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Across The Water: How Asia's Action Elite Fare In Hollywood

November 25, 2013 Liam Kavanagh

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The currently-filming Fast & Furious 7 is set to showcase the Hollywood debut of Thailand’s premier punch-thrower Tony Jaa, the latest in a long line of successful martial arts actors from the vibrant Asian film industry with designs on cracking the US - and global - action market.

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3 Chiptune Acts You Should Be Listening To

November 23, 2013 Ross Brennan

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Chiptune as a genre is growing in popularity, with artists like I Fight Dragons having songs featured on WWE, Anamanaguchi crowdfunding nearly $280,000 on Kickstarter, and many modern electronic artists incorporating the signature bleeps and bloops of Gameboy Classics and Commodore 64s into their tracks. Hell, even ArcadeCon itself had the fantastic Chipzel as a […]

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Anime/Cartoons

High Score: K-On!

November 22, 2013 Andy Kavanagh

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Okay so this week for High Score I’m going to cheat a little bit. K-On!, for those poor folk among you who aren’t aware, is an anime about a high school rock band named Houkago Tea Time. It has a pretty typical anime score; there are some lovely melancholic numbers and some annoyingly chirpy background […]

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Games

Retro Review: Shadow Hearts

November 21, 2013 ArcadeAdmin

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 I think after playing through this game, I completely understand the concept of a love/hate relationship because no matter how much hate I feel for the game, I still worked up 30+ hours on the game and despite its bad parts and it has some AWFUL parts, it makes the good moments that bit more […]

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Ross' Top 5 Games of Generation 7

November 18, 2013 Ross Brennan

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Summarising the entire 7th console generation is…rather hard, frankly. The highs were awesome and the lows hit depths the likes of which we haven’t seen since the great crash of ’83. Games are becoming more expensive to develop as publishers mistakenly believe graphical power and spectacle are what sell games, leading to more copies needing […]

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Ross’ Top 5 Games of Generation 7

November 18, 2013 Ross Brennan

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Summarising the entire 7th console generation is…rather hard, frankly. The highs were awesome and the lows hit depths the likes of which we haven’t seen since the great crash of ’83. Games are becoming more expensive to develop as publishers mistakenly believe graphical power and spectacle are what sell games, leading to more copies needing […]

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Review: AFI – Burials

November 18, 2013 Ross Brennan

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When a band starts their career with albums containing songs titled “Cereal Wars”, “Shatty Fatmas” and “I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But My Mom Won’t Let Me Get One)” and progresses to having song titles such as “Girl’s Not Grey”, “Days of the Phoenix”, “Kill Caustic” and “Carcinogen Crush”, you know the band’s undergone some […]

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Anthony's Top 5 Games of Generation 7

November 17, 2013 Anthony McGlynn

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  So, here it is. Like all generations of gaming before it, Generation 7, the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, is officially coming to and en with the birth of Generation 8. I feel like it’s been a good 8 years for gaming. There have been some incredible steps forward in the genre […]

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Anthony’s Top 5 Games of Generation 7

November 17, 2013 Anthony McGlynn

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  So, here it is. Like all generations of gaming before it, Generation 7, the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, is officially coming to and en with the birth of Generation 8. I feel like it’s been a good 8 years for gaming. There have been some incredible steps forward in the genre […]

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Review: The Selfish Giant

November 17, 2013 Declan Doody

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A cursory look at the trailer for Clio Barnrd’s latest film The Selfish Giant would not suggest a movie going experience that bespeaks geek culture, that subject that is the cornerstone of this very website.  Yet to make such a judgement would, I posit, be premature at the very.  The film follows the lives of […]

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