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A return to Ivalice

Final Fantasy XII wallpaper
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Mr. Postman delivered Final Fantasy XII (ver. Greatest Hits) today. I skimmed through the manual (thick by today’s standards) and put the disc in the PS2 to confirm the region 1 title played flawlessly on my modded region 3 machine. Then I thought it would be nice to see the opening cutscene …

About 25 minutes later, I was saving my first savegame and 35 minutes after that, I saved for the second time. My spell of Impulse Control failed. Damn.

Comfortable with the basic controls by this point, I exited the eastern gates of Rabanastre, the starting city, and made for the desert where walking cactii, wolves and my prey, that dastardly scoundrel of a fruit, the Rogue Tomato, stalked the hot sands. Spotting my mark, I unsheathed my blade and began the battle. Man against tomato, no quarter asked nor given. Vicious blows were exchanged and ultimately, I emerged victorious. Tales will be told generations from now of this titanic conflict, I wager. Fruit-Bane, they might name me in those stories. Or the Tomato-Terminator. Killer of Killer Tomatoes, perhaps.

Though bloody after the struggle … no, wait, sorry, it’s just tomato juice … I returned triumphantly to the city gates and cast a spell of Save Game once again.

It’s a very good start to what promises to be a very entertaining game.

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By Gobi – Thursday, June 5, 2008

Age

Gamers carded. “The clerk made me show him proof of age ID … BTW, I turn 52 this Friday …”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Make a better world

Fancy being a superhero and saving the whole damned planet? Well, you can. It turns out all that nonsense about mutation or irradiated spiders wasn’t at all necessary. All you have to do is simply buy a book.
Better World Books
Better World Books is a US-based online bookseller founded by college students who decided to start a business with the unusual goal of being socially responsible and making a better world. Better World Books does this by selling books and using the profits to fund literacy programmes worldwide.

If that wasn’t noble enough, Better World Books is also a launch partner for Carbonfund.org, an organisation that helps offset carbon emissions. Remember, kids, don’t be an enemy of Earth; stop global wanging.
Stop global wanging
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Continued…

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Vader’s caring fist

The charitable Stormtroopers. “Where else can I dress up like an action figure and help kids?”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Mind games

On games and gamers. “… the average American video game player is now 35 years old and has been playing games for 12 years, while the average frequent buyer of games is 40 … with women over 18 representing a far greater portion of the game-playing population … than boys aged 17 or younger …”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, June 3, 2008