Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

Desert dungeon complete! And what a beautiful piece of design it was too – not too long and quite episodic. The first section revolved around tracking down a series of Poes so much changing to and fro between Wolf and Human form (which I can do at will now, incidentally) was required. This led me

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Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels (Wii VC)

Gaaaah! They weren’t joking when they said it was hard, were they? All five of us have had a go and Tristan, our in-house SMB expert has managed to get the furthest by almost getting out of world 1-2. Umm. This is going to require some practice.

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Paper Mario (Wii VC)

Well, fuelled by the knowledge that there’s a new paper mario game out that I’m not buying until I’ve completed some of the $hlmun of games I’ve yet to play, I had another go. So, I finally ganked the Invincible Tubba Blubba and made my way back to toad town. After a particularly silly and

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Ubuntu + mpd + Jinzora + Hi-Fi == ACE

Ok, so here’s the problem: I have a decrepit old PC that I need to find a job for or it’s destined to sit on a scrapheap biodegrading over the next 10,000 years. We don’t have room to have all our CDs anywhere near handy so have to listen to our music on the computer

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Zangband

I had a fairly extensive Angband addiction for more years than I care to remember and I’ve inadvertently stumbled onto it again. And it’s just as evil and unforgiving as it ever was, but also just as ACE. It never ceases to amaze me how much depth and complexity can lie beneath the surface of

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Virtually non-stick’ gum created

Outstanding! Chewing gum that doesn’t stick, researched at great expense by the world’s top scientists! Presumably, it’s stage one of a long running project to create fewer sticky substances that cause researchers heads to be stuck up their backsides, resulting in more time spent working on ways to avoid impending extinction by global warming! ps

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess (Wii)

Welcome to my shiny little site, all of my own! Anyway, only had a very brief go of Zelda last night – had a little wander around the haunted desert prisony place and killed a big ghostie thing but lost track of where the other three went and don’t know what to do next. Ho

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Off at a tangent

Ok, we’re having a slight shift around. That incorrigible reprobate, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, has been filling this here blog with so many postings that we’ve insisted he takes his tweed cap and wanders off to his own website. So, from this day forth, the Chewbury Gubbins game diary lives on its own silly little domain,

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

Ok, so I’m 24 hours and 5 minutes into the game. And BANG! I have the Master Sword, the music starts, the storyline blooms and all of a sudden it’s not just Zelda, but it’s the most ACE Zelda ever! I’ve crossed a desert, heading to a haunted prison, and stormed a goblin camp. Up

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