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Martin Toney is a long time Video Game Journalist from Ireland.

  • A Fallout Series Retrospective: Part 3

    Answer me this. Have you ever crawled out of your bed in the morning, and stumbled across your floor to an old school locker? Picked...

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    Answer me this. Have you ever crawled out of your bed in the morning, and stumbled across your floor to an old school locker? Picked through its contents searching for a radiation suit that will keep you alive through your daily routine of scavenging food from overly radiated shopping centres and searching the ruins of...
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  • A Fallout series retrospective, part 2

    Our tale of the wastes picks up in the year 2241. Allow me to set the scene for our less experienced travellers of the wastelands. The community...

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    Our tale of the wastes picks up in the year 2241. Allow me to set the scene for our less experienced travellers of the wastelands. The community of Arroyo is suffering a blight, their water supply is dangerously low after the coming of the worst drought since their records began, although when that was, no one is...
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  • A Fallout Series Retrospective

    Never has a video games featured a tag line that is so profoundly philosophical in the world of video games. Some may have come close;...

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    Never has a video games featured a tag line that is so profoundly philosophical in the world of video games. Some may have come close; others have aped the greater minds and just blurt out quotations that emulate deep thought. We have Andrew Ryans convictions that brought us “Behold…Rapture!” and Sam Fishers over looked but...
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  • Black Ops 2 Gets Free Elite Service And Tablet Support

    For all you zombie slaying, Call of Duty Black Ops players out there, you will be glad to know that Activision are bundling in a...

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    For all you zombie slaying, Call of Duty Black Ops players out there, you will be glad to know that Activision are bundling in a rather nice, and somewhat refined version of  the Call of Duty Elite service. The new an refined version of the Service will include features like: Player HQ: Track Black Ops II...
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  • Too many leaks in the industry?

    Close your windows, shut your eyes and for the love of god disconnect your internet and turn of your twitter feed and Email applications. Halo...

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    Close your windows, shut your eyes and for the love of god disconnect your internet and turn of your twitter feed and Email applications. Halo 4 has leaked and the internet is all in a buzz over it. As of yet the leak has not been nailed down, and 343 have preferred not to comment on the...
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  • Digits could change games in ways we can’t imagine

    This week, at the ACM symposium for User Interface software and Technology (also known as UIST) in Cambridge Massachusetts, Microsoft saw fit to unveil their latest...

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    This week, at the ACM symposium for User Interface software and Technology (also known as UIST) in Cambridge Massachusetts, Microsoft saw fit to unveil their latest piece of technology that they are currently researching. This little gadget has so much promise and potential that it’s kind of  hard to structure an article around it. It has...
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  • Dishonored was never intended to be what is now

    I recently had the chance to transcribe a fantastic exclusive interview with Harvey Smith from Arkane studios located in Austin Texas, who is heading up...

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    I recently had the chance to transcribe a fantastic exclusive interview with Harvey Smith from Arkane studios located in Austin Texas, who is heading up the Dishonored Dev team.  Speaking to Andy Borkowski, Harvey was asked to comment on the world that Corvo Attano will be stepping into, he said that the Dishonored world was actually...
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  • Exclusive interview with Dave from BOY IN A BAND

    Well folks! I’m back again with another exclusive interview with another famous youtube personality. I’d like to take this brief opportunity to thank Dave for taking time...

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    by Martin Toney
    Well folks! I’m back again with another exclusive interview with another famous youtube personality. I’d like to take this brief opportunity to thank Dave for taking time out of his schedule to conduct this interview. He’s currently in Greece eating all the olives in sight and plotting world domination. You better read this before he invades. So...
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  • PC gaming isn’t as expensive as you think

    You know, there has been something that has always bothered me. The amount of people that would love to get into PC gaming tends to...

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    You know, there has been something that has always bothered me. The amount of people that would love to get into PC gaming tends to outweigh the amount of people who want to play console games. Consoles have always been, and will probably always be more successful than PC gaming. And the number one turn...
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  • Exclusive interview with None Like Joshua

    Today explosion.com is proud to bring you an exclusive interview with the Rap Star NoneLikeJoshua! What do I need to say? Chances are if you’re...

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    Today explosion.com is proud to bring you an exclusive interview with the Rap Star NoneLikeJoshua! What do I need to say? Chances are if you’re a gamer and you’re on YouTube then you’ve already seen his work, but for the uninitiated I’ll elaborate. NoneLikeJoshua is a rapping sensation with a following in the tens of...
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  • Remember Me Is Starting To Get Some Real Attention

    Remember Me is one of those games that grabbed me by the nostrils the moment I seen it. It has all the hallmarks of a...

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    Remember Me is one of those games that grabbed me by the nostrils the moment I seen it. It has all the hallmarks of a great work of science fiction in video games, and thus far, not a single thing I’ve seen has been disappointing, be it screen shots, character art, limited story details or...
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  • Street Fighting On The Streets with Street Fighter X Tekken

    In the wake of the recent Street Fighter X Tekken news, Capcom have given out some more facts about the game, which looks as though...

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    In the wake of the recent Street Fighter X Tekken news, Capcom have given out some more facts about the game, which looks as though it may well be one of the best portable fighters about, never mind the best fighter on the Vita. Speaking about the game Capcom had this to say: The long...
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  • Slenders Shadow, It’s utterly Terrifying

    Slender Mansion. Need I say more? For the un initiated I will give you a run down. Slender is Incredible. It looks bad, there is...

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    Slender Mansion. Need I say more? For the un initiated I will give you a run down. Slender is Incredible. It looks bad, there is no escaping that, this game will never win aesthetic awards. But thats alright. Because it dominates in the feild it aims for. Horror. Pure, unfettered horror. It uses subtle tricks to creep...
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  • Dan Bull Talks About His Style & History

    Being the lucky chap that I am, I was lucky enough to get a brief but nonetheless enlightening interview with the YouTube video game rap...

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    Being the lucky chap that I am, I was lucky enough to get a brief but nonetheless enlightening interview with the YouTube video game rap star, Dan Bull. He kindly took some time out from his schedule to answer a few questions for me, so without further ado, lets get down to brass tacks. So,...
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  • Play Games & Heal Kids

    For the last four years, the Charity organisation has been bringing together groups of gamers from all corners of the world, where they can unite in a...

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    For the last four years, the Charity organisation has been bringing together groups of gamers from all corners of the world, where they can unite in a 24 hour games marathon which runs in support of the “Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals. The gamers themselves then rally together their friends and family who then either donate or sponsor...
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  • Tablets and Gaming

    I’ve touched on this before, in fact I reference it quite frequently. And I’m glad to see that a great deal of people feel the...

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    I’ve touched on this before, in fact I reference it quite frequently. And I’m glad to see that a great deal of people feel the same way about it. The Tablet. There is just something fundamentally acceptable about the Tablet. It seems to slipped its way into many homes, even with a somewhat hefty price...
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