If I see a shiny thing, I want it and I’ve been like, since I was a kid. However, it’s one thing to spend your own money on a glittery gadget but quite another to shell out your hard-earned cash on a risky venture such […]
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The Crew Servers To Shut Down Ubisoft recently announced that The Crew, a racing game that takes place across the entire USA, will be shut down on March 31, 2024, because the servers will be switched off. This is quite frankly a scandalous move and
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I Want Your Money! If a complete stranger asks you for money, what do you do? If they compound their sob story with tales of incurable disease, dying grandmothers, starving children living rough, and all manner of heart-wrenching scenarios, are you still tempted to part
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“Don’t worry, everything’s going to be fine…“ This is probably the most used saying in disaster, spy, homicide, kidnapping, and apocalypse-genre TV shows and films. And of course, when you see our hero speak those words, you know there’s trouble ahead and everything is not
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WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS! The Walking Dead Consider this an update on my other zombie article, Let’s Talk Zombies from July 2021, because a lot can happen in the zombie universe during the intervening years. As I mentioned in 2021, I managed to reach the end
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There’s some good content on Prime Video and since our ISP offered it to us at a very cheap rate, we signed up some months ago. However, most of the shows have Spanish titles because of where we live, so I can accept that. But,
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Half-Life My first encounter with zombies in video games was in Half-Life back in 1998 and although the infected scientists weren’t undead in the conventional sense, they were still zombified by head-crabs that had attached themselves to the unwitting fellows. Fortunately, they moved quite slowly
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I was going to title this as How To Live With Hyperinflation, but since there are no real answers to that particular conundrum, I would have found it difficult to summarise in just a few words. Furthermore, this is not a political rant, because we
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Whether you like it or not, Monty Python’s Flying Circus is very likely responsible for how all that crap in your inbox is named and their Spam sketch is said to have been the precursor to what we all know as unwanted email. The sketch
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Back in the heady 80s, of Filofaxes, yuppies, and telex ticker tape, I was a salesman for numerous container shipping lines, serving Europe and the American Midwest, which is where I cut my teeth in the cut and thrust of aggressive sales tactics. I thoroughly
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I love that we live in a world of diverse cultures and rich languages, but we don’t always understand what we’re reading. For my part, whilst I speak fluent Spanish and can read and write in that language, sometimes I need more than a little
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Rockstar Games launched the GTA 6 trailer about 18 hours ago (at the time of writing this) and it’s already racked up a record 78 million views on YouTube, such is the voracious appetite for the new game, as outlined in my recent article GTA
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In previous articles, I’ve written about Google’s greedy tricks to clamp down on adblockers used on YouTube despite the company’s revenue for the third quarter of 2023 is nearly $60 billion, so the question remains – how much more do behemoths like this really want?
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Rumours of a sequel to GTA V have been circulating for over a decade and it’s finally been confirmed by Rockstar Games that a trailer for GTA VI will be released in early December 2023. It’s worth remembering that 2013’s GTA V (for consoles) is
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