Yamster

        

meetthestaff-yamster Name: Jon Brady (Yamster to ye SG folks).
Country: Scotland (the top bit of the UK). It's not really a country of its own, but we're different enough from everyone below the border. And we're devolved!
What do you do on the site? Make the articles a little easier on the brain to read. Or maybe a little harder. I dun do English gud.
Consoles Owned: PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2, PSone, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance SP, methinks that's it.
Introduce yourself, go! I'm a Scot, but I'm not ginger and I don't like haggis. I have ridiculously stupid hair. I'm at university doing games development, as if that will improve my integrity on this website. Oh, and unlike some other editors, I'm not a massive wimp and will happily put a photo of myself up for your delectation. Or disgust. One or t'other, lad.
What do you do in your freetime? Absolutely nothing bar the occasional movie, gaming session with friends or 12,000 mile walk. I also think I can take photographs because I have a nice camera, and I spend a good bit of time drawing adorable little Yamatars for you lot. Oh, and I tweet. A lot. Try and ignore me when I've had a few.
Do you wear anything under your kilt? That's for me to know and you to find out when I'm drunk.

 


Review: Need For Speed: The Run – A Hollywood Racer Stumbling Over Hurdles

November 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Need For Speed: The Run opens, paradoxically, inside a closing car crusher. Within the next five minutes wheelman hero Jack has escaped from the squashy clutches of metallic cube death, stolen an Audi from his Mafioso captors and, after being followed by them at harrowingly close range and pelleted with gunfire, edges the closest of [...]

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Tags: PC · PlayStation 3 · SG Review · Xbox 360

Review: Medieval Moves – Mediocre Job, Jeremy!

November 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

Ever ready to please the droves of dead-eyed parents pushed for time and ideas this Holiday season, Medieval Moves (subtitled Deadmund’s Quest in the States) is a new PlayStation Move title from San Diego Studio and Zindagi Games, they of Sports Champions fame. Priced affordably and adorned with kid-friendly smiley skeletons and comedy giant swords, [...]

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Tags: PlayStation 3 · SG Review · Sony

A 7.5 For Zelda? It’s Still A Great Score, And We’re Too Nice

November 16th, 2011 · 16 Comments

7.5; seven and a half out of ten; seventy five percent. In the United Kingdom, it equates to achieving an A grade in any standardised school test, which would suggest that the work was made up of content that was at least three quarters excellence. Which seems pretty fair. With that in mind, why is [...]

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Tags: Editorial · News · Nintendo · PlayStation 3 · Sony · Wii

GaBoom Swap Diary: A Viable Alternative To Trading In? – Part Three

November 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments

This third and final part of my GaBoom Swap Diary would have been up earlier but for one thing: the postal system. However, now that I’ve got a package in my hands (steady on) I can disclose if the community are as trustworthy as they might seem – the promise of a game in good [...]

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GaBoom Swap Diary: A Viable Alternative To Trading In? – Part Two

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments

A trade! We have a trade! Yesterday’s GaBoom Swap Diary covered adding some games to the newly relaunched UK game swapping website and waiting for some recommendations to pop up. I’ve received word back from one user that he’s happy to take an old copy of Buzz! off my hands in exchange for The Saboteur, [...]

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Modern Warfare 3 Parting Gamers Like The Red Sea

November 8th, 2011 · 13 Comments

The first reviews are coming in for Modern Warfare 3 from both critics and ordinary gamers alike, and there’s a huge contrast between the two. The game, which launched less than 24 hours ago (depending on your time zone, we suppose), is expected to smash all expectations and is the most pre-ordered game ever for [...]

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Tags: Editorial

Indie Stores: Why Do Some Of Them Break Street Dates?

November 7th, 2011 · 16 Comments

It’s Modern Warfare Eve, and all over the world gamers are idly sitting, waiting for the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise to touch down in their consoles and for the media blitz to begin all over again. Except, a few folk have been lucky enough to land a copy through some unscrupulous [...]

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GaBoom Swap Diary: A Viable Alternative To Trading In? – Part One

November 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment

GaBoom is a UK-based game-swapping service launched last July. Since then, it has accumulated a tidy number users, and as of very recently it has relaunched with a brand new virtual currency system and automated notifications for when you and somebody else have games you both wish to trade. In short, it offers the ability [...]

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Tags: Feature

Review: Jenga® for Mac

November 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments

It can be difficult approaching a review of a Jenga video game, simply because there’s so little to review that people aren’t familiar with already. Do you enjoy stacking rows of blocks atop each other until they topple, with the last player to stack a successful piece the winner? Great! You’ll enjoy Jenga® on Mac! [...]

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Tags: iPhone/iPod Touch · PC · SG Review

1.2 Million Have Played Space Marine – Tonight, I Joined Them

November 3rd, 2011 · 7 Comments

News arrived today of THQ’s financials from July through to September in what is known as “Q2 of the fiscal year” in the realms of the financial elite. They’re looking great (VG247) but the big bit of news is that Warhammer 40k: Space Marine sold 1.2 million units from its September 6th release through to the [...]

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Tags: Editorial · PC · PlayStation 3 · Xbox 360