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		<title>Grand Theft Auto IV&#8230; Yeah&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nearlyphil.co.uk/2009/01/07/grand-theft-auto-iv-yeah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to try Grand Theft Auto IV for ages now, because it&#8217;s had such good praise in the press over the past year &#8211; Kotaku just gave it their &#8216;Game of the Year&#8217; award as well. So I got it for PC, only to be frustrated by the whole setup system in general. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to try Grand Theft Auto IV for ages now, because it&#8217;s had such good praise in the press over the past year &#8211; Kotaku just gave it their &#8216;Game of the Year&#8217; award as well. So I got it for PC, only to be frustrated by the whole setup system in general. The game installs so much external crap with it, there&#8217;s unnecessary amounts of verification and logins and authentication, it won&#8217;t run at all without everything being updated (including XP itself, NVIDIA drivers, and many other things&#8230;) as well as being connected to the Internet (which my computer doesn&#8217;t like doing so much these days). And then I found that my PC could hardly run it well at all. Ah well, my housemate&#8217;s playing it now and he&#8217;s enjoying it on his superior computer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m doing it the easy mode &#8211; playing the 360 version. But really, Rockstar&#8230; do you really have to do this? We just want to play the goddamn game.</p>
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		<title>Jade&#039;s Back! Wooh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>~phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so you must have been wondering what I&#8217;ve been up to this past month. As well as finishing off my university assignments, this screenshot from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas should clear things up&#8230; Yup, I&#8217;m that sad&#8230; just had to get 100%. I&#8217;d never really gotten into the GTA series before, but I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so you must have been wondering what I&#8217;ve been up to this past month. As well as finishing off my university assignments, this screenshot from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas should clear things up&#8230;</p>
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<p>Yup, I&#8217;m that sad&#8230; just had to get 100%. I&#8217;d never really gotten into the GTA series before, but I really REALLY enjoyed this game &#8211; makes me wish that GTA IV would come out on PC faster. Who knows, I might even buy it on the 360, if I get one. Which is more than likely at the moment because I&#8217;ll need one in order to play the recently announced Beyond Good and Evil 2! Woohoo! ^___^ And everyone laughed at me, saying this sequel would never come out&#8230; they can go suck it. Although the teaser trailer needs to show the new Jade model still, at least Pey&#8217;j looks decent enough. Don&#8217;t forget to click the picture to see the oh-so-pretty trailer.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34509.html"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://philcsfblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/jadereturns.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="125" /></a></p>
<p>Another game that looks interesting is Venetica, being developed by Deck 13 (Ankh, Jack Keane) and published by dtp (Undercover: Operation Wintersun and Overclocked: A History of Violence). In the news post I saw on Kotaku, people are seeing the words &#8216;role-playing&#8217; in the press release and thinking it&#8217;s gonna be some kind of crappy stat-heavy RPG trying to knock off Prince of Persia with the combat mechanics&#8230; for shame, gamers. Looking at past work by these companies, it&#8217;s obviously gonna turn out to be an adventure game, and with the gameplay from the short teaser trailer I&#8217;m going to (very waringly) compare it to Beyond Good and Evil. Should be interesting to see how this unfolds, methinks.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34456.html"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://philcsfblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/veneticadebut.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188" /></a></p>
<p>Tomorrow I get to rant on about how craptastic the Lost season finale is! Stay tuned, folks!</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; Over 2000 blog views now. Fuck yeah.</p>
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