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CaptainD has started a new group discussion: What are you going to see next at the cinema?
- December 20th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Hornado - a fantastic freeware oldschool shoot-\'em-up
Someone (who shall remain nameless, but they knows who they are!) expressed the view quite recently that freeware was a waste of time, and that if anyone came up with a good game they'd charge money f…
- December 19th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
Wii Games Review Index
WiiWare GamesRubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSHManic Monkey MayhemSports GamesMario & Sonic at the OlympicsWII SportsBig Beach SportsSurf's UpLEGO GamesLEGO BatmanLEGO Star Wars: The Complete SagaRacing…
- December 18th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Iron Man 2 Trailer
(I know the preview image makes it look like this will be awful quality, but it's actually high quality!) CaptainD - Movie Reviews Blog
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Moonlight Sonata (1937)
Saw this thirties movie tonight, it's a bit of a musical oddity really - Ignacy Jan Paderewski stars as himself, a great piano player and composer. It starts off with a lengthy piano recital and even…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
Wii Game Review - Rubik\'s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH
This game, available on WiiWare for only 600 points, this is a very good puzzle game based around that famous multi-coloured cube that, frankly, I could never understand. The game involves you gettin…
- December 17th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Panic Attack!
This is the movie that's got everyone talking - and earned Uruguayan producer Fede Alvarez a $30m contract in Hollywood to create a feature-length version of his movie.CaptainD - Movie Reviews Blog
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
First Thoughts - Rubik\'s Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH
I had my first sight of Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH today and was pleasantly surprised. Perhaps best described as a sort of Lemmings meets Tetris cross, this puzzle game is basically about getting th…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
St Trinians 2 Trailer
The 2007 St Trinian's movie was a lot of fun, so this may just be worth a look...CaptainD - Movie Reviews Blog
- December 16th, 2009
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CaptainD has started a new group discussion: Milestone on my PC Gaming Blog
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Fifty Thousand Page Views!
Today this blog reached 50,000 page views - seemed like a notable enough milestone to do a blog post about. :-DHaven't had too much time to blog here recently, but look out for more news / reviews on…
- December 15th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
WII Game Review - Wall-E
Wall-E for the Nintendo Wii is the official game of the PIXAR movie. I've come to realise after playing several conversions of PIXAR movies that most end up being rather average platform games; just…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
Screenshots from The Mystery of Whiterock Castle
More information on The Mystery of Whiterock Castle
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
Press Release - The Mystery of Whiterock Castle is available for WiiWare™ on 25th December
Hours of fairy-tale fun with Playtainment:The Mystery of Whiterock Castle is available for WiiWare™ on 25th DecemberCologne, Germany, December 15th, 2009 – By releasing The Mystery of Whiterock Ca…
- December 14th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Interviews - The Avatar Cast and Crew
James Cameron, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang talk about the arduous process of making this game-changing sci-fi epic...More about this movie CaptainD - Movie Reviews…
- December 13th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Retro Gaming and Emulation Blog
Destruction Derby Raw - PS1
Now this is a fun racing game! The object is not only to win the race but also cause as much damage as possible (normally what I end up doing unintentionally anyway!), or in some game modes just be t…
- December 12th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's Book Reviews Blog
Book Review - The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
I've been a big fan of Isaac Asimov's writing for two decades now, and after reading The Caves of Steel, I'm even more of a fan - it's shown me another side to his writing. Despite the character…
- December 10th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Aspiring Filmmakers Can Get Big Break With Peter Jackson
Fancy yourself as a film director?New Zealand will be the star of a new project that offers aspiring filmmakers the chance to get their work in front of Academy Award™-winning director Peter Jackson…
- December 9th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Retro Gaming and Emulation Blog
Dino Crisis - PS1
Made by the team who did Resident Evil, I picked this up among a batch of 15 games for a tenner. Not really a game I would have tended to buy individually, but I have to admit that, while I don't lik…
- December 8th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's Book Reviews Blog
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Replete with typos though it is, The Caves of Steel is an amazing book. Haven't finished it yet but it's among the best Asimov I've ever read - not just a murder mystery set in a future world, but a…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
The final act in Season One of TellTale Games' Tales of Monkey Island has a lot of references to the very first Monkey Island Game (Secret of Monkey Island), which fans of the series will definitely e…
- December 7th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
High Definition TV Owner?
Just got our HDMI cable and (after a couple of false starts - 5 plugs but 6 sockets??!), got our Wii set up with the high def display. The cable only cost £15 from Amazon and seriously, the differen…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Press Release from Koonsolo Games - Games With Big Machines! (?!?)
