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Right, we're now onto the third day of sales, and I must admit that it's a good one today. At this rate I'll have to buy a new hard-drive...Anyway, onto the top five for today:1. Right at the top of my list today is Just Cause 2. Although the driving in this game can be a bit...funky, it's one of the most beautifully crafted games I have ever played. The cut scenes are top notch and it improves

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Okay, so we have a new set of sales today. I'm not as overwhelmed today as I was yesterday, but I think that's mostly down to having owned most of the games that are on sale already. Despite that, there are some very good choices. Here is my top 5 list for today :Top 5 List:1. At the top it's got to be Burnout : Paradise. You're getting a highly polished for £3.75, so really...there isn't much to

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Valve has started the countdown to Christmas by unleashing one of the slickest sale campaigns to date. For those of you who are feeling lethargic...here's the link :http://store.steampowered.com/You might notice that the site is a bit slow, but at the moment there is probably about 2 million people looking at it. And no...I'm not joking.So lets look at some of more noteworthy products that are on

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Tags : Alien Swarm, Games, Steam, Black Cat, Games, Valve, Awesome!

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Tags : gmod Epic Fail Tennis

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I've been using Google Chrome now for quite a while. since I originally downloaded it, Chrome has quickly found it's way to my nerdy heart...and boy have I been rewarded. Although Chrome was amazing when I started using it, there were a few faults. Firstly, there was a lack of add-on support, and secondly, I never quite knew why it sometimes used so many resources. The former was eventually

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Looky here! I got this e-mail a couple of minutes ago :Hey Blogger - My name is David,I have been searching the Internet for blogs that match our criteria and I wanted to invite you to become a paid blogger at Blog Distributor. (Please understand that I do not send this invitation to every blogger I come across, nor is this a guaranteed acceptance as we can't do a true review of the blog until it

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Tags : left 4 dead 2 games valve steam disturbed zombies FPS gaming

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Tags : Left 4 Dead 2, Valve, Steam, Slipknot, Psychosocial, Gameplay, Scavenge, Survivor

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I have to say when I first started the game with a couple of players I found it kinda crap. For those of you that are sitting down for the first time to play this game with a couple of friends, be prepared to be dropped into the deep end. The hints that the game drops such as "find a medical kiosk" can be rather unhelpful as it gives no lead to where the kiosk might be. But this is fair enough

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Bloody Gold for cash adverts!It really pisses me off when some overly tanned blonde bimbo appears on my TV screen and shouts "GIVE US GOLD AND GET MONEY". I wouldn't mind so much if it was just a simple advert telling us their services, but they do the whole Ocean Finance trick of employing some retard to say "Like oh my god! I got £4000 for an ounce of shitty fools gold! Like awesome!". The fact

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We finally got our Preview invites to Google Wave, and to be honest, we aren't that impressed... yet.We said before that we really liked the concept of Google Wave and that it had the possibility of becoming huge. The idea is that people communicate through one medium, which is highly customisable and flexes to your every needs. Waves are essentially strings of communication in the google sphere,

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Our Windows 7 Review Week was brought to an abrupt halt due to unforeseen technical difficulties. What that means is that Windows 7 became unstable. Ever time we tried to start it up ,the boot would fail and it would try to fix itself by doing a Startup Repair. Usually we would have to do a System Restore to get it working again.We've decided to postpone the rest of the review week until the full

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Following on from the last review, it's time to show some pictures of Windows 7. We thought it would be best to just show you the various features with a short explanation of what they do. Just click on the thumbnails to see the full version of the image.DesktopThis will be the first screen that you see. The first thing that you will notice is that the taskbar has got a good dose of steroids.

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In our introduction to our special Windows 7 Review Week we covered the basics of the story behind what Windows 7 is. Many people will claim that Microsoft is just trying to sell a working copy of Vista, and in certain ways they would be correct. This review will go over the first stages of your experience with Windows 7, from the purchase to your first tentative gaze upon the unsurprisingly

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To start off our Windows 7 Review Week, which will feature a daily review on different aspects of the new Operating System , we thought it would be fitting to introduce Windows 7 and to give it a little bit of context.The most contraversial part of Microsoft's recent ventures is the catastrophic failure of Windows Vista amongst the general public. Those of us who are somewhat savvy when it comes

