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GTA 4 - PC!
August 11, 2008
Rockstar has officially confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 4 will be released on the PC!
The release date for North America is 18th November, while us Europeans will have to wait an extra 3 days for it to arrive on the 3rd December 2008. I don’t mind, I’ve waited since April to hear this, so a few more days is nothing!
You might remember me mentioning in my post about digital gaming distribution that I actually managed to buy GTA 4 on the Xbox 360 a few days after release - it was quite task to do that even!
However, since buying it, I’ve tried playing it a few times on the Xbox 360, but have all but given up on it, don’t get me wrong, it’s a great looking game and I really *want* to play it, but the control system using a (cheap) wireless Xbox 360 controller just feels far too unnatural for me when I’ve played the last three GTA games with a mouse and keyboard on the PC.
Continue reading »Car Insurance for Women
July 14, 2008
I recently wrote about getting cheap car insurance online having bought my last 3 car insurance policies online. I have to say that I’m pretty happy with buying my policy online, but what about car insurance for a woman?
In recent years there seems to have been quite a few specific companies targeting the ‘car insurance for women’ sector of the market, these are usually very apparent given their style of marketing campaign, for example Diamond or Sheila’s Wheels.
I’ve often wondered if these style of adverts and approach to car insurance actually persuade you to buy from them as they are very different from the norm in some cases - some would put me off completely, but then I’m a guy. Are you a woman who has bought her car insurance from one of these companies, do you prefer to organise your car insurance online? Do you respond well the the style of advertising and approach these companies take?
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