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		<title>Alan Awoken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve begun my adventure with Alan Wake, the fabled long term development piece which has received much applause since release. It certainly seems to capture the feel of a tense thriller and you spend a lot of the game time on edge waiting for the inevitable attacks. One problem I have though is that in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=450</link>
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		<title>Bye Bye Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My time with Android has been far too brief. I do like Android, a lot. And the hardware I chose was pretty decent, a Samsung Galaxy, however Samesung completely abandoned the hardware once it was in the wild. We never got an update past version 1.5 of the Android OS. 1.6 came and went, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=449</link>
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		<title>If you write it, it will change.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So not 24 hours after I wrote my last piece about really not being into gaming at the moment and I had the 360 all booted up and Red Dead Redemption spun up for some Multiplayer! OK, so I could hide behind it being multiplayer with my old School friend Woodoggies, with an offer of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=448</link>
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		<title>It’s been over twenty days since my last confession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That being a confession to my XBOX. Or any console for that matter. Oh sure they’ve been switched on to watch a movie or check some trailers but in terms of actually playing a game.. well Red Dead Redemption is showing some play time on the 6th of June and then nothing. I wasn’t expecting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=446</link>
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		<title>The World that involves the Craft that is War.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been going on on the gaming front over the past few weeks/month. No that you could tell from this blog of course as I keep failing to check in on it! So I&#8217;ll post my monthly &#8220;Oops I forgot to post anything recently&#8221; post here and now Lets start with the sentence I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=444</link>
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		<title>What’s new PC?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been somewhat of a resurgence in my PC gaming of late, following just over a year of some solid console gaming. Fear not though, this is not an abandonment of my new found appreciation of all things &#8216;box, &#8216;station and Wii, but more a levelling out of my gaming time to encompass all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=441</link>
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		<title>Some Karting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night saw me back on the Wii for the first time in a long time. However we set ourselves up a Mario Kart night and five of us, from a planned six, took part. The entrants where from our office and are named thusly Steve &#8211; that&#8217;s me (also sometimes refered to as Dr [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=436</link>
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		<title>Becoming an Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it was once again the end of my 12 month contract and time to see what new shiny toy I could get my hands on. After two BlackBerrys (Pearl 8100, Bold 9000) I thought maybe it was time to join the touch generation, but not the usual iPhone route. Nope, I&#8217;ve had my eye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=420</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the buzz, tell me what&#8217;s a happening?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So things on this blog have been pretty quiet of late. Those who checkup on this site are probably aware why. I&#8217;ve been rather busy setting up and keeping a check on the ever growing community over on the Digital Cowboys Forums which has kept me well entertained over the past few weeks. In fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=407</link>
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		<title>ODST from the start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My gaming kudos will grow a little this week, as I will be jumping on a Halo release from the start! Having missed out on all the previous iterations by simple not being around the console world, the lure of getting in on the ground floor and indeed the sound of the Firefight mode were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=405</link>
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		<title>Persona Magnum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve secured both Persona 3 &#038; 4 from a friend, both of which should be playable on the PS3. I&#8217;ve never experienced any Persona before, other than watching a few videos on Giant Bomb so it should be interesting to see if these games can hold my interest. It&#8217;s also a first real step in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=399</link>
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		<title>Judgement Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today will be, hopefully, Judgement Day. As I&#8217;ve mentioned over and over I&#8217;ve only been truly immersed in the console world for a little over 8 months now, so despite my excitement over what I have discovered on the XBOX I would say I am far from being a fanboy. I&#8217;m still also a PC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=398</link>
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		<title>At What Cost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been the usual blow up and hoo-hah about the new paid for avatar clothing, and anything I&#8217;d have to say on the subject has already been said many times over around the net, so I&#8217;ll just summarise this with an example. &#160; Tattoos Can you pay money for someone to put art on your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=397</link>
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		<title>Poor Housekeeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, last year in fact my PC system started to get a bit flaky on me. You see I&#8217;m an OverClocker (See boxout) and as such I like to tweak all my PC&#8217;s components to get the most out of them, and given the somewhat aged nature of my graphics card, an HSI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=313</link>
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		<title>Not so shameful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hidden advantages of becoming so focused on XBOX 360 gaming of late is that I haven&#8217;t bought a truly new game for the PC in quite some time now. This has risen to the perfect chance to catch up on some older games I never got around to actually playing much at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=374</link>
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		<title>Digital Blocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another post up on The Digital Cowboys This time I&#8217;m talking about our shared enjoyment of the Lego games over the years, and how they stand out from a lot of other games that advertise themselves as co-op games.]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=361</link>
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		<title>Further ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned some of my musings are now to appear on The Digital Cowboys website. So I was asked to provide a little background on myself to introduce me to the DC audience, and I set out, as Alex and Tony probably expected, to write a couple of sentences on my gaming history. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Games, Less Pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally decided to join swapgame.co.uk after getting a few refrences from friends. The hope is this will curtail some of my impulse buys and provide me somewhere to list them down and try them out first. Will have to see if I can stick to that! Gone for the basic £3.99 package as a starter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=359</link>
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		<title>Gears of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I knew I was getting an XBOX but as yet couldn&#8217;t actually play on it due to it requiring a quick un-red ringing process, I started the process of deciding on which games to get first. Being this was late 2008 I had a fair few years of releases to take into consideration, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=350</link>
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		<title>Out on the Digital Range</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those strange few who frequent my blog and yet not The Digital Cowboys I just thought I&#8217;d point out that some of my posts will now be appearing over there. The Digital Cowboys is a podcast I&#8217;ve mention before, and which I&#8217;m always sure to catch. Alex and Tony, the hosts of the show, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=353</link>
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		<title>Why do I listen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Podcasts.. PODcasts&#8230; The very name put me off for years. Not the cast part, which had long been associated with broadcasting, but that first part.. the &#8216;pod&#8217; It was all so Apple focused, many probably thought the only way you could listen to these downloadable audio bites was on an iPod, and whilst I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=317</link>
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		<title>Windows gaming fails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well my success with Windows 7 gaming was short lived. The problem in hindsight was with judging it&#8217;s usability for my system with Valve games. You see the Source engine is heavily CPU reliant, and not so on the graphics hardware. I can easily run Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat and Portal etc at 1920&#215;1200 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=335</link>
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		<title>Gaming 7 Heaven?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not been giving my PC gaming much love recently so I thought I should readdress that balance slightly, in words if not in action. For a while now I&#8217;ve beenn dual booting between WinXP and Windows 7 (beta and now Release Client) however as often happens when I dual boot I get bored of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Dropping a Giant Bomb on my Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while now I’ve had my XFire and XBOX Gamer cards up in the top right of the Blog to show off what I’ve been playing recently rather than creating repetitive blogs about that. Recently Giant Bomb added the ability to track your gamer points, and WoW characters for those still infected, on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=331</link>
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		<title>Pile of Shame (XBOX) Updated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having completely failed to not buy any new games, not the biggest surprise ever, I&#8217;ve updated the Pile of Shame page for the XBOX games with the latest edditions. On the plus side at least we&#8217;ve been getting a lot of gaming in recently, the project in work went far smoother than anyone expected so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=329</link>
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