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Game Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (Xbox 360, PS3)
by tomdoodle on July 10th, 2008

The general consensus with the gaming community is that strategy games on consoles don’t really work. You don’t have all the hotkeys or the easy point-and-click that you get with PC strategy games, so when…..

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Movie Review: Hancock
by tomdoodle on July 06th, 2008

‘Hancock’, directed by Peter Berg, is the third superhero movie of the summer. Honestly, you’d think I’d be getting bored of these by now, but something about Hancock piqued my interest. I’d like to think…..

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Game Review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo Wii)
by tomdoodle on July 04th, 2008

On the 27th of June, ‘Super Smash Bros. Brawl’ was finally released in the UK. I don’t know why Nintendo made us wait six months more than Japan, three months more than America and a…..

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Movie Review: Wanted
by tomdoodle on July 01st, 2008

‘Wanted’, directed by Timur Bekmametov, is the latest imitation of ‘The Matrix’. You’d think that, after slating the last Matrix imitation I saw, ‘Jumper’, I’d have stayed well away from Wanted. But, since everything about…..

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Movie Review: The Incredible Hulk
by tomdoodle on July 01st, 2008

‘The Incredible Hulk’, directed by Louis Leterrier, is the second Marvel character to have ventured onto the big screen this summer. After the flop of the 2003 film ‘Hulk’, this reboot had a lot of…..

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Game Review: Dark Sector (Xbox 360, PS3)
by tomdoodle on June 20th, 2008

Since the last review I wrote is now collecting proverbial dust, I figured it was about time I got one with a review I’ve been meaning to write for about a month now. I hope…..

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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by tomdoodle on May 25th, 2008

Indiana Jones is an iconic series of films that everyone knows. Everyone knows the boulder scene from Raiders, everyone knows how the whip cracks, and everyone knows that in Top Trumps, Fedora always beats Swastika……

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Movie Review: Iron Man
by tomdoodle on May 04th, 2008

This summers first blockbuster ‘Iron Man’ is Marvel’s latest comic-to-movie venture; and with the success of the recent X-Men and Spiderman trilogies, it had a reputation to uphold.

Iron Man tells the story of Tony…..

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Mario Kart Wii
by tomdoodle on April 28th, 2008

Mario Kart Wii is the newest version of the successful ‘Mario Kart’ game series, and one of the few Nintendo Wii releases I have been genuinely excited about (‘Super Smash Bros: Brawl’ being the other…..

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Halo 3: Legendary Map Pack
by tomdoodle on April 20th, 2008

Those who have read my review of the Heroic map pack know exactly what I think about Halo 3 and it’s multiplayer gameplay, so I’m going to dive straight into this review of the brand new…..

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