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Earning My Wings

2008-09-04T22:35:27Z

This blog has been drifting about my consciousness since last Monday after touching down at Newcastle International with memories of the mass gathering of the gaming populace of Europe - Leipzig 08. The last trade show I attended was ECTS 2002 ...

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It Happens To The Best Of Us.

2008-08-03T19:05:32Z

It is the thing that all Xbox 360 owners fear - the dreaded "red rings of death". Yesterday afternoon, that evil technological spectre finally visited me five minutes into a pigeon-hunting spree in GTA4, and I involuntarily yelped like a woman....

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E3 2008 - The Forgotten Hardcore.

2008-07-20T23:56:47Z

Normally E3 is considered by many gamers as an early Christmas - all their favourite developers and hardware manufacturers congregate in a large room in Los Angeles and reveal wonderous surprises. When console launches coincide with E3, there's...

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Poverty improves the soul.

2008-06-29T23:22:38Z

These days I don't seem to have any fun. There's a simple reason for this - money. Ever since the advent of me becoming a fully independant human being, I've ironically become like a lot of other people - struck down with a self-imposed mortgag...

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When A Workmate Becomes A Rock Star.

2008-06-08T14:27:22Z

I'll let you into a little secret. I've never woken up to the sound of happy-lady-noises until this faithful morning when at 9.40AM, Old Faithful decided to splutter and moan into life right above me. The strange thing was that in all my time I...

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The Day Indy Ruined My Birthday

2008-06-01T22:40:13Z

Today I celebrated my 33rd year of being on this floating rock in the middle of an almost-infinite universe. In a birthday phone call to my Mum, she still remembered how heavy I was when I was born and what time it was, although I'm modest so I...

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And on the seventh day, God created iPlayer.

2008-05-18T18:31:30Z

The BBC are a crafty lot. They impose a licence fee on the entire nation and have TV adverts with friendly warnings that we should all pay unless we want a huge fine. The plus side of this is that we get television with no advertising and that'...

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"Maybe things will be different for me here"

2008-05-04T00:51:01Z

So Grand Theft Auto 4 arrived on Tuesday into my anticipating hands. The day had been taken off work and I mentally prepared myself for the gamegasm which was to come. Thankfully I wasn't disappointed - GTA4 is an insanely dense experience whic...

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Steve's Visit To The Baltic Mill

2008-04-27T20:36:05Z

If there's one good thing with having noisy neighbours inconsiderately walking about in high heels, creaking doors and letting their brat run wild at the weekend, it's the fact that I can't stand being in here and it forces me to be less of a shut...

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Gamers' Day = Success!

2008-04-24T21:56:17Z

Is it that time again? I don my marketing cape and self-indulge on the kind words the gaming press have spoken about Wheelman? We've been collating all the previews internally in the office and each one has filled us with happy feelings deep ins...

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