If you're here by accident, I apologise for the lack of interesting blogging. I blame the second paragraph.

www.HonestGamers.com keeps me too busy to be social. Expect more of an effort to be made in the New Year when my workload should be decresed. Or, should you have come across this blog out of bordem, check the site out and let me know how much of my effort actually pays off! P.S Coming soon: HonestGamers.co.uk. Oh joy, more work.....

• 27Dec 08

  I am EmP's smug sense of completion.

  It's almost a year ago, and New Year Resolutions are being spat out. Trying to pick an easy one, a slightly-younger EmP decided that he will review a game for every letter of the alphabet. It will be easy, thinks he, as his website grows in fame and more and more publishers send him titles to cover, surely the games will fall from the very skies with the letters he needs to complete this task.

  He was a fool.

  A lot of games seem to start with S. A surprising amount start with A. With only five days to go, an obscure Mega Drive title starting with Z saved me from failure. Though I'm sure a sum total of zero people will read this, I started the year with the claim that this'd be done, and I'm a sucker for ensuring closure.

  My list for 2008 as is follows:

  # is for 7 Sins

  A is for Ark of Time & Art of Fighting Anthology & Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None & Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King & Alisia Dragoon

  B is for Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 & Bomberman Land Touch! 2 & Bomberman Land & Boing! Docomodake

  C is for Crazy Pig

  D is for Dracula: Origin & Dream Pinball 3D & Doom 3 & Doodle Hex

  E is for Everquest II: Rise of Kunark & The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

  F is for: Final Fantasy Tactics & Fantasy Wars & Football Director DS

  G is for Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core

  H is for Hurry Up Hedgehog

  I is for: Indigo Prophecy

  J is for Jewel Quest: Expeditions

  K is for Kolibri

  L is for Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

  M is for Mass Effect & Monster Madness & Mah Jong Quest: Expeditions

  N is for: No More Heroes & Nightmare Circus

  O is for Operation Thunderbolt

  P is for Prism: Light the Way & Political Machine 2008, The & PDC Darts 2008 (360) & PDC Darts 2008 (PSP) & Pony Luv

  Q is for Quake III: Arena

  R is for R-Type III & Revolution X

  S is for Sam & Max 202 & 203 & 204 & 205 & Shadowgrounds: Survivor & Splatterhouse & Secret Files: Tunguska, The & SNK Arcade ****cs Vol. 1

  T is for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter & Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2

  U is for Utawarerumono

  V is for Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 1: Sarah Bryant

  W is for World Snooker Championship: Season 2007-08 & Wow

  X is for X COM: Terror from the Deep Y is for Ys Strategy

  Z is for Zoom!

  And now I get to do it all over again. Have a happier new year than I'll probably have, phantom readers.

  • Posted Dec 27, 2008 9:00 am PT
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• 27Sep 08

  Achievement unlocked: 150 reviews later.

  Nighthmare Circus is the one hundred and fiftieth review I have written for that site that won't let me stop writing. Oh God, please make it stop!

  I'm not sure if it's fitting or disappointing that this figure was reached through what is probably the worst game I will ever play. There's a very cruel joke being played out there and, somehow, I'm the punchline.

  • Posted Sep 27, 2008 7:26 am PT
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• 21Aug 08

  My dark joy

  It's hard not to take some kind of twisted pleasure when one of your reviews has the following printed directly underneath its header:

  9 out of 47 users agree with this review

  I choose to record this figure so I may look back in a number of months and find out how this figure has grown.

  I get kicks out of the weirdest stuff.

  • Posted Aug 21, 2008 10:27 am PT
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