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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! September

Posted by RPS on December 19th, 2008.

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The busiest months of the gaming calendar approached, and September was already thrumming with activity. The stories came thick and fast, like an ogre full of amphetamines.

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The 12 Games of Christmas: Far Cry 2

Posted by RPS on December 18th, 2008.

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We’ve not taken our medicine today, so things might seem a little woozy. Perhaps there’s some drugs behind this latest window?

For the sixth game of Christmas, my true blog gave to me…
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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! August

Posted by RPS on December 17th, 2008.

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The pre-release tension in August was palpable. All the games in the world were going to be released in the next couple of months, and everyone was getting a bit antsy. Luckily there was some other stuff going on to distract us from the wait…

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The 12 Games of Christmas: Audiosurf

Posted by RPS on December 16th, 2008.

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Whatever could be beneath that tasteful festive wrapping paper? It might be a shiny red bicycle, or a Scaletrix set, or perhaps a partially asphyxiated puppy. It’s probably some sort of videogame, though. Be a bit silly if not, really.

So, for the fifth game of Christmas, my true blog gave to me…
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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! July

Posted by RPS on December 15th, 2008.

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The dreary English summer crept by with gales and drizzles, and so all we did was stare into the internet, searching for truth. We found only tales of videogames, and these are they…

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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! June

Posted by RPS on December 12th, 2008.

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As we entered June, one thought permeated the RPS-hivemind. Has half the year really gone already? Is another of our scant three-score-and-ten gone, lost forever in the wind? The answer, we discovered, was yes. Between despairing and lamenting, we wrote about the following videogames…

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The 12 Games Of Christmas: Sins of a Solar Empire

Posted by RPS on December 11th, 2008.

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For the fourth game of Christmas my true blog gave to me…
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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! May

Posted by RPS on December 10th, 2008.

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Beware the IDE-drives of May. Or we could have misheard.
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The 12 Games Of Christmas: Trials 2

Posted by Kieron Gillen on December 9th, 2008.

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For the third game of Christmas my true blog gave to me…
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Now That’s Why I Love A Best 2008 Ever! April

Posted by RPS on December 8th, 2008.

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If I had any photoshop skills, I'd have totally just done an image solely of Little Big Planet and MGS4 characters, just to wind up some of our audience. So easy!

So we reach April in our retrospective of the year’s big events, as seen through the lens of RPS (which works like a normal lens, but with added ironic-yet-unironic egotism). What was big this month? Jupiter was big. Saturn was also big (but not quite so much). Molecules remained small. Also of note…
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