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Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea

I hope that title isn’t copyright infringing, anyhoo, i can no longer contain my excitement, i like dragons, they’re cool, there’s been some good movies with dragons “DragonHeart”, “how to train your dragon”, “Eragon”, and classic cartoons “Dungeons and Dragons” … Continue reading

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Supermodel3 is the sexiest super model of them all

It’s been promised for the majority of this year, but now it has finally happened, the model 3 board emulator supermodel 3 has sound, not only that, but it accepts a range of peripheral devices for input too. Xbox controllers … Continue reading

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Pre releasing the pre-release, Minecraft’s new distribution model, or so it seems, lol

Hey there Minecraft fans, it may interest you to know that minecraft has been going through a phase of late where the new updates are first pre released to the hardcore fans before being added to the automatic download. What … Continue reading

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Going, going, going onLive!

Yeah that was suppose to be opening chant or whatever to the morning kids tv show way back when with Philip Schofield and Sarah Green, oh and don’t forget Gordon the Gopher hehe. But seriously folks, the online streaming game … Continue reading

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Dozens of top end games released in a 3 month window, which to get?

We’ve already seen Driver san Francisco and Dead Island released this month, as well as some cool XBLA titles such as Radiant Silvergun and Gunstringer which is apparently really good, i downloaded the free soundtrack and have enjoyed that, go … Continue reading

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Don’t rain on my snow baby, minecraft 1.8 is out, for reals

It’s finally happened the adventure update is out, or at least most of it, there are still features that need to be implemented, but so far i’ve met an enderman as pictured above, shortly before a spider killed me, a … Continue reading

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Oh son of a motherless goat, My Japanese Coach is on IOS

Hardly news worthy i know, but if there’s one DS title worth having its My Japanese Coach, a great tool for learning japanese, and to get it on the DS, especially 3DS as it doesn’t run R4 cards, you have … Continue reading

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Hurrah, zelda cd goodness boxed in for early purchasers, Skyward Sword

A few days ago, maybe a week, there was news that The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword was to be released with a limited edition gold motion plus controller with the hylian crest, and free cd from the upcoming 25th … Continue reading

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My fellow Ambassadors, 3DS that is, NES games ahoy

Greetings my fellow 3DS Ambassadors, you may have noticed some talk yesterday about the free NES games already available to us on the 31st, well when I checked they weren’t, not here in the UK anyway, but today you should … Continue reading

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Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life, Guardian Heroes release iminant

Earlier today @majornelson tweeted that the Guardian Heroe’s release for XBLA was as early as tomorrow, this has now been updated to NOT being released tomorrow. Original developed by Treasure on the Sega Saturn console, this re release has been … Continue reading

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