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A Celebratory Century – The Tower Unveiled

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By Matt Clarke
January 24, 2011

100 posts and still not dead! Yes, we’ve reached a milestone, and to celebrate we decided to finish the site. Since we began, Paul and myself wanted a page dedicated to all the games we’ve ever looked at, specifically to rank them in order of awesomeness. We came up with a name, and a concept for it, and then ignored it for about 8 months. Then last week with the 100th post looming, we decided enough was enough, and the time has come to open The Tower…

The Tower is our rating system, essentially. From this day onwards, each time we review a game it will be given a place in The Tower… Since we haven’t really reviewed that many yet, we filled it out with numerous games that we have played in the past. Its divided into 5 floors, ranging from The Pinnacle, where the best games go, right down to the Dungeon, which is reserved for nothing but the most godawful creations. We will be constantly adding new titles to this list, until we eventually have an enormous gaming monolith, one that is both informative and rather pleasing to the eye. Oh yes.

We will be adding more games to it this week, so if you think we’ve missed any, or have any suggestions feel free to leave a comment. Or you could email us, and we will aim to get back to you within 4 months…

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