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Leipzig 08: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Playtest, Preview | No Comments »

Format: Wii / Developer: Krome Studios / Publisher: Lucasarts / Due: Winter 2008 / Preview: Hands On Sadly, the first game I saw at Leipzig turned out to be the worst. Perhaps my hopes had been raised too high, perhaps I ...

Leipzig 08: A Postcard From…

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in Career | No Comments »

I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career so far. When I first decided I wanted to be a games journalist, I was warned that it would take a while. I expected to spend at least five years on a local ...

WiiDS Episode 69: Live(ish) From Leipzig

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Podcast | No Comments »

- Question Of The Week: New Wii Channels - News - Censor call on MadWorld - Ubisoft announces more shovelware - Wii likes third parties - Game Announcements - Main Discussion: Live(ish) From Leipzig - James reports from GC 2008 - What titles look promising? - How many Wii/DS ...

Never Too Old

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Comment | 2 Comments »

Like almost any gamer worth their salt, I have experienced the original Wolfenstein. I probably enjoyed the first nine levels of the first shareware episode than I have the last five years of first-person shooters, simply because it was all ...

Junk In The Trunk

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Comment | 2 Comments »

I'm back and I'm in business. Having spent a week away, I'm still intergrating myself back into the daily grind, and as a result, my blogging has suffered. Still, let's have a bash anyway... Upon my return from my time away, ...

WiiDS Episode 67: The Nintendo Difference

Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Podcast | No Comments »

- We're Back! - Question Of The Week: Favourite Bad Game? - News - Ex-Nintendo Xbox Rep: Wii is a gimmick - Saints Row Wii: A bad idea - Nintendo finds holographic storage solution? - MotionPlus not exclusive to Nintendo - Iwata: Miyamoto out of ideas - Main ...