The not-so-pro gaming blog
Hello dear readers and welcome to the second of my collaboration reposts! If you missed my previous post, it was a repost of my piece originally written for the Normal Happenings collaboration – The Games That Define Us – and today I’m reposting my piece from last year’s collaboration – The Characters That Define Us. So come join me to find out who that is and why!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to my final post of 2020. Here I’m taking a look at all the games I’ve enjoyed this year, so sit back, relax, and join me for Shoot the Rookie’s gaming review of the year.
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Hello dear readers and welcome to another special edition of Shoot the Rookie. Last week me and fellow blogger Winst0lf revealed the results of The Great JRPG Character Face-Off. Although those posts marked the end of the event I wanted to do one more post in order to reveal every single character who was voted for in the event. So why not join me as I reveal the identity of all 86 characters!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to this week’s Seriously Geeky Sundays post. This week we are looking at all things summertime so get that sunscreen ready as we plunge into the world of fictional summers!
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Dear readers! Hello! Welcome to another Seriously Geeky Sunday here on Shoot the Rookie. After sadly missing last week’s prompt I’m back with a vengeance to answer today’s questions which are all about romance. Why not join me in discussing one of my favourite topics?
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Hello dear readers and welcome to another Seriously Geeky Sunday. As today is Father’s Day, the topic for today’s questions is fathers and father figures. There are SO many to choose from across geeky fandoms so let’s go on and have a look at who I’ve picked.
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Hello dear readers and welcome to this special edition of Shoot the Rookie. As you may know I am a huge fan of the game Xenoblade Chronicles. As you may also know, a Definitive Edition of the game was released today (that’s May 29th 2020 for those reading in the future). Therefore I decided to celebrate by putting together some pictures of the Collector’s Set that I received this morning, so why not join me to find out what it looks like!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to Shoot the Rookie. In this edition I will be having a go at a super fun tag I saw other bloggers doing – ‘Have You Ever… The Gaming Edition‘. So come join me to find out my haves and have-nots of gaming!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to Shoot the Rookie. I don’t know about you but I’m finding this whole lock-down thing a bit of a de-motivator when it comes to writing proper long form posts, so instead I’m concentrating on shorter, fun, community inspired ideas! To that end, today’s post is the first (and possibly last) in a new series that I like to call Twitter Tags, so please join me to find out what it is all about!
Continue reading “Twitter Tags: Four Games That Define Me”
Hello dear readers and a very Happy Valentine’s Day! I know some of you hate Valentine’s Day, or at least try and willfully ignore it, but please don’t let that put you off! It is clear that Valentine’s is in many ways just a big corporate mess, but for me, having a day designed to celebrate love can hardly be the worst thing that could happen, particularly in these dark days. Therefore, I thought I’d get into the spirit of things and have a bit of fun celebrating love and romance in video games…
