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2012

Dead Island 'Completed'

Finally finished my three player play through of Dead Island with Linda and old school mate Woodoggies. Have to say we found the whole thing …
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2011

My Steaming Pile of Shame

With a recent lock out on my XBOX/Live account meaning I was unable to play any 360 games online, I found myself spending more time back …
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Navigating the Surf

Came across this on a clean up in work. I’m so keeping it!
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Resident Evil Bubbles Up

This past weekend we had a good sort through our XBOX 360 collection in order to update our Pile of Shame/To Play lists for this site. A few …
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OnLive, not Origin, is the true competitor to Steam

Despite what EA would like you to think with regards to their Origin digital distribution system it isn’t, nor will be, a grand competitor …
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Dead Island 2 : Bank Account 0

So, as an update, we caved in and picked up a second copy of Dead Island. So we’ll soon be able to let you know what we think of it as a …
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Arcade is where the heart is

After the disappointment of the lack split screen in Dead Island, we found ourselves without a new co-op game to play. So as we have started …
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Dead Island is dead to us

We booted up Dead Island last night having had it delivered in a timely fashion by the excellent ShopTo, however we were immediately …
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A Day in the Asylum

I’m not one for marathoning a game usually. I’m far more likely to just dip in for one to three hours on a work night, leaving the weekends …
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UnderGarden Complete. DLC? Yes please!

We completed UnderGarden last night, and in the 100% all achievements way. The last level proved to have some frustrating sections, made …
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Lazy days in the Undergarden

The past few days and nights we’ve found ourselves continuing to return to The UnderGarden. A delightful download game from Vitamin G …
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Death by Trials and Limbo

In light of an upcoming Cane & Rinse on Limbo, I’m reposting my thoughts here: Failing in games has become more of a rarity in recent …
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Back to the Border

Borderlands is a game we really got into on first release, quickly leveling up our Siren (Linda) and Soldier (Steven) in our first …
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Mills & Boon & Video Games

Mills & Boon have been producing romance novels for over a hundred years. Their popularity is without question and they have every right …
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My E3

I was just responding to a post by Leon Cox over on GamerDork, which is worth a read but my response ended up becoming more a summing up of …
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Pipelines

We’ve not been posting much to this blog for a while, but we’re set to change all that. After this weekend our lives should become far more …
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I clearly don't belong in the gaming community

I awake in as much bewilderment as I went to bed with. All around me my friends are claiming Nintendo have stolen the show, they are back. …
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E3 Prediction - Google

At E3 3011 Google will announce Android Gamer.. far from being yet another phone/tablet this will be an actual Android who you can sit on …
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Brick Work with Magic

We’ve always been big fans of the modern Lego games, ever since the original Star Wars adaptations that we played on the Wii, back before we …
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2010

Play Outside

Unusual Activity Now most of the time we conform to the stereotypical gamer persona of staying indoors, lounging around on the sofa and …
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2009

Gears of War 2 - the hunt for level 100

When we picked up the XBOX 360 via my cousin Billy back in 2008 I chose to pick up a couple of games whilst it was away being de-RRoDed. …
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It Approaches

Just made a couple of pre-orders this morning, and then see the trailer.. roll on December!
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Monday Night Catchup – Assassins Creed

In order that my back log of games, that thing we all have whether we admit to it or not, doesn’t continue it’s alarming rate of growth I’ve …
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Why Do I Listen

Podcasts.. PODcasts… The very name put me off for years. Not the cast part, which had long been associated with broadcasting, but that first …
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Windows Gaming Fails

Well my success with Windows 7 gaming was short lived. The problem in hindsight was with judging it’s usability for my system with Valve …
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Gaming 7 Heaven?

I’ve not been giving my PC gaming much love recently so I thought I should readdress that balance slightly, in words if not in action. For a …
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Dropping a Giant Bomb on my Games

For a while now I’ve had my XFire and XBOX Gamer cards up in the top right of the Blog to show off what I’ve been playing recently rather …
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