Category Archives: Games

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its a block eat block world out there, figuratively speaking

I take a break from my evening grind of catching up on tech/game news to mention 2 interesting blocky games in development, both of which where tweeted by @notch, so if you follow him on twitter no doubt you’ve already … Continue reading

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XNA for xbox maybe more hidden, but Microsoft haven’t forgotten us

In a surprise post on the msdn blogs, the might Microsoft have listened to feedback from the XNA creators club app hub community, and finally upped the maximum file size form a mear 150MB to 500MB, not only that but … Continue reading

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3DS update ahoy

The November update for the 3DS is upon us, this December 8th, hey it could of been worse, the big updates are the 3D video recording which is just as bad as the 3D camera so i’ll skip that one, … Continue reading

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xbox, play, play PLAY!, PLAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

XBOX Dashboard update, going metro like windows phone 7 and the upcoming windows 8. Once you get passed the agreements, you can almost use kinect for the interface, maybe you could do that before? i don’t know, i mean who … Continue reading

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Nintendo 3DS update delayed but soon

The nintendo 3DS update that was due very late november is in the internal testing phase at Nintendo and should be rolled out by December 8th. The update includes 3D video recording for upto 10 minutes, as well as some … Continue reading

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Street fighting Gold Action

Those of you who subscribe to Xbox Live Arcade Gold can get half price deal this week on Super Street Fighter 2Turbo HD Remix 600 MS, Streetfighter 2 Hyper Fighting 200MS, and Final Fight Double Impact 400MS. Of course if … Continue reading

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Ooops, we forgot to mention, Minecraft is officially launched, but you knew that already

So last weekened was the big MineCon in vegas, where 5000 met to celelbrate the release with @notch and the rest of Mojang. As we here at grig can’t afford a plane ticket, 3 nights in a hotel, and the … Continue reading

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Darkstalkers are not dead!

Street Fighters retro stablemate Darkstalkers is fresh from the grave today, ressurected in full on PSN glory as Capcom confirm that they will be bringing the fisticuff related tomfoolery of Morrigan (star of a million breast-centred items of Deviant Art … Continue reading

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720 inbound?

Following on from yesterday’s article by actually bothering to write something new for the Grig, I venture forth once more and set my sights firmly on the future as we plot a course for the next generation! Now this is … Continue reading

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Street Fighter revives the Grig again!

I’d heard about the Mary Celeste but never thought i’d ever encounter such an eerie scenario myself. But as I stepped out on to the decks of the good ship Grig Orig and looked around, ’twas all I could think … Continue reading

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