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Archive for April, 2010

Poseidon is a jerk and Gaia is mean

Posted by Lee On April - 17 - 2010 1 Comment
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After my initial return to the world of Kratos I’ve pretty much dropped everything else to stat playing this in the three or four minutes I have spare each day.  Whilst fleeting those minutes are full of bloody awesomeness and innovative use of the PS3 controller to kill people. The story goes like this, the  [ Read More ]

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Categories: Game Progress

First impressions: God of War 3

Posted by Lee On April - 14 - 2010 2 Comments
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The measure of a man is what he does with power… It’s been a while since I played the first two God of War games on the PS2.  I loved those games because they were so well put together, I liked characters and the action was great.  I didn’t bother picking up the God of  [ Read More ]

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Bioshock and family

Posted by Greg On April - 10 - 2010 1 Comment

In my last Bioshock game progress post, I touched on the topic of family. Your family In the very first scene of the game’s opening cinematic, the main character, Jack, opens a present addressed to him “With Love, from Mom + Dad”. As he does this, he says: ”They told me, ‘Son, you’re special. You were  [ Read More ]

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Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

As I mentioned last week in the first Mashing Buttons podcast… What’s that? You haven’t listened to it yet!? You should go rectify that, all the cool kids are listening to it. …as I was saying I mentioned in the podcast that one of my favourite gaming genres right now is first person war/battle games  [ Read More ]

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Two piles of my PS3 games

I thought it might be a good idea to organise my PS3 games as I’ve been picking them up here and there and not having enough time to play them straight away have forgotten that I have some of them. It’s something that I’d like to be reminded of when the next big game comes  [ Read More ]

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Hair today, Stanley Cup winner tomorrow

Posted by Lee On April - 3 - 2010 2 Comments

Some people questioned the reasoning behind adjusting my hair to resemble my avatar in NHL10. Some people suggested it would be easier to change the avatar to resemble me. Some people thought that it would make no difference. To those doubters I give you this: Yes that’s right in a marathon Good Friday hockey session  [ Read More ]

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Introducing the Mashing Buttons Podcast!

Posted by Lee On April - 3 - 2010 7 Comments

In an attempt to bring variety to the Mashing Buttons blog Greg and I have recorded the first podcast for the blog.  I think we felt it was a natural extension of the site because Mashing Buttons was born out of gaming conversations. It’s the first one so it is exceedingly long and after the  [ Read More ]

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Let slip the gods of war

Posted by Greg On April - 3 - 2010 0 Comment

Ho, ho! What a hilarious title. I was absolutely infuriated by my inability to get past those cerberuseseses (cerberii?) last time I played, and so I put the game to one side. Indeed, I put the game aside long enough to start and finish another game entirely. With God of War III now on the shelves,  [ Read More ]

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