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We have just got our hands on a copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we will be doing daily reviews as part of our "Windows 7 Review Week". To make sure that everybody can access these reviews, we will be creating and updating a special Windows 7 Review Week list. We haven't quite got a name for it yet, but basically you will be able to easily get to any

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First things first, it's a Medal of Honor game. It's spelt wrong, it's probably historically incorrect and the Nazi's only ever have one thing say ; "Ich Habe!". That pretty much sums up the whole series, and Airborne is no exception. Graphically, it's not too bad. It's built on the UT3 engine, unsurprisingly, which gives it that sort of...shiny-but-in-the-wrong-place look. For some reason

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With the arrival of FUEL, Codemasters new racing game, and a possible patch for GRID on the horizon, we offer our thoughts on GRID a year after our first review.Essentially, the game is the same. Since our last review, however, I have upgraded my rig and can actually play GRID on max settings. Last July I tried my best to emphasize how graphically stunning the game was. Now playing at full

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First little webcomic. Check it out at deviantART Tags : Spiderman, Apocalyptic, Buttercups, Webcomic

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Tried the 1 V 100 beta last night. It made me lol so hard. It's such a fun game where you all play in a team of 4 and answer general knowledge questions, plus some questions will be based on the games consoles and games. For example:"What game is NOT in Wii Sports:X: Tennis A: Golf B: Football"Some of the questions are simple but some of them do rack your brains. The prizes are

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The rumours have finally been confirmed on Google's blog. Google will be releasing their very own Operating System in 2010.Sounds great, right? Well not really. My first major issue with Chrome OS is that it's open source and that Google is using the same business ethic with Google Wave. Generally speaking, an open source product with huge developer support works well if it doesn't give people

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For those of you who don't already know, Spotify is a UK based company which provides people with the means to listen to any song ever made...legally.Now lets put aside the obvious legal issues that this may have and move straight onto a quick review of the application itself. After signing up to the free service, where you don't even have to give your name, which we assume is to protect

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I have to say, what an epic storyline. It kept me gripped all the way through, with the fire fights, new enemies and a very emotional storyline.The loss of some characters make you get emotionally attached to "Marcus Fenix" the main character in Gears of War. Although these guys act all tough, you learn that this is, in fact, a hard outer shell. What I liked the most has definitely got to be the

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Some of you probably saw my status update complaining about Vista 64. I spent 5 days trying to fix it, with new hardware since last time and a lot more patience. Unfortunately I got the same problems. As soon as I tried to use Nvidia's graphics drivers, the whole thing would burst into flames and complain bitterly about things not working.Generally speaking though, it didn't burst into flames as

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People all around the world are being subject to service interruptions due to big updates. On the day that the Digital Britain report was released, which promises massive digital upgrades in the coming years in return for a small tax, all the major digital companies in the world are preparing to roll out their new generation technology.First off is Microsoft's 24 hour Xbox Live update. No update

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This review has been in our archives for months now, ready to be rewritten and released. Some of you, but probably not many, may have read our review on the XFX 8600 GT. When it was released, it was a mid to high specification gaming card, which was further boosted by XFX's superb manufacturing.After using it for over a year, and giving it to my brother, my original XFX 8600 GT blew up. When we

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The future of the Internet is nearly here. Google has announced it's biggest product since Google Maps. Essentially Google Wave is a open source mass comunication tool. It mixes all the current forms communication into one single open source site. It will blend e-mail, instant messeging, social networking and open source development. By the time it gets fully released there should be a load of

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As the name suggest, Wild West Pinball is a recreation of those old classic 3D pinball games with a Wild West theme. Sounds pretty simple. Well, overall the game itself is very simple. There's your usual flippers, your little ball ejector thing and lots of cool ways to get points. The first version of the game was a little buggy and suffered from jagged edges. The new update, however, has

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Since a new game has been released by Storm8, called "Rockstars Live", we thought we would give a general guide to people.Considering that all the games are the same, this strategy guide can be applied to all of Storm8's games. So far, their list of current games is "Racing Live", "Rockstars Live", "Kingdoms Live" and "Vampires Live". Because we have already done a review on "Racing Live", we'll

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Well, we recently ran into some issues. As you may have noticed, there are no more ads on the blog. We think it was due to an unhappy reader in Sheffield who spammed our ShoutBox complaining bitterly about something or other. I didn't really take notice because most of it was uninteligable. He was very clear about getting our AdSense account banned though...and a few days later we received an

