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Archive for the ‘Gaming’ category

Unfortunate similarities

Unforeseen consequences of the visual similarities between the Labour Party manifesto and mutual nuclear armageddon.

6 Dec '07

Unexpected disappointment

Not that I particularly wish this blog to descend into a repetitive record of moaning about the failure of my Xbox but having the supposedly repaired Xbox returned to me whilst still broken was a notable moment! So off it goes back to the service centre. As compensation I get a free wireless controller which [...]

26 Nov '07

Hurrah!

Turned around in just over two weeks – I must admit to being pleasantly surprised by that – fingers crossed it’ll work when it arrives!

12 Nov '07

Circles of red

Such a great time to be an Xbox 360 owner… my copy of Assassin’s Creed arrives next week, Team Fortress 2 is reigniting my enjoyment of deathmatch type games and Mass Effect is just days away. Thus, this was not a sight I wanted to see… Inconvenient doesn’t quite cover it!

17 Oct '07

Rumble In The Void

I’ve only just remembered the times I used to spend playing this awesomely simple top-down space war game on Wireplay (back when it belonged to BT – circa 2001). Sadly, and to some extent uniquely, virtually all mention of this game has vanished from the internet. All I can find is one rather lame screenshot… [...]