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Review: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pikapika Fantajin

What’s the difference between pop and J-pop? What makes Japanese pop music distinct enough to earn that mysterious prefix that so many insist on giving it? Do those distinctions still matter in an increasingly globalized music industry? Can anyone actually answer these rhetorical questions? Well, yes actually; J-pop superstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu can, and on […]

Review: Seconds

There is a moment in Seconds that will speak to just about everyone. Whether or not you get the social commentary or the cultural witticisms doesn’t matter. You’ll get this. It’s a moment that will elicit empathy in just about anyone who’s ever tried to do anything and amidst the insanity of everything around it, […]

Babymetal Are The Most Important Act in Music Right Now

and here’s why… The last decade has been a pretty interesting time for the music industry. First, the twin swords of piracy and Apple exposed just how draconian their business models actually were, and, as if that wasn’t enough, while every label in the world was struggling to adapt, this new format had blown open […]

Assassin’s Creed Rogue Officially Announced

We already knew that Assassin’s Creed Unity was coming for PS4 and Xbox One this October, but yesterday Ubisoft revealed the first official trailer for Assassin’s Creed Rogue, this year’s iteration of the hugely popular franchise for PS3 and Xbox 360. Rogue puts you in the bloodstained leather boots of Shay Cormac, an assassin-turned-templar now tasked with hunting his former […]

Assassin's Creed Rogue Officially Announced

We already knew that Assassin’s Creed Unity was coming for PS4 and Xbox One this October, but yesterday Ubisoft revealed the first official trailer for Assassin’s Creed Rogue, this year’s iteration of the hugely popular franchise for PS3 and Xbox 360. Rogue puts you in the bloodstained leather boots of Shay Cormac, an assassin-turned-templar now tasked with hunting his former […]

Bandai Namco @ The Jameson Distillery, Dublin

It’s not often you get invited to a video game event at a whiskey distillery, so when that opportunity presents itself, it’s not something you turn your nose up at. A little while ago, Bandai Namco were kind enough to host just such an event in just such a place and I can confirm that […]

High Score: The Legend of Zelda

E3 2014 has been and gone. The lights have dimmed, the smoke has cleared, and Yves Guillemot has, presumably, gone back to his full time job preventing Michel Ancel from making Beyond Good & Evil 2. But what about us? What do we, the humble consumers, do now? The only thing we can do; bask […]

E3 2014: The Will’s & Want’s of The Power 3

June 9th will see the return of the biggest event in the gamer calendar; the Electronic Entertainment Expo, a.k.a E3. As usual, we’ll be talking a lot about it here at The Arcade and to get the ball rolling, I thought I’d weigh in with my own high hopes and comparatively mediocre expectations for what […]

E3 2014: The Will's & Want's of The Power 3

June 9th will see the return of the biggest event in the gamer calendar; the Electronic Entertainment Expo, a.k.a E3. As usual, we’ll be talking a lot about it here at The Arcade and to get the ball rolling, I thought I’d weigh in with my own high hopes and comparatively mediocre expectations for what […]

High Score: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

I’m what they call an 80s baby. As in, I was born in the space of time between 1980 and 1990, 1988 to be exact, so I happen to have hopped on that particular bandwagon just before it left the station. Good thing too, we all know what train came next; the one with S […]
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