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‘Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked’ – Cage The Elephant – Track of the Day

July 19, 2016 Wayne Talbot

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Time to Catch a Ride! and turn the volume up. There are so many awesome things about all of the Borderlands games. Very close to the top of this list for me is the Kick-Ass tunes that inhabit the soundtracks. I’m going right back to the very first instalment of the series for today’s Track of […]

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Breaking Up With Breaking Bad – Opinion

July 18, 2016 NickF

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I need to re-watch Breaking Bad. Not to annoy anyone on a fine Monday, but were we all a bit taken in? Do you ever walk around thinking “I must watch that again?” I don’t. It’s been a while, and looking back, Breaking Bad doesn’t seem as crazily amazing as it did on the first […]

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Books

Team Ireland Heading For Frankfurt Quidditch World Cup

July 17, 2016 Niamh Ennis

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With only a week to go to the Quidditch World Cup in Frankfurt Germany, The Arcade is getting behind Team Ireland. The team, made up of twenty one players of Irish descent from both Ireland and the UK, has been drawn into pool 2 for the first round, joined by teams from Belgium, Australia and Slovakia. This is Ireland’s […]

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Preacher S1EP7 ‘He Gone’ Review

July 17, 2016 Abel G.C.

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Oh dear… I’m more stumped with each episode of Preacher that goes by. This episode was confusing, but we got some explanations about things from the past and a glimpse of things to come. And it looks like the endgame will be quite messy. “Till the end of the world.” We’ve had several episodes without […]

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Hedy Lamarr – Nerd Icon

July 17, 2016 Marcus Deehan

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Alrighty, so, something that really rustles my jimmies, and it’s something that I’ve been seeing more and more of in recent years, is when people are excluded from a group or subculture because of some part of who they are. It’s an issue that’s become glaringly obvious in most nerd subcultures. This is probably because they’ve […]

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‘The Bright Side Of Life’ – Monty Python – Track Of The Day

July 17, 2016 Marcus Deehan

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Today on The Arcade we’ll be talking about the stuff that makes us want to rant and rave and swear and curse. So, here’s a little track from Eric Idle and the Monty Python crew to remind you all that the world is still okay, even though there’re things that’ll piss you right off. I mean, […]

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Culture

Rosie The Riveter – Style Saturday

July 16, 2016 Mary McFadden

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Today’s theme on The Arcade is GIRL POWER and what better icon to represent girl power than Rosie the Riveter? The ‘We Can Do It!’ poster and the cultural icon Rosie the Riveter (representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II) were combined to form what we today see as […]

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5 Most Badass Female Screen Characters

July 16, 2016 Tendai Muzwidzwa

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Nerd Culture has become a lot bigger in recent years, and most of this can be attributed to the popularity of the superhero movies that have dominated the silver screen. Nerd culture is more than just superheroes, however; it includes games, anime, TV shows, books and comics. With great content comes great responsibility, and this responsibility […]

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Comics

Power Rangers Pink, Civil War II – Comicphiles

July 15, 2016 Adam Lacey

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Hey guys, and welcome to this week’s Comicphiles, where we provided some top-notch insight into those debut issues you should be reading, or avoiding. This week we’ve got a mix of comics: Civil War II: Choosing Sides #1, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink #1 and Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic #1.   Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink […]

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Ghost World – Rewind

July 15, 2016 Carrie Moon

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Ghost World, one of the most unique modern classics out there, turns 15 this year! Director Terry Zwigoff co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Clowes, adapted from Clowes graphic novel of the same name. Both of them were extremely invested in keeping Ghost World as close to the comic as possible. The story follows Enid Coleslaw (Thora Birch) and Rebecca ‘Becky’ […]

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