In essence, Wonders Beyond is an RPG platforming game with a few minigames dotted here and there (mostly in Wish Park). The majority of the time you spend playing will be doing one thing: making friends. To do so, you need to find out what the various Pokémon want you to do in return for their friendship. Mostly, you’ll be doing one of the following two activities: “catch the Pokémon”, or “fight the Pokémon”. And you’ll have to do this a lot to be able to befriend other Pokémon. Not all of the Pokémon need to be chased or defeated to be befriended, thankfully. Some simply require things—or occasionally other Pokémon—to be fetched, while others require small favours. You can’t skip over the “let’s make a whole stack of new friends!” aspect of the game, either, because you need lots of friends to open each portal to Wish Park.

Wonders Beyond also features a multiplayer component outside the solo campaign, where any of the minigames that you unlock in Wish Park can be played against other human opponents. Since the game isn’t precisely brimming with minigames in the same way that, say, Mario Party is, this mode has limited appeal.

The game is, of course, syrupy cute, and if you have no tolerance for cuteness levels that would make even Lord Voldemort melt into a pink, heart-shaped puddle, then you’ve got no business playing Wonders Beyond. It’s cute even for a Pokémon game, and that’s saying something. The only way that this game could be more cute is if it included My Little Pony, Care Bears, and a healthy dose of lolcats. I found it all endearing, really, but that may just be me. In fact, I found myself playing this game a lot more than I promised myself I would. Not because of the plot, but more the enjoyment of playing a game based around making friends instead of killing. Sure, you have to beat half of them up, essentially grinding their faces into the dirt and yelling “Make friends with me! Now!” But it’s still friendship.

Life in PokéPark isn’t all sunshine and roses and friendship, though, especially when it comes to controlling the game. Given that the game is in a 3D environment, you’d think “ah! Perfect opportunity for the ol’ Wii Remote Nunchuck combo!” You would think that, and you could not be more wrong if you were trying to play the game using cucumbers and walnuts. Someone, probably someone displaying the kind of wisdom reserved for the aforementioned cucumbers, decided that the best way to control the game would be to turn the Wii Remote sideways and use the D-pad and 1 and 2 buttons. Does this make sense? Not really. Does it make the game easy to control? About as easy as having an intelligent philosophy discussion with a bunch of tomatoes. This method of control becomes a complete disaster salad when you need to chase other Pokémon around, because the same savant decided that, to add a burst of speed, you need to shake the Wii Remote. So let me get this straight: D-pad to move, 2 to jump, and waggle to put on a burst of speed. How many hands DO I have, precisely? I can understand that perhaps the controls were simplified because of the game’s younger audience, but at least the option of Nunchuck would have been nice.

On the other hand, there’s a lot to recommend to Wonders Beyond. My kids loved it, and discovered enough of an interest in Pokémon to start watching the TV series. The music in the game is enjoyable, and the environments are varied enough that you know exactly where you are just by looking. For the Pokémon fan, the game features Pokémon from all generations, but you’ll find that the majority of them will be from the new Black and White set.

My overall impression of PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond is generally favourable, although I have a bit of a gripe with the control. The game is cute, friendly, and reasonably accessible to younger players. Adults (and probably people who aren’t into Pokémon) might find the game somewhat repetitive, but for kids, it’s a definite treat.

Final Score: 6.5 PokéPrawns out of 10

Detailed Information:
Developer: Creatures, Inc
Publisher: Nintendo
Distributor: Nintendo South Africa
Platform: Wii
Release Date: 23 March 2012
RRP: R499
Age Rating: PG
Website:  http://www.nintendo.co.za/NOE/en_ZA/games/wii/pokpark_2_wonders_beyond_47437.html

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Watch as popular superhero characters from TV, film, and video games drop in from dizzying heights to make their grand entrance.

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While the other band members, Evan Shinners and Michael Thurber, play the keys and strings, Eric Rivera whistles through 26 songs, starting off in early 1914 with Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts’ popular marching tune. Other highlights along the way include Ennio Morricone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, The Bangles’ 1986 hit “Walk Like An Egyptian”, and Foster The People’s “Pumped Up Kicks”.

