Picture this scenario. You come home to find an email from a stranger saying they’ve hacked your computer. They send you evidence proving this statement. Then they demand you follow their instructions or else they’ll expose your terrible secret. What would do in response? This is what Shut Up and Dance, the third episode in […]
Review: Black Mirror S3 E2 – Playtest
Warning: This review contains mild spoilers. Read on at your own risk. I’ve been waiting for this episode ever since the first season of Black Mirror was announced. I mean, how could an anthology TV series about the dangers of technology, written by Charlie Brooker, acclaimed writer, journalist and presenter whose career started out at […]
It ain’t over till it’s game over
As you start up a brand new game, you begin a journey into another world; a whole new dimension just waiting to be explored. You go through the usual rigmarole of finding out what your aims are, what the X button does, or what flimsy pretence has Nintendo concocted this time for yet another run-around […]
Achievements A-Plenty at the BAFTA Game Awards 2016
Thursday 7th April saw the creators of the very best video games from 2015 get together in London for the 12th annual BAFTA Game Awards. Popular comedian and gaming fan Dara O’Brian returned to host the ceremony yet again and brought his usual witty insight into the video gaming industry (most notably in this writer’s […]
A night at the BAFTAs
It’s that time of the year once again; awards season. With the Oscars just a fortnight down the road, many film fanatics look to the BAFTAs (that’s British Academy of Film and Television Awards, acronym fans!) as an indicator to who will win the coveted prizes in the film industry. There were few surprises as […]
Is Saint Nick bringing us a very merry Christmas?
A large-scale investigation by a leading UK tabloid has revealed that the festive holiday of Christmas is in fact an elaborate scam coordinated by a criminal mastermind. The discovery was made after a fat man dressed in a red coat with white fur trims, a large snowy beard and half-moon spectacles was caught in the […]
Deus Ex: Content Divided
Deus Ex is a name revered by veterans of the gaming industry. A role-playing game set in a dystopian future that also fused first-person shooter and stealth mechanics with a huge focus on player choice, meaning any objective could be completed in seemingly endless ways. Released in 2000, it was envisaged as the most realistic simulation […]
The Exe-Terminators: An interview with the Daleks – Part 2
You both graduated from the University of Exeter. Do you have any fond student memories? Nicholas Pegg: Oh, hundreds. For example, there was the time I first met Barnaby Edwards. I recall he was wearing very silly trousers at the time. But it was the 1980s, so you have to make allowances. Barnaby Edwards: […]
The Exe-terminators: An interview with the Daleks – Part 1
How did you get the job of becoming Daleks on Doctor Who? Barnaby Edwards: It goes way back into the mists of time. Well no, not quite, but we’ve been Dalek-ing for longer than you might think. It all started for us in 1993, when Doctor Who was marking its 30th anniversary. In fact, […]
Remembering John Nash
John Forbes Nash Jr was born on 13 June 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 for his pioneering work in game theory as well as the Abel Prize in 2015 for his work on non-linear partial differential equations. He became more widely known to the general […]