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Greetings and salutations. In case you were wondering, Richard Cobbett is a writer and journalist and producer of many other things involving words. He likes cats, hates spiders, and plays a lot of games. This is his website...

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Posts From 2008

The advert that wasn't.

-- Spore

[20/11/08] Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties

[07/11/08] Marketing The Fourth Wall

[05/11/08] Quantum of Solace

[02/11/08] Fallout 3

[19/10/08] Merlin (BBC)

[15/10/08] Wilderness Diary

[12/10/08] Stephen Fry In America

[10/10/08] Things To Do In Venice

[10/10/08] London Sports Day 2012

[26/09/08] Things I Patented This Week*

[23/09/08] Citizen Journalism

[20/09/08] Snap Happy Cameras

[18/09/08] I Can Write Microsoft Adverts Too

[12/09/08] Spore

[05/09/08] You Can Leave Your Hadron

[02/09/08] Wrath of the Licking

[29/08/08] World of Branding

[25/08/08] Trial By Fire

[19/08/08] In The Name Of The King

[18/08/08] Last Moment of Social Pleasure

[12/08/08] Strong Bad’s Yadda Yadda

[30/07/08] Whydescreen

[24/07/08] The Dark Knight

[20/07/08] Avatar: The Last Airbender

[19/07/08] I Think They Call It ‘Liposuction’

[18/07/08] WALL-E

[17/07/08] Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog

[11/07/08] iPhone Unboxed

[05/07/08] The Way Of The World (Of Warcraft)

[05/07/08] A Day In The Life Of Davros

[30/06/08] The Beast With A Billion Plotlines

[27/06/08] Lens Flair

[20/06/08] At The Burlesque Wake

[17/06/08] Return To Team Fortress

[14/06/08] Limbo of the Lost

[09/06/08] This Week In Reality TV

[07/06/08] Replay: Mass Effect

[04/06/08] Flickr Picnik

[31/05/08] Steven Moffat’s Fearatorium

[25/05/08] Kingdom of the Crystal Dull

[21/05/08] Bleep You, Bus

[16/05/08] Reviewspotting

[15/05/08] Photobox Dot Com

[14/05/08] Of Alternate Realities

[10/05/08] The Chocolate Grudge

[04/05/08] Tony Stark Makes Stuff: The Movie

[03/05/08] Things Can Only Get Boris

[02/05/08] Grand Tutorial Auto

[01/05/08] %&$£ing Toilet Seats Again

[28/04/08] GTA4: Exclusive Review

[21/04/08] Making Richard’s Burger

[20/04/08] Return to Azeroth

[18/04/08] Sacred Cow Burgers At Milliways

[17/04/08] Blackmail On The Stairwell

[16/04/08] Gamer Snap XYZ

[10/04/08] In Sickness and Ill Health

[27/03/08] There But For The Grace of Visa

[24/03/08] Good Old English Fish and Chips

[18/03/08] Depth Of Field

[17/03/08] The Phantom Of 989Studios

[14/03/08] Brainiac

[11/03/08] Las Vegas 2008: Reviews of the Revues

[01/03/08] The Tech Support Quiz

[27/02/08] The Littlest Protest

[16/02/08] The Crystal Mess

[14/02/08] Aching Solitude Day Survival Kit

[10/02/08] Craptography

[05/02/08] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[04/02/08] Dumb Dumb Britain

[04/02/08] Lost

[31/01/08] iDon’tphone

[26/01/08] Quickie Rant: Cameras

[18/01/08] Weird Dreams 2.0

[12/01/08] Assassin’s Creed - Snippet

[10/01/08] Mass Effect

[01/01/08] This Is The Year That Is… 2008

Posts From 2007

Sometimes, you find yourself in a tricky position - you get a game on your pile, and everyone seems to love it for no discernable reason. Max Payne 2, say. Or Deus Ex: Invisible War. Or Hopkins FBI, although that hardly falls under the same category. Reading up on Runaway 2, we've got another one.

-- Just Not Gettin’ Runaway

[19/12/07] Whiteness At Year’s End

[14/12/07] Gamer Snap

[07/12/07] Spilling Be

[05/12/07] License To Print Money, V2.0

[01/12/07] Triple-Play Movies In Review

[30/11/07] On Game Scoring

[28/11/07] Sign of the Season

[27/11/07] Tabula Rasa

[19/11/07] Kindling

[11/11/07] Gadget Corner

[23/10/07] Rent-A-Kill