Wire & Twine are probably a great bunch of people, although they are too busy making good things to bother telling us much about themselves, which suits me. Let the product do the talking, says Mikey.
And it’s not often that I struggle to pick out a T-shirt to review because there are too many good ones, but Wire & Twine made my life difficult. In the end, because of the gamer thing, I went with the exploded diagram Wii remote, as it means that flatmates will not hassle me about my latest pick, but it was tough to decide between the beauty of the design skills that created that Tee and the excellent styling of the ‘Stop the remakes’ teeshirt. Tough, tough, tough. Also I like Gene Wilder.

Anyway, too many good reasons to pick the wii to get into, except that I will mention that there is a clip of the T-shirt being created which will appeal to the geek in any bloke, and gives him something to talk about in the pub, other than the fact that Andy Murray didn’t make it to the finals which was a complete waste of a T-shirt slot. Another reason I will mention – good pricing. You get to work out your own postage on a gizmo, but $15 for a well-designed T-shirt is good pricing in my book.

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Gotta love a good game, and when two of your flatmates are studying game design, you get to learn the ins and outs of games fast, although ten hour discussions of rendering could leave you drilling out your brains and replacing them with Pot Noodle, believe me.

But while I might not know everything about games, I could lecture on good Tee design, so debates chez Mikey can be pretty heated, don’t cha know …

One game/tee combo we can all agree on is the multiplayer Team Fortress 2 and the T-shirt put out by Valve.

Okay, if you don’t know it, this is a multiplayer first person shooter game with some excellent wheezes. For example, is Pyro male or female or … something in between?

The cartoon styling gives it a comic book appeal and the character names: The Spy, Pyro etc as well as the two teams—Reliable Excavation & Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU) make it universal in appeal. For many years it was thought to be vapourware: and the likelihood of it ever reaching production was hotly debated on the top gamer sites like Game-Hub but after six years of nada, it made it to the stores and has been a top-hitter ever since, being one of the hottest topics of video game news.

The gamer community is a world apart, and not always noted for its good clothing sense—you cannot find a good World of Warcraft T-shirt for love, money or bonus points, for example—but most gamers seem to agree that Team Fortress 2 gets most of it right, most of the time. And it is an excellent T-shirt design, on charcoal rather than black, which is unusual for game Tees, with a strong visual appeal, especially that stunning blood spatter which looks like the real deal.

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I’m p-o’d with Split Reason, for a very good reason. I wanted to tell you about a tee that I was tipped off about, the awesome sounding ‘Snake for President’. Yeah verily, I was keen to see it and blog it. But …

Where’s the eye patch? Duh?

So that’s crap. Can’t be a Snake Plissken T-shirt unless the patch is prominent, right?

Split Reason sort of redeem themselves with this retro Game Genie tee, but I’m not exactly thrilled to bits with them.

It’s not good to get people’s hopes up like that, and then let them down, not this close to Christmas. They’re on my naughty list now, I tell you.

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