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The three games I picked up Batman and Indiana Jones Lego and Red Dead Redemption

Lee writes about his experience with EB Games and eBay when trying to get rid of his PS2 game collection and the three games that replaced them!

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My first Platinum trophy

Posted by Greg On July - 30 - 2010 1 Comment
Just in time for dinner

That’s right. I’m now part of the exclusive group of “1337″ peeps who have achieved a platinum trophy on PS3. Among my PSN friends list, I’m the third to manage it. The others did it in Batman Arkham Asylum and Fallout 3. It takes time and effort and I admit I’m pretty chuffed. It took  [ Read More ]

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Four changes I would have made to Far Cry 2

Posted by Lee On July - 22 - 2010 0 Comment
Far Cry 2

As much as I loved Far Cry 2 I still think there were a couple of things I would have changed about the game, some reasonable thoughts and one random one. The animals There was a couple of seconds of terror realised as I fell into the water the very first time in Far Cry  [ Read More ]

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Uncharted 1 after Uncharted 2

Posted by Greg On May - 8 - 2010 0 Comment

I finally found it at a reasonable price, so I bought Uncharted. The catch, however, is that I already played and completed Uncharted 2 late last year. Considering the number of times Uncharted 2 was declared “Game Of The Year” for 2009, was I going to be disappointed by Uncharted? What must not be forgotten  [ 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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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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Quite a while ago I bought a second hand, oh hang on that’s right they like to call them pre-owned now.  A while ago I bought a pre-owned game from JB HiFi.  For those outside of Australia JB HiFi is an electrical goods retailer who happens to have a really good DVD and games selection  [ Read More ]

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Voice chat in online games

Posted by Greg On February - 26 - 2010 2 Comments

For me, at least, being able to verbally talk to other players in an online game is relatively new. I had done it before with Left 4 Dead on PC, but only with a group of friends. I’ve just started playing MAG, however, and voice chat in this scenario is quite different for me now  [ Read More ]

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Whilst making the rounds through the Playstation Network the other day I noticed that a new Star Trek game was being advertised, this one based on the J.J. Abram’s reboot film: Star Trek: D-A-C PlayStation 3 Trailer – Space Battle Trailer Now I’m fairly certain I’ve seen this game before, granted Star Trek: D-A-C has been out  [ Read More ]

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