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(Secret) Oil Tanker attacked by pirates?
Ludwig mauled by Lions in the back yard?
Justin lost in 16th century Italy?
Chris Grant locked in high-level important executive meetings?

Where's my damn Podcast?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7373348.stm

A man was stabbed in front of a queue of people waiting to buy the latest edition of a computer game.
Up to 100 people witnessed the knife attack outside the Gamestation store in Croydon, ahead of Monday's midnight release of Grand Theft Auto IV.
Police said the 23-year-old victim was walking past the queue when he was stabbed several times by a hooded man who appeared to be waiting in line.

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to steal a line I read elsewhere.. that M.O. sounds more Assassins Creed than GTA

Planned for 04/25/2008 24:00(PDT). While the start is planned for the weekend, it may change due to unforseen circumstances.

according to http://www.konami.jp/mgo/en/index.html

Its a shambles. Shame on you Konami and Sony, you really couldnt put any capacity planning in place to foresee this?
Rockstar, I hope you're watching this and seeing how not to implement online play.

Maybe Konami will extend the beta given all the teething problems , in the same way the Halo3 beta was extended.

Their website performance is a joke, obviously no proper thought has gone into capacity planning for this event. Shame on you Konami..

Hmm, how about Engadget have a bio page for each contributor, it would help me decide whether or not to rag on the author of this article for reporting something thats 20 years old as news ("hey cut the guy some slack, he wasnt born when the laser-harp maestro was doing his stuff" etc etc)
If the bio page listed kit owned, interests etc, it might even help cut down the calls of 'fanboy' when they write a neutral article about the new Apple/Microsoft/Lebedev kit, if we know what they have a particular interest in.

I ordered mine as soon as the store came back up, do I get extra sucker points for being in the UK and paying the equivalent of 3,800 USD?

:S

nevermind the open letter from Steve-o; I cant wait to see what FSJ has to say about this

I can add all the ringtones I like to this iPhone - but it still wont ring here in the UK :(

Peter,

A wonderful story - thanks for sharing it with us. My condolences to you and your family.

thanks for Engadget, the #1 gadget site.

/David.