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The Incomplete Gamer has a brand new home, and it’s all your fault.  Too much traffic is never a bad thing, except when you’re on a capped bandwidth hosting plan.  You may have noticed the site was missing in action during the last two days of May as a result of exceeding our bandwidth limits.

With our traffic continuing to build, and not wanting to risk another disappearing act, we went looking for a company offering both unlimited GB’s of space and unlimited GB’s of transfer.  We also wanted great service at the best price in town.  JustHost.com ticked all the right boxes and while it is still early days, we would like to thank the Just Host support team for their assistance in making the move painless and swift.

While we’re tipping our hats, a quick shout out to WordPress Hacks.  Their advice on how to move a WordPress site to a new host or new domain proved invaluable.  You might notice some slight tweaking over the next few days as we restore the site to its former glory.  Thanks for your patience and, as always, a big thank you for stopping by.

There’s more shape-shifting going on in the fourth and mercifully the last series of ‘til Death than your typical episode of Fringe.

But rather than different characters inhabiting the same character’s body, over on the set of ‘til Death, four different actresses have played the role of Ally Stark,  daughter of Eddie and Joy Stark.  Just in case that wasn’t confusing enough, the shows producers have elected to play episodes out of order so that one Ally actress appears, is replaced, and returns throughout the final series.  One of the actresses playing Ally, even played a different character on the show – a waitress – one episode before joining the cast as Doug’s wife Ally.  Read on to make sense of the nonsensical and why we think ‘til Death didn’t merely jump the shark, but jumped in the pool and bludgeoned it to death.

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UPDATE: Stop the clock, or more accurately the Day Calendar.  Halo 3: ODST is in the building.  Ordered on the 1st, dispatched on the 4th and in the Incomplete Gamer Mail box today – Friday the 21st of May.  We won’t tell you that our purchase was in part motivated by a desire to play the Halo Reach multiplayer beta, if you promise not to highlight the fact that the beta just ended.  Fact is, we’re excited about playing the single player campaign and at a smidge over $28 we still feel like a winner!  Read on to find out why we’re rating the online retailers.

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Can’t get enough of The Incomplete Gamer?  I’m spreading the love and my writing to GameFlavor, a network of four sites, PS3 Informer, PSP World, Xboxist and The Red Shell.

You can find my first rant online and awaiting your reading pleasure right now!  Read on to discover why Alan Wake fans are reacting in horror. Game Reviews: Your Number’s Up.

I’ll still be dishing up regular servings of Incomplete Gamer.  Think of it as a bonus extra course!

Just last year came exciting news from Nottingham in the UK. Keep in mind there’s been nothing of note come out of Nottingham since the tales of Robin Hood emerged, and that was 800 years ago. This exciting news even has something in common with the fictional world of Robin Hood, in as much as  it concerns videogames and the tales they have to tell.

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In order to be of service to our readers we’re making the ultimate sacrifice and ordering games from a select few on-line Video Game retailers in the coming weeks.  If you read Part One of our Rating the On-line Retailers you’d know that already.  You’d also know how to get your hands on a cheap copy of Halo 3: ODST and free postage to boot.  Today we’re trawling another UK site, Zavvi.com, in search of a deal on up-coming Xbox360 exclusive, Alan Wake.  If a price of just over $70 Australian sounds good and the possibility that it will ship to your door before the Australian release date sounds even more enticing, then read on.

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My PSPgo up and died the other day.  The battery simply gave up the ghost.  It would power on as long as it was tethered to the nearest power outlet but the orange indicator light which would normally indicate recharging in progress was no where to be seen, and as soon as you removed the electric life line the PSPgo would shut down quicker than an Icelandic financial institution.  I knew the battery was the culprit and not the cable, because, using the same cable I had no trouble powering my 2nd PSPgo (don’t ask…someone has to take up the slack…we PSPgo early adopters are a rare breed).

Now here’s the kicker.  There are two ways to recharge a PSPgo – either directly into the power socket, or via your PC’s USB port.  When your battery has enough charge to power the unit up, then your PC will be perfectly happy to both trickle charge the battery and let you synch your data, game saves, games and other media to your heart’s content.  However if you are unlucky enough to find yourself in my shoes with a battery that’s all out of juice, then your PC USB sockets won’t be capable of jump starting your handheld into life.

If you’re the kind of person who backs up his data on a regular basis, then you’ll be fine, but if you’re not ‘that guy’ (so  pretty much everyone else on the planet) then your in deep doggy doo.  Read on, and hopefully you won’t make the same mistake.

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No…not your old typewriters, we need you.  No, not you, the one who didn’t recognize the image to the left.  We need you…yes you, the one with a passion for video games.  Actually our requirements are a little more exacting.  We need you, yes you, the one in the back row with an opinion and an original thought, the one with something worthwhile to say that hasn’t been said a million times before.

I know, we’ve raised the bar quite high.  The bar.  If you can’t see it, you might have to look up.  Yes there it is…hovering above you all shiny and menacing.  Think you can pass over it?  Then we’d like to hear from you.  Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve just spent a few minutes in Bright Falls.  Actually it may well have been longer. To tell the truth I lost track of the time.

Can’t tell you a great deal about the town.  It was night for much of the time, an inky dark that had me reaching to adjust the brightness and contrast settings on my television.

Word on the street is that Bright Falls resembles Twin Peaks without the pie.   Certainly the fare being served in the diner looked less than appetising.  Which brings us to why we’ve ventured here in the first place.  We’re hungry for news of upcoming Xbox360 exclusive Alan Wake, and Microsoft and game developer Remedy are happy to whet our appetites, serving up a six episode prequel (the aforementioned Bright Falls) between now and the game’s release on May 20.

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I’m always open to an idea that can potentially make me money, and while I won’t be sending any more money to Nigeria any time soon (I only ever make the same mistake three times), I did get excited when I read a report on CNBC about making money from my favourite past time. CNBC, is of course the cable channel dedicated to all things business, finance and money related. These guys live and breathe money and know what they’re talking about. So when I see an article on the CNBC site titled How to Make Money Playing Videogames I sit up and take notice.

Turns out this isn’t about the elite players wearing garish t-shirts and bandannas, playing in big professional leagues for big money; the guys with unpronounceable gamer tags with more ‘z’s than vowels. In fact you don’t need to be the best of the best or even the best of the worst to be in with a chance to make money doing what you love. The article charts the emergence of companies that allow you to play family, friends or strangers online, matching you up with players as good or as hopeless as you and letting you win as little as $1 or thousands of dollars in the process.

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