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Jak and Daxter 5: The Lost Frontier Announced

Whilst browsing the web at work today (because I’m just that busy), I came across the recent list of when and what PS3 games are being released in 2009.

As you may have gathered, after scrolling about three quarters down the page, I saw the title ‘Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier’ and I made the whole office jump when I screamed “YEAH BABY!!” at the top of my voice. It was however, on the US list, but NOT the UK list. No surprise there then. But I can’t seeing it being that far behind the US release.

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Create Your Own Morph!

Now this is something I am definitely going to purchase!

Have you ever wanted to create your own ‘Morph’ character? Well you can now with this “My Own Morph” pack.

It contains 15 episodes of the popular TV show, and a DVD with instructions on how to create Morph and other characters with plasticine that never goes dry so you forever change the way that your morph looks.

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Iron Man Helmet (Mk1)

Ever wanted to become Tony Stark? Or more specifically Iron Man and wear that amazingly colourful armour? Well now you can start your very own collection with Iron Man’s ‘BETA’ helmet (or Mk 01) that he made from rocks and cockroaches whilst being held captive by the terrorists in the film.

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Playstation Home Review (BETA)

It’s been too long in being released, and the one thing that the majority of PS3 owners have been so eagerly awaiting.

Playstation Home is finally live around the world……and it’s still hard to get onto it!

I am keeping in mind that this is only the BETA version, so it’s nowhere near as big or popular as it will eventually be, and you can tell. This is but a taster of what’s to come, with a few hiccups until the full version is available.

When the Home icon appeared on my XMB (Cross Media Bar), I thought it was Christmas Day. So I downloaded and installed the 77MB file and pressed ‘X’ to get it going!

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Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)

After the impressive Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Treyarch had a lot to live up to with Call of Duty: World at War.

Treyarch are the company who made Call of Duty 3 and did it very well so there was no doubt that World at War was going to be good, but just how good?

It turns out very good indeed!

Some people did seem a little disappointed in the fact that this was yet another WW2 Call of Duty and that it was a step backwards, but this is more in depth than the other ones, albeit a hell of a lot shorter, which did annoy me, and was one of the faults with Modern Warfare. But don’t let that put you off, because it really is a great game.

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Playstation Home Released!

It’s finally here. Playstation Home is released to the Playstation 3 ‘world’ as of 11th December 2008. I’m writing this at 23:05 on 10th December 2008 (or am I writing this from the future of 2009? Anyway……..) and hoping it will appear at midnight, but knowing my luck it won’t and I’ll have to work until getting ‘home’ from work to delve into…Home. Also the possibility that this is the US release date, but I hope it isn’t and it is worldwide!

Home is the new free online community where you can create your own avatar, and apartment and mingle with folks from around the world. Share game tactics, have a heart to heart conversion, no doubt someone will get married over it in due course and create their own basement cupboard to live in.

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Portable Megadrive

As Christmas is fast approaching, here at Zath we’re trying to find those little extra ‘stocking fillers’ to get your loved ones, kids or even yourselves.

So, whilst out looking for things, I came across this little beauty which was quite exciting to some extent – it’s only a Portable Megadrive!

There are 20 pre-loaded games available on this handheld Sega Megadrive which include:

Sonic & Knuckles, Shinobi III - Return Of The Ninja Master, Alex Kidd (and the Enchanted Castle), Alien Storm, Altered Beast, Arrow Flash, Columns III, Crack Down, Decap Attack, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, E Swat, Ecco, Ecco Jr, Flicky, Gain Ground, Golden Axe, Jewel Master, Kid Chameleon, Sonic Spinball, Shadow Dancer.

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Personal Display Glasses

Do you need a pair of these Vuzix iWear personal display glasses? Well we all know how annoying it can be to share a TV at Christmas when there are so many films on and everyone wants to watch a different film, or something really boring.

Now you can sit in the same room and watch any programme or film of your choice without bothering anybody!

These little personal display glasses can allow you see a screen that’s equivalent to a 44” up to a 62” monster that’s 9ft away from your eyes, depending on which version you want to buy.

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Tetris Party (WiiWare)

I remember the good old days back when Tetris could only be played on the relic that is the GameBoy and how amazing and addictive it was!

Well now with Tetris Party it’s been revamped and has more options, I find it more addictive as it had me up until the early hours of the morning.

There are 5 different gaming types within Tetris Party which include:

• Marathon Mode (Basic Tetris game)
• Computer Battle (1 on 1 with the Wii)
• Field Climber (Get a little man out of the board using the “Tetriminos”)
• Shadow (Fill the shadow with the “Tetriminos”)
• Stage Racer (Race through different courses using different “Tetriminos”)
• And ONLINE!

You can play multiplayer as well, so if you have a sibling, other half or pet that you fancy showing up, then crack on!

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Professor Layton and the Curious Village Review (DS)

I didn’t read about Professor Layton and the Curious Village until about 2 weeks before the release date, but I’m really glad I did read about it.

The pictures seemed to make the game look a bit childish and more like a stocking filler when I first glanced at it. Even though I love animation, Disney films and Studio Ghibli films, it didn’t really appeal to me. But after reading about the game, I really wanted to play the game and suddenly the images looked brilliant.

The main storyline sees Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke being called to the village of St Mystere to search for the secret treasure of the late Baron Reinhold that is ‘The Golden Apple’. The tale goes that whoever finds ‘The Golden Apple’ will have earned the right to all of Baron Reinhold’s fortune. The game opens with a nice little clip which explains in more depth the reason why you’re going to be racking your brains to solve over 100 puzzles.

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