Author: Fran S

  • Costumisation?

    Whether it’s a gasp of wondrous awe for a Mass Effect T-Shirt for my X- Box 360 Avatar; a squeal of girlish glee when my Mii wears a Hawaiian dress in ‘Wii Sports Resort’; or a shriek of joy equal to a five year old being given a Hannah Montana CD when I unlocked Elika’s…

  • Learning To Cook With ‘Cooking Guide’ – Part Two

    Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Learning To Cook With Cooking Guide. Filmed in front of a live studio audience with me your host, The Squiggly Chef. (Loud applaud and more woots) Let’s all welcome back our very own kitchen cereal killer, yes, the girl who can’t cook Corn Flakes: Fran Shergold. (Loud boos,…

  • Learning To Cook With ‘Cooking Guide’ – Part One

    Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Learning To Cook With Cooking Guide. Filmed in front of a live studio audience with me your host, The Squiggly Chef. (loud clapping and woots) Lets welcome today’s disaster in the kitchen, it’s self proclaimed cooking idiot, the ‘girl who can burn water’: Fran Shergold. (Boo! Hiss!) In this…

  • TMNT – Turtles in Time Re-Shelled

    Cowabunga dudes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Turtles in Time Re-Shelled is a 3D remake of the classic arcade and Snes scrolling beat-em-up. Every one’s favourite turtles are back – Leo, Mikey, Raph… do I have to say the other one… yes ok, and Don. As I used to play this ‘totally rad and frankly bodacious’…

  • A Mayors Guide to Video Game Summer

    ‘Hi, I’m the Mayor of ‘Isle Delphino’. You may remember me as that dashing thing in Super Mario Sunshine with the big nose that mainly made honking noises.  As I’ve only ever done a little side work in Mario Kart Double Dash, I’ve been whiling away the hours writing a guide to summer in video…

  • The Bodger’s Guide to Cosplay – Shotokan

    The Cosplay Clothes Horse! I have let you rummage through my Cosplay Weapons Chest (which I don’t usually let Ready-Up readers do until the third date… I mean blog) and hopefully you have learned some of my tricks of the cosplay trade. But ironically the hardest part of any cosplay is deciding which characters you…

  • The Bodger’s Guide to Cosplay

    The Cosplay Weapons Chest! I have access to a sewing machine…  I think I used it once, maybe in textiles at school.  My gran may have actually given me one, but that’s not what I use to make a costume. With Insert Coin 09 just around the corner and cash prizes to be won in…

  • Gunstar Heroes

    More from the Sega Vintage collection. For those of you wanting to play Gunstar Heroes on Live Arcade again, it’s still the same. It’s awesome. Except if you choose the ‘smoothing’ option for the visuals, it looks like you’re playing an oil painting based on Treasure’s great Megadrive side scrolling shooter, Gunstar Heroes. Which makes it…

  • When Game Titles Attack! – Part Three

    (Previously on When Game Titles Attack!…) I was speeding along in my pink ‘Fiat Panda’ as I was trying to race the Aliens to the Tesco Express but things don’t go according to plan. A small and rather messy accident occurs involving a rocket, an ‘Army of Two’ car ‘Speed Freaks’ and a tub of…

  • Another MCM, Another Cosplay!

    I was hot! That’s not me being immodest because my midriff was showing – that was because I was crowded in on all sides by people queuing for Pocky at the ‘Tokyo Toys’ stall whilst dressed as Ulala.  And when you’ve dressed as Ulala as many time as I have, keeping it fresh doesn’t mean…