2009 Top 10: Batman

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Batman: Arkham Asylum. Incredible game. Incredible story, incredible atmosphere, incredible fighting system, it had it all. It's rare for a game to actually convey the feeling of being powerful - Batman has such meaty punches, the slow motion final hits of combo attacks sound and look so painful. It also has the best stealth mechanics of any game I've ever…

Sunday Service: Feeling ill

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Not massively, just a little bunged up. Sudafed is really good though, as are those Beechams Hot Berry flu remedy drinks - I'll be back to my best in no time. I'm really enjoying Arkham Asylum, it's so full of magnificent little touches: When Scarecrow gasses you and the game pretends your Xbox has fried, try to skip the broken…

Are you a pirate?

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Do you pirate games? Do you illegally download music? Watch dodgy copies of films bought from suspect looking guys sitting on the high street? Do you regret doing any of this? Personally, I try not to pirate anything. Things like Spotify and last.fm are brilliant, I've got into quite a few artists that I probably wouldn't have otherwise and actually…

Sunday Service

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A lot of stuff happened this week that didn't deserve a post of their own. This very rarely happens, but, if I can remember enough random things from the week before then I'll try to do this every Sunday, like a weekly round-up of boring shit wrapped up in the façade of actually being interesting because it's more diverse than…
Pretty fireworks

Pretty fireworks

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Claire got some fireworks for the kids (read as: Claire got some fireworks for Claire) and while I'm not usually a big fan of the noisy, cat scaring things, I thought I'd take some photographs of them. Ethan was delighted, though he definitely preferred the whoosh bangs to the sparkly pretties. Lewis was enthralled for a while, but you know…

Ricky Gervais – Science

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Jane and I went to see Ricky Gervais last night, his Science mini-tour. Had about as much to do with Science as his Fame and Animals tours had to do with Fame and Animals respectively, but he was altogether very funny. A great night out. Stewart Francis was the warm-up, he was also quite funny. Recycled a fair bit of…