Opinion: Why be a Muggle when you can be a Wizard, Harry?

October 17, 2014 Declan Doody

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Fandoms are a strange and sometimes frightening world to the wary outsider, and certainly they can seem quite hard to elbow your way into when you’re more than a little fashionably late in handing in your application. My own tardiness to Hogwarts came as a direct result of one of my oldest friends being so […]

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Opinion: Blackface And Cosplay! Is it Wrong?

October 15, 2014 Tendai Muzwidzwa

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While on Facebook earlier today a friend and fellow cosplayer shared a Buzzfeed post surrounding a bit of controversy around a 19 year old German cosplayer who did a cosplay but as part of the cosplay she chose to ‘BlackFace’. For those of you who do not know what ‘BlackFace’ is it is the act of painting […]

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Otaku Digest – Trinity Seven, Amagi Brilliant Park and Madan no Ou to Vanadis – Lord Marksmen and Vanadis

October 12, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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Welcome one and all to Otaku Digest – where I take the weird and the wonderful of the anime released each season, see what the deal is and whether it’s worth checking out! This week’s entries is Trinity Seven, Amagi Brilliant Park and Madan no Ou to Vanadis – Lord Marksmen and Vanadis. Trinity Seven […]

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Boss Rush: Resident Evil

October 8, 2014 Declan Doody

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Hypochondriacs you should probably step out (and I should probably stop writing because my skin is beginning to crawl)! When you think zombies and video games chances are you’re going to think of the Resident Evil series from Capcom. The company not only put their mark on the genre, they revolutionised it in 1996 with their […]

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Preview: Assassin’s Creed Unity

October 6, 2014 Seán Ó Cinnéide

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We’ve all heard about it and we all know it’s coming, but for some reason the AC franchise just didn’t seem to “grab” any of us as much this time around with Unity. Maybe it’s because that for all the talk surrounding Unity, we still haven’t got a lot of the details. Well let’s sort […]

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Preview: Assassin's Creed Unity

October 6, 2014 Seán Ó Cinnéide

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We’ve all heard about it and we all know it’s coming, but for some reason the AC franchise just didn’t seem to “grab” any of us as much this time around with Unity. Maybe it’s because that for all the talk surrounding Unity, we still haven’t got a lot of the details. Well let’s sort […]

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Opinion: Geek Culture is Dead! Long Live Geek Culture!

September 30, 2014 Declan Doody

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Geek; a person who has excessive enthusiasm for a specialized subject or activity I have always worn the geek badge with pride, I don’t think the definition above fits perfectly but it works, despite that niggly word ‘excessive’. I don’t know the exact moment I became one, I don’t know why I love what I […]

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The Doctor Conundrum – Who’s Who?

September 20, 2014 Ryan O' Connor

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Has there ever been a character with a backstory as tangled and impervious to navigation as the Doctor?  Thirteen official faces with numbers that don’t match, events that happen in the wrong order or may indeed never come to pass, alternate timelines, alternate timelines within those alternate timelines…it’s confusing, convoluted, and at times can get somewhat […]

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The Doctor Conundrum – Who's Who?

September 20, 2014 Ryan O' Connor

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Has there ever been a character with a backstory as tangled and impervious to navigation as the Doctor?  Thirteen official faces with numbers that don’t match, events that happen in the wrong order or may indeed never come to pass, alternate timelines, alternate timelines within those alternate timelines…it’s confusing, convoluted, and at times can get somewhat […]

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The Best There Is… No More?

September 19, 2014 ArcadeAdmin

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Most comic book fans like myself know that when it comes to deaths, most are seen as “he’ll be back in a few months, so why care” In this case, killing Wolverine may seem like a waste at this point seeing as how many other times he’s been killed only to return a few issues […]

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