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Rental Boy : Mortal Kombat

Posted by Jason under Gaming (No Respond)

I’m not a fighting game guy. I like them in concept but learning all the moves and getting deep into the mechanics isn’t something I’ve ever done. I totally get why that might be rewarding and something some people enjoy but requires too much focus for my liking. Mortal Kombat does some great things for [...]

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Rental Boy : Transformers War For Cybertron

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I meant to write something about this last week, but all I really want to say is it’s crap. Ok… I’l say why too. First off what’s cool about robots like the terminator? Is it that he’s got feelings and he cares about his pals? Nope, its because he’s a cold calculating machine who goes straight for the jugular [...]

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Rental Boy : James Bond Blood Stone

Posted by Jason under Gaming (No Respond)

Welcome to my new segment where I write about stuff I have rented. I’ve mostly decided to start writing these as a way to get content on the site thus far I’ve been concerned that content needed to have nice graphics and other stuff to spruce the site up a bit, this led to it feeling like [...]

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My Game Of The Year

Posted by Jason under Gaming (1 Respond)

I was tempted to do a list of games but I have always been a bit lazy and also a paragraph about a supposed game of the year is hardly a glowing recommendation. 2009 has been a mixed bag in terms of games. The fact that we are a number of years into this console [...]

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Giddy Stratospheres

Posted by Jason under Gaming (2 Responds)

Shout out to my Man Christopher McNeil for this fine recommendation but it was when I read this tweet by Anthony Burch of Destructoid fame that my ears really pricked up. Admittedly a bit of a annoying way to recommend playing something but Mr Burch uses hyperbole like it was going out of fashion. So [...]

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The Art Of Persuasion

Posted by Jason under Gaming (6 Responds)

Syndicate Wars is a atmospheric Squad based real time strategy game made by Bullfrog(Theme Hospital , Dungeon Keeper). Its cyberpunk slant is the aspect that really leaves a lasting impression while many games have harvested the Cyberpunk Aesthetic few have allowed it to manifest in gameplay. Syndicate Wars is to Cyberpunk games what Blade Runner [...]

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TheSixtyOne

Posted by Jason under Music (3 Responds)

Thesixtyone is a music site yeah ? That’s cool you’re thinking but why are you writing about it, well its got achievements! Combining two of my favourite passions listening to obscure bands and metagaming.  Thesixtyone doesn’t just allow you to listen to songs it also remembers what you’ve listened to and gives you Reputation (rep), [...]

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Merchants of Brooklyn

Posted by Jason under Gaming (No Respond)

What’s this all about then. Merchants of Brooklyn (M.O.B.) is a first person shooter by Paleo Entertainment , Who? yeah Indie Developers Paleo Entertainment fresh from finishing their Half Life 2 mod  Paleolithic Revolution. M.O.B. premise is that the polar ice caps have melted and submerged planet underwater so the survivors decided to clone a new [...]

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Pull Shapes!

Posted by Jason under Comics (1 Respond)

    The difficult sophmore post, hmm , What to post about now. Well just so happens I got a comic in the post the other day that’s pretty darn good! Its the new Phonogram The Singles Club issue. How hard it was to get a hold of as well its sold out everywhere in [...]

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An Explanation (Sort of)

Posted by Jason under site business (1 Respond)

 So you have found my blog huh ? Congratulations are in order. You’ll have one question immediately what’s with the blog name Jason? yeah well when you make your website you can name your website after your favourite dead band :( but yeah don’t think this will be the last link to The Long Blondes or the Pipettes [...]

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