Stoke sacked Tony Pullis.  They did it for all the wrong reasons (small town club getting too wide for their own good thinking he's holding them back) and they will pay the price for it (ie certain relegation next season) but I'm almost as glad to see the back of him as that of Ole Mr Rednose.  Sad little man managing a bunch of thugs, playing for 0 - 0 draws, and breaking play every 20 seconds with dangerous bone crunching tackles, injuring opponents.  Now I may be able to watch Stoke again when they play against my team next season.  Good riddance Mr Pullis.

Now West Ham please sack Sam Allardyce and the EPL will be an even better place.

edit:  Does anyone watch premier league football?  Foolz?  IGA?

Foolz said:

As a Chelsea fan you would be glad to see the back of Ferguson.

But even you should surely think it's a shame he won't be around for Mourinho's return. The rivalry between United and Mourinho's Chelsea was special at times, and the gritted teeth respect between the two was a big part of that. That's not gonna be there with Moyes.

I'm among the minority who won't be rejoicing when The Special Mou returns.  He is only marginally more positive than the likes of Pullis in that he plays for a 1-0 win as opposed to a 0-0 draw.  I also don't believe it's good to "go back" in these matters.

On Ferguson, I just think he is a bully, a terrible person who owes most of his success on intimidation tactics.  Intimidating the referees, the board of directors, the FA, politicians, opposition players, opposition managers, his own players ... their wives.  Mou was just one of the few who would not be intimidated because he was SAF's equal in arrogance.  Happy retirement to him

Foolz said:

bugsonglass said:

I'm among the minority who won't be rejoicing when The Special Mou returns.  He is only marginally more positive than the likes of Pullis in that he plays for a 1-0 win as opposed to a 0-0 draw.  I also don't believe it's good to "go back" in these matters.

On Ferguson, I just think he is a bully, a terrible person who owes most of his success on intimidation tactics.  Intimidating the referees, the board of directors, the FA, politicians, opposition players, opposition managers, his own players ... their wives.  Mou was just one of the few who would not be intimidated because he was SAF's equal in arrogance.  Happy retirement to him

Pretty impressive that he was such a successful manager without any of it having anything to do with football then.

Extremely impressive!  I have to hand it to the guy for making almost everyone involved in English football his bitch for so long.

Who coined the term, "Xbone"?  Amazing!  Did anyone get a Xboner while watching that conference yesterday?

Enough updates for ya?

GAF is hilarious, the uber bitching has peaked suddenly "Wii U doesn't look so bad" thread has popped up.

The size in relation to a normal human being.

Fuck you GG, I was legitimately excited. Well, until I saw the crappiness of the screenshot.

Foolz said:

Fuck you GG, I was legitimately excited. Well, until I saw the crappiness of the screenshot.

What's going on with Forza next gen?

It has less detail than NFS on PC/Wii U. The AA is better but the detail is so low on the environment it's ridiculous. The cars look good close up in that pic but so do the cars on NFS:

edgecrusher said:

So all the rumors about the new Xbox were true?

What is the official word on the specs? Not as strong as PS4? Why is it so fucking big and stupid looking?

Xbox "ONE"?! Really?

I am all fucking set from what I just skimmed through.....all. Fucking. Set.

Set on Wii U - PS4 duo?

Specs are broadly the same, PS4 RAM is faster, more bandwidth while Xbone uses ESRAM to juggle with slower DDR3 like Wii U does.

Same CPU, assume, MS say the CPU is custom but we pretty much know it's 8 energy efficient Jaguars like PS4.

Xbone GPU is slightly worse, from rumours.

PS4 1.8 teraflops Xbone 1.2 teraflops.

But the real thing here is that Xbone is dedicating 3 GB of RAM for the OS and if rumours are true, a couple of CPU cores too. PS4 used 1.5gb for the OS so for games:

PS4 = 6.5gb - higher speed

Xbone = 5gb - slower speed + 32mb superfast ESRAM

But they did say that it had three OS's and that devs could use all the resources for games - I think? If that is true than the difference in visuals won't be noticible really. RAM isn't a magic bullet but it helps.

Call of Duty Ghosts CVG preview

For its next-gen debut, Infinity Ward isn't trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead it's making sure that wheel is perfectly, flawlessly round.

Perfectly round like the scope of your rifle. We're at Activision's Pre-E3 event in Santa Monica, California, and Call of Duty: Ghosts executive producer Mark Rubin is on stage comparing next-gen stills of the upcoming title with those of 2011's Modern Warfare 3

At one point we're shown a comparison of how both games look when the player is peering down their sights. Much is made of how Ghosts' reticule is a perfect circle, so magnificently spherical you could use it to cut cookies. In contrast, MW 3's scope is jaggier, its rough edges muddied from view with some sneaky blurring and depth of field effects.

That's right - we've entered that stage of the next-generation hype machine. The murky period when the first-wave of next-gen games justify their existence by highlighting inconsequential new graphical flourishes. Remember the early Xbox 360 sports titles and their 'sweat physics'? Perfectly round reticules are this gen's equivalent. On that note, did we mention that the fish now have AI?

Oh man.

Eurogamer said:

Remember that joke about two GameCubes taped together? Well, to me Xbox One looks like a giant Wii. Sure, it's got more cooling vents than a Deus Ex game (who can blame them after last time?) and size and appointment is more like an expensive amplifier from a mid-80s hi-fi than anything Nintendo's ever made, but that diagonal cut-off at the base of the front bezel gives it a similar profile.

[Microsoft said this to Joystiq in a statement: "The Wireless Controller will connect to the console using high speed data transfer to enable higher fidelity headset audio and future controller add-on experiences that are not possible with Xbox 360 wireless technology."

Kinect Apparently the fidelity is about three times that of Kinect 1.

All of these tech demos work elegantly enough, but it should probably be noted that they are not faultless. The expression and engagement elements don't always work correctly.

Even so, the implications for things like the heart-rate sensor are very interesting. Fitness games, sure, but what about other genres like shooters or more suspenseful activities?

So not enough of a difference to matter, but the PS4 probably has a slight edge?

Again...why is it so big? I seriously hope the PS4 isn't that big. That's looks like its about 2 times the size of the original Xbox.