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		<title>Advice for Game Design Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a suggestion from my former tutor, I thought it might be worth writing down some advice for any students who are interested in making games for a living. Some of these will be applicable to university life in general, but I&#8217;m going to try and keep it bent towards game-related subjects/careers. For what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indie and India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year! I&#8217;m sorry that this post is so late, but my life has undergone some major changes recently. Chief among them is that I&#8217;ve landed my first professional job as a game designer&#8230; in India! I moved out here with my PS3 and a suitcase full of clothes on New Years Eve and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Christmas! I&#8217;m back living with my parents for a few weeks over the holidays, so I decided to follow up last year&#8217;s life-changing playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 3 with a very solemn game of Metal Gear Solid 4. I had been waiting all year for this and it was everything I could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2012 IGF Pirate Kart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Murder Dog IV: Trial Of The Murder Dog Back when I first started putting effort into social media stuff, a combination of vanity and curiosity prompted me to set up some Google Alerts based on my various names. I figured that if people were going to be talking about me and my work &#8211; whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve been waiting all year, but it&#8217;s finally time for another outdated game review! Aside from my brief holiday in the jungles of Tselinoyarsk last Christmas, the only PS2 games I&#8217;ve played since God of War were Persona 3 and Final Fantasy XII. They both rumbled on for months and I only got about halfway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journlolism Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty busy lately! Although none of it here. Over on DarkZero &#8211; aside from co-hosting our recent LISTENER-GUEST SPECIAL PODCAST &#8211; I&#8217;ve written reviews of Space Marine and From Dust and I went to i43 and interviewed a bunch of pro gamers but that hasn&#8217;t been posted yet. I also made some notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became A Magnetic Billiards Champion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since hearing my honourable battle-brother Sean Bell talking up the Pickford brothers&#8217; Magnetic Billiards on his *other* podcast, I decided to give it a pop. It&#8217;s a free download with 20 levels included. If you like it, you have the option of paying £2.50 to unlock another 20 levels and some alternative game modes; if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKDOWN! Part 3: Indie Games and Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think there’s a lack of creativity in the games industry &#8211; in the UK, or anywhere else. Games like Rhythm Tengoku, Shadow of the Colossus, Dead Rising&#8230; oh wait, those are all Japanese&#8230; okay, let’s say games like Little Big Planet, Viva Piñata and Black &#38; White still manage to bring interesting new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKDOWN! Part 2: Livingstone-Hope and Games Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heroes Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Recently I was treated to a livetweeted report from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival by the fragrant Cara Ellison. Among the sessions was one by Ian Livingstone, who as far as I could tell was rehashing the conclusions of the Livingstone-Hope review. In a nutshell, the report claims firstly that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.owengrieve.com/2011/09/03/breakdown-part-2-livingstone-hope-and-games-education/</link>
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		<title>BREAKDOWN! Part 1: Games Journalism and the Media-Industrial Complex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: The following three articles were originally collected up as a single massive rant sparked off by various events over the summer, but I wasn&#8217;t really happy with the way they transitioned between topics so I&#8217;ve split them up into three separate, more focused articles. They cover a family of related issues though, and if [...]]]></description>
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