Over the years I’ve written too many reviews, interviews, stories, fan fiction about computer based games. From Asheron’s Call to Anarchy Online, from an interview with an AO player who was the first to start an in game radio station to interviewing one of the top in game music and sound composers of our time.

So what am I doing playing with a virtual puppy on Facebook?

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Okay okay so I have friends who are actually waiting for this to come out and wondering how it’s going. Just goes to show that when it comes to gaming more news is good, the more the better if you want those sales on day1.

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There are more betas on the wind. Beta testing of games can be fun stuff, seeing something new for the first time, reporting on bugs and problems helping the devs out…

Are you up for it?

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If you’re thinking of getting the new iPhone coming out on Friday think again, seems it’s goign to cost a lot more than advertised.

It’s so bad in fact that Steve Jobs has come out and said they wont sell the iPhone in the Canadian Apple stores due to Rogers pricing of the service plan. “Let them sell it themselves” is Steve Jobs attitude and I do not blame him.

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Hard drive space at a premium on your system? Are you having to spring clean because you keep getting that nastygram from your computer about being low on room?

How about a 5TB 3.5 HDD in about two years?

It’s not just pr0n, mp3’s, or illegal downloads that take up space now a days and there is no way a 20gig HD is enough any more, for most users I know any way.

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A while ago I wrote a piece here that was entitled “City Link/Mega Bus; A nightmare for disabled” about a trip I took to Stirling back then. Aberdeen to Stirling, round trip, and the most harassment for the £ you could ever get.

That is if you have the misfortune of being in a wheel chair.

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We were offline for a while but we are semi, sort of, kind of back. What a mess! Between Tiscali not getting the message and then British Telecom misleading us it has been a night mare.

The moral of the story, the old Keep it simple, stupid comes to mind here.

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Do you remember sitting up playing Mario Bros till the wee hours of the morning? Do you remember the Commadore Vic20 when it was the system Every one you knew wanted to get their hands on?

At Think Geek you can now order your very own 1up mushroom!

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Happens a lot in forums and since neither OH nor I are programming or database guru types that only left us one thing to do. Shut them down and find something new to install, a new install of a new forum software!

So anyone who is a member of the Antiques etc forums we host here at Abriis’ World, you are getting a really spiffy new look, clean new install of a brand new forum.

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Another game, another beta, and testing is fun!

But players sometimes get the sillybugger award I tell ya. If it’s not one thing it’s another, and it’s always got to be a game breaker to them no matter how small an issue it really is in the larger scheme of things. Then again if they didn’t whine about it I guess it wouldn’t be fun for them would it?

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