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Gaming

Still don’t know Minecraft? Well, if you use iTunes, the block-building virtual world game is giving you a wake-up call. The game is now the top grossing app on iTunes and settling between the top third and fourth paid app overall. Minecraft Pocket Edition was released on November 17 and formally announced yesterday at MineCon, [...]

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Angry Birds? That’s so 2010. The hot game you might not have heard of yet, but chances are your kids know, is Minecraft. And 5,000 Minecrafters have descended upon Las Vegas for MineCon, the first-ever event for Minecraft. During today’s keynote, Markus Persson — Notch — the creator of Minecraft officially took Minecraft out of beta status. [...]

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Just an update. About a month after it died and was sent back to Microsoft with the red ring of death illness, my Xbox 360 has returned to me. Naturally, it’s now so bright and sunny that I have no desire to stay inside playing on it Actually, my original one didn’t return. They sent [...]

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The day after I did my Xbox 360 Breaks — And Almost A Month To Wait For Repairs post, Dave Naylor IMd me to say his Xbox had the red circle of death just happen as well. Hmm. I had noticed that when I searched for support, a number of people suddenly seemed to be [...]

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Great. It’s summer, and I was looking forward to things slowing down and maybe getting some Xbox 360 time in. I sit down yesterday for a little Lego Star Wars II action with one of my sons and suddenly, I learn about the red circle of death. A red circle lights up on my Xbox [...]

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Ages ago, I almost bought an Xbox 360 in the US to bring back to the UK. The reason? The US always seems to have more games — and sooner plus cheaper — than the UK. Get a US machine, and I could play the US regionally coded games. I actually did buy a US [...]

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People don’t take pictures of their kids playing Playstation or XBox. I’m just saying. — Jeffrey McManus That quote has stuck in my mind since Jeffrey wrote it last December. I totally understood, after watching the kids play with the Wii myself. It’s just cute. Tonight, both my boys got to box against each other [...]

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About two weeks after the US, the Nintendo Wii finally arrived in the UK. I’d preordered and picked mine up yesterday. So far, it’s a big thumbs up. Sure, it’s not HD-quality images. Who cares! The games and the unique controllers are a ton of fun. So far, I’ve played Wii Sports, which came with [...]

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I have a multi-region DVD player here in the UK, which means I don’t worry about the stupid regional coding that manufacturers have tried to foist on us. Game console makers have tried the same thing. But bless Nintendo, because they’re breaking the mold with their latest game console, the Wii.

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The Nintendo DS Lite came to the UK this week. I’d been thinking about getting one for myself, rather than borrowing one of the kids’ DS Nintendos as I’ve been doing recently. Normally, I wait for a trip back to the US to buy items like this, as they’re often a little cheaper. But the [...]

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