Insomnious

You n00bs! :-)

It was in the very first version on NG, in some alley-way across from the bar in the city (no idea what the names are). It refilled your ninpo and health, which made it perfect for saving up essence for all the weapon upgrades later in the game.

Good to see the developers have a sense of humour.

Don't feed the troll!

Repetitive? Yes.

Fun? Very yes.

Addictive? Well, I constantly played the original through a torrent of dirty disc errors, replaying the same unsaved sections and loved it.

Seriously, give it a shot, at least. Defeating an entire group of enemies is very satisfying.

Any word on achievements?

Hmm, I may be tempted with OpenXML support, but I think everyone who uses Office 07 has realised they should steer clear and just save as .doc or .rtf.

Hopefully they'll sort out this support for OpenOffice 3 (and actually get it working).

If its realtime spyware detection you need, you could always try Spybot's Resident 'TeaTimer' which, as Spybot explains, "immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future".

I use Spybot primarily for TeaTimer, and Ad-Aware for actual scanning. If you're wanting to do a really good scan of your system, you can also use Avira Antivirus which the realtime scanner active, and do a full system scan using Ad-Aware. Doing this, I found a ton of viruses in System Restore files on my external drive, which Norton didn't even bother to scan.

I miss the comments on TorrentSpy; aahhh, those were the days, "wotz a flac file pls help me kthxbye", or the multiple instances kids with no idea about codecs for .avi files.

In the past year however, TorrentSpy was a mess of adverts and pointless scripts. Even with NoScript and Adblock, the site was a mess, and that turned me off going there.

One of the best ringtone creators I've ever used! ;-)

It still amazes me that software that does exactly what it's supposed to, and does it right, is always free. Audacity, OpenOffice, GIMP, hell, even the free versions of ZoneAlarm and Avira Antivir has done more for me in the whole week I've installed them than a paid subscription for Norton Internet Security had done in a year.

Freeware, open-source etc. has come a long way from being stuff you find on 3 1/2" floppys on the front of computer mags, now outperforming most overpriced and under-developed paid software.

One of the best ringtone creators I've ever used! ;-)

It still amazes me that software that does exactly what it's supposed to, and does it right, is always free. Audacity, OpenOffice, GIMP, hell, even the free versions of ZoneAlarm and Avira Antivir has done more for me in the whole week I've installed them than a paid subscription for Norton Internet Security had done in a year.

Freeware, open-source etc. has come a long way from being stuff you find on 3 1/2" floppys on the front of computer mags, now outperforming most overpriced and under-developed paid software.

To be honest I was so pleased at managing to find a copy without pre-order I took it. I did try to pre-order at Gamestation but was told that they would have plenty left on Tuesday and weren't taking any more pre-orders, then it just-so-happens they sell out first thing Tuesday morning before I get away from work.

The girl behind the counter in Game did genuinely look pretty uncomfortable when she told me and I looked at her with disgust, but I took it anyway. The guide is actually pretty good, but on retrospect I wished I'd punched the guy who told me there were copies available, but failed to mention I'd have to buy the guide, then waited most of my lunch break in a queue.

...because Starbreeze are remaking it for the 360.

Pick the original up dirt cheap, or make you pay full price for the remake with a few extras. We all know what Microsoft would choose!