Have a listen to the History of Whistling over the past 98 years.

Find the full set list after the jump.

F.J. Ricketts (1914) “Colonel Bogey March”
Ben Bernie (1925) “Sweet Georgia Brown”
Frank Churchill (1937) “Whistle While You Work”
Raoul Kraushaar (1954) “Lassie Main & End Title”
Earle Hagen (1960) “The Fishin’ Hole”
Ennio Morricone (1964) “A Fistful of Dollars”
Ennio Morricone (1966) “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
The Lovin’ Spoonful (1966) “Daydream”
Bernard Hermann (1968) “Twisted Nerve”
Otis Redding (1968) “(Sittin, On) The Dock of the Bay”
The Beatles (1970) “Two of Us”
Paul Simon (1972) “Down by the Schoolyard”
Billy Joel (1977) “The Stranger”
Supertramp (1979) “Goodbye Stranger”
J. Geils Band (1981) “Centerfold”
The Bangles (1986) “Walk Like An Egyptian”
Bobby McFerrin (1988) “Don,t Worry Be Happy”
Guns N’ Roses (1989) “Patience”
Warren G. ft. Nate Dogg (1994) “Regulate”
Beck (1997) “Sissyneck”
Bob Sinclair (2005) “Love Generation”
Peter Bjorn and John (2006) “Young Folks”
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (2009) “Home”
The Black Keys (2010) “Tighten Up”
Foster The People (2010) “Pumped Up Kicks”
Maroon 5 (2011) “Moves Like Jagger” ft. Christina Aguilera

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In Animatus, Lee uses a combination of real animal bones and synthetic ones to create anatomical structures of Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Goofy, Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, and others. The skeletal remains of the characters are surprisingly easy to identify, have a look at them after the jump.

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Created by Eindhoven design studio HEYHEYHEY, Melvin extends across two suitcases and was built to rubber-stamp a friendly message onto a postcard and affix a postage stamp so that the postcard is ready to send. Watch as Melvin uses a bow a tie, a smoking pipe, a mouse trap, a choo choo train, and ever so tiny porcelain clogs to make the simple task necessarily complex and thoroughly amusing.

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The music video was created by Portal fan and graphics designer Harry Callaghan. His other musical experiments include a witty introduction to Aperture and a song by everyone’s favorite personality core, Wheatley. See those two music videos after the jump.

This is Aperture

The Wheatley Song

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Thor

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Scientist and teacher Jonathan Bergmann answers that question in this quick animated chemistry lesson using blueberries, grapefruits, and football stadiums as metaphors.

You can find many more educational videos at TED-Ed.

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From glimpses of the Cheshire Cat to the road of yellow brick to carpets flying across the desert, Alves captures the essence of a variety of movies (mostly Disney). Have a look her eye shadow panoramas after the jump.

Lion King

Pirates of the Caribbean

The Wizard of Oz

Aladdin

Snow White

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Pocahontas

Alice in Wonderland

Tangled

Super Mario Bros.

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In StarDrone Extreme, you take charge of a spacecraft that is always in motion and must navigate it across the 60 cosmic environments. You’re not in control of the spacecraft—well not directly in control, anyways. Numerous beacons are dotted across each level, and your craft can use its grappling hook to attach itself to said beacons. As the craft rotates around a beacon, you select the direction in which you’d like it to travel—ideally, in the direction of the next beacon—by removing the grappling hook. Continue this process until you reach the intended destination. The levels have different win parameters: in some you need to collect a certain amount of stars, others require you to find all the gems. Sometimes you’re require to smite all your enemies, and at other moments you just need to get to the end of the level. You have limited health and your traversal of the level is scored and timed, and you’re awarded with the silverware if you complete it in a specific amount of time.

