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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round - it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a very long time and they begin to question; is this real or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered and they come back to us saying "Hey don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."

And we... kill those people.

"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because it's just a ride and we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice right now between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it on feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.

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The Hard Drive Blues

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Well, more purples than blues actually, so Kim is thrilled.

Here's something they don't tell you when you're looking to buy a new hard drive for your Xbox 360. It takes bloody ages to transfer everything over. One hour and six minutes for a 20 gigabyte hard drive to be transferred to a 120 gigabyte to be exact. So I'm sitting here with the absolutely brilliant Dragon Age: Origins twiddling my thumbs for the next 43 minutes. Luckily I'm a mobile blogger so I can twiddle my thumbs on my phone's keypad and chat to you lot.

Oh, here's something else they don't tell you when buying a new hard drive for your Xbox 360. The 60 gigabyte version doesn't come with the things you need to transfer your old drive over. In fact, only the 120 gigabyte version has the software and cable you need. Of course, you can buy the cable seperately but none of the game stores stock that item so you'll have to buy it online.

This has been a public service announcement from your friends at Furie World Domination LTD. We hope you found this information useful and that you have a wonderful day.
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Silver

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The Symbian Foundation have finally released a phone theme that incorporates their new stylings and I'm in love with it. So much so that I've extracted the background image and am planning on incorporating it into this page design to make things a bit more stylish. Of course it'll need blowing up a little and if the quality suffers too much I'll scrap the idea, but it may work.

For those of you that like the look of this stylish phone theme and own a Series 60 phone (3rd or 5th edition) you can download it from here.
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This Is War

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Mobile version here. The song is This Is War, a currently unreleased track by 30 Seconds To Mars that will debut in the game.

You all know I've been drooling over Dragon Age: Origins for a while now and, while it got it's US release today, I'll be getting it as soon as it's out in this country on Friday (and I'll see you all about 800 waking hours later if the hype is correct about this). This video shows off the beautiful graphics, the high review scores and glowing quotes from those reviews, as well as giving a taste of what the designers are aiming for. Should this game meet my expectations for it the bar for video games will have been raised considerably and my human mage will be turning into a giant bug to poison the next dragon I meet.
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Hitslink Horrors

Hitslink - for many it's a tool, the way we see how many people have visited us recently. For some though, it's a dark insight into the minds of our visitors. A terrifying visage of the world around us.

While it's not unusual for me to get weird searches, and it's not unusual to get multiple instances of those searches, getting two from different places in the world asking the exact same question one after the other (in the same minute in fact) isn't a usual event. The question? They both wanted to know how to type capital letters on the Android powered G1 device. Guess it's not that simple a phone after all eh?
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Halloween Trick 2

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Kitty was starting to suspect that her new doctor might be an enemy spy, but couldn't figure out why she felt that way.

Halloween Treats!

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I've just realised that I'm such a terrible host. Here you all are visiting my page on Halloween and yet I haven't given you any treats yet. Well, as mobiles are my world, how about a couple of horror based mobile treats?

Dracula & Frankenstein

These two classic gothic horror books can be downloaded for free (support depends on your country) to your phones and read at your leisure. If you've never read them before then they're definitely worth a read, although my tip is to start with Frankenstein. Shelley's work stands up so much better these days than Stoker's Dracula does. But wait, that's not all...


My Intentions
As I've said before on many occasions, mobile games usually suck ass. To find any of the few gems out there you'll have to wade through a bunch of crap, spending around £5 for each game with no way to try them out first. It's a shame and it puts people off buying the games which means they miss out on some absolute gems. I aim to change that by putting up a free game every now and then that has passed my own personal standards for mobile gaming. This will allow people to try the game out and, if they like it, to pay the money for the developer's version. That way people can have access to these brilliant games and be sure about what they'll be paying money for.

Today's Game

New York, 2011 A.D.

The city is besieged by a wave of terrorist attacks. With conventional police overwhelmed, several private forces have been created to counter the threat.

The best funded and most effective are the Freedom Fighters.

Other forces, integrated with live TV crews have become extremely popular.

So begins Zombie Infection, the first true survival horror built exclusively for mobiles.

When I first came up with the idea for my mailing list (before I started giving these things away here) I mentioned that most mobile games just plain don't work because action games don't translate well into mobile games. Zombie Infection is the exception to that rule - fast and frantic action, creepy creatures that take strategy and item conservation to beat, puzzles to solve, boss creatures to fight, side-quests to complete. This is a complete survival horror experience that you'll play over and over, if only to unlock the hidden bonus games, find that last file or play a favourite mission again.

There's not much I can say about Zombie Infection that isn't covered in Pocket Gamer's review where they gave the game 10/10 and compared it to George Romero's films. Read that and download the game or, well... or I'll eat your brains.

Download The Game Here

And one final treat for all those who've already tried out Zombie Infection and read those book - Resident Evil: Genesis. This little horror game contains puzzles and zombies galore. It's a bit more hardcore than Zombie Infection but can provide some entertainment on a cold and lonely night, as the wind howls across the moors.


Happy Halloween Folks

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