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Path of Exile

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Toby Hills

There’s a really subtle hint of Aotearoa in Path of Exile. Certain characters, such as the playable hulking marauder, are adorned with koru-inspired patterns. Swamps are packed with bipedal bird-like, but monstrous, Rhoa, and donating to the free-to-play (at least when it gets released; it’ll be in Read more...

SSX

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Tom Pullan

After what feels like an age, SSX is back. 2012’s iteration brings the amazing snowboarding franchise into the real world, but retains all the madness that defines SSX. With 9 deadly descents – from the Whitehorn Mountain in the Rockies to New Zealand’s own runs down Tasman and Wakefield – Read more...

Boy bands: the new get-rich-quick scheme

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Lauren Wootton

I’m just looking for a good night/like baby, baby, baby, oh/that’s what makes you beautiful! One Direction, JBiebs, Reece Mastin … just a small sample of our daily bombardment of images of young(ish) boys telling us how amazing we are. Despite encouraging cradle-snatching in anyone over the Read more...

Ignorance

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Josef Alton

Ignorance is not just stupidity. Milan Kundera’s thoughtful examination of repatriation is qualified by his own experience as a Czech émigré living in France. His firsthand experience of what it is like to leave home and start over provides the novel with a problematic yet realistic interpretation Read more...

Franny and Zooey

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Josef Alton

Franny and Zooey is a book about the two youngest siblings of the Glass family. It’s separated into two distinct sections — the first being a short story called Franny, and the second being a novella entitled Zooey. The first part focuses on Franny and her boyfriend Lane when they meet up Read more...

Why We Write

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler

It’s not easy being a music critic. Score an album too low and you’re labeled a cynic; too high, you’re a naïve optimist. Take the easy road out by giving it a 6 or a 7, and you’re criticized for having no backbone. Then there’s always the case of trivializing artistic intent with pompous Read more...

Caramelised Onion Flatbread

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Ines Shennan

Bouncy flatbread adorned with a blanket of sticky, sweet red onions and rosemary? Yes please. Making bread from scratch is a simple pleasure that contrary to popular opinion is remarkably easy. You don’t need to possess a bread maker, nor do you need to slave away in the kitchen for hours with flour Read more...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

Directed by: Luke Agnew “Every time you play hangman a stick figure family loses a father.” For the final issue before out beloved mid-semester break I believe a change of pace is in order. This week I interviewed the cast of the latest Lunchtime Theatre at Allen Hall and attempted to Read more...

Binary Domain

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Toby Hills

If you asked someone who had never played a videogame to describe a one you would be provided with a fairly accurate breakdown of Binary Domain: A group of burly humans, who form a gleaming ethnic-rainbow, gun down robots that swarm about the player like schools of herring. It ain’t Read more...

The Hunger Games

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Ella Borrie

Director: Gary Ross The Hunger Games is the most recent piece of Young Adult lit to roll off the Hollywood production line. In a post-apocalyptic America, the indulgent Capitol rules over twelve districts. Tributes are picked from a lottery of citizens for the Capitol’s instrument of Read more...