Author: Lorna
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Gird Your Insults… Monkey Island Returns
Whip out your rubber chicken and dust off your best insults because if the latest piece of gaming news is to be believed, then The Secret of Monkey Island is setting sail for XBLA. I’ve never looked forward to plank-stamping a seagull quite so much and as the word spreads, it would seem that amongst…
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?
I haven’t really ever considered that I would draw a line when it comes to a game or games. These things, I perhaps naively thought, were for extremists and Daily Mail reading parents. But not so long ago, I discovered to my surprise that I have one too. While others may baulk at the violence…
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June Bugged
It was supposed to be a great month. The dawn of the second age of gamekind, the month the great games came upon us all. And then there were none. The plump hits started dropping off like dead parrots from a perch and suddenly, June is looking decidedly unappetising. Batman Arkham Asylym has been snatched…
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Manual Override
I thought that throwing this into the wider pool that is Ready Up would yield interesting results: I don’t wish to make a general statement about gender on the issue, however, I have noticed a trend when it comes to that oft overlooked part of gaming… the manual. Whether it is directly related to the…
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Pay it forward…
Helpfulness seems to be a trait that some (especially the more hysterical tabloids) would have you believe is careening out of sight of civilisation and plummeting straight to the depths of Hades before the proverbial handcart even picks up speed. To be honest, in many ways, they are not far wrong, but oddly enough, for…
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Game Dawdling
Something that usually only pensioners and absent minded gardeners do is now creeping into my life in the most astonishing places – pottering. Or in other words, ‘faffing around’. Games like Sims 2 are meant for this type of thing as you spend time deciding which of the twenty almost identical stripy tops to pick…
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Populous DS
Twenty years ago, the God genre was kick-started by the work of two men, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright. While Wright introduced the world to Sim City and went on to produce arguably some of the most commercially successful games in the God genre and it’s Jesus offshoot, Molyneux created the original and purest form…
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Kombat for Sale
With the news that troubled publisher, Midway, are considering selling their venerable Mortal Kombat franchise to help bail them out, it gives rise to speculation as to the future (if any) for Raiden and co. Back in 1992, Mortal Kombat arose as a rival to Capcom’s more colourful sprites and family friendly battles in Street…
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Reaver: Anti-Hero and Cad
I feel that I’d better start this post with a spoiler warning for those who haven’t yet played or made their way to the furthest reaches of Fable 2. While I have tried to word things carefully, such a blog was not possible without a degree of spoilerific wordiness, so my apologies, you have been…