Games collections and communities.

I said I would chuck a few useless pieces of information on here in case they were relevant to someone. So, for those who are looking to buy used and old games there is Play and Exchange, a small shop in the precinct in Felixstowe, you can also buy all sorts of other stuff there from plastic swords, card games, old videos ..... something of a collector's paradise. Of course, you could traipse round the local car boot sales instead :-)
I spent an hour or so watching X-League TV (Sky channel 279, or http://www.x-league.tv/Portal/home.aspx ) A place where you can either watch or take part in these prize competition shootems, like Quake etc. There was also a review of new developments, like the motion capture that is being used in one of the new Playstation3 games ( I forget which one, lost interest in the interviews quite quickly) It all looks very pretty, probably costs a fortune to make and will be priced accordingly. Thing is, I don't think the gameplay will be improved by that much by it. Maybe I'm wrong, we'll see. As an exercise in what can be achieved it was quite good though. the rest of the program basically focussed on various events which had taken place recently, like the latest EA gamefest in London (didn't take much notice of that one either, so couldn't tell you which one. Had lots of live bands that I'd never heard of and even more interviews. :-) )