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Clive Moody on Race Driver: GRID- “Codemasters’ latest driving epic drifts sideways and at great speed onto shop shelves today. To celebrate its release we talk to senior producer, Clive Moody, about the design philosophy behind the game, and the team’s passionate love of smoke effects…“  An essential read for all gamers; especially petrol heads!

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Kaz Hirai: Sony can ‘re-evaluate’ paying for PS3 exclusives- Damn right, as PS3 Fanboy notes; “This strategy has meant a bevy of formerly PS2-exclusive series to become multiplatform successes on Xbox 360 and PC.”  Enjoying games such as Burnout, GTA and Assassin’s Creed on your 360, are you?  You can thank Sony for not bribing [...]

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Taking a page out of the book of the legend that is Peter Griffin; here’s something a little different. Now, I don’t know whether this will be a recurring series of posts or not, but a few things have been annoying me recently and so I felt compelled to post them in order to [...]

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I’ve been enjoying Collin McRae: DiRT for a while now, but have started looking around for my next driving fix. I’ve totally skipped Burnout Paradise because I don’t like driving games trying to be role-playing games. I don’t want to cruise around a huge city looking for a set of traffic lights which [...]

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Haze Review- Following on from my previous Haze post, The Sixth Axis seem to agree with me here; complete and utter crap.  Why settle for Haze when you can play Call Of Duty 4 or Resistance: Fall of Man?  HUGELY disappointed.

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A 140 word limit and the simple question, ‘what are you doing?’ is all that is needed for one of the most creative communication services on the internet. The limits imposed keep things simple, concise, and useful. The myriad of apps that have launched to take advantage of the Twitter platform are as [...]

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The Metal Gear Retrospective- A series of videos by Gametrailers detailing and explaining the history of the Metal Gear series. An essential primer for anyone new to the series and thinking of getting MGS4. I’d add that it’s compelling viewing for any gamer.

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PSN hits one million accounts in Japan- Whilst nowhere near as high as Xbox Live numbers (obviously) these numbers are encouraging and there’s room for solid growth.  What has been noted however, is that these numbers represent half the number of PS3 owners which begs the question- what are the other half doing?  A PSN [...]

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MGS4 features 90-minute cutscenes, 4.6GB installation- Erm, that’s loooooooong.  Obviously I’m still going to get MGS4; it’s an essential game to add to any true gamer’s collection.  However I want to be playing a game, not just watching an ‘interactive experience’.  You could argue however, that MGS4 offers an experience that far surpasses most games [...]

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Yes, perhaps ‘Haze‘ is an apt name for such a game.  Wikipedia defines haze as:
…traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky.
Did the developers have a clear idea about what they were aiming for then?  I like my first person shooters (FPS) to feel solid.  Haze [...]

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Resistance 2 at E3 judges’ day- Article from PlayStation.Blog.  So, Resistance 2:  mouth-watering graphics that are so good they taste like frozen silk wrapped in dripping sweet chocolate from the land of milk and honey…probably, and 60-player online multiplayer?  Yes please!

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Ok, I’m really starting to like the Mac- a lot. I’ve also noticed amongst other things that web designers and other creative people use Macs. So I guess I’ll start off with why I like the whole idea of the Mac. Both hardware and software is made/controlled by Apple which means that [...]

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