What a year it has been. From moments of admirable heroism in the darkest of hours to outright calamity, for the most part, 2020 has been, in a word, unprecedented. We have found idols in the elderly and our NHS, and we despaired at the sound of a cough or a list of the dead.
Year: 2020
These practises have to stop. The season pass. It’s the latest trend in the gaming industry being used to make gaming more profitable and enjoyable for the community. Lauded as a worthy successor to the notorious loot boxes that were destroying much of what made playing enjoyable and reducing gaming to an RNG loot-based nightmare,
It’s time we cancel this toxic movement Defined by The Telegraph as ‘Most simply, to cancel someone is to reject them, to ignore, to publicly oppose their views or actions and to deprive them of time and attention – and, sometimes, their ability to make a living’, “cancel culture” has become one of the most pressing
Exploring the fantasy of the galaxy far, far away… This is perhaps one of the most contested issues in popular culture. Ever since Star Wars premiered in 1977 is has become synonymous with the Science-Fiction genre. Whenever a discussion or mention is made of Sci-Fi, Star Wars follows not long after, usually being proclaimed as
Microsoft are back with a bang. Since I received an original Xbox crystal edition with a copy of Halo: Combat Evolved for my birthday back in 2004 I have been in love with Microsoft’s consoles. So nothing is more pleasing than seeing Microsoft release its latest round of hardware onto an eager public. Since 2013,
An introspective look at why I chose to turn to the pen (or keyboard). Why do we write? It isn’t a question many authors ask themselves or choose to write about. While a select few do delve into their inner psyche and reflect on their addiction to writing, most avoid the question, too busy with
By Connor Long-Johnson I heard a woman and looked up, startled; she was running down the hallway screaming. I woke up groaning, the sound echoing around the room. I surveyed my surroundings, walls of lime green, a white tiled floor and various sterile instruments on the table to my right. I scratched at an itching
A retrospective of a titan in the Gothic genre When Bram Stoker began writing Dracula, I am sure that he could not have imagined in his wildest dreams the success it would go on to bare. One of the most circulated novels in the English Language – or any language, for that matter – Dracula
Proof that box-office earnings aren’t everything. Until 2019, Avatar was the highest-grossing movie of all time. Not by a slither but by a huge margin. I had hoped back in 2015 that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be the one to finally dethrone James Cameron’s film. Yet even the box-office juggernaut that is Star
A dive into the world of horror cinema This list will be similar to my previous list of top ten horror novels. In this article, I will dive into some of my absolute favourite movies in the horror genre and explain why I find them so bone-chilling. Like novels, horror cinema has a strong centre