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2013 was a pretty great year for games.  There was a number of positive trends throughout these past twelve months that I hope continue well into 2014 and onwards.  Firstly, we seem to have well and truly gotten past the days of having the best games crammed into a three month window between September and November.  2013 saw both big ...

We may not be spending Christmas in Brisbane this year but over the past fortnight, we’ve been busy catching up with as many friends as we can.  We’ve been going to Christmas Carols, visiting the crazy house in north-side that wins the Christmas Lights competition every year, making Christmas treats with our friends and generally getting into the spirit of ...

I didn’t think I had been this behind on my movie-watching or my blogging.  I sat down this evening to write a list of my ten favourite films of the year.  You’d think it would seem like light work after recently compiling a list of one hundred games!  Yet I came up with about four films.  Then I sat there ...

MELBOURNE VICTORY 2 PERTH GLORY 0 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 ADELAIDE UNITED 4 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 0 NEWCASTLE JETS 0 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 SYDNEY FC 2 MELBOURNE HEART 1 Alastair Edwards’ sons are great footballers insists Alastair Edwards Round Ten of the A-League saw one of the bottom three clubs – Adelaide United – finally make good ...

This time last year, Jen & I would wake up in the morning and have bagels and coffee in New York at the cafe next to our hotel.  We’d spend half an hour people watching and planning our day, enjoying the novelty of a brisk New York winter.  Most days the cafe would play Linus and Lucy, one of my ...

ADELAIDE UNITED 1 BRISBANE ROAR 2 PERTH GLORY 4 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 2 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 1 MELBOURNE HEART 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 SYDNEY FC 0 MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 The World Cup Draw The draw for the Group Stage of the World Cup was held on the weekend.  Prior to Saturday, it was hoped that the Socceroos ...

The Playstation 4 is the hottest game system in town at the moment.  The system launched in Australia on November 29th but the initial shipment sold out fast.  Then so did the second.  Then the third.  In fact, if you order a PS4 from scratch today, you’re given the time frame of ‘1st Quarter 2014’ for when you’ll get it. ...

Central Coast Mariners 0 Melbourne Victory 0 Brisbane Roar 1 Perth Glory 0 Sydney FC 2 Newcastle Jets 0 Wellington Phoenix 0 Western Sydney Wanderers 0 Melbourne Heart 3 Adelaide United 3 #HeartBelieve It was a bit of a quiet round in the A-League this week with a couple of scoreless draws in the mix.  Sydney FC continue their resurgence ...

“Xbox, record that” One time, I was playing Tiger Woods Golf (I forget which year) on the Playstation 3 and a friend of mine hit this 300 yard drive that arced beautifully through the air, skidded off the green and then hit a spectator square in the groin.  There was a wonderful animation of the poor guy doubling over and ...

OVERVIEW The video game industry has not been kind to the eighth generation of game consoles.  In the past three years I’ve written about the launch and my initial impressions of the Nintendo 3DS, the Playstation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U and all have had a somber and pessimistic tone to their prospects in the marketplace.  Today, each system ...