Joe’s Best Songs of 2018
IN MY opinion, 2018 has been the one of the best years for music in a good while. Perhaps last year’s crop of albums were a little stronger, shout out to Scum Fuck Flower...
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SCM Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2018
THERE is no point in one occasional music editor telling you how tumultuous of a year 2018 was. But if you take away the increased risks of climate change, the useless politicians, rising rates...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XIV (PlayStation 4)
A NOTE: Final Fantasy XIV Online, in its original form, no longer exists. Several projects – presumably run by masochists – are attempting to create a legacy server, but none are strictly viable. Given...
SCM Music’s Album Picks: July to September – Paraffin, Joy and Sweeteners
WOW, HAVE we really got to that time of year again? Yes, it’s the final act of our quarterly round-ups before we hit the big of year list come December! Hold on to your...
Breaking Down The Backlog: Tokyo Jungle
IN this week’s Breaking Down The Backlog, I killed, ate and screwed my way up the food chain. I love a good rogue-like. The challenge of the genre really appeals to me, even...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Drakengard 3
IN this week’s Breaking Down… I spent a fortnight on one boss battle and almost punched my television. I decided to cap off my own trilogy with perhaps the oddest game I have...
Film Torments: Tango & Cash (1989)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a slab of glorious madness. As evinced by the likes of Cannon Films, the 1980s was a watershed for schlocky nonsense action flicks, the kind that worshipped...
SCM Music’s Album Picks: April to June – Dinosaurs, Beach Houses and Parquet Courts
WELCOME back! We’ve had a pretty crazy quarter, so much new (and great) material has appeared, this segment of Album Picks has easily been the most difficult one so far. So much so that...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XIII-3: Lightning Returns (PlayStation 3)
A NOTE: Seriously, they should have called it Final Fantasy XIII-3. But, hey, spoilers ahead. In 2013, burdened with a crippling deficit from the catastrophic launch of FFXIV, alongside “disappointing” Western ventures like Sleeping Dogs and Tomb...
Breaking Down The Backlog: God of War 3
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog… I killed everyone. It left me empty and disgusted. There are few moments in my life where I have been ashamed to show what I am playing/watching to...
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