Between you and victory in each level lies some fiendish level design and aggressive enemies, but the biggest foe is actually the difficulty setting. One of the criticisms levelled against StarDrone on the PS3 was about how hard it was to finish the levels, much less do it in time to win a medal. Subsequently, an “easy” mode has been added to the PS Vita version. You’ll die less often; however, you won’t score as many points as you would if you play on the original masochistic “hard” setting. The developers have sought to reward those players with…less talent and deftness: there’s a trophy to be earned if you fail to complete a level after 20 attempts. It is called “Epic Fail!” and, yes, I have earned it.

While the game might be difficult in parts, the control mechanism is anything but. Your spacecraft can be moved from one beacon to another by tapping the specific beacon using front touchscreen. Keep your finger pressed on the screen and your craft orbits the node; release your finger to send it shooting off. If your fingers are the size of sausages, it may be difficult to see the trajectory of your craft. Thankfully you can also use the rear touch pad to tap in the general vicinity of a beacon and the game will make the connection. It’s a simple system that works.

Despite having a starry backdrop, the levels in StarDrone Extreme aren’t dazzling. Not at first. They can become quite colourful when you have collected enough stars to unlock comet rush mode, where you can destroy enemies that you aren’t normally able to. And in the times when the action gets frenetic, the frame rate stays constant and smooth. There is also a small minimap on the bottom left of the screen to help with navigationally challenged playrers, but it’s a little too transparent to be much of an assistance.

Unlike Hustle Kings or Motorstorm RC, you won’t get the PS3 version free if you buy StarDrone Extreme on Vita (and vice versa). However, cloud saves have been added with the most recent update of the game. If you’ve bought both versions of the game, this cross-play mechanism enables you to save your progress on StarDrone on the PS3 and the continue from where you left off on the PS Vita, or the other way around.

StarDrone Extreme also supports leader boards that allow you to see how much better everyone else is at the game, and looking at the global list, there are certainly a lot of overachievers. There is a section that lists your friends’ scores but at the time of writing this, it doesn’t seem to work. One feature that would have been nice to have (and was much lauded in The Splatters) would be a way to see playbacks of other gamers’ high-scoring sessions to see how it was done. Some of the leader board scores look well nigh unattainable without some sort of technique.

What does work in the game’s favour is its price. At ZAR35.00, StarDrone Extreme is one of the cheapest (if not *the* cheapest) PS Vita game available at the minute. With its 60 levels there’s certainly a lot to overcome, and numerous bonuses and medals to collect. Precise timing is paramount to success in StarDrone Extreme, and even on the easy setting, the difficulty may prove a little too frustrating for some casual players. The temptation to skip a level can become overwhelming at times and there is an option to do that. Previously you’d have to buy the level skipper DLC (ZAR10.00), but it’s since been made available for free.

Overall StarDrone Extreme‘s curious mix of pinball, breakout, and puzzle mechanics blend well together. If you’re itching to play game that combines low margins of error with high levels of difficulty, then StarDrone Extreme may just be the scratch to your itch.

Final score: 7 StarDrones out of 10

Detailed information:
Developer: Beatshapers + Orb Games
Publisher: Beatshapers
Platform: PS Vita
RRP: R35.00
Release Date: 11 April 2012
Website: http://beatshapers.com/stardrone

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White paints her reinterpretations in the same style as the old masters would have done and amusingly replaces James Whistler’s mother with a teenage mutant ninja turtle, inserts the hulking Voltron into a Monet, and has Big Bird explaining the musculature of Kermit’s arm to the Muppets in oil painting by Rembrandt.

See some of White’s creative pop culture mashups after the jump.

The Best Supper (based on “The Last Supper” by Hans Holbein the Younger)

Alien the Terrible (based on “Ivan the Terrible And His Son Ivan” by Ilya Repin)

Whistler’s Turtle (based on “Whistler’s Mother” by James Whistler)

Vader and Unicorn (based on “Virgin and Unicorn” by Domenico Zampieri)

Alice Meeting Humpty Dealer (based on “Alice Meeting Humpty Dumpty” by John Tenniel)

The Pizza Eaters (based on “The Potato Eaters” by Vincent van Gogh)

Voltron Dans Les Coquelicots (based on “Les Coquelicots a Argenteuil” by Claude Monet)

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Bird (based on “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” Rembrandt)

The Infanta Elmorita (based on “The Infanta Margarita” by Velazquez)

Nightmare at Cafe Terrace (based on “Café Terrace at Night” by Vincent Van Gogh)

See much more of White’s amusing reinterpretations on Flickr.

