. Still, he'll be fondly remembered for nerd mastermind Egon. 
Funny you should bring this up. Last night I was looking up the definition of "Master" as it's used on Backloggery. They mean it to be some way you've played the game that is special or especially difficult like doing Dark Souls with no weapons. I went through my list and removed everything but one game, Wizardry 1 done in 25 hours (howlongtobeat.com says it's 35 hours, so I guess this is a "speed run" although that's not much of a difference).
I'd like to play Destroy All Humans 2 in some special way like a speed run. Speed runs are cool and in doing them, you really learn a game's ins and outs.
I was surprised to hear how hard Flappy Bird is. You would think that would turn off a lot of people, but no, people are addicted to it already.
Holy wow! Yoshi's got some digestive system.
