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God Is In The Details

God Is In The Details

A gentleman by the name of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe is not only responsible for the aphorism “God is in the details” but also for “less is more”. It’s rare to find such mutually applicable contradictions outside of the Bible but it has…

He Ain’t Heavy

He Ain’t Heavy

I was sitting down to dinner the other night and mum said “You seen that Gaming Lives your brother writes for?”. “Err yeah”, I replied while thinking “Where the hell has she got that from?”… “I read all of the one where he talked about…

BlazBlue: The Calamity Trigger – First Look

BlazBlue: The Calamity Trigger – First Look

I first became aware of BlazBlue from the Xbox 360 ‘Inside Xbox’ dashboard blade, nearly a year ago. An enthused and obviously better informed arcade fighter fan than I wanted to know when we could expect to see it here in the UK and Europe,…

Starting Again

Starting Again

For many years I have been playing games and it’s always been the same way. Play a game, beat it and move onto the next one. There have been times when I have gone back and played the same game again but it was always…

Video Games: Worst Security Forces

Video Games: Worst Security Forces

For those of us without a conscience, blazing through a game and laying waste to anything and everything in our way – along with those exceptional annoyances that we’re all perfectly happy to hop a few fences for in order to get some satisfaction- without…

It’s Not me…It’s You.

It’s Not me…It’s You.

Somewhere, somehow, I fell out of love and I don’t remember when.   From an early age I championed Nintendo’s ugly grey boxes over the shinier, more exciting looking Segas, and onwards,  shunning Playstation for the N64 and Gamecube…and it kind of stopped there.  I suddenly…