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Replay of the Wild

22 June, 2019 - 304 words
It’s not often I want to replay a computer game, but Breath of the Wild is one of those games. I completed it in 2017 after around 160 hours of playtime on the Wii U, and was so exhausted with it I remember clearly thinking that this was a game that had been a wonderful experience but couldn’t be replayed. 18 months later and I was given a copy of the game for the

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Keep Posting

27 June, 2011 - 157 words
Pete has some good advice for writing a blog that lasts: Keep Posting. I should post more, but I’m frequently paralysed by choice. I’m a software dev manager, so I’m interested in down-in-the-mud-coding, software quality, personal and team productivity, agile techniques, web analytics, business value and return on investme...

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Nintendo DS strikes right note for teaching

24 October, 2007 - 180 words
My wife is a maths teacher, and I have a new DS lite. This means that she now has a DS fat, and we can play Brain Training competitions against one another from our single cartridge. Inspired by a bit of ad-hoc wireless play (d...

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Opera web browser on the Nintendo Wii

10 May, 2006 - 375 words
Along with all the other news coming out at E3 2006, Opera have announced that their web browser will run on the Nintendo Wii. This follows the announcement in February that Opera will also be released for the Nintendo...

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Gaming heresy

28 September, 2005 - 48 words
Nintendo will win the next-gen console wars, because the Revolution is the only next-gen console being made. Sadly I can’t find the actual source of this comment at Arstechnica, but at the risk of sounding like a complete fanboy, it rings true for me.

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697

27 September, 2003 - 232 words
Just before I went on holiday I finally managed to complete The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on my Gamecube. I’m completely addicted to LoZ games, and have been since I played the original on my NES years ago, although it always takes me ages to complete them because I never seem to get enough time to just sit down and play for a few h...

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