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I curate the very finest and most evocative blog ideas, then forget to write them down and ramble on about video games instead.

Animal Crossing 003 – Fowl Ambitions

The weekend has arrived, and while a man dressed like a shock trooper takes a buzzsaw to a stubborn tree stump in my garden – which is a lot less exciting to watch than it sounds – it’s time for … Continue reading

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Animal Crossing 002 – Broken Chains

I can’t imagine that my horned doppelganger had a fantastic night’s sleep – spent as it was on plain wooden planks surrounded by a pile of cherries – but I for one was eager to get back and see what … Continue reading

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Animal Crossing 001 – The Bloggening

It’s all Eurogamer’s fault, really. One minute they’re printing a dewy-eyed retrospective on the Gamecube Animal Crossing – I’d call it “the original one” but I’d be bludgeoned to death by otaku and their specially-sharpened N64 carts – and the … Continue reading

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Five cable TV cartoons nobody else remembers

When I was a kid, we had a cable box. Cable companies were feudal things back in those days, yet to be swallowed up and homogenised by Virgin Media, and so the channel selection was spotty and reception was poor. … Continue reading

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Songs in the Key to Time

For the last few days I’ve been in the company of Murray Gold’s latest Doctor Who soundtrack, a dual-CD affair covering the debut of Smith and Gillen, all the way up to “The Big Bang”. I’m no stranger to Murray’s … Continue reading

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