Note: This was originally an application piece written for a job as an amateur game reviewer. To no one’s surprise, there were about 30 applicants and I didn’t get the job. I don’t hold any trophies for sport or physical achievement. It’s not like I didn’t try, my brain would…
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January 11, 2010 at 9:54 pm | Articles, Trophy Hunter's Club, Video Games | No comment
Tags: achievements, PS3, trophies
I wasn’t intending to update this thing so soon1, but there’s something that’s been bugging me and as some of you out there in mystical internet land know if something “bugs” me I’m generally being overly subtle in my wording and I’m actually on the verge of bubbling over like…
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August 19, 2009 at 7:16 am | Films | No comment
Tags: Alan Moore, comic book movie adaptations, comics, films, Watchmen
This was originally posted on deviantArt following an evening going through my list of people I follow on that particular site. I’ve just spent the best part of two hours cleaning out my Deviantwatch list, and its possibly one of the most bizarre mental experiences one can inflict on oneself….
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July 8, 2009 at 6:31 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: deviantArt
This was originally posted on deviantArt after my PC’s motherboard had a climactic knife fight with the processor where both sides lost. This is the journal post I made after I got my repaired PC back from Roger the Almighty PC Repair Guy. I’m typing this on my own PC,…
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February 6, 2009 at 2:49 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: odds and sods, PC repair
At the time of writing this, Metal Gear Solid 4 is just around the corner on the releases list. To commemorate the occasion and remind myself of the story, I thought that I would push my PS3 to its limits by playing an outdated game created back when high definition…
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April 22, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: game review, Metal Gear Solid, MGS, Solid Snake, The Twin Snakes
This game always struck me as a very odd concept. It appears that the creative company behind the hit Prince of Persia trilogy (Ubisoft) sat down one day and decided to create a Grand Theft Auto clone with PoP’s sensibilities and the political soapbox cyberpunk intrigue of the Metal Gear…
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January 9, 2008 at 10:49 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Altair, Assassin's Creed, game review
WARNING – This article features potential spoilers and discusses plot points from FF7 liberally. Recently we have seen a slew of games and films celebrating Final Fantasy 7’s ten year anniversary – Before Crisis, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Advent Children and Last Order – and with them the internet…
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December 1, 2007 at 9:49 pm | Articles, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Advent Children, Emo Cloud can sod right off, FFVII, Final Fantasy, RPG, sequels, Square-Enix
Right. FFX. *Rolls up sleeves* It’s been at least half a year since I touched it, and the next time I will shall probably be in about two years time when I forget why I had got bored of it. Final Fantasy 10 is a fantastic game, a deeply moving…
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April 14, 2006 at 11:06 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: bitching about video games, Brian Blessed, FFX, Final Fantasy, game review, RPG, Square-Enix