Joe’s top 10 songs of the year – 2017 edition
2017 WAS AN odd year in music. A lot of good stuff came out but I found it exceedingly difficult to really summon much enthusiasm for most of it. Very few songs and albums...
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Breaking Down the Backlog: Bayonetta 2
In this week’s Breaking Down The Backlog…I have no idea what I did, but it was awesome. I didn’t think Bayonetta could be topped. Its combat was so tight and the entire presentation so...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XI (PC)
A NOTE before we begin: FFXI is an MMORPG and thus impossible to truly complete. All I can offer is a write-up of my own experience, as comparatively brief as it ended up being....
SCM Music’s Albums of 2017: Honourable Mentions
AS WE APPROACH the end of 2017, it’s important to reflect that, while the world might be falling into chaos, at least we had some good tunes to listen too. Wrapping up this years...
Film Torments: Anonymous (2011)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at an insulting fabrication of history. Full disclosure: I studied English Literature at university – I know, the shame – which involved a considerable deal of William Shakespeare....
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy X-2 (PlayStation 2)
SPOILERS ahead. It’s showtime, girls. Final Fantasy X-2 is not an aberration. Since it’s no longer the only direct sequel to a Final Fantasy game, it cannot be classed as such. But let’s not...
Games as a Service – the death knell of Single Player games?
‘GAMES as a Service’ is, essentially, the idea for a game that is constantly updated with new content, patches, loot-boxes and other things post-release in order to keep people buying things for the game....
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy X (PlayStation 2)
SPOILERS ahead. Y2K. The Millennium Dome. A crushing sense of existential dread. The war on terror. The sweeping, all-consuming tsunami of the internet. This, among others, was the advent of the year 2000, one...
Film Torments: Sex and the City 2 (2010)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a facile mess. The original Sex and the City television series, from the scant few episodes I caught on Bravo past midnight as a teenager, was an occasionally...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Mark of the Ninja
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog; I ran up walls, brutally murdered countless guards and broke hundreds of light-bulbs. Klei are one hell of a developer. Mark of the Ninja, in my mental...
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