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FIFA or Pro Evo?

So the football season, for the English Premiership teams at least, is now over and normally at this point of the year all footie fans hang their heads and breathe a communal sigh as they realise they have no excuse to avoid a productive Saturday for a whole 4 months.  But wait!  Every 4 years [...]

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 Final : adj.  Coming at the end (of a word, a series).

Final : adj. Coming at the end (of a word, a series).

Released a couple of months ago now was Final Fantasy XIII, you’d have thought they would have changed the name in some way after they decided to make a second, but then, this has always been a series full of irony.  Every game is played with an emphasis on plot, but all the characters, story [...]

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Public Opinion

Public Opinion

When I talk about my favourite games I get over excited, it’s something I genuinely love and I find myself holding back when people see the happy but crazed look in my eye.  ‘Stop being so animated’ I say to myself, you are a loser and in their heads they are wondering how can you be [...]

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Darwinia

Darwinia

So I decided to take the leap after the short demo and bought Darwinia + on Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA).  It’s the kind of game made by people like me, who grew up playing games on Spectrums and Commodores, but that doesn’t mean the charm would be lost on anyone else.  It’s a real time [...]

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