BOOKS
WEBSITES
www.mysoccermedia.com http://inknerd.com/tag/flickr/
This is a top website for football Dance music peeps love tattoos.
HALO UPRISING clips. What with the behemoth that is We’ve been searching the web for
YouTube getting censored by the big years looking for a credible resource
RELEASE: 23 JULY 2008 brands like Sky Sports [I’m struggling that shows vastly different types of
PRICE: £9.99 not to get done for libel here – damn tattoos. This is it! If you’re looking
Picking up from the conclusion of blockbuster video game Halo 2, this must-read you Richard Keys, damn you], it’s up for inspiration, aren’t sure what to
reveals how the Master Chief, while onboard a hostile ship headed towards Earth, is to websites like these to carry the get or just want to see cool skin art,
battling against Covenant forces. Intertwined with Master Chief’s interstellar one- torch and rip off all the video footage. then ink nerd is the place to be. The
man-war is the saga of a great American city’s rebellion and downfall, two disparate If you want to watch Germany play tagline is “Tattoo geeks, geek tattoos”,
lives’ shared fates and the Covenant’s hunt for an ancient relic of untold power and like wet fish in the Euro 2008 final which says it all. Incredible Hulk
value. With hope dwindling and the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, is there any and also ogle all the potential players tattoos are worryingly popular on this
chance for a future? Read this debut issue to start the journey into the Halo universe! that might be coming to your club, website. From here, you can find tons
It collects Halo: Uprising numbers one through four, and Marvel Spotlight: Halo. then this is your Mecca. of other tattoo groups using Flickr.
VIDEOGAMES
SBK ’08: SUPERBIKE
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
POKÉMON
MYSTERY DUNGEON: FORMAT: PS3 / PS2 / PSP /
EXPLORERS OF TIME XBOX 360 / PC
MADDEN ‘09 SOUL CALIBUR 4 RELEASE: 1 AUGUST
FORMAT: DS PRICE: £34.99 (XBOX 360, PS3) /
RELEASE: OUT NOW FORMAT: 360 / XBOX / WII / DS FORMAT: PS3, XBOX 360 £17.99 (PS2) / £24.99 (PSP, PC)
PRICE: £24.99 RELEASE: 15 AUGUST RELEASE: 1 AUGUST Bike games – you either love them or
Pokémon aren’t what they used to PRICE: VARIES PRICE: £39.99 hate them. Those sitting on the fence
be. There was a point when everyone Another year, another Madden rolls Remember Soul Calibur on the SEGA might be reeled in by SBK ‘08’s excellent
was searching for that one last off the production line for all formats. Dreamcast? Wait – do you even presentation, which includes a pit
Jigglypuff. That was, what, a decade They’re always pretty good too. Not remember the Dreamcast? Yeah, that environment and various customisation
ago now? These days, no one can tell many English people get this title, but ill-fated SEGA console with the swirly screens. The graphics are tight,
the difference between a Psyduck they’re missing out really because as far orange logo? OK, well, if you have no particularly on the bikes and their riders,
and a Rattata. There’s a Pokémon as two-player shenanigans go, there’s clue about that anomaly in the console but the trackside detail is a bit bland.
store in Japan, Tokyo near the main nothing more rewarding that doing a timeline it was the fi rst instance when The music isn’t licensed, which bucks the
Shinjuku station, which remains the 100-yard Hail Mary over an incoming Soul Calibur looked graphically superb. trend set by racers like Project Gotham,
last bastion of cute, fluffy Pokémon blitz. The Wii version is tailored to fi t that Ever since then, with each successive Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport, but
pleasure. The previous Pokémon titles pesky Wii-mote, but the other versions sequel, its developers – Capcom – have it’s still pretty decent and the engine
sold bucketloads and topped global have cool updates, like an IQ system tried to set a benchmark for computer noises are good. There’s no music in
charts. This game, complemented by where the game’s diffi culty level changes animation, special effects and motion game, which some might be pissed off
one called “Explorers of Darkness”, is depending on how well you do in 12 capture. Soul Calibur 4 doesn’t disap- about, but this adds to the ambience.
the first time the series has allowed different drills. Other great additions point, because it’s one of the best-look- The sense of speed is very impressive,
players to control the Pokémon include: when you screw up some ing video games ever made. Did we as are the physics and dynamics of the
themselves. In a world untouched by commentators appear live, like they mention that it’s got Darth Vader and bike, which increases exponentially with
us environmentally unfriendly humans, were really on TV, setting you straight; a Yoda in it, light sabers and all? It does, the game’s great customisation options.
they run about, making friends and new weather particle system and a fl uid and huge bouncing animated 38 FF Expect to be coming back for more due
blowing stuff up. Good stuff! dynamic camera. titties to boot. to endless modes and online play.
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