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As I had implied in my earlier posts, Swine Flu is not as dangerous as the Media had suggested. And guess what? The whole story has been dropped from the BBC's and Sky News' front page.So what happened? And why is our Bureaucratic society still pumping out advice leaflets which have come much too late and are completely counter-factual?The answer to the first question is rather easy. The reason

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To keep up with the Swine Flu situation, we thought it would be a good idea to have another stab at the media.As many of you may have seen, there is a ridiculous amount of emphasis on the Pandemic Threat Level and on possible deaths. Just to clarify, Phase 5 means that there is proof that there has been a case of Human-Human viral transfer. What that means is that the Swine Flu is acting like any

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The review this time round will be on the game "Army of Two". This game is focused on co-operative play which means you can play either with an AI player or with one of your friends.  The game starts off with a really good opening, which you can play through. If you're playing on your own, at the start of the game it will ask you which of the characters you want to be (not going to give details

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Sometime in April a company called Storm8 began releasing a series of online strategy games. So far Storm8 has around 4 games which are basically exactly the same, but only two actually made it big. Racing Live hit the number one spot after a relatively short time, only to give way to it's younger brother Kingdoms Live. Just for pure ease, we will only be reviewing Racing Live, instead of every

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To further open our ever increasing myriad of knowledge and opinions, we are now introducing a new category. Because we both of iPod Touch's and because it is relatively cheap to buy the Top Games (and because some are free), we're starting to review some iPod apps. Hopefully this will provide people with an idea of what they are buying before they buy it.So, to start the ball rolling we will be

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Okay, well this is the first entry I have actually done for this blog, and I am going to do a games review of Assassins Creed. I have played through, and completed, Assassins Creed twice now and I have been able to form very strong thoughts/opinions on this game.To start off with, the beginning...Obviously. The beginning of the game is not really clear. By this I mean you start as the character,

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After a relatively small lull in the relentless barrage of fear mongering from the Media, we are hit with the prospect of a new viral pandemic. This time, instead of being Bird Flu, it's Swine Flu.So before I go into the details of Swine Flu and how dangerous it actually is, lets consider the history of coverage of viral outbreaks. In late 2002 the world was rocked by the emerging threat of the

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A couple days ago I heard a news story about how Ashton Kutcher was aiming to be a Twitter millionaire.So, I thought to myself that it might be worth setting up a Twitter account. My common sense told me that I should experiment with a different blog first. So, by following my common sense, I set up a Twitter account for Rifted Universe, a game that I help design. I then set about using

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Yeah, you read that right. Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from Russia recently underwent an operation to remove what doctors thought was a cancerous tumour. After removing half of Artyom's lungs, the surgeons saw that there was actually a fir tree stuck into the side of his lungs.No one really knows how it got there because generally speaking trees need light and sufficient nutrients to grow. Considering

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Ok, the layout has now been changed slightly to accommodate the blog's new direction. Instead of a Contents list, there is now a Categories list. Clicking on a url will then show you all posts in that category based on date it was published. If you are looking for anything specific, you can always use the search bar at the top of the page or you can browse the archives at the bottom.We also added

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For the first time in this blogs history we are going change the format a little! Yay!Generally speaking we don't really have a following, but due to my little DNG ad campaign, we have started getting more hits. Nothing huge or anything, but it certainly makes a difference. In reaction to this, I have decided to try and offer people a little more. I found out yesterday that you can have more than

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Finally we have official deflation in the country. Now, in terms of economy and jobs and money, deflation is not really a good thing. It means wages will start being cut and we may even see a drop in the minimum wage if things get really bad.In the short term however, for at least a couple of months, people will have relatively higher wages and things will cost less. Until contracts get renewed

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So I've been using Google Chrome for about two months now, and I must admit that I'm impressed. So much so that I've actually started recommending it to my friends, who are also impressed.Generally speaking, Chrome is like a simple version of Firefox. The interface itself is simple, effective and it makes sense. Much like Firefox and IE, Chrome has tabs. The best thing about them, though, is that

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The other day I had a great idea. After watching stuff like Deren Brown and thinking about how people react to negative commands, I decided to try out an advertising technique. By putting DO NOT GOOGLE APOCALYPTIC BUTTERCUPS in the signature of a forum I have received an increase in hits from Google. There is a very specific reason to why I have used this phrase. By using capitals I was forcing

