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Lucidity

Lucidity is an Xbox Live Arcade title where you play through the imagination of a little girl, Sofi, whose grandmother has just died.  While that may sound wrist-cuttingly depressing, its actually surprisingly well handled. You have no control over Sofi.  She slowly skips her way through dreamy landscapes, filled with objects and creatures that can hurt her.  The player is ...

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5 Second Review: The Taking Of Pelham 123

I have a love/hate relationship with director Tony Scott.  His films are generally fun, action-packed 90 minute thrill rides and yet no one pushes the boundary further on the hyperactive and spasmodic MTV-style editing in their films and it drives me to the point of distraction.  It definitely did with Man On Fire. I guess I must be getting used ...

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Autumnal

I was reading through my usual online daily reads and read about The Pioneer Woman’s visit to the Bonnie Hunt Show. For the first time all year I actually felt a small twinge of missing the TV industry. But only a smidgeon of a twinge. I don’t miss the long hours, forgetting the fact that you actually had a life ...

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Initial impressions – FIFA 10

For the first time in four years, I’ve picked up a new football game: FIFA 10. I blogged at length about this previously, around the time Edge Magazine put FIFA on its cover and heralded it as the premiere video game franchise, taking the title back from Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven. I’m looking forward to playing a season of the ...

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Amazon Kindle arrived today

Our Kindles arrived in the mail today. Rediscovering reading has been one of the best things about this year.  It’s become a nightly habit to put on a pot of tea, hook up the iPod docking station, set to some random Sigur Ros album and read for a good hour or so before going to bed.  Being a slow reader ...

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Initial Impressions – Uncharted 2

I’ve started playing through Uncharted 2 and am up to the seventh chapter so far.  A few discussion points came to mind while playing the game that I thought I’d write down in no particular order. Uncharted 2: Among Ladders There sure are a lot of ladders in this game across a range of varying environments.  The same unfolding ladder ...

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