@Skyyboy: That's got to be the best method ever.
@Kenny: SMOD is pretty damn awesome.

Just recently played it for the first time, and running up behind two combine soldiers and blowing out their craniums before exploding their corpses with your foot in glorious slo-mo gets a definite thumbs up in my book.

Just got stuck at a bit on Highway 17 with an absurdly powerful alien-copter thing though.

After 12 pages of comments, I doubt there's anything to add other than to reaffirm the sentiment- Lifehacker is a must read, insta-bookmarkee of a site.

I was hooked here after following a link from another Gawker site and recieved the most helpful advice possible from the commenters about my issue. It's a theme constantly, almost uniquely, reiterated on Lifehacker like no other place in the blogosphere.

You've racked up some nice trophy cabinet fillers there, but to round off the collection, without further ado, I award you the...

'Random Internet Guy's ''Most Useful Blog in the Universe'' Award™'

Don't spend your internet cred all at once. :)

@Shinta: You haven't played Legend and Anniversary, yet already know the combat/story/supporting cast are crap? What?

I haven't played this, but it looks pretty neato. Legend was a blast.

Holy crap! Night Game is up for the grand prize and excellence in design!

Go go Nifflas!

I've used Project64 for a while, and the horrible default icon aside, it's been perfect.

The graphics may be a bit of a nostaglia killer if you're coming back to '64 games for the first time but it reminds you how good games like Super Mario 64 were despite the limitations. A big thumbs up for the emulator for me.

Jupiterthunder's advice should also be heeded- pick your ROM sites carefully.

@Neo_X: You missed an option: soccer, football, or 'who gives a shit?'
@Timrogersyoufuckingretard: After 3 comments?! How long does it usually take?
@DaveKap: I agree that the article could do with clarification.

Owen's clearly still posting, and the article went up about 3 hours ago, yet no correction to the incorrect details about the UK prices has been given which does make me wonder slightly.

@thedevilsadvocate: If 0.5 dollars was 1 pound...

2$ would = £4

4$ would = £8

So you've still got it the wrong way round.

You mean 1 dollar to every 0.5 pound.

@Stallion187: The VAT was always added on previously. This is just plain wrong, no matter how you cut it.
@DaveKap: Not so quick there.

Firstly, Denmark doesn't charge VAT on digitally distributed items, yet are still affected by the price hike.

Secondly, we always paid VAT before. The prices were always displayed in dollars, but VAT was still added at checkout. This effectively makes your point moot.

Thridly, you call out people on being ignorant complainers, yet seem oblivious to the people explicitly stating that Steam prices are considerably more expensive than store prices. This is no discount.

Finally, if you still need proof that the 1:1 Euro to Dollar conversion has absolutely nothing to do with VAT, then consider that it's the same Europe wide. VAT percentage however is not. As a quick trip to [en.wikipedia.org] would show you, the Canary Islands have 5% while the Swedish pay 25%. Yet they both suffer the same price rise.

@Estel: @Gonzobot: Sorry folks, I was a bit off the mark there.

I'd only actually wanted to do it with Half-Life and the Orange Box, so I assumed the support would have been more widespread. Disappointing, really.

I've always found physical copies of games cheaper than Steam here in the UK as it was. For Brits, this excellent site, [www.gamestracker.com] , is the first place to look to find the cheapest prices.

Also, as many have stated, the article is wrong about the UK prices. They are fine. Only Euro prices are fucked.

@BeetMkr10: Just so you know, you can get all the benefits of Steam (excluding reduced price, obviously) whilst buying retail games.

As long as Steam supports it, you should be able to activate your retail copy in Steam with a serial code, then be able to download it as many times as you want and all that jazz.

Can't guarantee it works like that for all games, but Valve ones definitely work.

Other than that, unless it's cheaper, SegevRaz says it all.

@Billkwando: We have a great advert here for 'Cheesestrings', where an excited child rebuts his teacher's admonishments for eating in the corridor with the snappy one liner; ''But it's real cheese'', as if that were a major selling point of a cheese product.

Give me some crumbly Glouster or a creamy Lancashire any day over that tat.

The French also do excellent cheese; not so fond of the of the Dutch or German though.

@Acebuckeye13: Chinatown too!

...and the two 'Stories'...and their PS2 ports...and GTA:School (aka Bully).

They keep on pumping them.

@Ferris Wheeler: I know! It looks like some form of shiny plastic.

I'll stick to my English cheese.

@Solid_hedgehog: There is something messed up there. Under 30FPS is pretty much unplayable for a shooter.
@Daisuash: I guess you missed his point.