Category Archives: General

Everything in one big rolling beauty, was gonna be an option to put posts on the homepage, but naything not in quirks ahould go on to the home page anyway

Get Filezilla to preview images in Windows Photo Viewer without inheriting default programs from windows

Woah, didn’t I just write a post, and now another one, ok people here’s what’s going down. Usually on say a windows 7 machine, when you open an image it opens up in Windows Photo Viewer, if you’ve installed other … Continue reading

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Change of format

Hey there GRiG fans, there’s a change of format happening soon, we’re adding manga and anime to the roster ^_^. As you may well know, there is no shortage of tech and video game blogs, and over the past couple … Continue reading

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Bayonetta 2 by platinum games is WIi U exclusive

Nintendo have had their little event, and announced an exclusie sequal to Bayonetta. That’s it, all we know. In other news, Wii U has a november 30th release date for Europe. zombiU, Nintendoland are up for launch, as well as … Continue reading

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In a dream i can see, you are not far away: NiGHTS is coming back in HD

Happy 16th birthday NiGHTS. The beautiful NiGHTS into Dreams game from the glorious Sega Saturn is finally making its retro comeback HD style this fall. First lets show the vid. Roll it. July 5th is NiGHTS birthday, it was 1996 … Continue reading

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Minecraft XBLA profitable in first hour

As Mojang handed over the reigns of an XBLA port of Minecraft to developer 4J Studios last year, the game has been hotly anticipated by fans, and fan fare marketed by the big Microsoft, first at the 2011 E3 expo … Continue reading

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Quake Live – Let’s Frag ’em

Quake Live is quake in the browser with a plugin, and it looks wicked, and plays brilliantly, you may have recently seen a game with @notch, @jeb, and i think @kappische of Mojang play some young dude and a couple … Continue reading

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The late nineties were the best for video games

The Grigonians have been gaming since the early Eighties, when video games consoles had the games built in and we used paddles with twisty nobs to make a rectangle move up and down to colide with a square, beautiful. And … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare 23 is kicking off with Tiny World, oh

Here in the UK the time has just struck 02:00 and the gauntlet is down, Ludum Dare #23 a 10 year aniversary has started with the theme “Tiny World” and now i’m stumped, hmmm what to do? For those un … Continue reading

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Google Maps goes 8-bit fools ya fools

Google love their april fools (TiSP, free broadband install see here), and their homage to all things cool, like the playable pacman game in place of Google on the homepage one May 22nd 2010 (still playable here). But this year … Continue reading

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Sega spies trouble ahead

There is news today that the storm clouds are gathering again over yet another former gaming behemoth. Sega-Sammy are reporting to investors that profits will be down considerably on prior estimates for the close of this financial year, which could … Continue reading

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