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Fuse? Snooze.
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Fuse? Snooze.

Imagine, if you will, a separate reality not too far removed from our own. Pixar have almost completed their heartwarming tale of a plucky wayward fish called ‘Finding Nemo’, and the excitement from all involved is palpable as the test [...]

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Games have grown up, so have we
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Games have grown up, so have we

Remember the days when a game like Final Fantasy 7 was held up as a great example of storytelling? Such a thought seems baffling now. As a young teenager, I have no shame in admitting I thought of it as [...]

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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm – Multiplayer (non-review)
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm – Multiplayer (non-review)

We’re back and hell, it’s about time. The field is calm with the fog of war seperating our two teams and nobody knows who is going to strike first and when. Sending out a poor SCV (Space Construction Vehicle) to [...]

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My first death: a Dark Souls tale (Ages 16+)
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My first death: a Dark Souls tale (Ages 16+)

I stand in front of the imposing edifice that houses Anor Londo’s equally daunting Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and I am lost in its beauty. It’s a curious facet of Lordran that the splendour of its most spectacular [...]

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Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition – Thoughts and musings
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Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition – Thoughts and musings

We live in somewhat of a golden era of videogaming if you think about it. Sure there are the mandatory sub-par moments such as Aliens: Colonial Marines but on the whole, we have it pretty good from an accessibility point [...]

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“It’s not a game”
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“It’s not a game”

What do Antichamber, Bientôt l’été and Proteus have in common? ‘They’re all video games’ seems like an innocuous enough, if non-committal response, but is it safe to make even so simple an assertion? Life has a funny way of leading [...]

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Me and Super Metroid
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Me and Super Metroid

Josh on Nintendo’s classic SNES action-adventure game, Super Metroid This isn’t going to be a review, at least not really. Super Metroid has already etched its mark on video game history. It’s a classic, a golden cow, a game used to measure [...]

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James Carter’s 2012
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James Carter’s 2012

It’s New Year’s Eve and I sit next to the fire, mulling over previous years in video gaming as I’m prone to do on a cold December evening. With their rap sheets long forgotten, lost to the ravages of time, [...]

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Akai Katana
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Leon Cox’s 2012

Life, changing While undoubtedly not the greatest ever year for new releases, 2012 was nevertheless a significant one for videogaming and also for me personally, with the landscape changing dramatically for both. Not least from my point of view it was [...]

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Darren Gargette’s 2012
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Darren Gargette’s 2012

So we came this far to the year 2012 and now we’re going to die in a fiery pit of death Before that happens, let me tell you what I did to prepare myself for the onrush of piping hot fire-mayonnaise through [...]

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