Games of the year awards 2008 Part 2.

The conclusion to this years game awards.

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Games of the year awards 2008.

To close out this year in video gaming we decided the best way to highlight the individual strengths would be to give out specific awards. We chose categories, took a long look at the hundreds of games released and after much discussion narrowed it down to a few nominees per award.

This is a huge show in two parts, the second of which is up later today.

See you in 2009.

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Christmas Special 2008.

We discuss our favourite Christmas movies and reminisce about Christmas past. It’s a full yuletide blowout. In fact one of us nearly ruins a precious piece of home cinema equipment by spluttering whiskey-laced cocoa all over it.

Kickass Christmas music binds this most festive of shows together. Next episode will be an end of the year special with our very own DC Awards ceremony; soon to rival Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show for sheer awesomeness.

 

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Films of 2008/Playstation Home/You’re in the Movies.

To round off our year we take a look at every single new film we’ve seen in 2008. That’s 77 films that get chewed over at lightning speed. Find out our best and worst and get an overview on what’s worth watching.

Before that we set our sights on two monumental failures. The utterly gimped "You’re in the Movies" for Xbox 360, which, let’s face it was never going to be good.

Then Playstation Home; Sony’s great white hope for the future of their user’s online social networking. People have not been kind to Home, and with good reason. We leave most reviewers in the dust with the sheer breadth of our disgust for this mess of broken code and limp-wristed, ham-fisted advertising ploys. We all own PS3′s and wanted Home to be awesome, but this offering simply doesn’t pass muster, against the NXE. Listen in on our rantings if you dare.

Also discussed are Mortal Kombat VS. DC Universe.

Next week: Christmas!

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The death of the PS2.

As Christmas draws in, we take a look at the biggest-selling video games console of all time and ask whether there is any point in buying one this yuletide, even if you’ve never owned a gaming machine before. More personally, is there any sense in keeping one around if you are an avid gamer who has become entrenched in HD experiences.

Also discussed are Fallout 3, Teeth and the demise of Woolworths, amongst many other things.

Remember to send in your Christmas video game stories to be read on the Christmas Eve episode.

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Our most densely packed show ever!

If you don’t count those ones where we look back on a years worth of movies or games, this week’s show is probably the most full of reviews and first impressions ever. We whizz through two weeks worth of intense viewing and gaming, barely pausing for breath.

Among the films and games discussed are…

Left 4 Dead, Lips, Scene It: Box Office Smash, Super Street Fighter II Turbu HD Remix, Mama Mia, High School Musical, Rambo, Kung Fu Panda and A Christmas Story.

We even get to discussing whether the Xbox 360 Arcade is this year’s Wii for existing Wii owners.

Send your stories of awesome or awful Christmases of your past to digitalcowboys@googlemail.com and have them read out in this years Yuletide episode.

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