Archive for June, 2006

  • Warcraft III – Reign of Chaos (PC)

    Warcraft III – Reign of Chaos (PC)

    The human campaign is finished and it’s the Undead campaign next. The FMV at the end of the campaign was pretty amazing – there’s a World of Warcraft movie on the cards and I think it would be madness to have some live action abomination...

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  • 27th October – 14th November

    27th October – 14th November

    Now this is a bit more like it. I think we can expect to be allocated a case officer in the next week or two. So at least we’re getting somewhere. I’m sure the Australian government make the migration process deliberately painful to cut down...

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  • Stuff that’s not about games

    Stuff that’s not about games

    Anyone would think we never actually do anything cos the only time I ever post on here is about video games. Fair enough, we don’t do an awful lot, granted, but we do occasionally do some stuff that involves actually being outside and things. For...

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  • Stuff that’s not about games

    Stuff that’s not about games

    Anyone would think we never actually do anything cos the only time I ever post on here is about video games. Fair enough, we don’t do an awful lot, granted, but we do occasionally do some stuff that involves actually being outside and things. For...

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  • Taking a step back

    Taking a step back

    Ok, so those counters at the top of the page there are quite scary. Over a year since starting out and almost seven months since actually lodging the application. What this means, in real terms, is that we’re only a couple of weeks away from...

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  • Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    Ok, so I didn’t end up sneaking into Baron after all, but instead managed to get all my mates eaten by Leviathan and washed ashore on the shores of Mysidia. The people of Mysidia aren’t too fond of me but have loaned me two tiny...

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  • 19th October – 1st November

    19th October – 1st November

    It’s not the dates I was expecting :-/ Of course, it’s the number of applications being processed that matters and not the dates – for all I know, 90% of Novembers applications went in on the 1st. Anyway, at least they’re now allocating applications lodged...

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  • Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    After my humiliating defeat on Mount Hobs, I thought it an idea to warp out of the dungeon and do a short bit of random-encountering before going back up the hill and over to Fabul. Just getting another level on every made it all a...

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  • 19-31

    19-31

    Everything seems to be going as expected – I think the speed increase towards the end of October is caused by the bulk of applications being made at the end of summer after the DIMIA’s big migration push on TV. Well, we’ll wait and see....

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  • Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    Final Fantasy IV (GBA)

    Why is it that I always underestimate the first few dungeons in a new Final Fantasy game? Here I am, as ever, in the antlion dungeon with no Phoenix Down, no Ether, and hordes of Zombies who can only be killed with magic. You’d think...

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