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Blue Oyster

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

Blue Oyster is the hipster gallery of the Dunedin art scene. Bound to provide you with an interesting glimpse into local contemporary art, it has until now been somewhat of a hidden gem, tucked down an alleyway on Moray Place. However, it recently underwent a transformation, and on 30 August hosted Read more...

Wiki of the Week

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Raquel Moss

In researching this piece I came across a wiki as deliciously pitiful as Conservapedia, if not more so. The Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org) is why GCSB watch-lists may be justified after all (just kidding, they aren’t). This careful, meticulous cataloguing of weapons of personal Read more...

You Wouldn’t Download a Gun … At Least, You Shouldn’t

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Callum Valentine

In May this year, gaming giant Electronic Arts announced it would no longer be using officially licensed firearms in its video games. The move was a backpedal in reaction to an extremely poorly thought-out charity campaign launched as part of the stupidly-named Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The Read more...

Lustmord - The Word As Power

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 Dark ambient is a genre drenched in imagery of the ancient, the gothic and the biblical. Its blacker-than-black noises are derived from the vaults of industrial music, stretched into barren wastes and yawning abysses of sound. Often dark ambient songs are long and slow, crushing Read more...

Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 My, hasn’t Trent Reznor been busy? Between side projects, scoring films, raising sons and insulting fans over Twitter, the 48-year-old prince of industrial has somehow found the time to make another Nine Inch Nails album. I’ll admit to feeling ambivalent when Hesitation Read more...

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 6.5/10 As far as original premises go, alien invasions are hardly groundbreaking. Sometimes, though, all you need is a fresh take to make something common feel original. In the eyes of many, this is what the game 1994 UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as XCOM: Enemy Unknown) Read more...

Rayman Legends

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 9.5/10 The gaming industry is currently fascinated with creating new and innovative new ways to play games. Don’t get me wrong – I am very excited about the discoveries being made, but such an attitude tends to imply that we have fully utilised the mechanics we currently have. Rayman Read more...

Sticky Date Muffins

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

I really don’t have much to say about these, except a) they are so freaking good, and b) you’d be a fool, A FOOL I TELL YOU, not to whip some up on a lazy Sunday and revel in their (and your) greatness. (Also you feel less like a fatty eating a muffin than scoffing down a bowl full of the pudding Read more...

Existenz

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

It’s always fun to watch films made in the 80s or 90s and see how they thought the world would be by now. Disappointingly, we still don’t have hover cars or pill-based nutrition. What we are getting closer to achieving, however, is virtual reality. Sure, virtual reality the way these films portray Read more...

Kick Ass 2

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Tamarah Scott

Rating: 3/5 Being a big fan of the original Kick-Ass film, I was prepared to be let down by the sequel. In particular, I was dubious as to whether the new director, Jeff Wadlow, would manage to reproduce certain aspects of the original film, such as the stylistic violence sequences and the Read more...