Category Archives: Games

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Minecraft comes to Vita and others in August

Mojang have pretty much announced that XBOX One, PS4 and Vita version of their massively popular sandbox game is coming in August. Better yet the Vita version can swap saves with the p3, it’s also part of that buy on … Continue reading

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Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment heading to EU Vitas

So get this right, there’s an anime/manga/light novel that focuses on characters who play an online MMORPG with the use of an emmersive headset that intercepts any movement and puts it into the game rather than their physical bodies. Except … Continue reading

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My top kickstarter games to keep an eye on right now, cos I just looked

Did you want to play a simulation game like the new (last year) Sim City V but were put off by the failure and publisher, well sometime in the next couple of years, probably three by Kickstarter standards there is … Continue reading

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Blast from the past, SEGA, Dreamcast hanging in there, E3, Game Network

I just found this recording on an old VHS tape labeled back to the future, because it had the movie on there, but also it’s like time traveling back 13 years when there was satellite channel with video games, weird … Continue reading

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Pixels huh

We love pixelly goodness here at the GRiG, but what about in the movies? Well wreck it Ralph had some, but was mostly hi res 3d models, it was about the arcade world though, paying homage to the good old … Continue reading

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Teri Hatcher in primitive light gun game escapade!

Who’d have thunk it? After my numerous fruitless hours grafting my way through a myriad of false leads via Google, I finally have unearthed photo evidence of Teri Hatcher gaming. In a way. Well, it is a game. It would … Continue reading

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When celebs try to game

All this talk of Jet the Games Mistress recently got me to thinking – are there actually any real celebrity females who play games? A brief Griggle (the greatest online search engine) search later, and failing to find any results … Continue reading

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Pointless Bloodrayne 2 Review Ahoy – PS2 Version

Welcome my Grigadiers, one and all, for another exciting episode of Dibbs Ahoys Reviews of Complete Irrelevance (Darci? A bit like that chick from the Smashing Pumpkins)! In celebration of the release of Titanfall, I thought that it was time … Continue reading

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Snatcher shenanigans abound!

Ok, here’s an intriguing one for you. So it seems that the glut of fan made games that still continue to trickle out for the Dreamcast long after its official plug-pulling by Sega, is about to be joined by a … Continue reading

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Animal crossing the chores, the grinding, and for what?

When I went to Japan in the summer of 2013 I thought animal crossing would be a good game to get in case there were any street pass opportunities. As it turned out there wasn’t really, nothing useful anyway, at … Continue reading

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