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Weekend Gaming Doodah #10

It’s the weekend, work can jog the fuck on for two whole days, and our favourite games are ready and waiting to be given the time and attention they deserve. In short, we’re at the bit in the work/play cycle that’s, like, good an’ shit. Trebles all round!

So, what’s your bit of the work/play cycle that’s “good an’ shit” looking like this time? Are you taking the opportunity to start something new, or are you itching to get back to something you’ve already put a lot of time and effort in to. Are you going to go batshit cray-cray and try both – maybe turning it up to 11 and fitting in some writing too!? Continue reading “Weekend Gaming Doodah #10” →

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Dispatches from the Dark Zone – Introduction

To (very loosely) paraphrase a certain songstress, ‘Hello from the other side, where everybody’s all up in my grille and trying to fuck my shit up‘. This is the first in a (possible) series of posts where I, Dear Reader, relate to you some of my experiences in the Dark Zone of Tom Clancy’s The Division. Given my review of the game ended up being quite long (as in, ‘War and Peace’ level long), I figured I’d give my Dark Zone shenanigans their own separate space. See – contrary to popular opinion – you absolutely can flog a dead horse! Continue reading “Dispatches from the Dark Zone – Introduction” →

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Tom Clancy’s The Division – Review

I’ve officially reached the end-game of Tom Clancy’s The Division, which was something of a bittersweet moment in many ways, but it does mean I can now crack on with my Full Review type witterings. Lucky you, eh!? In order to not repeat myself too much, I’ll try not to go over the same ground as my First and Second Impressions pieces, but obviously some degree of repetition’s inevitable so, like, apologies in advance.

 

Tom Clancy’s The Division was, by almost any conceivable measurement, a hugely anticipated Next-Gen release, and in many ways it’s been an ever-present “event” hovering over Next-Gen consoles since their own launch nearly two and a half years ago. Continue reading “Tom Clancy’s The Division – Review” →

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Monday Morning Procrastination Pack #8

The Monday-pocalypse has arrived. Again. Instead of Zombies, or rivers of fire and brimstone, or, like, Nuclear Winter though, Monday-pocalypse is basically time-sheets, and commutes, and dealing with the boss! Which is obviously much, much worse! Still, as per usual (if you ignore last week’s balls-up) I’ve put together a little bug-out bag of great Gaming reads to help you survive the End (of weekend) Times. Continue reading “Monday Morning Procrastination Pack #8” →

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Weekend Gaming Doodah #9

Most of you know the drill by now. It’s the weekend (not an extra awesome, extended chocolatey weekend, but still…..) and that, my friends, means Games. Lots and lots of games. In these glorious, work-free hours we’re free to enjoy some proper, quality time within whatever Gaming realm’s currently grabbed us by our attention-ey bits and won’t let go.

So, what’s your weekend looking like? Feel free to let us know. Likewise, if you find yourself at a loose end, you can go right ahead and ask for suggestions, second opinions, recommendations. Perhaps you’ve just played a game you think others might like; by all means sing its praises. If you’re a blogger, looking to run some ideas by your potential audience, that’s *totes* cool too. Perhaps you even want to speculate on what Sunday might have in store for a certain crossbow carrying, motorcycle riding badboy with a heart of gold!? Continue reading “Weekend Gaming Doodah #9” →

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Battle of the Publishers: Introduction

Not too long ago, I was playing the ‘If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?’ Game (the answer was Pizza, obviously), but being a Gamer, it wasn’t long until I got to thinking about that kind of question in Gaming terms. More specifically, I was wondering whom I’d choose if I could only play games by one particular publisher from here on out. It turned out to be an interesting internal argument for a while – and given I didn’t reach a satisfactory answer then, I thought I’d take a crack at turning it into a thing here. Continue reading “Battle of the Publishers: Introduction” →

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A Quick Mea Culpa Thingumyjig!

I gone done goofed. See, in the UK Easter is a four day weekend (hence my level of excitement in the last edition of the WGD) and I just kind of assumed it was a four day-er everywhere. It’s not here in Brazil (whoops!) and it’s not in the US either, it would appear – so that’ll learn me to be all Anglocentric and shit.

Anyways, that’s all to explain why there’s no Monday Morning Procrastination Pack today. I figured nobody would need one on account of still being in bed and/or ramming chocolate down their gullet, and not, like, stuck at work where they’d need stuff to offset the grimness of Monday. Clearly my error is compounded by the fact that this Monday is likely worse because Friday was a holiday, and the only thing worse than a Monday is a Monday after a bigger weekend. Continue reading “A Quick Mea Culpa Thingumyjig!” →

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Tom Clancy’s The Division – Secondary Impressions

So, turns out I gone done got a bit addicted to The Division. And when I say “a bit”, I mean like, properly, wake-up-thinking-about-it, currently-smelling-a bit-funky-because-I’m-foregoing-showers kind of addicted. It’s not the first time that’s happened to me, for sure (see also; the Fallouts), but it’s not a regular occurrence – and as much as I love playing games, and as much as I’m often itching to turn them on, it’s rare that I get to the thinking-about-a-game-all-the-damn-time stage. I wrote my First Impressions piece having played roughly 10 hours of the game, but that’s now increased to around 30 (which I know thanks to that handy and helpful ‘here’s how much of your life you’ve wasted with this game’ stat that’s prominently displayed when you load up your game – cheers, Ubisoft), so I figure I’m in a position to write a Secondary Impressions piece. Which is what I’m doing. Like, right now. Continue reading “Tom Clancy’s The Division – Secondary Impressions” →

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Weekend Gaming Doodah #8

WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! Not only is it the weekend; it’s an extended, chocolate-filled weekend! That means extra game-playing time, and extra calories to sustain us as we crack on with whatever game’s currently demanding our time and attention. Harnessing that sugar rush is going to be where it’s at this particular weekend, and – assuming we don’t get it wrong and wake, shaking and disorientated, with a half-eaten Easter Egg plastered to the side of our faces – this might very well be the Gaming weekend of the year. THE GAMING WEEKEND OF THE YEAR, Y’ALLZ!! Continue reading “Weekend Gaming Doodah #8” →

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