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High Score: Flower

  Video games are changing. They’ve been changing for quite some time. Like all forms of artistic expression, this change is inevitable and necessary if the medium is to survive in an ever-changing cultural landscape. If every game ever made was about shooting things and saving girlfriends, which kind of was the case for an […]

Music Monday: 25/11/2013

It’s gloomy, it’s cold, it’s probably wet, and it’s definitely Monday BUT it’s also officially a month ’til Christmas, so it’s not all bad. Here are some tunes to help you shift those Monday blues while we wait for December to drop and we can finally sing Christmas songs without shame. Andy Kavanagh

High Score: K-On!

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 […]

Preview: Playstation 4

A gaming console is only as good as its games and launch titles NEVER represent the best of the machines they're designed to sell. This week I got to play a handful of PS4 games on an actual PS4. Some were impressive, some weren't and not for the reasons you might think.

Music Monday 18/11/2013

It’s Monday and you know what that means; yep, you’re either in work wishing you were at home or at home wishing you were in work. Either way take solace in the fact that no one is happy on Monday’s. Except maybe the international celebrities featuring in this piece, so let’s exploit their hard work […]

High Score: The Assassins Creed Series

Some of you may have noticed that there was no High Score column last week. As much as I’d like to blame it on my thriving career and hectic social life the truth is our review copy of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag was very late to arrive and, as I discussed in my review, […]

Review: Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag

It seems like every time I have to review an Assassins Creed game it gets more difficult to know where to begin. Each iteration brings with it more bells and whistles each of which come with demands for space in every critic's word count.

Andy’s Top 5 Games of Generation 7

I’ve never understood peoples’ aversion to the “mainstream”. Be it games, music, film, whatever, there will always be someone hovering over your proverbial shoulder ready and waiting to berate you for perpetuating some bourgeoisie boogeyman by giving your money to the “mainstream”. Look, stuff is just stuff and if you’re more concerned with its role […]

Andy's Top 5 Games of Generation 7

I’ve never understood peoples’ aversion to the “mainstream”. Be it games, music, film, whatever, there will always be someone hovering over your proverbial shoulder ready and waiting to berate you for perpetuating some bourgeoisie boogeyman by giving your money to the “mainstream”. Look, stuff is just stuff and if you’re more concerned with its role […]

Music Monday: 4/11/2013

Another miserable Monday, another mishmash of music to ease the pain. Andy Kavanagh
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