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    Yo! My name is Robbie. Join me as I fumble through this blog thing and rattle on about games and stuff that I like!

    I don’t feel like there are many gamers out there with my kind of tastes – at least it feels that way most of the time – so I’m starting this page in hopes of finding others out there, who like me, have strange kinda tastes.

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XENON RACER – New Arcade Racer Trailer Drops From Outta Nowhere & Breaks My Life.

October 4, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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It’s around 10 pm. I’m trawling the YouTubes. All of a sudden, I come across this:

I don’t even know what to say, really.

You know those games that just come along, out of the blue, and just seem tailor-made for you? Xenon Racer is one of those games.

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NOW PLAYING: Vampyr (PC) // Hyperspace Delivery Service (FREE DL – PC) // GTA: Vice City REBORN (PC)

June 24, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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So, that Alex Kidd Remake interview went off like a frog in a sock, eh? With the extra bit of traffic I’ve received, I thought it might be cool to remind you guys and gals that you can follow me on various social media platforms. I tend to share my latest posts on all of them, so if you want to be notified as soon as I post something, then you best be following!

ACKoG on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acertainkindofgamer/

ACKoG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AkumajoBelmont

ACKoG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_certain_kind_of_gamer/

But moving on! I’ve been stuck into a few games recently. One is new. One is new, but old-style. The other is old, but with a new coat of paint.

Let’s get on with it!

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NEWS, PICK UPS + MORE: Out Run 2019 // FAST BEAT LOOP RACER GT Delayed + Pre-Purchase // Apocryph // Logitech G920 Wheel // Gamer Getaway

April 24, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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Things have been a little quieter this week, but there are reasons, I promise!

Early last week, I crossed a big-ticket, bucket-list item off my ‘want’ list – a Steering Wheel for my PC! I settled on the Logitech G920 Driving Force GT because game compatibility is great, and well, its pretty.

Real pretty!

To say I’ve been happy with my purchase is an understatement. This thing has changed my racing world.

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IMPULSE PURCHASE – I Couldn’t Help Myself // GRAVEL Ice and Fire DLC

April 17, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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Where hath my integrity gone? I told you in the last post that I try to avoid EB Games on principal. Well, throw that out the window, because I bought a massive bucket-list item from them today. I couldn’t help it, honest! The price on the Logitech G920 was pretty damned good, and when I rang the store to see if they had it in stock, they were super nice, so eh, what the hell. But more on that soon.

All I know is I’m going to be playing a lot of rally games over the next couple of weeks.

Starting with…

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PICK UPS AND PLAY – Moto Racer 4 (PC) // Trackmania Turbo (PC)

April 13, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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2 for $20 – a price that’s hard to beat, and for me, definitely within the realm of an impulse purchase. While waiting around in a plaza recently, I wandered into EB Games (the GameStop of Australia, pretty much) to kill some time. I did my usual thing. Stared at all the overpriced Nintendo Switch games, checked out all the games I’m not missing on the Xbox One and PS4 and then, finally, made my way over to the PC section.

Now, I try to avoid EB Games as a rule these days. I don’t like them, I don’t like their business practices and I find up-selling abhorrent. I’ll never buy my big-ticket gaming items from them, because they don’t deserve the bulk of my business. But resolve isn’t my strongest attribute, and the staff are usually really nice. Besides, who’s going to knock back a decent bargain every now and then? Like a 2 for $20 thing. Not me, not I.

So whilst browsing, Moto Racer 4 and Trackmania Turbo caught my eye immediately. I did have Trackmania Turbo on my Xbox One before I sold it off, but I’ve given Moto Racer 4 a fairly wide berth. It never did look like the Moto Racer games I grew up with, and nothing I saw of it really convinced me that I needed the game. Still, with the low price both games were commanding, I couldn’t resist.

Welcome to A Certain Kind of Gamer – PICK UPS AND PLAY EDITION.

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REVIEW: ENSLAVED – Odyssey To The West

April 3, 2018 · by akumajobelmont

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Every now and then, a game comes along that takes your breath away. I picked up Ninja Theory’s ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West on launch day, and my first run through the game was on the Xbox 360. I played it from beginning to end, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It’s a shame more people didn’t do the same, as the game sold rather poorly, and the only follow-up we got came in the form of DLC – a side-story that I’ll admit I haven’t played too much of yet. This is a review of the main Enslaved portion. I’ll be reviewing the ‘Pigsy’s Perfect 10’ DLC at a later date – watch this space. This is a review of the PC port that followed a few years later. I saw it sitting there in my Steam Library a couple of days ago, so I decided that a re-play was well overdue.

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