Category Archives: Community and Games

Is gaming a chore?

January 19, 2012 – 11:29 pm

I’ve gotten out of gaming in the past and I’ve in the past often had periods during which I didn’t game though they were mostly down to not having a 360. I got Skyrim on the PC [well, my laptop] since the week of its release and have not played it at all this year. [...]

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Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2

November 27, 2011 – 2:29 am

I recently completed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 or SWTFU2. I mentioned it very briefly before. I played the first one shortly after its release and was surprisingly enjoying it very much. The Euphoria game engine coupled with the ability to let loose with a lightsaber worked very well and the difficulties were well [...]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic

November 26, 2011 – 10:35 pm

I got very excited a couple of weeks ago when I received an email to the weekend beta testing for Star Wars: The Old Republic as it has been a game I’ve waited for a long time. I had never played an MMO before with the exception of free trials for WoW, Eve Online, Star [...]

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Skyrim

November 20, 2011 – 10:47 pm

Skyrim has consumed my life for the past few days with my total time spent probably around 35 hours. It is quite an extraordinary game with lots to explore and do from cutting random pieces of wood for no reason to killing dragons. Looking at my stats there are a few things that surprise me; [...]

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Killing stormtroopers ain’t quite the same any more

October 26, 2011 – 11:07 am

A played a little bit of Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 last night following watching most of season 1 of the Clone Wars this weekend. The game is, just like the first one, quite a lot of fun, but I found myself not really wanting to kill stormtroopers at times. The Clone Wars gives [...]

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Apps on my phone

June 25, 2011 – 11:43 pm

I keep getting asked by new Android users which apps I would recommend [All the apps currently on my phone can be seen on AppBrain] and for a while I’ve been meaning to make a post on the apps I use regularly. This isn’t it! This is a post on the apps that I’ve just removed off [...]

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Why does Facebook recommend someone to me that it cannot know I know?

April 18, 2011 – 9:24 pm

For the past four months Facebook has consistently been recommending one person to me. Unlike some other irregular suggestions this is actually someone I know, but I can’t figure out why Facebook would even know that I know this person. Back when I still lived in Germany I spent six years doing voluntary work with children. The [...]

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Gaming memories – Condemned

April 11, 2011 – 1:08 pm

Some of the recent nightmares I’ve had were sort of related to this moment in Condemned though the game most certainly isn’t the reason they have occured. I’m still not sure why I bought and played the game. I don’t like scary films or scary books, but particularly not scary games. For some reason I [...]

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The rise and fall of a superhero on Twitter [@DMLFury]

April 9, 2011 – 1:51 pm

Twitter is great for many reasons, but reading Drew’s Nightshift adventures wasn’t something I’d seen before. And it was kinda awesome. Oh and shameless plug, he was also the first #TwitLight participant two years ago! You can read about that here – Who are you, @FrustratedFury? Though he’s since changed his name.. Did you know [...]

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50000 tweets later.. and I’m still here!

March 15, 2011 – 3:00 am

This morning I hit 50000 tweets which is incredibly scary. In fact I reached the number with a tweet to this post which is quite strange really! I joined Twitter just under four years ago and never expected to use it much. I mean it seemed like a good idea, but I didn’t really see [...]

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Happiness is..

March 12, 2011 – 8:16 pm

..finding that the 360 hard drive with my games saves, particularly my Mass Effect 1 and 2 games saves, wasn’t stolen after all. Now I just need to read through my posts about Mass Effect 2 to remind myself what I’ve done when I last played it almost a year ago! Things I’d like to [...]

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Saying one thing yet doing another!

October 22, 2010 – 4:15 pm

I have noticed several times in the past that once I write a post about losing interest with something I suddenly find myself interested again. As it just happened with gaming. Last week I wrote a long post on how I’m not interested in gaming these days and how I’ve lost interest in gaming journalism [...]

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How to play “Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords” on Windows Vista

October 21, 2010 – 2:04 am

Just over a week ago I wrote a post discussing my lack of gaming in recent months. Amongst other games I mentioned KotOR II: The only reason I replayed KotOR was to have it all in the back of my mind [not that I actually needed to!] to replay KotOR II. Which has issues with [...]

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Where have all the gaming posts gone?

October 12, 2010 – 10:46 pm

Amongst several others there’s a draft sitting in my, well, drafts, lamenting on how I jump from interest or hobby to another to come back to it at a later time thus effectively proving my nomadic nature. In that post I mention gaming, but seeing I can’t find any inspiration to finish it I thought [...]

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Why do tweets about alcohol always get the most replies?

July 31, 2010 – 11:01 am

Surely it would indicate that most of my followers may have too much! Here’s the previous time a tweet about alcohol got quite a few and this is what I got yesterday. . How long does a screwtop bottle of red wine remain drinkable once opened? # . jhomerston: I’d say about 2 days, 3 [...]

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Gamer Banter: Cover art? No, thanks!

July 22, 2010 – 4:11 am

Gamer Banter is a monthly gaming discussion of multiple bloggers. More info is here and please contact Terry from Game Couch if you wish to take part. July’s topic is set by Terry from Game Couch: How important is cover art to you? Not at all.

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Gamer Banter: A trip down memory lane

June 17, 2010 – 8:23 am

Gamer Banter is a monthly gaming discussion of multiple bloggers. More info is here and please contact Terry from Game Couch if you wish to take part. June’s topic is set by Terry from Game Couch: What was the game that made you a gamer? When I first read the question I thought it was [...]

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Live Tweeting

June 14, 2010 – 7:51 pm

So it’s E3 and the Microsoft press event. Everyone and their dog is excited about the new game announcements. So what does everyone do? They take it to Twitter. I think about 20 of the people I’m following are in Los Angeles at the event with another 50 or so watching the live streaming at [...]

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