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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

Make Mine A Craft

I’ll be the first to admit it – I’m not the best at Minecraft. I got as far as building an oven once but then I couldn’t work out how to make muffin mix so dug a huge hole instead. … Continue reading

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Qix-tastic!

So I’ve been playing Qix on the Game Boy emulator on the 3DS. It’s surprisingly hard – I mean, viciously unpredictable enemy AI, endless traps and ways for you to die, no continues and only 3 lives… And it’s also … Continue reading

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Tomb Raidin’ tomfoolery at it’s finest!

So is everyone enjoying the Tomb Raider fun and frolics this week? Been entertaining, huh? Well, as someone who enjoyed the first game, I’ve been particularly interested in Crystal Dynamics Rise of the Tomb Raider. But it’s not exactly been … Continue reading

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Sword Art Online II

As we count down the days for the Vita release of Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, a second series of the anime has started. As of writing episode six is available on crunchy roll, they have an app and if … Continue reading

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Eight Days And Counting

It’s right here, Ray. It’s looking at me. Hurrah for Fridays! Bastion of Infinite Possibility! Guardian of the Weekend! Harbinger of Funtimes! Friday is the Gatekeeper to a nether world of joy and you? You, my friend, are the Keymaster. … Continue reading

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The game that never was: Akira

Grigadiers! So following on from Lartens majestic one anime article thus fulfilling the promise that Grig Orig was going to become an ocean deep resource of news and info, I take up the challenge and focus my attentions on things … Continue reading

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Breaking: Universes collide as actual Teri Hatcher/gaming link is discovered!

It’s been months in coming… nay, years even. But the wait has been worth it. And if this proves one thing more than anything else, it’s that nobody, NOBODY, deters the Grig when our Spider-senses are tingling telling us there’s … Continue reading

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Well, The World Is Just Full of Surprises…

Retro. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Griggerprise. Her continuing mission to explore very well known old worlds, to seek out old games, and old civilisations, and to boldly go where millions have gone before. And … Continue reading

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And yet more from EA!

Well, another day, another crime from everyones favourite tyrannical games company. For indeed, just when you couldn’t imagine EA sinking to any deeper lows, wait for this one! The demos for FIFA 14 and UFC have landed on the Xbox … Continue reading

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3DS and Vita to become EA-free gaming sanctuaries – world rejoices!

Whilest many may put an element of the demise of the Dreamcast down to the lack of support from EA thus starving the machine of several (wrongly) revered franchises, I look at things differently. Dreamcast is a machine that doesn’t … Continue reading

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