Your Game Of Thrones Video Is Clickbait

Your Game Of Thrones Video Is Clickbait

Criticised as the worst, most diabolical creation known to man, Game of Thrones Season 8 has had a massive amount of videos uploaded on the topic to YouTube and had articles written detailing every one of the ten million things wrong with it...but where do we draw the line with these critiques of Game of Thrones and say, you know what, I'm sick of this clickbait garbage?!

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Anti Video Game Rhetoric on ITV's Good Morning Britain

Anti Video Game Rhetoric on ITV's Good Morning Britain

Mainstream media is having a field day with the sudden popularity of online battle royale shooter Fortnite. Once again the debate over video game violence, addiction & its effects on children & their brains are being misconstrued by the BBC & ITV. Here we take a look at Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan.  

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Jamie Dunlap | South Park | Interview with the Composer

Jamie Dunlap | South Park | Interview with the Composer

I interviewed Jamie Dunlap who has been composing music for the South Park TV show since 2000. He also composed the soundtrack to the Ubisoft/Obsidian South Park video games The Stick of Truth & The Fractured but Whole. We chat about his workflow on the show, his influences for the video games & a bit about his other work too.

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The Star Wars: Rogue One Debate | Reel Talk

The Star Wars: Rogue One Debate | Reel Talk

Join us as we tackle the most important question of 2016 and possibly all time: "Is Rogue One: A Star wars Story the most over/under-rated film of all time?" ...Nah, not really, but we do talk about Rogue One and it's various pros and cons. This time we have a two way split between Arron & Ben who are on opposite sides of the spectrum, with Jake mediating the discussion.

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What Can Ride Along 2 Tell Us About the Games Industry

What Can Ride Along 2 Tell Us About the Games Industry

I know, I know. Another article about sexism, I'm as tired of it as you are but having just seen Ride Along 2 I was struck by a wave of inspiration. I found it surprisingly relevant to many recent events in the video game industry regarding censorship and representation. It got me thinking just to what extent Video Games are scapegoated and vilified as the cultural representative of "offensive" violence and sexism, while the film and music industries can do whatever the hel they want with not even a squeak of protest from the majority of people.

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Sense8 | Season 1 | Review

Sense8 | Season 1 | Review

Do you know who wrote & directed The Matrix? For some reason, I didn't until just now when I looked up the Wachowskis and saw it in their filmography. I had been watching the first season of the Netflix science fiction drama series Sense8 and was wondering who these brilliant people were (writing & directing alongside J. Michael Straczynski) and why I'd never heard of them before. It makes sense now because while The Matrix was an ambitious, unique movie, ahead of its time, the ambitiousness of Sense8 as a series causes me to question how Netflix even considered it.

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The Gamechangers | BBC Drama | Review

The Gamechangers | BBC Drama | Review

We watch and give our thoughts in this Retro Perspective Review of The Gamechangers. A BBC documentary drama film made for TV. Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Sam Houser, creator of Grand Theft Auto, & Bill Paxton as Jack Thompson. The film takes place while Rockstar was creating Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas & Thompson was trying to sue them for "poisoning children's minds."

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