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Starting with the Man in the Mirror – a Fractured Analysis of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (SPOILERS)

VenomSnake

I dump out all of my thoughts regarding the last proper entry in the Metal Gear franchise. I wrote this post three years ago, only two years after the game had come out. That’s what we call “timely”!

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March 1, 2020 at 1:00 pm | Articles, Video Games | No comment

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The Beginning of the End – a Review of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

MGSV

My name is Big Boss. It’s night time and I’m skulking through a village in Afghanistan occupied by Soviet forces. At least, I think I’m Big Boss. I’ve just come out of a 9-year coma and there were some strange things that went on at the hospital when I woke…

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April 30, 2017 at 12:00 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment

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The Hungry Games

The Hungry Games

There’s a chap called Brant Steele who made a Hunger Games simulator1. You can play it at http://brantsteele.net/hungergames. I’ve seen a fair few runs of the simulator crop up on Tumblr (the one with Sonic the Hedgehog characters comes to mind) and I fancied a crack at it myself. I…

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January 21, 2017 at 12:00 am | Batman, Characters, Death Battle!, James Bond | No comment

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The PAYNEful PodSPLOSION #05 – A Tale of Two Controversies

PAYNEful Podcast 05

It’s been a while since we last rambled into a microphone, and since we last did that the video game community collectively shat itself inside-out via Twitter. This time we discuss #GamerGate (obligatory hashtag included) while firmly rooted to our fence, and if I see one more person write “you…

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September 20, 2014 at 10:58 am | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION, Vaguely Topical | No comment

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Hiding in Cardboard Boxes – a Review of the Original Metal Gear Solid (on PSX)

MGS Snake and Meryl

At the time of writing this, Metal Gear Solid 4 is just around the corner on the releases list. To commemorate the occasion and remind myself of the story, I thought that I would push my PS3 to its limits by playing an outdated game created back when high definition…

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April 22, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment

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