Screenshot of the week: Defining memory

Screenshot of the week: Defining memory

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New feature alert. Every Thursday I'm going to find my favourite Halo-related screenshot of the past week and post it. It'll be fun. I call this one "Defining Memory", because at times I felt I spent more time dead than alive in Halo 3. Hence the picture of me being dead. You can find other Screenshots of the Week on…

Marshmallows

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We had a BBQ on Saturday, and after all the meaty food was consumed, we went back out to the gently smouldering barbecue and roasted some Marshmallows in the darkness. Claire had to show me what to do, as it was the first time I had ever tried roasting marshmallows. They were quite tasty! The alcohol I had consumed earlier…

List Of Maps I’m Going To Make In Forge World

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Forge in Halo: Reach is, quite simply, looking immense. As well as offering more objects per level, the new tools and abilities at your disposal will hopefully let you re-create maps of old, as faithful to the originals as you can possibly imagine. It's been occupying my thoughts a lot recently, so I thought I'd write up a "List Of…
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…
Grifball!

Grifball!

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Bungie's Double XP Weekend playlist of choice this last weekend was Grifball. I adore Grifball. Created by Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth, thanks to the wonder of Halo 3's Forge map creation tool and the fully customisable game-types, then combined with being able to spread these around via your own personal File Share, Grifball is undoubtedly the most successful user-created…

I’m turning into a casual gamer?

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Last night I played Just Dance on a Nintendo Wii and surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. The night before I played Lips on the 360 (I knew I would enjoy that though, it's great fun). And although I was initially not too fond of the idea of Kinect, I'm coming around to it now, as we have two genuine children…

Quiet week

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It's been quite quiet, not only on here (which makes a change - I usually find something to write about) but also life in general. As such, I've not really got much to say. Still no luck on the job front, I've had a few interviews recently, and a few good looking prospects, but still no job to show for…

A killing spree? Me? No way!

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Continuing on from my raving about The Arena yesterday, I had a superb game yesterday afternoon in The Arena - One guy on our team dropped out early, but I was picking off bitches left, right and centre, camping the Hammer room with the Hammer and I got a fucking 10 kill spree. I'm pretty shit to be honest, I…
The Reach multiplayer beta is quite good fun

The Reach multiplayer beta is quite good fun

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Here's my one screenshot I've taken so far. I took advantage of the way Spartans hold their hands out when running against walls. Nice touch, that. At first I was a bit let down, or confused, maybe. All these new things to use such as Armour Abilities and the new weapons, but after a few games I found some sweet…