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Gentlemen. We have a very important mission for you to today. We want only the best of the best of the best. Sir. With honours. See, we need you to drop into the warzone, defeat the enemy, and get out again. I’m not going to lie: some of you might not make it out alive. But then that’s what you signed up for, soldier! To die with honour! Hooah!

To prepare you for the challenge, we’ve got three Steam Beta keys for the PC version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the three hardiest soldiers who are able to leave their names below and click “Enlist”.

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You have until midday, Thursday April 26, 2012. Do it soldier! Standard competition rules and regulations apply. Thanks to MWEB GameZone for the keys.

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It’s difficult to describe The Splatters without actually showing you the game in motion. Even still screenshots don’t do the game any justice, so I’ll leave this video clip here for you to watch, just in case my explanation gets too wibbly. No, watching the clip isn’t mandatory, but it might help clear some confusion.

Try to follow along with my words if you haven’t seen the video…it could get confusing. So there are these living blobs of colourful…stuff, and they’ve decided that suicide is the way to go. Not just any suicide, but going in style. In Splatter terms, this means spreading out your body liquid over as wide an area as possible. The way to clear each level is to trigger every single one of the level’s bombs, and these bombs go boom when they come in contact with Splatter body fluids. I’m sure you can see where this is going. What makes things a tad harder is that the bombs are colour-coded for the different colours of Splatter. Thankfully, the clever people at Spiky Snail games have provided a colourblind mode for people like myself.

Some measure of fun, certainly, but clearing the level of bombs isn’t the way to do things. It’s not stylish enough. To rack up the points, you need to do tricks, and to REALLY rack up points, you need to chain the tricks together into combos. Initially, only a few tricks and abilities are open to you, but as you progress you get more and more abilities and stunts to work with.

One of the initial basic stunts, for example, is the Air Strike, a simple move that allows you to change direction in mid-flight and splatter your Splatter all over bomb matter. Later on, you get access to the Flip, which is less a time-reversal than an inertial reversal technique. Performing a number of flips in succession is a U-turn, and getting comfortable with all these manoeuvres is key to not simply passing each level, but passing the levels well. And in style.

The Splatters can be a little confusing to come to grips with initially, but by the fourth or fifth level, you’ll get the hang of it. It helps that you don’t have to play the controller like a musical instrument (you’ll get a lot of use out of just the left stick, A, and LT!) The game introduces the various stunt concepts and moves to you in stages, allowing for several levels’ worth of practise before revealing another ability. This helps you to come to grips with what you’ve learned before moving on. Like I said before: playing is easy. Playing skillfully is a completely different paint-filled ball game. And make no mistake: this is a game of skill.

The Splatters is a typical example of “easy to learn, hard to master”, but you’re never left on your own to master the game. If the game thinks you’re struggling, it can always show you a way to complete the level. Of course, simply replicating what you saw isn’t always easy, but it can help show you where you might have been going wrong. If that’s not enough, the game also has something called “Splatter TV”; essentially a collection of game replays. You can upload your own spectacular shows if you wish, but if you’re in the top ten scoring plays of a particular level, the replay is saved automatically. It’s simply fascinating to watch The Splatters in the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing. Plus, you may even learn something, and in so doing, figure out how to surpass a posted high score. I’ve yet to do this myself, admittedly.

I didn’t face too many problems with the game at all: certainly no game-breaking glitches. The one thing that might become an issue that it’s ridiculously difficult to repeat a move or a stunt. Part of this is due to the aiming mechanism, but it can make replaying levels a little on the frustrating side. I also did encounter one problem trying to pull off Air Strikes, where the game sometimes refused to register that I’d pressed the A button a second time, but these were few and far between, and difficult to replicate.

