I think that the Nintendo Wii is currently winning the console war, but my prediction is that the PS3 will make a strong fightback. It just depends how strong as to whether it eventually takes over the Wii and the 360 in terms of popularity and quality games.
I was a big fan of the original, it was a brilliant game. I've been weighing up whether or not to get Anniversary, but I'm not a huge fan of remakes so I don't think that I'll bother.
Hmm, definitely FFVIII. The whole experience was really good, and I've seen some people make rather harsh criticism of the game, purely because it deviated so much from FFVII.
It's a shame he got fired, and CNET are attempting to cover up the actual reasoning behind it, but life goes on, and I'm sure once this whole thing has blown over people will begin to trust GameSpot again. However, because of this, there will always be a little question in everybody's minds over the actual credibility of the reviews that they are seeing.