UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE, for PlayStation 3. RRP $119.95, rating: R16: If you’re getting a PlayStation 3 for Christmas, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, would be a great game to kick off your PS3 collection. Game studio Naughty Dog — the company behind huge hits such as Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter — has produced another winner […]
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) With just a dozen sleeps until Christmas I’m proud and somewhat astounded to announce that I’ve done half my Christmas shopping. This is unheard of for me. My usual Christmas routine is to start — and finish — my festive shopping spree somewhere around December
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch but whoever “they” are (in this case, perhaps people who own expensive restaurants), “they” may very well be wrong. If you have ever felt a twinge of guilt for spending too much time online, you
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The man who has made billions of blokes happy and revolutionised the way we watch telly died this week. Robert Adler was one of the two men credited with creating the remote control. Without him we’d still be wearing a track in the carpet between our favourite chair and the telly. Some say he played
Movember is well under way and it’s been interesting following the progress of the various competitive moustache-growers about the place and the spot of controversy that erupted via (once again) the Trade Me message board. It amazes me that people still haven’t managed to grasp the fact that internet message boards are viewed by all
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Now that the idiotic Halloween season is finally over we can look forward to something that is much more civilised and family-friendly: blowing stuff up. Unfortunately, retailers have jumped on the Halloween bandwagon much like they did with Valentine’s Day and now we’re bombarded with
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So, how about this weather? Mother Nature has been a busy girl of late, what with earthquakes and now gale-force winds. On Tuesday afternoon, after surviving the overnight breezes, a relative newbie to the south asked a tad nervously just how often we get these kinds of winds. It seems the earthquakes don’t bother him
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) It’s been a bit of a bumpy old ride during the past few days with the quakes that have been rattling their way around the south. In fact, it’s beginning to feel like the whole country is having a bad case of indigestion, with quakes
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