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January 23, 2008 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Cricket Revolution screenshots

< 1 minute readNew cricket game! It’s not out yet though, so we’ve no idea how good it is. It doesn’t matter really. If our short-lived, poorly-paid career as a videogame ‘journalist’ taught us anything, it’s that previews of games only need pictures. Mervyn Athrapatta’s going along nicely. We’ve rather unhelpfully shrunk this

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December 17, 2007 Australia / Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / England

Book review: If It Was Raining Palaces I’d Get Hit By The Dunny Door

2 minute readYes, it’s good. There’s a review for you. Okay, let’s do a little bit more. First of all, the title. If It Was Raining Palaces I’d Get Hit By The Dunny Door is quite transparently a bit of Australian slang. It’s a way of saying you’re unlucky even when it’s

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September 26, 2007 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 3 review

2 minute readRubbish. Okay, that’s a bit extreme. How about ‘worse than its predecessor’? The graphics are better, but still bad. The whole point of this update is the presentation (nothing else has changed) so it’s hard to ignore. Before, they hadn’t made any effort, so you overlooked the rough appearance. It’s

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