Fantasy Football is for dullard nancies. So don't waste your time with it, because the world's greatest football sweepstakes game is back!

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I've been enjoying this one for a few weeks now.

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Everybody! Say! "OPA!"

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And finally, rounding up the last batch of interesting Formspring questions, this time covering three categories: Politics, Media & Culture, and Miscellaneous. Click below to read, unless you don't care what I think about stuff, in which case you're probably on the wrong website.

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You don't have a PSP Go. Nobody does. That's because, even in the idiot world we live in, nobody is QUITE stupid enough to pay double the price of a normal PSP for one with a smaller screen, no facility to play UMD games and no ability to run the custom firmware that's needed to use almost all of the PSP's attractive features.

Which is why, in an obvious warehouse-emptying initiative designed to erase the entire ham-fisted episode from memory as quickly as possible, Sony are now basically giving their stock of unsold PSPGs (which is to say, nearly all of them) away for nothing.

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I haven't done one of these for a while – because I figure most of you are bright enough to work out how to follow the iPod freebie sites for yourselves – but this pic is too nice not to use.

Normally £2.99 but free for today, Twin Blades is a very cute Final Fight/Streets Of Rage derivative with gorgeous graphics and guts and gore a-go-go.

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Exactly where does this spider's natural camouflage help it hide? Rainbows?

(Part 1 here.)

Obviously, a large percentage of what people ask me on Formspring is about videogames. So here's a collection of thoughts on the subject.

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This is totally NSFW, if you're a dragonfly. It may also cause depression among male viewers. If you're absolutely sure you can handle XXX-rated dragonfly action, then click on the pleasant picture below to peek through the leafy window and into the dragonfly boudoir.

(Pics taken this afternoon in the botanical gardens of Victoria Park, Bath, with a Fuji Finepix F70 EXR compact digital camera.)

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The flow of interesting questions on Formspring seems to have dried up, so the conclusion must be that everyone has learned everything about me and my views on stuff that they ever wanted to know. And since goodness knows how long Formspring will last, it seemed a good idea to collect all the worthwhile ones together into one big "interview". So here it is.

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Perfect Dark XBLA has finally been patched into the condition it should have been released in in the first place, so I bought it. So far it seems to be just as fantastic a game as I remembered from a decade ago, but with nicer graphics and a silky-smooth framerate, so well done to all concerned.

I still had some MS Points left over, though, so at the same time I also picked up the splendid Retrofit: Overload.

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Most people will have realised by now that it was Pac-Man's 30th birthday last week, with the Google homepage interactive banner probably being the most celebrated of the celebrations.

If not for an alert WoSblog viewer, though, this reporter might have missed out on a Pac-party taking place just along the road, in what's rapidly becoming WoSblog's twin town of Swindon.

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It's flipping lovely.

This week, WoSblog was presented with something rare – a reason to go to Didcot, a town whose claims to fame are many (it's the home of Britain's third-worst architectural eyesore!) and which I've passed through countless times on trains but never actually alighted in.

That's just not the kind of opportunity WoSblog passes up on.

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Someone asked me yesterday on the WoSblog Formspring page what the most unfairly-maligned and under-rated videogame in history was, and I had to think for a few minutes before I remembered.

It's Clockwork Games' magnificent 3D Lemmings, and as I remembered it I also remembered I'd done a little mini-featurette on it a couple of years ago for the now-defunct Total PC Gaming. As a passing diversion, the piece is reproduced below.

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