Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

#381 Metal Gear Solid

Posted: 17th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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39th game played so far Genre: Stealth Platform: PS1 Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Once upon a time, in a distant gaming past, there was a fairly well-known platformer called Metal Gear. It did well, but the series was only truely revived when it was brought to the PlayStation as as a […]

#908 DJ Hero

Posted: 13th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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38th game played so far Genre: Music Platform: Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: FreeStyleGames Publisher: Activision We may be jumping a little late into the music game franchises by taking on DJ Hero, a spin-off title from the bestselling Guitar Hero series, but when both the game and […]

#527 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Posted: 10th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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37th game played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Time again to visit the land of Hyrule and indulge in a little Zelda action. Today my friend Kat’s game collection takes us to the 2002 classic game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker which was the […]

#883 Drop7

Posted: 7th March 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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36th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/iPhone Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Area/Code Sometimes all you need is a decent puzzle game. Today’s blog post, Drop7, is our first puzzle game in a while. It also helps that since Final Fantasy VIII took us an age that we could spend an afternoon on […]

#407 Final Fantasy VIII

Posted: 4th March 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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35th game played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: Playstation 1 Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Square-Exix Publisher: Sony Right. So previously we covered Final Fantasy VII, a game where a spiky-haired guy named ‘Cloud’ tried to save his world. Now we moved on to Final Fantasy VIII, which doesn’t share any plot but does […]

34th game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PS2/Gamecube/X-Box Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Free Radical Design Publisher: Eidos Interactive Of all the first person shooters out there I have lost the most of my time on the Timesplitters franchise. As much as I loved the first installment it was still fairly rough around […]

#343 Final Fantasy VII

Posted: 26th February 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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33rd game played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: Playstation 1 Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Square-Enix Publisher: Sony Final Fantasy is quite possibly the biggest RPG franchise known to man at this point in time. The game was named that because, when the first game was created, Square took a gamble by making it. […]

#492 SSX Tricky

Posted: 23rd February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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32nd game played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Playstation 2, Gamcube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance Year of Release: 2001 Developer: EA Canada Publisher: EA Sports BIG Multitasking is considered by some to be the spice of life, this is especially so with this blog. At any one time we typically have 2-3 games on the […]

#454 The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Posted: 20th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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31st game played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo There are certain gaming series that have a large number of games on the 1001 list. So far we have made a sizeable dent in the Mario games (although to be honest there is a hell of […]

#431 Perfect Dark

Posted: 17th February 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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30th game played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Nintendo 64 Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Okay we’re going for a bit of a Rare overdose but we promise that this is the last of their games which we will be covering for a while. Maybe… Perfect Dark was originally released […]