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The Lyon sleeps tonight?
Gosh – just thinking about Eurogamer freelancer James Lyon’s new project makes me want a lie down. Essentially a re-skin of Al Kennedy’s 100 days of Comics project, James intends to ‘write the bits and pieces about videogames that interest me, say what I like or don’t like, crack a few lame jokes, and hopefully ...
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Fantastic plastic
Mrs Chewing Pixels visited her parents a couple of weeks ago and ventured into their loft to sift through the dusty forgotten debris of youth. She found her old doll’s house which was passed on to her from some kindly distant aunt. We cleaned up the pieces a little and I took some photographs which ...
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Scam-baiting: Means justify the way?
LOL! That’s what we’re meant to do when they scam the scammer, right? At least, that’s what the tittering blogs imply we should be doing when they link to the latest protracted right-back-at-ya con on 419 Eater or its strutting ilk. But no, and here’s why. First, a précis of the joke: As anyone with ...
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Wisdom re-applied #1
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” Samuel Johnson on why blogs (especially those without google ads) are a bit silly.
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Sid Meier’s Pirates – PSP Review
Here’s the original introduction I wrote for this Eurogamer PSP game review. They probably made the right choice making me change it slightly – their argument being that the illicit metaphor would probably obscure what is actually a serious and strong point. Nevertheless, I think this one is more apt and accurate so I’ll put ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #8: Little Big Planet
This poor quality YouTube video doesn’t do the game justice but, even from this fuzzy snapshot, you’ll still be able to see the clearest reason yet for buying Sony’s new console. Download a higher quality .mov here if you want a closer look. This is why we play games.
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Those careless Russians…
To lose one Russian journalist in suspicious circumstances might be considered unfortunate. To lose two seems downright…like a massive FSB conspiracy to order and carry out the murders of any incisive and publicly outspoken critics of the Russian military! Witnesses to his death said they heard what sounded like a “large snowfall”. When they looked ...
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Final Fantasy VI – GBA Review
Think of a videogame you still love today, five or ten years after you first fell for it. Tell me what makes it special and you’ll probably speak of how, at the time, the graphics transported your younger mind to new, exotic, unimagined places; of how its music perfectly soundtracked your leisure time leaving an ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #7: Crushed gnats
A series of microscopic pictures of gnats crushed on car windscreens by German photographer Volker Steger. The photographs have just won the German Leader award and imply that the last thing to go through a gnat’s mind before it hits your car is, ‘I hope I leave a beautiful corpse’, and not just its arse. ...
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The Funeral
I don’t talk about it much here but in between evenings writing, Chewing Pixels currently spends its days working on a new music videogame for the Xbox 360. It’s all part of a sober and determined effort to find out if making videogames is more fun than writing about them (it certainly pays better at ...
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Battlezone – PSP review
Average things are the scourge of any reviewer – there’s nothing trickier or more tiresome than spending 1000 words explaining that’s something’s neither good nor bad. Much easier to triumphantly lift something on your shoulders or kick it in the teeth. Still, I think this review’s not too bad to read and it gets across ...