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Simon Munk

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Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.

Articles By Simon Munk

Saints Row IV

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Pikmin 3

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Gunpoint

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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. / Dark

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Company of Heroes 2

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The Last Of Us

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Remember Me

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Metro: Last Light

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Impossible Road

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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

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Dead Island: Riptide

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PunksNotDead/DuoTasking

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BioShock Infinite

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Tomb Raider

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Crysis 3

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Aliens: Colonial Marines

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