Yesterday a friend of mine managed to send me a Steam code to play the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta. I've been waiting to get an official invite and code for months now and it seems as though very few people have been lucky enough to get access thus far!

I quickly installed the game and had a quick run through the maps against bots. A range of the classic maps are included and I stuck to these at first. Graphics wise I wouldn't even say it's much of an upgrade over Counter-Strike: Source. The levels seem to have a bit more detail in them and there's added dynamic shadows on players and world objects now but it's hardly doing anything fancy like some of the latest PC games are.

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A few days ago I completed my first play-through of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (on the Xbox 360) and I thought I'd take the opportunity to write a short review of the game and share some of my thoughts regarding the game's direction

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A while ago I started creating a web based tool for editing Minecraft texture sets but due to many cross browser oddities I decided to stop developing the tool but have recently come back to it and using some of my newly attained JQuery knowledge I'm in a better position to make the tool truly cross-browser compatible and make it work just as I had hoped.

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I recently decided to get hold of Battlefield Bad Company 2 and have been playing it with the guys from work. A few of us regularly jump into a game on an evening and we've been playing Supreme Commander 2, Left 4 Dead, GRID, and now Bad Company 2.

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This week saw the launch of one of the most anticipated games of 2011, Portal 2. The sequel to portal has received a huge amount of attention from gaming websites and the media both before and after launch. It's definitely one of the 'must buy' games of this year, but I've decided I'm willing to wait.

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Yesterday I launched my new review website IndieTrials.com. The website was set up to review the games released on Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) but specifically reviews the trial experience offered by the game.

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Here's a quick little video of my kids having fun playing Kinect Sports on the Xbox 360. Damien loves playing the games on Kinect Sports and Willow simply likes to copy him, it's so funny watching her run on the spot.

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Thank you to everyone that voted for my entry in the Minecraft Workbench October Competition! Voting lasted one month and concluded on the last day of November. I won first place, with Awesomeness and JonasQ coming second and third.

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Recently I've been playing this game called Minecraft (minecraft.net) in which you search for natural resources and then use them to build structures, survive zombie attacks and generally 'live' in a virtual world while mining and crafting.

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Having just installed Borderlands through Steam on my PC I've noticed I was getting pretty low framerates and the game felt laggy. After searching around the internet I found a few helpful posts on forums with some settings to change, my game now feels much smoother and I'm able to play at higher resolution and keep 50-60 FPS.

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