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10 Weeks Later

February 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’m not entirely sure if anyone still checks this blog, but if I do have a loyal readership (thank you!), you are advised that I am now writing for the UKotaku blog, so get over there and check me out! I have this killer article planned in the near future.
It hardly seems possible. But on [...]

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Tags: meta · norwich · writing

The History of the British Video Games Industry, Part I: The Speccy Years

November 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

It’s finally up, thanks to drunky (who also supplied the whimsical captions). Clive Sinclair! Spaceships! Essex! It’s all here and more!
History of the British Video Games Industry, Part I
Also, if you’re on digg, you can “digg” it which is apparently good.

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Tags: games · writing

A Brief History of British Video Games

November 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Someone posited on the Inconvenienced forums that Britain was the Hollywood of gaming. Others disagreed. I wasn’t sure what to think, so I decided to do something insane: write an essay on the history of the British video games industry, which is now worth £2bn a year, internationally renowned, etc.
Unfortunately, it has got slightly out [...]

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Tags: writing

October 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Using VNC to control my PC from the other side of the world is a curious sensation.
Also, due to a convoluted series of events, one of my Ambrose Hopkins stories is on Digg.  Ambrose Hopkins 3 is coming soon, I imagine. Just stayed in today, watching MST3K and Family Guy. Bought some American cheese. Can’t [...]

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Tags: tokyo · writing