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Germany has 1.963.304.345.830 Euro (nearly 2.000 billion!) in national debts at the moment of this writing. Every second, around 2.200 Euro more debts are added to it. That means around 24.000 Euro in debts for every German.

In comparison: Greece has 350 billion Euro national debts and is consered as good as bankrupt.



updated: 14.01.2012

playing right now: Xenoblade Chronicles

Hype-o-meter, from least to most hyped:  the Last Story, Twisted Metal, Mass Effect 3, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Playstation ViTA

bet with Mordred11 that Rage will look better on Xbox 360.

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Death Valley, in California, is the lowest point on the continent.



VGChartz is british



 

New Zealands only native mammals are bats.



Ecuador is lame.
Oh, and we eat those fluffy hamsters that are pets in U.S.A



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The average age of people here in england is 39.5



Wait... does this mean im not human?

PSN addy - mrx95

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

A radical is a man with his feet planted firmly in the air. - Franklin.D.Roosevelt

 

We in england consume the most amount of tea in the world 20 times that of america

The first telegraph was sent in england and read "qwertyuiop"

The NHS is the third largest employer in the world.

Sorry ive posted twice didnt mean to do that :P



Wait... does this mean im not human?

PSN addy - mrx95

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

A radical is a man with his feet planted firmly in the air. - Franklin.D.Roosevelt

 

Seece said:
VGChartz is british

FTW!



Wait... does this mean im not human?

PSN addy - mrx95

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

A radical is a man with his feet planted firmly in the air. - Franklin.D.Roosevelt

 

-Italy is the country to detain the largest number of sites of the UNESCO world hertitage convetion.
-An historical aspect of our economy is the great disparity beetween North and South. We go from a GDP of 33900euro per capita in Lombardy (133% of the EU average) to 16800euro in Sicily (66%).
-Oh, and our president is a pedophile.



Australia is the worlds largest Quarry, we have mining everywhere. The state of Victoria is the richest Gold area in the world, yet there is hardly any gold mining there since the gold rush in 1850s. Despite what popular belief would be that Australians live in the "outback", 60% live in coastal cities and around 85% in total live on the coast. Our government is spending somwhere around 40-50 billion dollars on a national boardband network that is set to give majority of people around 100mbps with national fibre optics network that is slowly being rolled out nation wide.  My Local state government of victoria has wasted 100s of millions on a new ticketing system that hardly works and to further top that spent billions on a desaliation plant which we have to pay 3 million a day for the next 30 years to pay off, built after 10 years of drought but the year its being built we have record rain and floods as the currents in the pacifics change direction giving Peru and columbia a break from wet weather which only bought massive floods here and produced a inland tsunami effect at on stage.

On the Sports News, we have a population of around 21-22 million yet we are one of the most dominate sporting nations. Melbourne is so sports mad we play nearly every sport and we made our own sport that been around for 150 years and formed the AFL which gets the 3rd highest attendances to games (since our stadiums are big) despite being such a small population that is again fragmented between afl, soccor, rugby, basketball.....list continues. 

An the Number 1 draft pick for the NBA was born in Australia and live his first 2 years here. No matter what he is playing for our national side now. 

 

Enough of those facts here are some gaming facts

1. R&D tax credit was passed givng some major tax credits (something like 45% off, something like that) which has been written to include games development.

2. The Recomended retail price of games here is 110 USD. The cheapest you can get new games from retail on average is 89 USD. But many gamers are screwing retail and importing from hong kong and UK and are paying less than 60 USD.

3. LA Niore was mostly developed in Sydney

 



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