Month: July 2007

Paper Mario (Wii Virtual Console)

There are so many awesome games on the Wii, DS and VC at the moment, that it’s getting kinda difficult to decide what to play sometimes. Anyhoo, Paper Mario won through tonight and I’ve romped through Dry Dry Ruins and officially ended the chapter. So, Star Spirit GET! Some of the dialogue in this area

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Excite Truck (Wii)

Woohooooo! That’s a noise I say a lot recently. Excite Truck is just a thing of beauty. And it’s very simple. Basically, you have a truck. And it goes very very fast. And you do stupidly high/far/fast jumps. And stunts. And crashes. And stuff. And you still win the race! So far, I have bronze

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (No Spoilers)

Well, that’s that then! It has been a wonderful journey since 1997, with each subsequent release generating more excitement than the last, but it’s over now. Everything is tied up and explained. There’s room for, if not a sequel, a continuation. Let’s face it, with the richness of the world Ms Rowling has created, it

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Outlaw (2007)

I think I must be getting old. This is a bleak, humourless and generally unpleasant movie with no redeeming features whatsoever. Which surprised me a lot, given the fantastic cast. Essentially, it’s the story of a group of harrassed, bullied and generally timid guys who fall in with a court-martialled ex-squaddie freshly back from Iraq

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Gun (360)

This game is so bad I can’t even be bothered downloading the box art for this post. The 18 certificate should have told me all I needed to know, but I wasn’t prepared for the unpleasant, infantile and ugly morass awaiting me. I have better things to do with my life than “play” crap like

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Russia expels four UK diplomats

This is beginning to get a little scary. Britain has expelled four Russian diplomats. Now Russia has expelled four British diplomats. That’s how it begins! But before long, there’s NIPPING! and SLAPPING! and CHINESE BURNS! BBC NEWS | Politics | Russia expels four UK diplomats

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Paper Mario (Wii Virtual Console)

Chapter Two. I’m currently rummaging about on the top of a mountain to get to dry dry desert and it’s inhabited by loads of orrible little things. They disguise themselves as pebbles and leap out at you when you don’t expect it. Trouble is, although they only have 2HP they have 2 defence which means

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BBC NEWS – Man jailed over terror blueprints

OH NOS! ZOMG! He will blow up the airy-o-plane using a DRAWING OF A BOMB! And what’s a “TERROR BLUEPRINT” anyway? Is it a piece of paper with a REALLY SCARY FACE drawn on it? EDIT: RedSmartie (the real one, not the fake Canadian loser) has kindly sent me a scanned image of a TERROR

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess (Wii)

I forgot how little of this I’d actually played. Really just the short introductory dungeon. Anyhoo, I had a short go today and managed to EVENTUALLY get into the Goron city and beat the Goron Leader at sumo wrestling. I had a quick peak at the Goron Mines dungeon – just really a quick walk

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