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June 2009

Articles published by Megabits of Gaming in June 2009.

30 Jun 2009

Simple controls hit all the right buttons!

I had a great weekend. Had a few friends over and enjoyed a decent gaming session - perfect! But after after a bit of Streetfighter IV, Call of Duty 5, UFC Undisputed, Fi

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29 Jun 2009

Monkey Island to make a welcome return!

Great news from the Guardian Games Blog...the legendary Monkey Island is set to make it's way onto the Xbox sometime soon. I've many fond memories of the escapades of Guy

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26 Jun 2009

Fight Night Round 4 packs a punch

Sony and Microsoft are going to do pretty well with peripheral sales this year I reckon... I'd bet that PS3 and Xbox controllers are going to be flying off the shelves th

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22 Jun 2009

The Megabits must-play list

Regular visitors to this blog will already have seen my all-time Top 10 but here is the ever-growing Megabits must-play list! These 100+ titles have kept me glued to the

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19 Jun 2009

APB - thinking outside the sandbox

Here's something from Wired to whet your appetite ... APB (All Points Bulletin) is coming and I've no doubt it's going to be epic. I heard about this some time ago and re

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17 Jun 2009

Few great games are on the horizon...

Have I missed something here? Back at the start of the year, wasn't there mention of plenty of exciting triple-A titles that were going to hit stores in 2009? Well, where

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15 Jun 2009

I've achieved the impossible, have you?

There are three universal mis-truths: "No, your bum doesn't look big in that", "It's not you, it's me", and "I didn't do it for the glory". Lies, damned lies - and the la

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15 Jun 2009

Kirby - another Gameboy favourite!

Whilst flicking through a copy of Retro Gamer (what's happened to me? I used to read Heat magazine) I came across an article about my old favourite, the Gameboy. It remin

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12 Jun 2009

Is Assassins Creed worth another go?

I was never that enamored by the original Assassins Creed . It certainly didn't deliver after being so massively overhyped. Don't get me wrong, it looked fantastic, oozed

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12 Jun 2009

The King of Real Time Strategy games...

The Total War series may have incorporated morale and troop drilling, while the Command and Conquer games offer a touch of surreal humour and, as Bojeeva pointed out in h

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12 Jun 2009

New COD map pack - this means War!

My weekend's sorted! Treyarch has released its second Call of Duty: World at War map pack so I'll definitely be improving my kill count tonight. It's fantastic news that

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10 Jun 2009

In reality, GTA is awesome

Not so long ago I was sat on a plane approaching London Heathrow. As I stared out the window, it was at that moment I knew I'd been playing too much Grand Theft Auto IV.

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10 Jun 2009

The Top 10!

So after much deliberation, here are my all-time Top 10 in all their glory! Football Manager Syndicate The Settlers Rage Racer Pyjamarama Alien Breed Toejam and Earl Comm

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09 Jun 2009

Puzzle Bobble - an old favourite

I was browsing the internet for computer games – all in the name of research of course – when I stumbled across an online version of Puzzle Bobble. There were so many thi

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07 Jun 2009

Premier position for Football Manager - #1

Any game to be cited in divorce cases has to be the most addictive game EVER, right? Absolutely! My wife ("PhotoPuddle") has grown to loathe Football Manager (nee Champio

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06 Jun 2009

Syndicate - the 2nd best of all time!

If ever there was a game that needed another sequel, it was Bullfrog's Syndicate! Set some time in the not too distant future, a group of agents roam dark and dangerous s

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06 Jun 2009

This will have to settle for third spot

There's a woodc utter, a stone mason and a miner, and they're all waiting for some food. The baker is having trouble getting hold of wheat while the fish erman is bemoani

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05 Jun 2009

Coming soon - games on demand

Now I never need to leave the house... downloadable Xbox 360 games are heading to a room near you! And I'm not talking about games from the original Xbox or even Live Arc

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05 Jun 2009

Pyjamarama in at 5!

Most people refer to Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy as classics. I wouldn't disagree - but I do think that they often overlook another brilliant example of the genre. Pyja

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05 Jun 2009

Racing in to fourth place

I'm not the biggest fan of racing games for a simple reason... I'm no car nut. I don't know what sits under the bonnet - so why would I want to (in fact, how could I) pla

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04 Jun 2009

E3: so it's true then...Metal Gear to Xbox

All the speculation of recent months has come to a head and finally, the Xbox will be getting a version of Metal Gear Solid sometime soon... Details are sketchy but here'

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04 Jun 2009

Familiarity "Breeds"... fondness at #6

Back to my Top Ten... and in at number 6 is Team 17's Alien Breed. A top-down shooter, you take the role of a lone marine (unless you had a mate along for its brilliant c

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03 Jun 2009

E3: Sony and MS show off their moves

Controllers are the talk of this year's gaming get-together. Microsoft proudly announced its plans for the mysteriously titled Project Natal the other day for the Xbox at

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03 Jun 2009

New release: Red Faction Guerrilla

Wait! Another an open-world, third-person shooter? Who wants that? But add destructible scenery (remember Bad Company ?), an array of weaponry and a jetpack into the mix

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02 Jun 2009

Toejam and Earl struts its stuff at #7

As the list goes on, this gets tougher. At number 7 in my top ten titles, it has to be Toejam and Earl on the Sega Megadrive! Two aliens stranded on Earth have to negotia

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01 Jun 2009

E3: Crackdown is coming

Finally, Crackdown 2 has been announced! I loved the original on the Xbox 360 - it was the first game I played, and the first I completed (still haven't found all those b

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01 Jun 2009

E3: Modern Warfare map packs

The E3 show is underway in LA, US, and aside fro m a new slimline Sony PSP emerging, great news is the arrival of two map packs for Modern Warfare 2 after its November re

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01 Jun 2009

This commands a spot in my Top Ten - #8

Any of you remember Dune 2? Back in 1993, I played it religiously on my Amiga. You controlled one of three factions, Atreides , Harkonnen and Ordos , each with different

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