Obligatory Zero Punctuation Praise Post

I’d be failing in my duty to you all as a “hip” “young” “blogger” who plays “video games” if I didn’t heap praise on the wonder that is Zero Punctuation, a series of flash video delivered reviews of Video Games which essentially revive the spirit of classic Your Sinclair/Amiga Power/Digitiser (new?) video games journalism and merge it with a rapido style fast delivery and cheap animation.

It’s genius.

So, I’d recommend you watch this round-up of the current consoles:

There’s a new review every Wednesday, here’s another favourite of mine reviewing Medal Of Honour Airborne:.

Bollock(s)!

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Well it doesn’t look like much else, does it?

The council have given planning permission to this thing being built at the bottom of my road. It’s going on a car park, but I’m not keen because it depends on containing a cinema which is unlikely to gain enough customers, a series of chain restaurants and more office space.

Rather than something useful, like y’know, housing or a decent small gig/club venue, for example. More details here.

C30 C60 C90 Go!

That loveable rogue Soundhog is back again, fresh after dredging up the remainders of the works of The Freelance Hairdresser with a roughly fortnightly series of quicker, less intricate mixes, called The Broadcast Sessions, the latest of which is really a compilation and is also really rather good.

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And as if that wasn’t enough you can seemingly grab most of his Curdler EP on his last.fm page as well. Or if you’ve never heard any of the earlier Radio Soundhog stuff, start with the BBC Wales Session and then try volume 4 (the offshore tapes) and then volume 6 and marvel at the craftsmanship and get ready to mutter “Ben don’t make them like this anymore…” and sigh wistfully in times to come.