December 5th: Hold on to your hats it's another mix n' match
![]() ![]() Pyramat wireless sound rocker gaming chair I had a problem. No comfy chair to sit in while playing all of these games and a TV that doesn't have much in the way of decent sound - barely ideal. Yeah, I had heard of these new fangled "gaming chairs" but have always baulked at the £200 asking price. What's this? PC World, of all places, heavily discounting one of the best chairs on the market? 2500W of deep booming sound, wirelessly transmitted? Ipod connection and a multitude of controls? Bloody bargain and comfy too - if I could reach my keyboard I would be typing from it right now! £99* |
![]() ![]() The Complete Calvin and Hobbes A brief break from games now and a serious moment. Calvin and Hobbes is without a doubt the most fantastic comic strip ever written. Heart warming and funny without getting too soppy a la Peanuts, this hardback complete collection is an absolute dream. What's better, rather than pay 100 quid all day long, Amazon.com are selling them at 80 dollars *including* shipping to the UK. In the crazy dollar exchange world we live in thats £40! Buy one now and pretend it's for the kids (don't let them touch it mind). $80* inc. UK Shipping |
![]() ![]() Prey (Xbox 360) I cannot believe that this game hasn't featured in the long 25 weeks we've been going! I know, check for yourselves if you don't believe me. An absolute gem of a game that I had left sitting there half finished while I moved onto the next new shiny thing. What with our new achievement point drive I thought I'd finish the bugger off and wow, it get's even better. What's more for a few pennies under a TENNER you really really have to get this game. £10* |
![]() ![]() Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3) ...and with the old we move onto the spankingly new. The poor PS3 still hasn't had many "killer aps" almost a year in, which is a shame. Hold on though, this is all about to change as one of the hopefuls has arrived and it is even better than hoped. This game is what Indiana Jones would be in todays technology - the characterisation is genuinely amongst the best I have ever seen with solid,likeable and often hillarious characters everywhere you look. The game itself is a cracker as well, an absolute must. £33* Delivered |
![]() ![]() SingStar Next Gen with 2 Microphones (PS3) The last game today is for the PS3 as well, cor blimey! Already recommended by the househusband's favorite, Koworld, a few weeks ago it deserves it's place here again. I don't even poxy like the game to be honest, it's more for the drunken girlfriend, but even I can recognise the significance of it's release. You see, the main draw is the online shop within the game - in theory thousands of songs can be easily added as and when wanted without leaving your house. No need for add-on packs and all that, this is the future. £40* Delivered |
December 5th - Firebox Madness!
![]() ![]() Echobot Right, let’s kick off with something pointless, cheap and ace… the deal here is that this bit of weirdiosity allows you to record a rude message into the thing and then a motion-sensor sets the bugger off. Christmas Day and this thing will be fucking hilarious. We’ve got ours set-up to say ‘I’ve had your missus’ every time the bailiffs nip round. £7* |
![]() ![]() Sun Jar Okay, call me Dr. Repeat and that but wait! The Sun Jar is in again because now there’s also a Moon Jar! What larks! The moon version has a cool blue light instead of the warm yellow sun option. Leave it on a sunny windowsill during the day and a solar panel charges up the lovely glow ready for night time. Both are really very nice as it goes – they are a heavyweight frosted glass, not shitty plastic, and the solar-panel bit is hidden when the lid is closed. Like magic - woooo! £20* |
![]() ![]() My Cuppa Sure it’s twee as hell but what an ace gift it is to be able to help your partner to get your fucking brew right once in a fucking blue moon. £8* |
![]() ![]() KITT RC Car Within ten seconds of play we were all doing the sinister gay KITT voice and everything. Great pressy is this, and the red light at the front even does the proper full-on side-to-side sweep and that. Good and chunky RC car too – grab their Dukes of Hazard ‘General Lee’ one as well and have 1970s TV races and get all misty-eyed and maybe have a little cry too. Everything changes you muppet. £30* |
![]() ![]() £5 Voucher For All Oooh and just one more thing… have a free £5 Firebox voucher on us. Yep, just click through the link here, tick a box or two and they will e-mail you your very own fiver-off code. Best of all there is no minimum spend, so if, say, you wanted to put it towards a ‘My Cuppa’ you’re talking £3 for that little gem. Smashing. Usual small-print applies – umm, we’re responsible for nowt and that. Enjoy! voucher! |
December 5th: I wish it could be Christmas every day.
![]() ![]() “Look-In”: The Best of The Seventies Before Sounds, before Smash Hits, and before Kerrang!, teens and pre-teens had “Look-In” to give them all their juicy gossip on such stars as Wizzard, Focus and Richard O' Sullivan. This annual is absolutely priceless if you fancy a look back on more innocent times, and I guarantee you'll have a grin from ear to ear at almost every page. Even the cover is awesome – just look at it! Quality retro amusement. £8.50* |
![]() ![]() The Witcher (PC) Here's one that's been largely ignored, due to some oddly poor reviews. Shame, that, because it's excellent. It's an action RPG, and it stands above the crowd because of its dark tone, strong storyline and interesting gameplay choices. It looks excellent, it plays really well and it'll keep you absorbed for weeks. Fancy a bit of medieval monster hunting? The Witcher is what you need. £18* Delivered |
![]() ![]() Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? Not only that, but 114 other questions are here, too. It's filled with daft facts and trivia, as you might have guessed, and is just enough to make you the most annoying person on the planet to your friends. As the answers are provided by New Scientist magazine, it's not a book you'd read from cover to cover, but it's a perfect bog read, something you can just dip in and out of. You're bound to be low on boring film facts by now, so spend your two quid and get wise. £2* |
![]() ![]() Skate (Xbox360) Another re-recommendation? The boot's on the other foot, this time, as this is the 360 version whereas I recommended the PS3 version last time. And it's still a wonderful piece of relaxing, chilled-out entertainment, without any of the trappings of the Tony Hawk games but refreshingly so. Pick up your board, goof about in the streets or parks, learn at your own pace, and most importantly, have fun. This is still a great game, so you might as well pick it up while you can get it relatively cheaply. £25* delivered |
![]() ![]() The Chase – Clive Cussler Clive Cussler should be everyone's guilty pleasure, writing as he does the sort of Boys' Own adventures that kids have grown up on for years. And although his stories may at times seem samey, they're almost always entertaining. This one is a bit of a departure from his norm, being set 100 years ago and almost entirely on land (most have plenty of underwater action). It's classic detective-hunts-bandit-but-becomes-the-hunted stuff, with plenty of twists and turns and excitement. Cracking, page-turning stuff. £11.40* |






















