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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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Catwoman (2004) – Screen Savers

April 9, 2016 Ciaran Nolan

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With the recent release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and its less then stellar reception, I thought I would dig back into the Batman universe and see how truly filthy I could get. No, not the Tim Burton films, not even Batman And Robin (though I do love that film). No friends, today […]

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Games

Opinion: Square Enix, You Gotta Stop Undermining Your Own Games

April 4, 2016 David Savage

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I have a bone to pick with Square Enix, and it’s that they seem intent on ruining their games. What brought this piece on is Hitman, but it’s not the only offending title. Just Cause 3 suffered terribly from having forced online menus and systems that did nothing to really add to the experience but […]

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Guitar Hero Live And Sacrifice – Backlog Blues

March 31, 2016 Eoin Farrell

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We’re back with another instalment of Backlog Blues, and this time it will be different. No, really it will. I promise it won’t be like last time. I swear I finished Of Orcs and Men, honest. Arkhail got all angry and totally killed the king. Or was it an emperor? Okay look, certain obligations like […]

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How Batman V Superman Fails Its Heroes

March 31, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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[Warning: Full Spoilers For Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, The Dark Knight Returns And The Death Of Superman] There’s no 100% right way to interpret an existing comic book character. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice acknowledges this, like predecessor Man of Steel, by being largely its own establishing shot of some of DC’s […]

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen – Screen Savers

March 26, 2016 Ciaran Nolan

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Last time on Screen Savers I talked about a little known reboot of a toy series from Hasbro that released in the summer of 2007 and made fans world wide cringe in unison. No, not Bratz (though I should get around to talking about that monstrosity one of these days). I am of course talking […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Cagayake!GIRLS (K-On! Houkago Live!!) – Boss Rush

March 16, 2016 Andy Kavanagh

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Rhythm action games might seem like a thing of the past to those of us in the western world, but that’s certainly not the case in Asia. Where you won’t find as many plastic guitars gathering dust in the closets of many Japanese gamers, you will find that, for example, the PSP is still a […]

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Mirror’s Edge – RePlay

March 4, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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Some games will always be underrated. Some will never quite get the recognition they deserve. Mirror’s Edge is one of those games. Despite a sequel coming later this year, the first Mirror’s Edge and its relative cult status within video games isn’t likely to change. Too much has come and gone since its 2008 release […]

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‘Blood Red’ – Slayer – Track of the Day

March 4, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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It’s a cold, snowy day here in Ireland this morning. What better way to warm up than with some classic thrash metal? Our track of the day today is the masters, Slayer, with ‘Blood Red’, from Seasons In The Abyss! Despite following the blistering ‘War Ensemble’, ‘Blood Red’ is a little more mid-paced, a little […]

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