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As a change to social commentary and reviews on whatever I feel like (although that will continue, with a review on the XFX 9800 GTX+ Black Edition and some reviews on some games I have recently purchased coming up shortly), I have decided to follow up on a post a while ago which mentioned upcoming Top 10 Lists for University in the United Kingdom.Today's topic is on procrastinating when you have

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To start off, I want to talk about what Jonathan Ross did in the first place to be banned from presenting his radio and TV programmes on the BBC. In October, Jonathan and Russell Brand had called up the semi-famous Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs. After an alleged 42,000 complaints to the BBC, the media made it look like the two presenters had left 'obscene' messages on Sachs answer phone. What

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Death Magnetic, wow. That's all I really have to say.Well actually, I should probably say some more. When I first listened to this album I was on a 8 hour ferry journey to La Havre on my way to Spain. I was in a cramped reclining chair sharing a giant room with crying babies and irritating French people who refused to stop rustling newspaper near my ear. So, to get away from the horror I decided

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After reading the BBC report on old baby names dying out, I did a little research into top baby names.Although the report is probably right about some older names dying out, like Norman or Walter, it forgets to mention that the current top male name Jack has been popular for over 100 hundred years in western society and has been the most popular name in the UK for 14 years.Chances are, the BBC is

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The nVidia 8600 GT is the cheapest , and one of the best selling high performance cards on the market. It has been described as "the best bang for your buck" graphics card, however this legacy is about to come to an end. The 9600 GT has specs that are very close to the 8800 GT but at a much lower price. But, with the new Geforce 200 series coming out, will people be skipping the 9600 GT and going

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When I first picked up Genesis Rising I thought it would a normal space flight game, something along the lines of EVE, but without the ridiculous monthly fee and irritating tutorial voice. I was , however, completely and utterly wrong. The game is more like a space based strategy game, like a cross between DarkSpace and Starcraft.What makes the game really weird is the odd focus on the Universes

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Having discussed the direction of this blog with my close friends and girlfriend, I have decided to start writing a "University Top 10" series. It will include advice on what to take, what to do on your first day and your first weeks, what not to do and the best way to have the time of your life. Obviously this won't apply to everyone, but the more first hand advice the better.Next up though, is

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For anyone living within the United Kingdom, inflation has recently become a real problem. Every supermarket is boasting the fact that they are "rolling back prices" , but what are the effects of that on supermarket employees? From very recent personal experience, the damage of super high inflation on a highly competitive market is showing through. Normally around May, the job market tends to

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Earlier this July, four baby giant pandas were born in China. For a species which has more stuffed toys in its image than actual animals, four pandas in two weeks is pretty good going. Although giant pandas are very very cute and get loads of publicity, I don't think they are worth the trouble. We've all seen the youtube video where the mother panda freaks out as the baby panda sneezes, so why

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Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit stereotypical when it comes to the Spanish. (See the BBC : Fast Show)My girlfriend came over last night after work with two pizza's and a copy of The Orphanage. We thought it was going to be some lame American ghost movie, but we were wrong. Instead, we got the Spanish version of a Sixth Sense and The Others hybrid.Now, I haven't exactly seen many Spanish movies, and

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Race Driver : Grid is like GT3 with a university degree in "kick-ass". The only problem though... is that anyone using a keyboard will find themselves spinning round in circles.To add to the difficulty of the game, you'll also need a top of the range PC to play it properly. My tests (well...observations) have shown that Grid has a tendency to put a massive load on graphics cards and causes them

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What happens when you stick some water on hot coals? You get Steam.So what happens when you stick some hot ideas in the hands of the people who made Half Life? You get Steam.A review on Steam seemed like a pretty good thing to do, considering it is at the forefront of online media distribution. IT also seemed to be a good idea considering the laws being passed throughout the Western hemisphere

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Well, actually Vista nearly made me cry. You'd be surprised how hard it is to actually update a PC...It all started about 3 weeks ago when I ordered a Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB from Dabs. From what I read in Tom's Hardware, this piece of kit was meant to be super fast and more reliable than other hard drives out there. After waiting for over two weeks, the package finally arrived. Installing a

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Ok, so none of this probably makes any sense. But that's good, because if it made sense, it would be boring and no-one would probably read this.So time for an introduction. If there was a giant drape somewhere I would try and use that to uncover this blog in an impressive fireworks show, but considering this is just a bunch of "thought bytes", that's a little difficult.As for the "thought bytes",

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