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Games

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Closed Beta Impressions

April 29, 2016 Laura Kelly

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I’m a big fan of Mirror’s Edge. I remember playing through the first one almost non-stop, and I was thrilled to get the chance to try out the alpha when we went to EGX last year. So when I got the email that I’d been chosen for the closed beta of Catalyst, you can imagine the […]

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Anime

Anime Made Me Realise I Needed Help

April 25, 2016 Declan Doody

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You may or may not have noticed my absence on the site recently. I walked away from it nearly two months ago. I told myself and my team that it was because I had a lot on my plate. Work was/is pretty hectic, my personal life was/is in need of serious maintenance and to cap it all off […]

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Books

H.G. Wells – Nerd Icon

April 24, 2016 Ian Lynam

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You’ll forgive, I hope, the ramblings of a recently completed English Lit student as he goes a little old school. Hebert George Wells, known by his preferred writing name H.G. Wells is a figure that has immeasurably impacted the world of literature, not least of all in the world of Science Fiction. While I hesitate to call […]

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Featured

Zulf – Boss Rush

April 20, 2016 Eoin Farrell

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Spoiler Warning for Bastion  It’s hard for me to nail down what exactly counts as a boss character in Supergiant’s Bastion. Creatures like the Anklegator showed their boss form in Queen Anne and the Gasfellas had their Foreman, but they’ll always just be another feather in the cap of enemies you face in the wake […]

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Replay: Fallout 3

April 15, 2016 Alice

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I thought this would be a good game to talk about given the recent release of Fallout 4. I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and have completed several play-throughs over the years. It was my go-to post apocalypse game for a long time and I’ve played it more than any other. Of course, there’s also New Vegas, […]

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The Winx Club: Forgotten Childhood

April 14, 2016 Laura Kelly

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This week on Forgotten Childhood I had intended to do one of my all-time favourite cartoons, The Animaniacs, upon hearing the tremendous news that it had been made available on Netflix. However, it’s not on Irish Netflix and we here at the Arcade do not condone IP switching.  In fact, we’ve never even heard of […]

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Shadows Of The Damned – Boss Rush

April 13, 2016 David Savage

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Shadows of the Damned has eight bosses over the course of the game and I’m going to talk about two of them in particular. I have to warn you now, though; for anyone who hasn’t heard of or played Shadows of the Damned, the game is messed up. All the stories of the bosses and […]

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Movies

Opinion: Rogue One – A Sexist Outrage Story

April 13, 2016 Tendai Muzwidzwa

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A few days have passed since the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer was released. Seeing it was wonderful and exciting but while we were all celebrating, one thing definitely stood out. Like The Force Awakens before it, the main character was female… which was great, but that meant there was to be another […]

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Culture

The Goblin King – Making It Up

April 12, 2016 Fernanda Machado

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Welcome, welcome, to a new segment here on The Arcade. Hopefully you are used to our regular format of Style Saturday when it comes to makeup, but I wanted to dive even deeper into the world of painting faces. I’ll be taking iconic looks from our favourite movies, series, comics and games, and talking about what […]

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History Of Hardcore – Music Monday

April 11, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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Sometimes one needs a dose of anger and frustration in audio form. The angst-ridden slip-and-slide of maintaining one’s responsibilities as an adult (or younger) is littered with financial hardship, poor life choices and the inescapable reality that, no, that book depository wishlist is never getting any shorter and you’ll never have read quite as much […]

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