Like many games of its ilk, The Splatters is either best played in short bursts, since each level will take you less than five minutes to complete. It will take much, much longer than that to master. If you’re the kind of person to get easily frustrated with “keep trying till you get it right” type games, The Splatters may not be for you. I suspect this game is also not quite for you if you’re not the type to wrestle a game down to its knees with your bare hands and force it to submit to your will. If you ARE that kind of gamer, though, The Splatters will be more than sheer heaven for you.

I doubt there are many people out there who don’t enjoy physics-based puzzles, though, so while it may be a little on the short side if you’re just a completionist (you can easily simply pass all the levels within about 4 or 5 hours–note, “pass”, not “master”. That takes way more time), it’s innovative splattery fun for the asking price.

Final score: 8 acrobatic, splattery prawns out of 10

Detailed information:
Developer: Spiky Snail
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
Platform: XBLA
RRP: 800 MS points
Release Date: 11 April 2012
Website: http://spikysnail.com/the-splatters/

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Back in the era of the video game arcade, Burgertime by Data East was one of my favourite games. I’m not sure exactly how many coins I pumped into the machine, but I’m sure it was a small fortune. I’ve always preferred platform games over beat-em-ups and fighting games, so I never spent much time on the Street Fighter type arcade machines. BurgerTime is an old sub-genre of the platform game, a sub-genre called “Ladders and Levels”, whereby ladders are the main means of getting between platforms, as opposed to simple jumping (Wikipedia, on the other hand, seems to prefer to call games such as BurgerTime ”platform puzzle games”–but that’s an argument for another time). I’m sure many of the older gamers will remember such mainstays as Lode Runner, and even the classic Donkey Kong, as examples of this sub-genre. As a personal favourite, I recall spending many many hours playing the BBC clone of the game: Mr Wimpy by Ocean Software.

One note before I get into the…meat…of this review: the screenshots you see here are all from the various platforms. The first two are from the Xbox Live version, the third screen is from the PSN version, the fourth from the WiiWare version, and the last from the PC version. Just so you know.

BurgerTime World Tour is not just a simple “HD Remake” of the original BurgerTime: it’s more like a thorough overhaul of the game. The core concept is the same, of course: you send your protagonist—Peter Pepper—around a series of platforms, running over burger components (i.e., the bun halves, cheese, the burger patty, etc) and dropping them to the platform below—one platform at a time—until the giant burger is assembled on a plate below. Hindering you in your efforts to churn out burgers are an assortment of evil foodstuffs: sausages, eggs, pickles, habaneros, and so on. These enemies chase you around the levels relentlessly. Run into one, and you’re burger mulch.You’re not completely defenceless, of course. By default, you have several uses of pepper that leave your opponents incapacitated for a short while, allowing you to run past them. Furthermore, if an enemy is standing on a piece of burger when it drops, the enemy drops with it. You can also squish enemies by dropping burger components on them.

World Tour introduces a whole stack of new gameplay elements and layouts. As you can see from the screenshots, the graphics are, of course, greatly updated, very colorful, and brilliantly charming. I played the Xbox Live version of the game, which allows you to use your own avatar as a player, instead of relying on the standard player graphic. Graphics aside, the first thing you’ll notice about the levels is that they are now arranged around an imaginary vertical tube, and scroll left and right as needed. The gameplay also includes many modern platforming standards such as floating and flying platforms, breakable platforms, and variations on those themes. You’ll also see spiked platforms that are guaranteed to make your life difficult and leave you in a pickle.

The other large change is that every one of the four worlds contains a boss level at the end that must be completed before you can move on to the next world. These boss levels will take a little more extra dexterity from you than the standard levels, and can be far more frustrating. Still, with a little practise, you’ll manage.

