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The beautiful game
Football (or Soccer as my Trans-Atlantic colleagues here would have it called) is the greatest game on Earth. It is watched, played and loved by billions of people across the globe and is probably the...
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The deception code
Cheating sucks! When you work really hard at something, put your all into it and give 150% and then some sneaky bastard pips you to the post through underhanded activity it hurts. No-one likes a cheat...
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Is the smartphone a legitimate gaming platform?
Over the past few years we have seen the development of some pretty special Smartphones, with the iPhone leading the market in terms of adding some real quality gaming to the platform, rather than just...
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Team Talk: E3 Highlights and Lowlights
So, before the big gaming storm blew into LA last week, the first in our new series, Team Talk, saw us all cut our teeth by making some pretty outlandish predictions for E3 2011. In this edition, we...
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Hands On: Metal Gear Solid: 3D
It’s still something that I’m trying to get my head around. The two don’t sound right next to each other, Nintendo and Metal Gear Solid, like some sort of warped oxymoron. However the series has found...
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Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
It’s almost as if an introduction isn’t needed for this game. If you haven’t heard from the franchise before then you’re most definitely not a gamer, or at least an incredibly bad one. The possibility...
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Review: Sonic CD
It’s not like we’re unfamiliar with this certain species of hedgehog anymore. Sonic’s been around the block so many times now that it’s a huge shock when someone asks who Sonic is. “Who?!” I may reply,...
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Review: Joe Danger: Special Edition
The term ‘exclusive’ certainly doesn’t have the same meaning in the gaming industry as it did just six years ago. Back then, if you chose a console, you could expect to play a certain catalogue of...
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Vita: Painfully priced or Perfectly paced?
Vita is an expensive hobby. We’ve all worked that out by now. It’s a great handheld, with some great ideas and some great looking games, but dagnabbit, are you going to have to pay for it. It would...
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Why I hope we never see a single console future
There is this notion that surfaces every so often that we’ll eventually hit some sort of a utopia, where there will only be one true platform for your games. Previous hypothesising has presented many...
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PS Vita
As a standalone device, the PSP sold relatively well; however, it’s hard to deny that it never really lived up to its early promise. For every truly great game, for every Crisis Core, Grand Theft Auto,...
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Army Corps of Hell
After losing a battle to the Gods, The Lord of Hell has risen once more, and man, is he pissed. He’s been stripped of his flesh, has a stinking headache, and an insatiable bloodlust that needs to be...
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Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
One of the wonderful things about Vita is the support it offers independent developers. While you’re likely to see old favourites continue to pop up, such as Uncharted, Wipeout and Motorstorm, the Vita...
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There’s Trouble in (Playstation) Store
Sony’s new re-designed store hasn’t had the best of starts. Whilst most people agree that the new look is shiny, easier to use and purty looking, it seems that the small issue of it working has come...
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Goodbye youth
When Sony announced this week that it’s time for the PlayStation 2 to take the well trodden console route to Dignitas, I realised that even though I hadn’t played on one in years (the last one I even...
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Naughty Dog and the expectation to deliver
There are all sorts of reasons why The Last of Us marks something of a departure for developers Naughty Dog. As the studio’s first mature title (Nathan Drake’s consistent use of “crap” isn’t especially...
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Team Talk: The Summer Games Catch-up
As we roll on through the typical game drought that is summer, read up on which games the TIMJ team plan to catch up on during the lull in between all the barbecues. It’s fair to say TIMJ could do with...
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Unboxing a monster: My first few days with the PS4
My pile of shame was busy gathering more dust, when suddenly there’s a knock at my door. Each thud banging out a Morse Code-like message, suggesting that’s how they will stay. I’m suddenly excited,...
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PS4 and the five not-so-shiny things
When I wrote my initial article about PlayStation 4 I was seemingly very happy with my purchase, and I’ll be clear upfront: I still am. I’ve had a good play with the system since, however, and in my...
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Infamous: Second Son
When Superman was created in 1938, he had the ability to leap tall buildings but he couldn’t actually fly. As superheroes become ever more popular, I find myself preferring the ones that have...
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Prepare for Destiny
As of today at 10:00am PDT, you can access the Destiny Beta on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and here is some important information to get you started. Don’t worry, everything applies to Xbox 360...
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OlliOlli (PS4)
I loved the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise when it was at its prime a couple of console generations ago. Sadly it waned as time went on, I lost interest (as did everyone else), and I haven’t played a...
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Evolve
If you strip away the monsters, the sci-fi setting and the lovable rogues, Evolve - the latest game from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios – is about friendship, pure and simple. Assuming you...
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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
What’s the antithesis to the idea that modern games are devoid of colour? Put simply, CyberConnect2’s latest Naruto game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. This is a game that will bathe you in...
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Dark Souls III
What’s the first thing you do after being away for a few days? If I was to take a guess, you’re like me and crawl into the warm comfort of your very own bed, pull the covers up and drift off into a...
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