Phone Detective

There are two Best Ofs currently lined up for your notalgic pleasure, but as I still have around ten hours of E3 interviews to transcribe, here is just one of them – taking us back to May 23-27, as edited by HumofEvil. You may remember this momentous week: LA Noire was out and several Gamesblog regulars had an opinion – but it was another gruesome mystery that most Chatterbox regulars were thinking of. Yes, the whole Imogen Thomas enigma had been solved.

The only other option seems to be that, as RustyJames hopes, [redacted] manages to shut Twitter down.

Where are you going with this people?! What the hell happened to incisive wit, political debate, football banter, relationship advice, even cheese or dice blog? Things didn't improve. Best Van Damme film? Retro drinks? 90s Dance? Seriously? Debating the merits of the Shamen or Altern8? []

There were only two recurrent themes of any note – is it right to wear socks in bed and the sad news of Serenvikity's pet hamster's death. She mourned on the Monday, announced on the Tuesday, and prompted the following insight from Lazybones:

"This is chatterbox."

"Not to sound too much like me, but Dungeons and Dragons is a role playing game not a board game."

Sandwich Blog

By 1600hrs, the blog had descended into its traditional Friday afternoon one liners, dashed off before the authors retreated to their sordid little grief holes. The only man to offer sensible analysis was StiLteD when he said, "In retrospect i think the 'best of'person today should just copy an extract from an earlier 'best of' that everyone's forgotten by now." Wish I'd thought of that.

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