Is Gaming Like Drug Addiction?
date 28/02/06   time 15:14   user Mark Hogben   comments 1 comment
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There is much garbage spouted about the damaging nature of computer games, and the terrible effect they have on our children's personalities, etc.

This article demolishes some of the more common nonsense spouted by certain self appointed experts on the subject.

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World of Warcraft - and what it REALLY teaches us...
date 23/02/06   time 0:54   user Mark Hogben   comments 1 comment
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Fascinating article that has much to say about the genuinely far reaching extent to which a well-designed game can develop life-long skills... or wreck them:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060222/sirlin_01.shtml

The most intriguing question here is actually... does Wor... (more)
Blood Bowl Renews My Interest In Warhammer 40k
date 22/02/06   time 15:59   user Simon Wood   comments 8 comments
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When I was younger, roughly between the ages of 13 and 17, I was very much into Warhammer 40k and it's various spin off's. I have not played with any of this stuff for about 9 years and it has been collecting dust in my parents loft, but last night I had a game of Blood Bowl and now I want to dig out all my Warhammer 40k stu... (more)
Nintendo DS Gets Me Hyped About Mario Kart Again
date 20/02/06   time 21:40   user Simon Wood   comments 1 comment
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The latest game in the Mario Kart series has just been released. Mario Kart DS is being hyped as being the best Mario Kart games so far. Until today I was not convinced, but now all I can say is WOW!

Last week one of my fellow work colleagues came back from lunch announcing he had just bought a... (more)
Our Pet Leopard Geckos
date 20/02/06   time 15:42   user Simon Wood   comments 0 comments
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Last year I ran out of ideas of what to get Faye for Christmas. We had chatted about getting some kind of reptile as a pet for a few months and after some reading on the internet Leopard Geckos seamed like an easy reptile to start with. So November 2004 we visited Jay's Exotic Pets in Ashford and looked at some Leopard Geckos, I told Fa... (more)
Sound Mirrors Of The Kent Coast
date 16/02/06   time 17:00   user Simon Wood   comments 4 comments
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I couple of years ago I went on a hunt to find Kent's Sound Mirrors. I had seen an album cover of the new Turin Brakes album that was out "Ether Song", the cover art features a picture of... (more)
My new style site is finaly LIVE
date 15/02/06   time 19:20   user Simon Wood   comments 5 comments
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Hi All, Those of you that know me will know I have been trying to update my site for a long time.

In the end I decided to host a blog style site at www.hpoom.co.uk. The idea behind this is that I can update the content of the site more easily and also allow other people to contribute to hpoom as well. Being a web programmer I did not wan... (more)
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