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It’s been an
exhausting weekend. My schedule showed three barbeques in three days, and I almost accomplished that much. Friday night I went to Pete and Bec’s for her birthday, and despite an enormously rude faux pas near the end of the night (I was drunk, there was a baby calendar, I [...]
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A few of
my friends and I sat down and popped the cherry on my newly gifted Settlers of Catan board game last night. We’ve only recently been exposed to the world of board games beyond Snakes-and-Ladders and Charade-likes, a world that apparently is ruled by ‘ze Germans’. This is not your typical [...]
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I’ve been listening to Editors’ new album ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ pretty much constantly for the last couple of weeks. Some albums seem to strike some part of me that is completely helpless to slipping the silver disk in player and hitting play, not just once, but over and [...]
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Until recently, I
had been enjoying the myriad pleasures of Bookworm Adventures Volume 2. There’s not much to say about the actual game that hasn’t already been said elsewhere, except that it’s a game involving levelling up based around words you spell; a combination that couldn’t fail in its target audience of computer [...]
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There’s something Zen
about laying down fourteen or so remote mines on the integral supports of a structure and then pressing the ‘B-for-boom’ button. And that’s a very fortunate thing, since the act of destroying buildings in a wide spectrum of thought-out and frantic ways is the main gameplay mechanic in Red Faction: [...]