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Came home today to find Jen had picked up a little something on the way home from work.  Naughty Dog’s latest action adventure game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves! I can’t tell you anything about this game yet as I’m still playing through Brutal Legend and I prefer to finish one game before moving on to the next. Jen <3 P.S  ...

Came home today to find Jen had picked up a little something on the way home from work.  Tim Schafer’s new game Brutal Legend! Not ten minutes into playing the game, I was fighting a bunch of demons in a hellish pit, with an army of head banging rockers on my side and Def Leppard’s Rock of Ages blaring through ...

Hey, that stupid pedestrian bridge they’ve been building, which has been responsible for noisy construction going on outside our apartment every Saturday morning, has finally finished being built.  It looks very modern and er, spiky. Jen and I have been clearing out the back-catalogue of games recently to make way for the upcoming awesomeness that is Uncharted 2 and Brutal ...

1UP Yours/Listen Up As I write this, I’m listening to the final 1UP Yours/Listen Up podcast before host Garnett Lee leaves the UGO gaming network for Shack News.  That might not sound terribly interesting but listening to this weekly video game podcast has been a habit of mine for the past four years and the show was enourmously influential personally.  ...

I’d always been interested in reading a Chuck Palahniuk novel.  His books are very popular amongst many of my friends, he has a reputation for subversive writing and is the author of Fight Club, which translated into an excellent film.  So a friend lent me a copy of Survivor.  I finished reading it last night. Survivor tells the story of ...

Gianni’s Restaurant and Wine Bar in Brisbane, run by head chef Javier Codina, is a popular restaurant that just recently won a Hostplus award for Best Fine Dining in Queensland.  So we were pretty happy when we received an invitation to dine there for a four course dinner designed by Codina himself. It seems a bit odd that a place ...

So there was a big ‘dust storm’ that settled over Brisbane today, engulfing the city in an orangey-red hue for most of the day.  It was pretty sweet.  I have no idea what would cause this phenomena but it made everything look cooler and apocalyptic. I also have a far more favourable view of this weather than some of my ...

I have a girl gene that requires me to constantly lust after new clothes and spend hours compiling a mental wish list of things I really have to have! Of course this always happens at the worst times- ie the week before pay day. Today is the Autumnal Equinox, offically marking the start of Autumn. I went shopping for a ...

My wife is super awesome.  She had the day off from work today but made time to pick up a copy of the new Halo game for me.  So when I came home today, I bought the two girls in the apartment some ice cream, left them in front of a tv with True Blood on and then sat down ...

The nineteenth season of Survivor kicked off this weekend.  For Survivor: Samoa, they’ve cast 20 new players, and aside from the usual archetypes that the show has (insane old woman, sociopathic troll etc) they have also gone to extra special lengths to get around the ‘hot chick gets voted off first’ trend that has plagued the show in recent years.  ...