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It's hard not to love Richard B. Riddick; effortlessly cool, sharply intelligent and a completely homocidal brick shithouse to boot. The sociopathic, silver-eyed, anti-hero of the movie Pitch Black and it's various spin-offs is one of the best Sci-fi characters invented in the last ten years. Which is why it's easy to understand the annoyance felt by XBOX owners when it turned out that the original videogame prequel Escape from Butcher Bay wouldn't work on their shiny new XBOX 360s.

Loyalty is important. When it comes to a gaming system it's a real no-brainer, you might get on really well with someone, only to find out they play a different unit to you. Suddenly you start to realise that underneath it all, they smell a bit funny, why? Because the box wired to their tv-set is sleek, shiny and black and yours is bulky and a slightly off-cream colour.  Sound familiar? It should, it's been happening since 1982. Only the boxes weren't games consoles, they were home computers.