Whereas the original BurgerTime only allowed Peter to move up, down, left, and right, and to throw pepper in his enemies’ faces, World Tour also allows you to jump (“travesty!” I hear you purists cry. Hush…it’s not a remake, it’s a new game altogether!), whack your enemies with a spatula, use a rocket to boost to high-up platforms, and pick up and throw peppered foes. Naturally, these improvements to Peter also means a rebalancing of the enemies, so while the sausages (Frank Furter) can chase you up and down ladders, the eggs (Sonny) rush at you if they see you, the pickles (Ruthless Dill) jump when you jump, and the carrots (Chaz) are able to crash through platforms above you. Naturally, this means learning the strategies of the new enemies, but once you’ve figured out who does what, it’s a matter of customizing the way you play to the way the enemies work.

Another big change to the game is the addition of local and online multiplayer (I suspect the Wii version is local multiplayer only). It works in much the same way as the standard game, but you’re in a race against other to compile burgers. The fun thing about multiplayer is that the other players are just as prone to the same attacks as the regular foes. The aspect that makes a competitive multiplayer game is purely the ability to screw over your opponents, and this game allows you to happily leave egg on your opponents’ faces. On the other hand, you’re just as prone to the attacks, so watch out for that.

What I liked about BurgerTime World Tour is that, by and large, the core game hasn’t been completely changed beyond recognition. Like the original arcade game, most of the trouble I had completing levels were mainly due to my own ineptitude or impatience. I say most, because occasional bouts of trouble I had was due to the crash detection, whether between Peter and the foes, or the foes and the pepper. I suspect that some of the issue might have been due to the tubular nature of the level design. Still, it’s an occasional issue I ran into, not a constant problem. One odd issue I ran into was that Peter somehow managed to jump through a hole in a wall, and ended up in an unused part of the level from which I couldn’t escape, which meant having to restart the level from scratch again.

BurgerTime World Tour has its share of flaws, sadly. In the single player campaign, the levels can be large enough to get lost in. Because it’s all circular and not flat, it can sometimes be a bit baffling to figure out how to get from one section to another. The developers have realized that players are likely to get lost, and have included a pointer to remaining burger ingredients. Despite the pointer, it’s still easy to get lost. The other reason you might find yourself getting lost is that, despite how colorful and pretty the game is, the background can sometimes be a little too busy, and either Peter or his foes can get lost among the details. Another problem is that, despite the different behaviors of the enemies, the gameplay itself starts getting very samey by about the third world, and there are no real surprises in the later game. In the multiplayer, the game screen can feel a bit claustrophobic, but that’s the nature of local multiplayer. The problem I had with online multiplayer was that no one was playing, so I was unable to find opponents.

By and large, BurgerTime World Tour doesn’t aim to be a faithful remake of the original arcade game, and I can appreciate that. Still, the name will probably only mean anything to those older gamers who remember the original BurgerTime. Like many games inspired by arcade originals, this game is best played as something to relax with after a long, hectic session of gaming. I don’t consider World Tour as something you can play for long hours on end—it simply isn’t that kind of game. At the end, I’m left in two minds about the game. It’s good fun in small doses, and great fun as a competitive game, but it helps to be aware of the flaws in the game.

Final score: 6.5 McBurgering prawns out of 10

Detailed Information:
Developers: Monkey Paw Games/Frozen Codebase
Publisher: Konami
Platforms: XBLA (reviewed), PSN, WiiWare, PC
RRP: 800 MS points (XBLA),R75/$10  (PSN), 1000 Wii Points (Wii), TBA (PC)
Website: http://burgertimeworldtour.com

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Auroras are caused by solar activity, and it is expected that a solar max (the period of greatest solar activity) for our current solar cycle will happen between this year and the next. Noticing an increase in such activity, Salomonsen from Tromsø, Norway pointed his cameras to the aurora-filled skies in the northern parts of this homeland. 150,000 exposures later and he had created a most ethereal time-lapse video, Celestial Lights.

Celestial Lights is Salomonsen’s second video project. His first, In The Land Of The Northern Lights, can be seen after the jump.

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