December 2011
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2011: A Year In Blogs Pt.2 - Chats, Charity and...
The first seven months of 2011 were pretty great - meeting my brilliant girlfriend, the beginnings of writing a book, a couple of trips to London, some game reviews and the birth of this very blog. Frankly, the second half blew me away with the amount of things that went on from August onwards. August turned out to be a stunner of a month. In between taking pot shots at Cheryl Cole Cher...
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2011: A Year In Blogs Pt.1 - Games, Game Jams and...
It’s with a degree of surprise that the end of 2011 rolls around, from humble beginnings as a newly-redundant retail worker to a published author, international traveller and generally better person in the space of 12 relatively short and speedy months. For a large chunk of that time, this blog has been along for the ride, along with my writing and podcasts for gaming sites. For the...
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Crying Over Spilt Milk: The Problem with Spillit
We’re truly in the era of yet another internet boom (multiple booms in the space of a decade and a half? Crazy, right?). With the dotcom boom long gone and “Web 2.0” so standard now that everybody has consigned it to the phrasebook of “Things We Should Never Really Say, Like, Ever Again”, it’s the turn of social media to explode all over our Googles in the...
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The Christmas Effect: The Social Pattern That...
If you’ve avoided all shopping centres, radio stations and calendars for the past few weeks, you might be unaware of the fact that it’s Christmas time once again. Behind the endless festive ditties, wall-to-wall promotions and reams of lights I’ve noticed something different about everybody this year, and it’s not the endless sense of self-entitlement you find amongst...
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Super productive morning with my @RockBand...
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Global Game Jam: The reviews of what people are...
[[posterous-content:pid___0]] With Global Game Jam now out on the figurative shelves for just over a month and some review copies being sent out to folk, reviews are starting to crop up from both gaming websites and on Amazon. To my pleasure and gentle surprise, they’re generally really quite nice. First up is TheSixthAxis, who’ve done the book a kind service and presented a...
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What Daniel Craig and Metal Gear have in common
Two events in television and the internet have reached a concurrent point tonight. Both are hugely disappointing, like meeting me in real life. The first trailers for the US remake of Steig Larssen’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Platinum Games’ (Platinum Games’) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeraneance have hit both our first and second screens tonight, and they’re, um,...
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It's 2011. Why are we still shit-hurling fanboy...
By the time this blog goes up most of the world’s Xbox 360 owners will probably have the latest Dashboard update, introducing a heap of new features to the console’s system software: cloud saves, new streaming services, better Kinect integration and, best of all, a gentle reminder that Bing is a website that still exists. And yet, as it deploys to the interwebs, a couple of rogue...
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An Open Letter To The Transport Companies of the...
Dear Sirs, Madams, Whom This May Concern and the Director, You may have noticed that it’s snowing lightly outside. Gritter vehicles are outside in their hundreds, reducing this gentle sprinkling of talcum powder to mere liquidy slipperiness, making the roads all the more suitable for driving on for the millions of Britons lethargic enough to have not bothered investing in winter tyres....
Sarcasm is dead, long live public internet hate
Whatever happened to the graceful art of sarcasm, that most bitter and taunting of comic remarks? I’ll tell you what happened: the internet happened. Earlier on today, doing my Saturday morning flick through the news before work, I caught the story that Limp Bizkit have been dropped by their record label following dismal sales of their latest album on NME’s website. After reading...
Tending My Resignation From SarcasticGamer.com
All good things, it seem, must come to an end. As of January 1st 2012, a date which will probably be spent face-down in the evacuated contents of my own stomach, I will no longer be serving the good ship Sarcastic Gamer in any of my current positions of writer, editor, or podcast host. As I leave, I’ll be leaving the “Yamster” monicker behind too - after three and a half...
