ShupFace

I’m blogging to you from At The Vanishing Point, the gallery where I volunteer. The gallery is in Newtown so it takes me about an hour to get there and then I spend four hours watching the gallery and then travel an hour home again. It is pretty difficult to be bored on purpose for [...]

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I just finished Saints Row 2 and I had a few thoughts about it. The first and most obvious of which is that it’s going to be seen as a poor man’s Grand Theft Auto. This is not an unreasonable perception considering the basic premise is the same. That is, you drive cars and shoot [...]

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I was reading a review of Mass Effect 2 over at Gamasutra and this really jumped out at me:
In a recent Gamasutra interview, BioWare’s Adrien Cho said the team “wanted to make sure that absolutely every issue [critics and players] brought up was addressed.” In that light, the changes make sense; almost all of them [...]

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I have been playing Dragon Age: Origins, the new game from Bioware. I don’t have a whole lot to say about it except that I’m moderately enjoying it. It’s not quite up to Bioware’s usual high standard, but then neither was Jade Empire. I guess it can be a bit hit and miss.
My initial response [...]

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My brothers bought me Borderlands as a belated birthday present. Ben and I have been playing it quite a lot over the last week. At first we were both playing solo, Ben was using the Tank and I was using the Soldier, but then we picked new characters and started a co-operative game together. Ben [...]

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