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Minecraft whats coming up, notch recaps whats been leaked so far

We know that notch has got a lot on his plate at the moment, the fellas getting married in August, he was cake tasting earlier and met a fan according to his tweet, but in his latest blog post over … Continue reading

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Happy 15th Birthday NiGHTS into Dreams

Hurrah, 3 cheers for NiGHTS, the original Sega Saturn NiGHTS that is, it was 15 years ago today that the inovative flying platformer by Sonic Team was released over in Japan. Lead by Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic the … Continue reading

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Steam daily sales are goooood, magicka, super meat boy and half life and valve sets on the cheap

The steam summer sale is now on hehe. Those of you with a steam account will no doubt know there’s a good deal to be had most days, but today is a particualrly good day, there’s a valve pack of … Continue reading

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Fixing html 5 validation errors on a self hosted wordpress blog

So it was bout a month ago when suddenly the validator at http://validator.w3.org/ decided that it was going to be picky about the values in the “rel” attribute. Although i fixed this for grigorig back then i didn’t have time … Continue reading

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Minecraft beta 1.7_01 is out with pistons and sheers

So the adventure update is a little way off yet, put back to 1.8. but there’s still a few good introductions to 1.7. Pistons for one, though there is a piston mod out there, it is now part of the … Continue reading

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Old is New, and some of the New is just a guess

Ok, so we’ve got some old classics being re done for the xbla psn scene, two of which are saturn titles that are valueble on the bay, like Guardian Heroes and the japanese only release radient silvergun. There was also … Continue reading

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Indie Game the Movie back on kickstarter

You may remember a while ago that 2 people were making a documentary on Indie developers and games, there was a teaser featuring the 2 developers from team meat, the creators fo super meat boy. Well now it’s back on … Continue reading

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Sonic Generations playable demo available download now for 19 days

Today the 23rd of june see’s a playable demo of sonic generations, it’s the side scrolling level of green hill that’s available, no doubt to reinsure the fans that it’s better than sonic 4 episode 1, which it definately is, … Continue reading

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The Legend of Zelda ocarina of time 3d is amazing! Beautiful and so so sexy

Somewhere in the late 80’s, me and my brother were in Boots (a retail outlet in Eastbourne), in the back corner there where some NES games amongst others, one of these NES games had a gold cartridge and a little … Continue reading

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Kinect SDK Beta is here, and i’ve already played, short tutorial for basics

well it’s the eve of “zelda: ocarina of time” to be released on the 3ds, and Microsoft finally released the Kinect SDK beta, totally unrelated i know, but just to get the context of time here. GMT that is, as … Continue reading

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