Just down past the gasworks

Posted in games, iOS on January 8th, 2010 by RevStu

WoSblog’s favourite free iPod game got an update this morning, increasing the size of its main mode by a whopping 67% and making it an even more unmissable bargain than the unmissable bargain it already was. Donut Games’ cute and loveable Rat On The Run is actually three games in one – and even the throwaway “Rat On A Scooter” minigame is so good that it’s now spawned its own spinoff game (the splendid Rat On A Scooter XL) – but the main Challenge mode has now been expanded from 15 levels to 25.

It’s a lovely one-button game full of replay value (because beating a level with one star is for the feeble), and you really ought to be snapping it up before DG come to their senses and start charging for it again.

(If you want to get a feel for the game without an iPod, you can also play the full 8-level Arcade mode here for free.)

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She saw a raven, she shot it

Posted in music on January 8th, 2010 by RevStu

"You know how when you get into a new relationship you're supposed to start hearing every song's lyrics as applying to you?", asked a friend the other day. Naturally, WoSblog interpreted the query as a challenge.

Many years ago, my band The Jellyheads had had the misfortune to find ourselves stuck in the rehearsal room adjacent to a really awful sub-sub-sub-sub-Iron-Maiden heavy metal band, who insisted on practicing with their door open, inflicting their godawful caterwauling on us when we were trying to nail one of our tender ballads like "Terry Waite Is Dead", "Spider In My Head" or "Fuk Da House".

After a couple of hours our singer and guitarist could take no more and went off for a quick pint in a nearby pub, while the drummer and I stayed behind to hatch a revenge plan.

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