Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2004

Back in 2004/5, I ran this thing called The Essential Charts on Gamesradar. The jist is this: Everyone picks their five favourite games and can either rank them from 1 to 5 (the game placed first gets five points, the game placed second gets four points and so on), or just have 5 games in no particular order, each scoring 3 points. I would then compile the scores and we’d have the top 15 “Essential” games for that format.

Music reviews

Wow yeah, I totally forgot I wrote these. Jem ~ Finally Woken If you lived in America, you'd have heard of Cardiff-born Jemma Griffiths, aka Jem. In a Dido-esque reversal of convention, the 29 year old British singer is already a huge star in the United States, yet a relative unknown in her native land. You may have heard the…

Going back in time

With reference to the title, later this week it's actually my 5th year anniversary of blogging. I know I missed a fair old chunk in the middle there, but still, five years ago I had the idea for the Bloggers section on Poopgang and started putting my thoughts onto the internet. To celebrate this I thought I'd trawl back through…