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The complete guide to Forza Horizon 5's badges, and detailed tips for online racing (Horizon Open)
Badges are a post-release addition to Forza Horizon 5 starting in April 2022 that provide an extra incentive for gameplay: unlocking badges next to your name. Here’s how to obtain every badge and detailed tips for winning online races, so you can get your elusive gold Horizon Open Champion badge too! Also includes October 2024’s new badges.
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My 10 habits / resolutions for 2023, and Loop Habit Tracker
Like 16% (or 58%…) of the UK I’m setting some personal new year’s resolutions for 2023. Recently I’ve been reading James Clear’s (excellent) Atomic Habits, so decided to set up 10 positive habits that I can realistically keep up all year, instead of goals. Here’s what I’m aiming for, and the Android app I’m using to track them!
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Reviewing ALL 83 Steam games from the Yogscast's Jingle Jam charity bundle (part 3 of 3)
Every Christmas since 2011, one of my favourite content creators The Yogscast have organised the “Jingle Jam” charity games bundle, which finished a week or so ago. Here’s the final part to complete the trilogy, with games 61-83.
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Reviewing ALL 83 Steam games from the Yogscast's Jingle Jam charity bundle (part 2 of 3)
Every Christmas since 2011, one of my favourite content creators The Yogscast have organised the “Jingle Jam” charity games bundle, which finishes today. Here’s part 2, with games 31-60.
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Reviewing ALL 83 Steam games from the Yogscast's Jingle Jam charity bundle (part 1 of 3)
Every Christmas since 2011, one of my favourite content creators The Yogscast have organised the “Jingle Jam”, a collection of streams with an associated bundle with TONS of great games to raise money for charity. This year, I’m trying to review all 80+ of them despite only playing 2-3 games all year before this! Here’s part 1, with the first 30 games.
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Android game reviews: Farm & Mine, Idle Research, Tap Ninja, Solitaire Golden Prairies, Eatventure
How has it been 4 months since my last Android game round-up post!? Well, here’s what I’ve been playing most in Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov, and yes, they’re almost all idle games. Oops.
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The ultimate over-the-top completionist's guide to 'finishing' Forza Horizon 5
Whether you’ve seen my guide to FH5’s creative accolades or read previous posts professing my love for Forza Horizon, it should be clear I’m a completionist! In this post, I’ll explain my definition of “finishing” the game, and my progress towards these 7 goals after 27 days(!) of in-game time.
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How do you use Twitch? A guide to analysing your emotes, subscriptions, chat messages, and viewing history!
Along with YouTube, I also watch quite a lot of Twitch streams & VODs. In this post, I’ll share my spreadsheet for analysing my top streamers, chat messages, playback methods etc using my data export, along with instructions for you to do the same!
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How I spent a long weekend in Barcelona, told via Google Maps reviews (part 2/2, 15 reviews)
I recently took a 4ish day trip to Barcelona as a late birthday trip, and discovered I’d forgotten all my previously-known Spanish… still, I kept myself busy visiting plenty of touristy places and wandering around the streets! Here’s the last 2 days.
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How I spent a long weekend in Barcelona, told via Google Maps reviews (part 1/2, 16 reviews)
I recently took a 4ish day trip to Barcelona as a late birthday trip, and discovered I’d forgotten all my previously-known Spanish… still, I kept myself busy visiting plenty of touristy places and wandering around the streets! Here’s the first 2 days.