Nintendo DS Lite

It’s smaller, it’s lighter, it’s possible to hold for long periods of time without catching gamer-claw, it looks beautiful – not a million miles away from an iBook – the displays are brighter than the sun, and I love it to death. Yup – it’s birthday time, nelefans, and this year I have a nice

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New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo DS)

It’s about time there was a new Super Mario Bros game, and this one if just sheer genius. It uses 3D models instead of 2D sprites, but it’s very much a traditional 2D Mario side scroller. And thank god for that – Mario in 3D is great but 2D is where he really shines. So,

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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 when Blizzard have been producing consistantly incredible FMV for years.

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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 on timewasters I wish the same could be done with

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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 example: This weekend, we mainly worked on the garden. Our

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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 example: This weekend, we mainly worked on the garden. Our

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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 a decision being made, one way or the other. Sure,

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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 wizards and sent me packing up to the top of

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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 in our month so that’s a definite milestone. The main

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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 bit easier and set me up well for the siege

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