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Book Club Review: The Periodic Table

June 7, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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As Primo Levi‘s most famous work If This Is a Man (published in the US under the title Survival in Auschwitz) provided a vision of internment by the Third Reich, it is unsurprising that the text is often described by way of superlatives. Yet, it is The Periodic Table that Saul Bellow described as, “A book it is necessary to read” […]

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Style Saturday: Ink and Ice

June 6, 2015 Declan Doody

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This week, I’ve been mostly playing Splatoon and Heroes of the Storm and by that I mean every spare moment I have. Sacrificing sleep, cutting time out of my daily routine, (Coco Pops are just as good for dinner as they are lunch and breakfast) so I can literally spend every chance I have either making the world around […]

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Games

Replay: Primal

June 5, 2015 Emma Grimes

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Oh, this takes me back to my younger years. Those were the days; when the biggest problems in my life revolved around balancing school work with the stuff that I actually enjoyed. Maths or Final Fantasy X? History or Primal? I was always good at history so, naturally, through sheer delusion and pride, Primal always won […]

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Opinion

Jurrassic Park To World: Longing For Practicality

June 5, 2015 Danny Kelly

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Welcome to Jurassic World, the park is now open! 20 years later and thankfully we still do not have the rumoured script revolving around genetically modified human/raptor commandos. That being said, I’d like to exposit that not all is rosy in a world of dinosaurs that chomp down on tourists. It is a rarity in […]

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Featured

Boss Rush: The LeBlanc Syndicate (Final Fantasy X-2)

June 3, 2015 Laura Kelly

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Hello, loves! Back in April, you may have read our piece on the affectionately named Seymour “Please die now!” Guado, a man whose arrogance is matched only by his persistence! But I think we forgot that Seymour is by no means the only obnoxious narcissist in Spira, with a seemingly unlimited number of Phoenix Downs. […]

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YesFlix/NoFlix: Blue Mountain State Or Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

June 2, 2015 Diarmuid O'Neill

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Comedy is a tricky genre to pin down for what makes a good show and what doesn’t. There are people out there who don’t like Parks and Recreation (crazy, right?) and there are others who have stayed with Two and Half Men for however many seasons that show got. This week’s Yesflix/Noflix takes a look […]

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We Don’t Need Another It Adaptation, We Need Another ‘It’

May 29, 2015 Anthony McGlynn

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It’s neither surprising nor a tragedy that the Poltergeist remake has slightly under-performed at the box office. A horror movie coming out in May against a selection of the most anticipated films of the year just isn’t good business to begin with, and it being a dreaded remake of a film that simply doesn’t need […]

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We Don't Need Another It Adaptation, We Need Another 'It'

May 29, 2015 Anthony McGlynn

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It’s neither surprising nor a tragedy that the Poltergeist remake has slightly under-performed at the box office. A horror movie coming out in May against a selection of the most anticipated films of the year just isn’t good business to begin with, and it being a dreaded remake of a film that simply doesn’t need […]

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Anime/Cartoons

MCM London Comic Con 2015 Recap

May 29, 2015 Mary McFadden

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An impromptu Star-Lord dance battle during a panel, random freebie giveaways, a life size Chewbacca and a giant Batmobile are among the highlights of another fantastic weekend at MCM London Comic Con. With 122,000 people rushing to the ExCeL centre over the course of the weekend, the number of people speaks volumes. The event has broken its own […]

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Twitter Honours #HomeToVote Hashtag

May 29, 2015 Seán Ó Cinnéide

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Only a week on from #HomeToVote and the Twitter gods are so pleased with the trending hashtag that they’re putting it on a wall in their head offices at Twitter HQ. We here at The Arcade didn’t even know Twitter did things like this, but apparently Ireland isn’t the first to have this honour bestowed! Some […]

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