Fighting fire with fire

Fighting fire with fire

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This is all about Firefight, the super cool mode on Halo 3: ODST where you are in an arena and wave after wave of Covenant rush at you, shooting their futuristic neon laser guns in your direction. It was going to be about Pokémon, I figured I'd not written about it in a while. I am still playing Pokémon Emerald…
Bubble-heads unite!

Bubble-heads unite!

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There I was, playing Halo 3, waiting for Matchmaking to do it's stuff, as you do. The teams popped up, and whose was the first name I noticed, directly above mine on the blue team? Blimey, it's only GRcade moderator The Alchemist "Tiarny" Penguin. I fired off a quick "hi lol" message to him just as the game was starting…

Delving into the memory banks

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If you read the forum at all, you may notice I'm trying to drum up some support for this idea I had for a nice little feature on here. Called Memorable Gaming Moments (the post tag will be "MGM" so you can easily find all the articles in the feature), it is basically what it sounds like: People write about…

Tenpeat – 50g

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Don't hold back your true potential! Win 10 Ranked Matches in a row! Well, after a few failed attempts at trying organise a boosting session for it on TrueAchievements, I managed to win it legit. It was so different to how I won the win-10-ranked-games-in-a-row Achievement in regular Street Fighter IV. There, I was flitting between ranked and custom games,…
Emerald is Excellent

Emerald is Excellent

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Even at this early stage, I think I'm preferring Pokémon Emerald to Pokémon Leaf Green. I played Blue to death when it came out, and more than once. I took to transferring over all my Pokémon to Pokémon Stadium on the N64 and then playing through it again, it was insane. This is probably why Leaf Green felt so familiar,…
Off to catch Mewtwo, BRB

Off to catch Mewtwo, BRB

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I finished Leaf Green - well, beat the Elite 4 at any rate. I went off to try to catch Mewtwo, but it told me I had to do a great deed before I could get in. I thought you only had to beat the Elite 4 (that's how it was in the original games - it was foolish for…
My Pokémon adventure continues…

My Pokémon adventure continues…

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...and I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. I've just beat the final Gym and am gearing up to the Victory Road/Indigo Plateau finale. I enjoyed the three little islands that weren't in the original Red and Blue, although it was a pretty slight diversion. I've caught all three Legendary birds, defeated Team Rocket but probably still need to do a bit…

Adon is the man

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Sorry Dan, but my time with you is over. Adon is my new all time favourite now, he's just so awesome. He works well delivering constant pressure, or sitting back and snuffing out any incoming attacks. I'm still working out the best ways to use the Rising Jaguar - it's just not possible to use it as a Shoryuken-type attack,…
But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

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Went to see Jasmine (and Mum, David and Katie as well) yesterday, got to give her her belated birthday presents. We got her this turtle thing that plays little tunes while roaming around launching little plastic balls out of it's back that'll encourage her to crawl after it. Well, we put some batteries in it and as soon as it…

Infinity!

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Just a quick one to say that I got an Infinity rating on Lips last night, singing Viva La Vida by Coldplay. Then, immediately after, Jane got an Infinity rating on "a song I can't remember which I'll edit in when I've asked her later tonight". None for two months, then two in a row! Awesome! The Avatar Award didn't…