The Somewhat Ambitious

Here at The Somewhat Ambitious, we…
Hang on, I’ve been dead silent for weeks! Where the shit are my manners? I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. To say I’ve been sick/busy would be true, but it wouldn’t make things any better either. So here’s something which will make it all up to you.
You’re welcome.
Like I was [...]

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I come to you today with the tragic and unexpected news that Super Mario… is dead. No, not that awful Bob Hoskins knock-off, I’m talking about the real, the original Super Mario: Captain Lou Albano. Who? This man:

Seriously, the Princess wanted to marry him? Although, if I were Bowser, the prospect of that guy coming [...]

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I have never played, looked at or even really thought about Pokemon in any of its many, many incarnations (although I did thoroughly enjoy that whole mass seizure episode of 1997), but still, I think it’s safe to say that this guy is everything you could ever have expected and hoped for from the man [...]

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The trailer for Guild Wars 2 has finally been released!
I’ve played Guild Wars on and off since it first came out, and I’ve always adored it. Guild Wars 2 will be set several hundred years after the first game, and you’ll allegedly play a distant ancestor of your character from the first Guild Wars. If [...]

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Look. I never do this. I never trawl the World of Warcraft forums, hoping to find something funny or at least coherent. But if you play WOW, or are familiar with any of the lore, you’ll get a kick out of this. Katinie, from the guild Midnight Eclipse, wrote up a transcript of an interview [...]

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Far be it from me to criticise Stephanie Meyer…
What am I saying. It’s right up my alley. If Dan Brown were a pulsing, sweltering carrion bird, infected with every manner of plague imaginable, Stephanie Meyer would be the deer-tick lodged in his bowels. If I were sent to see Twilight at the movies, I’d conclude [...]

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We all saw how excited I was back in June when we first got wind of the imminent release of not just a new Monkey Island game, but also an updated, reimagined version of the original Monkey Island, replete with voice actors and new graphics. But this excitement was a little tempered by Lucasarts’ continued [...]

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Between all the shit Luke and I have had going, we’ve been rather remiss with our primary responsibility: The Somewhat Ambitious. To hopefully make up for this, here’s something Luke just showed me. As a child, I can recall throwing some profound, beligerent tantrums. We’re talking grade-A shitbag moments here; at one point I painted [...]

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When I was five, way back when in the heady computing days of 1990, my father dazzled the family by bringing home our first PC – a large, grey, boxy 286 Amstrad with a DOS prompt, a 5 1/4 inch disk drive and a black and green word processor. And I loved it. Yes, even [...]

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In gaming news, the World of Warcraft mount system has been significantly overhauled. Or at least it will be, in patch 3.2, the same patch which will usher in the awesome new Tauren bear/cat forms, and the horrendously gay bedazzled Night Elf bear/cat forms. Sideburns and eyeliner ftw!
Below are some of the changes involved. Prepare [...]

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