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by | 15/01/2010 · 11:00 am

GAME PREVIEW – Star Trek Online (Open Beta, PC)

By Duncan Voice

USS Morning Glory

Perhaps it’s somewhat sacrilegious to mention in the opening paragraph of a Star Trek Online article, but I’m a huge Star Wars nerd. I’ve got the Force FX lightsabers, a hundred and one action figures from the 1980’s, a good number of t-shirts (totally cool in a retro way of course), and I want to karate chop Jar Jar Binks right on the tongue.

I know about the various ‘cult’ aspects of Star Trek, like ‘phasers set to stun’, Leonard Nimoy, and Mr. Scott beaming people up and all that but I’d never actually sat down and watched anything to do with it until I picked up the awesome J.J Abrams film on DVD a few weeks ago. I’m still a Star Wars chap through and through, but I have felt some nerdy urges towards Star Trek recently.

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by | 12/01/2010 · 6:00 pm

GAME REVIEW – Torchlight (PC)

By Duncan Voice

Torchlight

If you’d have told me that a game with system requirements so low that a Casio pocket calculator could probably run it outsold the indomitable Modern Warfare 2, I would have probably given you a bit of a slap and told you to stop telling porkies. But apparently it’s true! I wouldn’t have slapped you really of course, I’m a lover, not a fighter… unless I’m playing Torchlight and turning groups of monsters into bloody messes like some sort of whirling dervish of hurt.

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by | 11/01/2010 · 12:00 am

TV REVIEW – A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E)

 By Stewie Sutherland

Nero Wolfe

With Sherlock Holmes taking over the big screen, I decided to re-watch one of my favourite shows that first got me into mysteries. If Holmes and Watson were the classical-persons detectives, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin were the more modern representations. Well, to a degree. Set 80 years ago, A Nero Wolfe Mystery was a short run (2 series only) show of the famous detectives created by Rex Stout.

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by | 04/01/2010 · 12:00 am

BOOK REVIEW – Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

By Stewie Sutherland

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Over the winter holidays, I sat down with a few days off to read the latest book from HarperCollins Publishers, Pirate Latitudes by the late (and truly great) Michael Crichton. The tale revolves around a crew of privateers stealing a sizable treasure from under the noses of the Spanish guarding it. Do not, whatever you do, expect a story of banter and booze, parrying swords or armies of floating corsairs. Pirate Latitudes, written by Crichton before his death in 2008, is a story of blood, mud and sacrifice, and relentless storms waiting to crush those who sail the ocean unprepared.

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