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What we've been playing - action heroes, dice, and old hunting grounds


Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over …

Watch on YouTube Allow me to take you on a journey back to the summer of 2005, when James Blunt's You're Beautiful loomed threateningly at the top of the UK singles charts. My memory of my earliest hours in World of Warcraft is one of bafflement and confusion as I wandered the Night Elf starting zone, amassing a ceaseless shopping list of bric-a-brac for insatiable NPCs and gingerly poking my keypad and watching an awkwardly stilted, entirely unfamiliar, combat dance of ticking timers and blinking squares unfold. Then onward we travelled, through the snow-covered peaks of Dun Morogh, and eventually down into the verdant sprawl of Elwynn Forest, with our final destination - the teeming, labyrinthine capital city of Stormwind - now just a short trek away.

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