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		<title>How to play JS Joust Hide and Seek</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2013/01/03/how-to-play-js-joust-hide-and-seek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indie Game]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Wait until night time 2) Turn out all the lights 3) Everyone go and find a room to hide in 4) Activate your Move controller 5) Decide whether you think your hiding place is so good that it&#8217;s worth staying there, or whether you might as well go looking for other people 6a) If [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=934&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The doubt is there</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2012/11/19/the-doubt-is-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Save for a number of snarky comments on Twitter, and last week&#8217;s &#8220;Are you a true games journalist?&#8220;, I&#8217;ve tried to directly stay out of the whole MCV and Square Enix debacle. It pains me that a lot of readers now just take it for granted that shoddy journalism is how the games journalism space [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=929&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a true games journalist?</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2012/11/06/are-you-a-true-games-journalist/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2012/11/06/are-you-a-true-games-journalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[i don't even like doritos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey you! Are you a games journalist? Ha! You might think you are, but I&#8217;ll be the judge of that. The following quiz will test whether you have the stones to call yourself a true games journo like the great Geoff Keighley (pictured above, of course), and has been approved as &#8220;extremely scientific&#8221; by an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=921&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting (or kickstarting) a career in video games journalism</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2012/03/23/starting-or-kickstarting-a-career-in-video-games-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2012/03/23/starting-or-kickstarting-a-career-in-video-games-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indie Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repeating myself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually do full written responses to pieces that I read &#8211; that&#8217;s what a few badly thought-out tweets are for. But after catching up on the kerfuffle Christian Higley&#8217;s Bitmob posts caused this week, I can&#8217;t really help myself. I&#8217;m still going to keep this short and sweet, as it&#8217;s late and I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=893&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Things That Happened To Mike Rose In 2011</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/12/27/top-10-things-that-happened-to-mike-rose-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/12/27/top-10-things-that-happened-to-mike-rose-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that making best of lists is a thing that happens at the end of each year? Of course you did, it&#8217;s bloody well everywhere. Top 10 lists bring in the hits, since people can&#8217;t help clicking on lists so that they can find out whether to furiously disagree or quietly accept. And [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=888&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So You Want To Be A Games Journalist</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/07/26/so-you-want-to-be-a-games-journalist/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/07/26/so-you-want-to-be-a-games-journalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Games journalism is an absolute dick of a profession. By reading this, you are essentially letting me know that you&#8217;re a crazy fool who doesn&#8217;t mind being trodden on and thrown about for long periods of time. You are up for the idea of working insane hours for very little payoff, all in the hope [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=873&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Update On My Book</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/22/update-on-my-book/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/22/update-on-my-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IS News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[250 indie games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRUSTRATING]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My book was released this week! Or at least,  it was meant to be. Amazon UK stated an April 18th release date, but that came and went without any copies being sent out. Then I was told the actual release date was April 21st &#8211; which also came and went without a word. Lots of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=858&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Noire Is Pulling Faces At Me, And I Like It</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/14/l-a-noire-is-pulling-faces-at-me-and-i-like-it/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/14/l-a-noire-is-pulling-faces-at-me-and-i-like-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mainstream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faces are fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. Noire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I was properly excited about some new gaming technology or advancement. Motion control à la Kinect and the PlayStation Move was solid stuff, but nothing we hadn&#8217;t already seen &#8211; the Eyetoy and the Wii had been doing it years before. &#8216;Real&#8217; 3D gaming hasn&#8217;t particularly gripped me either. There&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=852&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dual Wielding</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/12/dual-wielding/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/12/dual-wielding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dual screens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[makes me feel like I'm working harder than I actually am]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around three years ago, I bought a new graphics card for my PC. I think the old one had set on fire or something, I forget the specifics. As with any piece of hardware, there were numerous extra cables that didn&#8217;t seem to do much at all, and I was about to throw them all [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=846&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game Journalism Taboos</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/11/game-journalism-taboos/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/04/11/game-journalism-taboos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how much should you get paid for a review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taboo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks what I hope will be a new-found relationship between myself and this blog. The plan is to update it daily with some new gaming topic I&#8217;ve been pondering, or at least multiple times a week. Nothing too heavy, mind &#8211; just short points of discussion. I want to start off with a bang, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=837&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Jobs, A Minecraft Trip and My Upcoming Book</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/03/03/new-jobs-a-minecraft-trip-and-my-upcoming-book/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2011/03/03/new-jobs-a-minecraft-trip-and-my-upcoming-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indie Game]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://independently-speaking.com/?p=809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Plenty has happened since my last update, so I thought it was about time I talked about it. First up, I&#8217;ve got a couple of big writing gigs at the moment &#8211; I&#8217;m the UK editor for Gamasutra, and the Handheld editor for Pocket Gamer. I hold both in the highest regards, so it&#8217;s pretty [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=809&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;So&#8230; you just play games all day?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2010/09/10/so-you-just-play-games-all-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[my family don't think I have a real job]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My family doesn&#8217;t understand exactly what it is that I do, and even those that do understand are a little baffled by it all. It can make for some awkward conversation. At a funeral we all recently attended, my uncle decided to make with the small talk, and then probably wished he hadn&#8217;t. &#8220;So you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=791&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First Writing Gig</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2010/09/06/my-first-writing-gig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[counter strike source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steamfriends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece today for Strategy Informer, in which I talked about in-game voice chat and whether there&#8217;s any point. As part of the discussion, I threw in some relevant details regarding how I began my writing career. Would you believe it all started over a game of Counter Strike Source: &#8220;To cut a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=771&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August Happenings, Capeesh?</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2010/09/01/august-happenings-capeesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IS News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuff I gone done]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Been getting my hands dirty with more editorials and AAA reviews this month, along with my regular interviews and casual/indie stuff. I&#8217;m also working on something new and very exciting, which I can&#8217;t wait to talk about. For now, you&#8217;ll have to be content with what August brought my way: My big reviews this month [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=766&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff I Gone Done in July: Interviews, Beta Rooms and Walkthroughs</title>
		<link>http://independently-speaking.com/2010/08/04/i-done-stuff-interviews-beta-rooms-and-walkthroughs/</link>
		<comments>http://independently-speaking.com/2010/08/04/i-done-stuff-interviews-beta-rooms-and-walkthroughs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IS News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuff I gone done]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned previously, July was the month I started writing about games full-time. Since that decision, quite a considerable amount of fortune has come my way. I&#8217;m now freelancing for the likes of Play.tm, Strategy Informer and Resolution Magazine, in addition to all the sites I was already smithing words for.  I also received an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independently-speaking.com&#038;blog=6057341&#038;post=754&#038;subd=independentlyspeaking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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