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The catch, apart from it being a PS3 exclusive? Download release only.

OK, so I've used earbuds for years on PC. Like, probably since I started using computers, and for several hours a day. However the problem with earbuds is that one end (almost always the left one) inevitably ends up breaking so you have to throw it out, and in recent years there's been a drift towards shitty things like these:



I physically cannot cope with this type of earbud, I use these type:



As such they're costing a lot more now to buy new pairs of because everyone seems to be pimping the shitty type at the low end, and I'm sick of buying new earbuds every year or so. I'm currently using a pair of free ones I got on an American flight that have zero bass to them, and this has to be a temporary measure. Basically Retro, I'm asking advice for a permanent replacement to this - a decent headset.

I'm thinking a top-end price of £50, ideally less, with a preference of a 3.5mm jack hookup rather than USB. Anyone got any recommendations?

http://2013.summerof...r-of-sonic-2013

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Looking at http://www.c-h-w.com...Floor-Plans.pdf , the main hall (and it has to be the Great Hall, none of the other rooms are even close to years past in venue size), it's 1000 places in a Reception layout (or 2160 as a theature, but that's not gonna happen). More places than last year, can't remember if some in the past have been greater.

So the other game announced today was Mario & Sonic 2014, the game that no-one saw coming at all. Honest. =P



What do we think about another title in the series, the first in HD?

OK, so I have a trip coming up in a few months where I'm going to the US for about a week (don't panic, I fully intend to have internet & board access while I'm there, so you're all safe =P), and I intend to take my mobile phone with me that I bought when I visited South Africa last Autumn - specifically, that's this thing:


http://www.gsmarena....ot_217-3814.php

First off, some shit I've worked out that I'm fairly confident I'm right on:

* The USA has 4 main mobile phone networks, not counting those that leech off others' equipment: Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T Mobility, & T-Mobile USA. Of these 4, Verizon & Sprint are both useless as they use the CDMA standard that next to no-one else on Earth uses (and indeed those that do (including these two) are phasing out under the 4G standards anyway for LTE, which is GSM based). AT&T and T-Mobile both use proper GSM, therefore I will need to use one of these two.

* Wikipedia says that AT&T does 850MHz & 1900MHz for GSM/EDGE (2G) and UMTS/HSPA (3G - not that this is relevant, my travel phone is 2G only). T-Mobile does the same, but has to roam on AT&T's network to do 850. My phone does quad-band GSM 850 / 1900 / 900 / 1800, so as I understand it, I should be fine with either of these networks. (For the record, it seems only AT&T currently has any sort of 4G layout - 700, 1700 & 2100MHz, where T-Mobile is scheduled to roll out just 1700MHz at some point during this next year).


Now. Bearing in mind we're talking about a country whose mobile networks are so customer-unfriendly that they recently made unlocking your contract phone illegal, I have a couple of questions for locals who might know the answers of these - and if they vary state-by-state, the relevant ones will be MO (most important), FL, NV (both somewhat important), and TX (least important, any phones in it will be there a matter of hours at most):

* Is it even possible to buy pre-paid SIM cards that you slap into a phone and then just work, with a US phone number, as a UK national? (I assume the foreigner bit isn't the block as I did exactly this in South Africa, but with the sillyness of the above regulation you never know)
* Assuming that it is, what sort of prices will I be looking at for buying a bog-standard calls-and-texts-only SIM card, to slap straight into my own phone, with maybe $10 or $20 of credit? (I do not care for data necessarily, my phone can't do it anyway. However that might be important for someone else I know who's going)
* How much is a typical phone call from a mobile to a land-line in the US from AT&T & T-Mobile? How much are domestic texts - and arguably more importantly, international ones? How about mobile-to-mobile - on the same network and to other networks?
* Who has better coverage, AT&T or T-Mobile?
* Are there any other pitfalls of US mobile phone networks I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance!