Game Design – Lucky Number Thirteen

This article can also be found on PixelxCore, here. Introduction It’s been quite a few years since Final Fantasy XIII was released. It was a big moment for Square Enix – their flagship series was entering the next generation of consoles; and …

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Have You Heard – StooShe and Bluey Robinson

This is a partial version of a feature found at The Yorker, here. StooShe are very much an amalgamation of pop culture from a very specific subculture. Their name derived from the slang term ‘stush’ meaning ‘an air of superiority’; and in …

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Skoonheid (Beauty)

This article can also be found at The Yorker, here.I’m all for more queer-themed films. Not just because I’m one of those filthy heathen LGBTQ types, but because there’s scope for more stories to be told than common blockbuster archetypes; or failing …

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Labrinth – Electronic Earth

This review can also be found at The Yorker, here. In terms of image, at least, I like Labrinth. he’s adorkable. His most salient single, ‘Earthquake’ is something that everyone’s going to remember, and Electronic Earth rides that out in a few ways; …

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Riding on Ribbons – Journey Review

With the current state of Video games retail, games enthusiasts have never been moree money concious – services like Steam have regular sales that set a precedent on what ‘the worth of a game’ is, and yet when new console games release …

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Games Retail: A Love Story

When I was 8, working in a games shop was my dream job. You could play all the newest games for free, and you could tell other people what the good games were! Finally people would listen to me when I said …

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Perusing Pinterest, and what it can do for you

This article can also be found at The Yorker, here. I don’t use Tumblr. I’m very old-school when it comes to blogging, and Tumblr’s image-heavy focus doesn’t gel well with me and my walls of prose. Hell, it took me long enough …

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Nero, Manchester Academy 1, 16/03

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. As someone who’s always gets on edge when surrounded by strangers in a small space, going to a dubstep concert with a moshpit seemed like a ridiculous step up from the awful clubs …

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Film Review: Les Adoptés (The Adopted)

©Studio Canal My media consumption is largely starved of quality Human Drama – partially because I’m a fan of psychological/horror, partially because a lot of my media consumption is in video games, and they tend not to handle emotional narrative too well. …

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Author in Profile: Jasper Fforde

You can find this feature at The Yorker, here. With a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy works, there’s a heavy emphasis on world-building in lieu of character development. Call it an artefact of Tolkien’s impact on the genres, but in many …

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Ugly on the inside: Girl Model review

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. I would say it’s relatively common knowledge that the fashion advertising industry is toxic. In addition to all the body-shaming and the increasingly unrealistic and creepy ‘standards’ of beauty, you don’t even need …

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Empirical – Elements of Truth

This review can be found at The Yorker, here. ©Empirical; Image Credit: Empirical Jazz can be a hard genre to get into if you’ve not grown up with listening to it. Smooth Jazz and Big Band are already somewhat niche interests, but …

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