A Final Fantasy Retrospective: The Prelude
My relationship with Final Fantasy is a strained, distressing and complicated one. For a series with a title of such finality to have lasted 30 years is a morbid joke in itself, but its...
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Predicting the BRIT Awards 2017
MUCH LIKE the colour beige, The BRIT Awards are a mind numbing, boring necessity in the world that it’s always best to not take too seriously. As most of you will be well aware...
Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special is exactly what you’d expect. Probably
SO LET’S ACKNOWLEDGE the elephant in the article: It was Valentine’s Day yesterday. But really, what could be more TV section than to release this a day late. Still, let’s pretend that you’re reading...
Album released this week in… 2008: Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
HAPPY Valentine’s day readers; the season of love is upon us, and what better way to celebrate all these wonderful emotions by reflecting one when love turns sour. There are plenty of albums out...
Nintendo announce The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Season Pass
Earlier today Nintendo announced that they will be releasing downloadable content to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in the form of a season pass priced at £17.99. This is noteworthy because this...
Film Torments: Old Fashioned (2015)
THIS WEEK on Torments, Sierra takes a look at a winkingly-marketed chaste-sploitation flick in time for the release of Fifty Shades Darker. Oh boy. In February 2015, two ‘romantic’ films were released starring women...
The NBA and 2K Games are forming a basketball e-sports league
Today ESPN reported that the NBA, yes that NBA, and 2K Games (the publishers of the NBA 2K games and something called Grand Theft Auto) announced a partnership to form an e-sports league based on...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Mass Effect 3
In this week’s Breaking Down the Galaxy, I say goodbye to my comrades as I save the galaxy from ancient genocidal robots. This may very well be the most difficult BDTB I’ve had to...
The Good Place: a comedy worth dying for.
NO ONE KNOWS what happens next. If we could, well it would change everything. Let’s be honest though, it would ruin the fun if we did know. It certainly would make writers’ jobs less...
Critical Role: One of the best things on The Internet
One day I stayed up later than I should have watching competitive DOTA 2 on Twitch and, as I was waiting for a match to start, I saw that Dungeons and Dragons was one of the...
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