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Dragon Age: Origins

Game Review, December 2009 Dragon Age

A friend recently asked me, “Will Dragon Age blow me away?” Well, my review of Dragon Age has to start with this caveat: There is very little competition in the serious RPG genre these days.
 
I mean, on Xbox 360 there is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as the forerunner. What else has there been? Two Worlds, which I haven’ . . .

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Where The Wild Things Are

Movie Review

Do you remember the kids’ book? It’s a simple little tale, but upon re-reading it in advance of seeing the film, I saw Max as a frowning, potentially angry little boy (in so far as you can read-in to the meaning of the images). The big screen version of Where The Wild Things Are takes that idea and runs with it: Max is an imaginat . . .

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District 9

Movie Review

District 9 is a great modern science fiction film, with an interesting premise steeped in political and racial turmoil. The documentary style greatly enhances the realism and makes it easy to recommend — provided, of course, you can stomach a fair share of  gore (I’d rather they had dialed that back a bit, myself). I stil . . .

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A Brief History of Time

Book Review

I found the 1988 first edition of A Brief History of Time at a used book shop while on holiday, and spent some days on the beach absorbed in it. Although the concepts in the book have been around for years now, it was interesting to read Hawking’s take on the history of science and human thought. He lost me a bit when he started to get int . . .

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Slumdog Millionaire

Movie Review

I have to say I was a bit disappointed in Slumdog Millionaire. It’s not that it’s a bad film, it’s just that it didn’t live up to the hype of a whopping eight Academy Awards. I suppose I should be happy to see that the American Academy would appreciate a film like this, but man, it must have been a poor year for movie . . .

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Worms 2: Armageddon

Game Review

The lastest Worms game was released this week on Xbox Live; I’m still a sucker for this game, even though I’ve been playing it since the first release on Amiga way back in 1994… it never really seems to get old to me. Although they’ve called it Worms 2: Armageddon, it shouldn’t be confused with either Wor . . .

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Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Game Review

Ghostbusters hit the screens when I was a pre-teen, and instantly became one of my all-time favourite films. Now, when I first heard about Ghostbusters: The Video Game, I wasn’t sure what to think — movie-related games are rarely very good. But when it was said that Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis would be penning the script t . . .

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