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Game profits down 64%
Game for a fall
(02/07/2009 – News – 1 Comment)
Beex Week - 5th June 2009
All rise for Beex Weex, 5th June.
(05/06/2009 – Articles – 2 Comments)
Beex Weex for 29th May, 2009
A delight of some whimsy, this beteo week was prepared by our… Mimi.
(29/05/2009 – Community – No Comments)
Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena
First playable demo of the stealth/action-em-up.
(04/03/2009 – News – No Comments)

N+
I always thought ninjas were sneaky wee fuckers that somersaulted into your room at night, shurikened your missus, stabbed you in the heart & scarpered before someone finds the bodies. It turns out that’s just a myth…
(26/07/2010 – Reviews – No Comments)
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
This is by far the most infuriating game I have played this year. I cannot remember getting this frequently and this extremely hacked off by a game since I was a stroppy pubescent twat silently howling at the ceiling after being cheated yet again by Mortal Kombat 2 on my [...]
(09/07/2010 – Reviews – No Comments)
Modern Warfare 2
A bit like Keanu Reeves at the beginning of Point Break. Except you’re in the desert and it isn’t raining.
(15/01/2010 – Reviews – 1 Comment)
X-Blades
X-Blades has all of the ingredients to be a great example of a hack ‘n’ slash, but it seems the developer under-cooked them.
(10/11/2009 – Reviews – 3 Comments)

Let’s All Play: Sorcery+
Early in a machines life, there tends to be one game that tends to act as a showcase for the format. The SNES had Streetfighter 2, the Amiga had Shadow of the Beast, and the Amstrad CPC had Sorcery +.
(29/12/2010 – Articles – 1 Comment)
It’s not Normal
I’m old. So very old. So old in fact that the very first videogame I played was actually one of the very first videogames which went by the name of Pong. Over the last 32 years since I first played that game I have conquered alien worlds, crashed all manner of vehicles and shot hundreds [...]
(13/09/2010 – Articles – No Comments)
Hidden Agenda
I’m in a bind.
It’s about two years into my term as president. My promises to improve the economy have left me little choice but to cut back on costs whever possible - the country’s in a staggering amount of debt, and the hungry people I so desperately wanted to feed had to be dispersed by [...]
(09/07/2010 – Articles – No Comments)
The State of the Nation (Or why I learned to stop worrying and move back to Morrowind) – An Open letter to the next Emperor
When the next door neighbour is someone called “Goblin Jim” it’s a pretty fair bet that the height of Leylandii aren’t going to be number one on the list of possible neighbourly disputes…
(16/04/2010 – Articles – 3 Comments)

Beex Week - 5th June 2009
All rise for Beex Weex, 5th June.
(05/06/2009 – Articles – 2 Comments)
Beex Weex for 29th May, 2009
A delight of some whimsy, this beteo week was prepared by our… Mimi.
(29/05/2009 – Community – No Comments)
BeexWeex for 22nd May
rumpled blankets
(22/05/2009 – Community – No Comments)
Beteo Weekeo for 15th May 2009
Beepity beep
(15/05/2009 – Community – 5 Comments)