It may seem bold to claim that everybody likes musicals. I know people who say that they won’t go near one if a gun was pointed at their heads. Yet, I still think that these people, deep down, like musicals, in some capacity at least. Musicals are a special thing, linking the two mediums of…
Gaming
‘Bored’ games
Board games, as everyone has experienced, can be tiresome. Some of the classics can last multiple hours or even days in the case of a ferociously battled game of Monopoly. Even games such as Trivia Pursuit, which has the potential to end in around 20 minutes, can easily span an entire afternoon if no one…
Sport
Van Gerwen defeats Anderson 7-3 in PDC final
The PDC Darts World Championship is a great festive competition to get into. It takes place over the festive period, all the big matches are televised in the evening, and singing and drinking are highly encouraged inside the grand arena that is the Alexandra Palace. The darts is fun and loud and therefore allows you…
Gaming
Cards Against Humanity against the world
For anyone aged under 30, and even for some over, the genre of card games is coupled strongly with Cards Against Humanity. If you are in the first week of Freshers, Cards Against Humanity is half of your life, taking up the majority of every night and exposing your new friends for who they really…
Sport
England fall just short of victory over India
The England cricket team finished the first test match of the five match series against India with a draw. Now Alastair Cook and his team have gone out to India hoping they can repeat that overall result. The match started on overall result. The match started on Wednesday 9th November in Rajkot and was a…
Gaming, Venue
Overkill? No Such Thing
Not all games are created equal. There is no disputing that there are bad games. There are quite a lot of them in fact. It is of course a blurred line on what is ‘bad’, with some disputing over various games and where they fall on the good/bad line. Then there are the especially bad…
TV, Venue
Oldie but goldie: Batman turns 50
The 1966 TV series Batman celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this year, so now is the best time to return to the Batcave and relive the glory days. Batman is probably familiar to the younger generation through after school reruns, and is known for its dated style, poor fighting scenes, stunted dialogue and cheap costumes….
Arts, Venue
Review: Beauty and the Beast ballet
When people think of Beauty and the Beast their minds tend to drift to the recent incarnations of the Disney movie or the upcoming live action remake. I would like to put forward that people should also pay attention to the ballet version by David Nixon. The show, which is currently running at the Norwich…
Gaming, Venue
Disease meets gaming
Disease. It’s something none of us can avoid forever. Many of us are likely to meet our ends at the hands of it. They are a constant worry of society and are so ever-present in the news and daily lives. This in turn moves to disease seeping into a variety of games, in various ways….
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