December 7, 2009 - Koonsolo Games announces that their new lineup of games will put you in control of bulldozers, dump trucks, excavators and other heavy equipment. They will call it Big Machine Games…
- December 5th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
First Thoughts on Tales of Monkey Island Episode 5: The Rise of the Pirate God
Got my review copy today (the official launch is 8th December) - can't say too much because of the press embargo but I think it's safe to say that the season finale has a few twists and turns that you…
- December 4th, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
PC Game Review - Stronghold 2 Deluxe
I really like the RTS genre and everything about this game had looked good - I thought it even might be a logical successor to Defender of the Crown with its promises of a full simulation of caste lif…
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CaptainD has started a new group discussion: Hard Disk Drive Reviews
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Hard Disk Drive Reviews
Thanks to my guest writer rgathright, I've just posted a number of hard disk drive reviews on this blog. For convenience I've listed them all here:Western Digital Caviar® SE WD1200JD 120 GB SATA Har…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Western Digital Caviar® SE WD1200JD 120 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
In the end not even 7200 RPM or an 8mb of onboard buffer memory cache could make this storage product attractive enough for me to use. Due to the archaic speed of the Western Digital hard drive, I st…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Seagate Barracuda LP (ST32000542AS) 2 TB SATA II Hard Drive Review
You will enjoy the high capacity of the Seagate Barracuda 2Tb but the real story is the high performance which gives you the ability to transfer files at relatively high speeds. The high performance…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Seagate DiamondMax® 10 160 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
First, if you are just going to use this drive to store files as a secondary hard drive, go for it! The drive runs reasonably cool and is quiet so it will not interfere with the daily operation of yo…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HTS543216L9A30 160 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
The blazing fast performance of the file system chipset within my ASUS 1005HA netbook leaves me to believe that the Hitachi 160Gb SATA hard drive is holding me back. The poor access speeds in the ben…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Transcend 32GB SSD, 2.5- Inch, SATA, MLC SATA Hard Drive Review
Ignore all the claims by Transcend that the V Series is a good drive. Transcend V Series SSD drives have disappointed me with cheap construction and subpar performance numbers. Luckily, I bought a P…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500 GB SATA II Hard Drive Review
You can find faster drives on the market today but at the current price of just $60 at most online retailers this drive is extremely hard to beat at its current Transfer Speed and Capacity ability. S…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 160GB HDD, 3.5, SATAII, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache (ST3160318AS) 160 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
The Seagate 160Gb SATA drive is by far the fastest that I own in the 160Gb to 80Gb capacity range. As seen by the benchmark results above, this drive can outperform your expectations in both SATA I (…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
PDP Systems Patriot Warp 32GB Solid State - SATA-300, 2.5 32 GB SATA Hard Drive Review
Almost everyone will agree that the Patriot Warp 32Gb SSD is one of the fastest SATA drives on the planet today. However there are two main detractors: cost and capacity. First, unless you have the…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB External USB 2.0 Portable - Black Hard Drive Review
The WD Elements WDBAAA3200ABK is a solid drive that has an impressive 298Gb NTFS formatted capacity. You are going to find that the drive operates differently from one computer to another as various…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Western Digital Scorpio Black 250Gb SATA Hard Drive Review
Even though you will have some problems mounting this drive due to its high vibration, I really enjoy the speed it offers me. The 16Mb of cache and 7200 RPM rotational speed mean that very few 2.5”…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
nVidia Drivers - update time
Just a quick message for anyone with an nVidia card who hasn't updated their drivers in the last month or so - head over to the nVidia drivers page, it's time for you to get up to date!CaptainD - PC G…
- December 3rd, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Guybrush lives!
Well you knew that rumours of the demise of our favourite pirate were greatly exaggerated, surely?!CaptainD - PC Gaming Blog
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
Tales of Monkey Island - The Story So Far
For those who've been asleep and missed the fun, TellTale Games have put together a short video detailing the events of Tales of Monkey Island episodes 1-4. Episode 5, Rise of the Pirate God, is the…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Movie Review - Born of Hope
An indie film that's been hotly awaited for quite some time now, Born of Hope is the story of Arathorn, father of Aragorn. The latest fan-made Lord of the Rings movies takes a character that is often…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
Interview with The Code Monkeys
Recently I caught up with The Code Monkeys, the team behind Manic Monkey Mayhem. I asked them a few questions about their game and WiiWare...When did the idea for Manic Monkey Mayhem first arise? (W…
- December 2nd, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: WII Game Reviews Blog
WII Game Review - Manic Monkey Mayhem
Available on Wiiware from The Code Monkeys, this mad game has a lot going for it. You play a monkey who has to battle it out with other monkeys by throwing bananas and possibly other objects at them.…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
PC Game Review - Awesome Soccer
Two things about Awesome Soccer instantly appealed to me - firstly it's a fully-featured soccer game that only uses one fire button (a real novelty these days but a feature that makes it instantly acc…
- December 1st, 2009
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Born of Hope - Now Available to watch online!
Have just watched Born of Hope - very good story, good music, even some good CGI. It's a little slow at times - probably due to the run-time being extended quite a bit beyond what was originally inte…
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog
CaptainD Interviews Ben Chandler (designer / artist of many games including Awakener and Feather Weight)
Thanks to the joy of private messaging on the AGS Forums, I caught up with Ben Chandler whose recent games Awakener and Feather Weight both impressed me. I asked him about making games, playing adven…
- November 30th, 2009
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CaptainD has started a new group discussion: Born of Hope - official release tomorrow!
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CaptainD has posted a new entry on: Movie Reviews by CaptainD
Born of Hope streams tomorrow!
Just thought I'd better check when Born of Hope is actually available online, and somewhat to my surprise I found that it's actually tomorrow.Set FireFox or whatever you're using to www.bornofhope.com…
