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Everybody Wants Some!! Review – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love

May 17, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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There are fewer film-makers as good as Richard Linklater for creating a connection between the audience and a set of characters onscreen. The director has practically made it his career’s work to manifest nostalgia and human connection into tangible story-telling, his films each about very little other than the simple, poignant melodrama that surrounds people […]

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Game Of Thrones S6 Ep4 ‘Book Of The Stranger’ Review

May 17, 2016 ArcadeAdmin

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‘Book of the Stranger’ may contain two of the most satisfying moments in Game of Thrones to date, but like a massage parlour with a happy ending, it starts with great promise, gets a bit mundane in the middle and finishes with a bang. We start our episode at The Wall where, surprisingly, Sansa actually […]

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Culture

Ew Tube – The Golden Age Of TV Commercials

May 17, 2016 Dave McEvoy

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In case you haven’t noticed, I mainly use the wonderful invention of YouTube to do something everyone else in the world hates: watch ads. This week I decided to share some of my favourite American commercials from the 1950s, a fantastic era for television. I could have picked the most dated, sexist and racist examples […]

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Games

System Shock Remastered Comes To Kickstarter

May 17, 2016 Ciaran Nolan

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Fans of the cult classic System Shock franchise will be happy to hear that System Shock Remastered is being funded through Kickstarter. Developers Night Dive Studios announced the funding project on their Facebook, which will launch on June 29. As a franchise, many people remember System Shock 2 a lot more fondly than the original, which has […]

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Kpop Weekly Recommendations : B.A.P Special

May 16, 2016 KpopIreland

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In honour of B.A.P‘s Live on Earth Tour being held in 6 European countries this May, we decided to dedicate this week’s Kpop recommendations to them. B.A.P came on to the Kpop scene in 2012 and blew us all away with their debut song ‘Warrior’. They already had a fan base prior to this as they […]

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Press Start: The Evolution of Gaming as a Consumer

May 16, 2016 Laura Kelly

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When I introduced my friend to the wonders of gaming a few months ago with the most recent Tomb Raider game, I think I failed to explain exactly what she was getting into. You see, it wasn’t just a simple case of buying the game and liking the game, she had bought into a franchise […]

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Games

Press Start: On MOBA toxicity

May 16, 2016 Laura Kelly

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I’ve spoken a lot about how toxic the online gaming community can be in past articles. Since the dawn of online gaming, players have been known to show their inner arseholery in the name of competitive spirit. This isn’t so much an observation as it is established fact. However, in recent years things have been […]

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Vin Diesel Sued By Former Associate Over xXx

May 16, 2016 Ian Lynam

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Despite his work on Fast and the Furious 8, Vin Diesel is still pursuing an even more eagerly anticipated project, namely his follow up to 2002 thriller xXx.  Unfortunately,  George Zakk, a former producer who worked in Diesel’s One Race Films company, is pursuing legal action against the actor. Although he is no longer working for the company, Zakk argues the film was […]

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Consoles

Smite Review – Make Room For God!

May 16, 2016 Declan Doody

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MOBAs and me don’t usually mix! I rage quit League of Legends! I dabbled and dropped DoTA2 and my interest in Heroes of the Storm just didn’t spark! With little else to play this weekend and Hi-Rez Studios offering a free chance to play their divinely inspired MOBA Smite, I spent my time in the company of […]

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Books

The Broken Empire Trilogy By Mark Lawrence: Books

May 16, 2016 ArcadeAdmin

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Next month sees the release of The Wheel of Osheim, the final book in the Red Queen’s War trilogy by Mark Lawrence. To celebrate this, I’m taking a look back at Lawrence’s original trilogy: The Broken Empire. The Broken Empire is a story told from the perspective of Jorg Ancrath, a sadistic young man with […]

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