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Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Live and a few biscuits on the side…
March 6, 2010

Posted by : beck

A few months ago I talked about a new game coming called Heavy Rain on the Playstation 3. If you recall, the game is about a serial killer called the Origami Killer and you play a number of different characters in the game in the pursuit of the killer and to find a missing boy [...]

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November 17, 2009

Christmas Gifts for under 50 Quid

Posted by : beck

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat but your wallet is getting smaller and Christmas might be crap. Of course you do not need to spend hundreds of £££’s to make someone happy this year or even choose a small pressie for yourself.  Here are my top 5 gaming gifts to please someone this [...]

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November 14, 2009

Looking forward to 2010

Posted by : beck

2010 – the year when 30 years ago when I was at primary school we used to think was going to be full of robots and people living on space stations and walking around in astronaut suits. That did not quite happen but in 30 years I have seen video games go from small pixelated [...]

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November 2, 2009

Borderlands Xbox 360

Posted by : beck

Borderlands just released last week has to be one of the best games I have played this year.  It is an RPG shooter along similar lines of Fallout 3 but with a unique cel-shaded cartoony look and a more comical side to it.  From the moment I started playing Borderlands I just knew it had [...]

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October 5, 2009

A Gaggle of Platformers

Posted by : beck

First up is Mini Ninjas.  Mini Ninjas is aimed at young children to promote exploration in a large world. The world is not that big and the game is very linear but it does promote exploration by way of collectable items. You can collect many new magical powers throughout the game [...]

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August 31, 2009

Round up of the Latest Releases

Posted by : beck

WOLFENSTEIN – PC, XBOX 360 & PS3
The Castle of Wolfenstein games have come a long way since their inception many sunrises ago.  Wolfenstein is it’s latest incarnation and is the first on the current generation of consoles.  Set in World War 2, you are fighting the Nazi German’s and their zombies.  You find an old [...]

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August 12, 2009

Xbox 360 Games Marketplace

Posted by : beck

Great idea but like everything else run by a big corporation, it is too expensive.
I really want Call of Duty 2 as I have never been able to find it again in the shops but at £20 I think that is far too expsnive for a game which is 5 years old.  If it was [...]

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