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• 5Nov 09

  Whats Danny Doing #1

  Hello and welcome to my new blog thing where I post links to stuff I've been doing. Cool eh? Well probably not, but I hate people thinking I'm being lazy. Over the past few weeks I've been populating Gamespot and my own site with videos, reviews and undefinables, so here are a choice selection of content I've produced this month across the internets!

  Canabalt Review: (Gamespot User Review)
  Cheap & Cheerfull iPhone Game

  EDGE Review: (Cant Find it on Gamespots Database)
  Great Little iPhone game.

  GTA4: Ballad of Gay Tony Playtests (Video)
  - Multiplayer Playtest
  - Singleplayer Playtest

  Operation Flashpoint Playtest (Video)
  - Part #1
  - Part #2

  Newspaper Advertisment (The Times)
  My first mass-media graphic design is going in the Times on November 14th.

  Trailer Watch (only the best and worse make it)
  - Jailbait Hero

  Citizen Soapbox (our weekly user discussion groups)
  - Mobile-Phone Games
  - Spooky Games

  Citizen Gamecast (Eurogamer Episode)
  With brand new music, and in keeping with CG on-location podcasts, we were pretty hammered.

  We also covered the Golden Joystick Awards and the Eurogamer Expo in central London last weekend (thats me interviewing Gamespotter Joseph Barron). Expect video for that in 'Whats Danny Doing #2".

  In terms of games I've been playing the awesome Brutal Legend, Fifa 10, Operation Flashpoint 2, some great iPhone and Indy games (pick up Osmos on Steam if you have a few quid lying around).

  Hope you guys are all keeping well in the run up to Jesus Day. What have you guys been up to? What you been playing?

  • Posted Nov 5, 2009 2:33 am PT
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• 20Oct 09

  Citizen Game Returns

  

  
  My labour of love went live a few hours ago. www.citizengame.co.uk
  
  I've spent the past 4 months developing the site in our new location in London with a fantastic group of guys. I spent a long time brainstorming about the aspects of games websites, and games journalism that I feel are odds with the common gamer. The PR/Newswire cycle that ends when the game hits shelves, the lack of entertainment in an entertainment medium, and a lot more.

  This is my attempt at what games websites should be, or at least what I can get away with, with a team of freelance contributers with fulltime jobs. Weekly videos, the return our weekly podcast (new format), articles from some of the best games writers in the UK and loads more.

  Apparently I'm one of the most visited and followed users on all of Gamespot. In the 3 years on this site I've written articles, shot videos and covered foreign events from this humble blog. If you think my content was worth your time on Gamespot, I'd love for you to see whats coming up on on CG. It's a geniune attempt at creating a better type of games media.

  Join the revolution

  Danny

  • Posted Oct 20, 2009 4:23 pm PT
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• 20Aug 09

  Not Dead

  Quick update, Im not dead.
  
  - Still no internet in flat in London (so havent been gaming online in nearly 2 months).
  - Got a job in London making websites and graphics for an online video production company. Unreal job, Im working on top level web design, running projects and organising sizable contracts. Its 110% awesome.
  - Sort of decided I dont want to work outright in games journalism. My design work is better split between the creative and business sides, and I'm being much better paid. I dont want to be in my thirties earning a crap wage. Even better, I feel more personally free to explore the areas of games culture I find interesting, rather than having to bend over to the money machine and cover stories that drive more traffic. Interested in doing more freelance work like i do now in radio. I have a plan, we'll see what happens over the next few months....
  
  - My 360 RROD'ed AGAIN yesterday, so playing my Ps3 more (ratchet and clank TOD is fantastic!). Its the DVD drive again. Out of Warranty, boo!
  - Still building the new CitizenGame. So exciting since the company i work for is local over a film studio and the guys have unreal amounts of knowledge in online video. Its nearly done!
  - Went on the London Eye, its really high!
  - London is bloody hot again, everyone has swine flu (like 5 people I know so far).
  
  - Ate Ghanain food for the first time. Analysis: Delicious
  - Goin to see Deftones next week (love London!).
  - Watched the Arsenal match in a pub in Highbury last week (love London!).
  - Playing loads of Unreal Tournament 3 with bots, feel like im 13 again
  - Haven't bought a game since I moved here. I miss my HMV staff discount.....

  How you boys and girls doin?
  Very well I hope. Do share......

  

  See, very much alive.

  • Posted Aug 20, 2009 3:45 pm PT
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