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Blank Slate Protagonists: Are Characters Ever Truly Yours?
Over the past two weeks I finally caved in and bought myself a PS Vita, the console was cheap and I’m a sucker for JRPGS. I also had the pleasure of playing and completing Persona 4 Golden, of which I...
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Hey EA! Where’s My Skate 4?
Tony Hawks has done some pretty impressive things in his life, he’s invented tricks like the AirWalk, was the first person to land a 900 (two and a half rotations) and he is apparently a genius and has...
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Why Do People Gravitate Towards The Sims?
In the world of gaming there are many franchises that have been around since, well, the dawn of gaming that have stood their ground against new competitors and still keep winning. Mario and Zelda games...
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Is There Truly Any Innovation in Games Anymore?
Innovation is something that everyone strives for in games, there’s a couple of reasons for this, the first is that you justify a new product, be it game or hardware, but also you can show off that you...
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How Angry Gamers Have Ruined Our Community (and Adam Baldwin)
Recently there’s been a virus in the gaming community, an element that has ruined every aspect of the world we nerds, outsiders, otakus and loners hang out in, the unsavoury group of which I speak are...
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When did the LAN Party Stop?
I’m yet to get any grey hair, this might be because most of it has fallen out, but to compensate I have a quite large beard. I always secretly looked forward to going grey, to me it’s the sign of...
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Video Game Emulators: A Self-Justification of Use
I remember my first emulator, it was for the Gameboy Advance and as far as I can remember it was mainly used to play an unhealthy amount of Chu Chu Rocket. In retrospect I was playing a bad emulation...
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Satellite Reign – PC Preview
Leather trench coats have meant a lot of things to a lot of people, for years they were associated with some quite questionable secret police exploits, thankfully they broke free of that in the 1970’s...
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When Did We Stop Completing Games?
I run PixelBedlam in my spare time, since I got a promotion in my day job a year or so back my spare time has become smaller and smaller and as such, more important to me. Once I get home, have made...
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Paris Syndrome – In Defense of Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Considering I run a gaming website it’s worrying that it took me so long, but then last Black Friday came along and I could justify it, I bought into the Next Gen. I’m the proud owner of an Xbox One, a...
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Is It Time To Close Down Open World Games?
I’m lazy in 90% of the aspects of my life, I just can’t be arsed to do stuff. Partially this is down to me being self-centred and wondering “what’s in it for me?” but also because as soon as I hit...
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Playstation 4.5 – Too Much Too Soon?
I’m not a PC gamer. Apart from enjoying console controllers (obviously no longer the same issue it was in years gone by), consoles just made more sense to me as a kid. They were easier to comprehend;...
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Should I be Ashamed to be a Gamer? A Confessional Piece
On my desk at work I have a menagerie of crap. There’s a vinyl chibi figure of Sylvestor McCoys Doctor Who, there’s a Narwhal soft toy, there’s a couple of Lego figures and Godzilla figures, then...
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The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa – PC Review
I’ve never hidden my love for Japan. I got engaged there and had my honeymoon. I’ve loved every second I spent in the country and I make no bones about my being one of ‘those people’, the ones who...
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Your Princess Is In The Castle With You: The Changing Face of Female...
There’s a common misconception, or rather a misquote, this misquotation has been used in the title of this article, but it also changes the tone of an entire scene in a game. Often quoted “Your...
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