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Play.com Live was rubbish

Not our words, but the words written here. Well, they're not exactly the words, but you get the idea.

"Did it help that the event was actually promoted with lies? Did it help that they had emo bands playing that made me want to kill myself and the screaming girls who bounced in front of the stage? Did it help that the playable stuff was mostly games that had been released last year? No, none of that helped. Not at all."

That sounds f**king awesome. Put it this way: we're a train ride from London and we didn't go. Although it doesn't say so in that piece, Microsoft showed Uno on its stand. Uno. Impressive. Read the entire sorry take through the link.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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