Author: Ben W
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2009 Game Awards – The Results!
We know that over Christmas you only had one thing on your mind, so let’s ease the suffering a touch by revealing the winners of the Ready Up 2009 Awards. It went to the knife point in some categories, the best driving category was a closely fought race, with Forza 3 and DiRT 2 jostling for…
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Don’t Want To Be Your Monkey Wrench
My love of building things and creation as it were probably stems back to the Robin Hood Lego set I received one Christmas when I was but a small child. From that day my Lego creations grew and grew with only my imagination (and lack of flat pieces usually) to limit them, simple structures like…
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Ready Up 2009 Game Awards
We’ve almost reached the end of another fantastic year for gaming and with 2010 just around the corner it’s time for the Ready Up 2009 Game Awards! Perhaps you’ve rather enjoyed traversing the dark corridors of the Arkham Asylum, adventuring with Nathan Drake, vaulting around Venice as Ezio or perhaps shooting up a storm with…
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Digital Heartache
Since I’ve started getting back into PC gaming there’s one program that is seemingly ever present on my desktop, Steam. I remember my first encounter with the software, back when Half Life 2 was first released. I got off to a rocky relationship with it but eventually we grew to love each other. That was…
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The Paperback Edition
To many people a storyline in a game is just a needless distraction, something whose only real purpose is to flesh the game out with more content which adds to the amount of time it takes to complete the game thanks to all those talking scenes. There is however another camp that believes storyline in…
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Whoooowee, would ya look at that!
Heeeyaaah ladies and would ya look at that fine specimen of yellow otherwise known as the sun. It’s another fine and dandy day down here in the Dustbowl and those of us at Reliable Excavation Demolition (Team Red to the likes of you) are having a yeehaaw’ing good time keeping the Builders League United (that’ll…
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Colin McRae DiRT 2
Delays between console and PC versions of a game are becoming more common, but what is uncommon, though, is a game being delayed for a beastly set of graphical prowess upgrades. That’s the case for DiRT2 though, which took a hairpin turn into a console release back in September earlier this year whereas its PC…
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Dragon Age: Origins
Bioware and RPG’s have the sort of bond that is nigh on inseparable, so when Dragon Age was first announced it quite rightly sent shivers through the gaming community. It’s been a while coming and being granted the title as “successor to Baldur’s Gate” expectations were obviously rocketing to over hyped sensations. Starting off is…
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Cities XL
There’s a thing about games of this genre that really bring out the worse in me. Not only do I turn into an egotistical maniac as I watch my city grow and grow (and along with it my bank balance) but I also enter into a strange state of mind where I begin to pay…
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Toss Me Like A Dwarf
The DRM wars plagued the release of Spore and the internet backlash was severe, but that aside one thing I don’t think it got enough praise for was its creature creator. Before launch you could make your own creatures, something that could take hours in some cases, then come launch day your beastly monstrosity is…