A three-year break though and Mercedes' inability to capitalise on Brawn GP's exceptional title-winning year have left him with a best-place finish of fourth.
It's been something of an in-between year for gaming, shaped by unperfected new business models, expectations for new hardware announcements that remained unrequited, and truly exceptional titles in short supply.
GREE's acquisition of Funzio will move GREE toward its goal of attaining one billion worldwide users while introducing new genre expertise and exceptional titles to the anticipated GREE social mobile gaming platform, scheduled for release in Q2 2012.
This series appeals to scientists, practitioners and students in the fields of geography and history as well as related disciplines, with exceptional titles that are attractive to a popular science audience.
"My role has morphed into more of a forager," she says, "someone who gets out to look for something exceptional". Her title changed, from general manager to vice president for special sales, as her duties did.
At the time of writing Luton are 7-2 on to slip into the Conference, and the perceived wisdom seems to be that they'll need an exceptional, possibly title-winning, season to survive.
Zoowax have put out an exceptional self-title debut album, full of electro swing dance floor fillers.
In exceptional cases the title alone is enough.
It is almost a year since Hélène Muyal-Leiris died and Antoine wrote these words – which were read more than 200,000 times all over the world – and he has followed it with a book of exceptional grace, its title – You Will Not Have My Hate – taken from his original post.
If Foster is exceptional in the title role, she is strongly supported by Henry, Donnell and especially the teen-aged Steele.
