I’ll let you into a secret. I enjoy watching the first Tomb Raider film. Yes, the one with Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig which involves the Illuminati, an archaic talisman and is really into planet rotations. That said, I dare anyone to watch that film and claim that they didn’t...
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Matilda Smith explains the problems and shortcomings of the silent protagonist troupe in the first of our "Prove It" series
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To the shock, and rightly so, horror of the gaming community, a recent change to the tools and filters on Steam has paved the way for uncensored video games to appear on the Steam website. Men shield your women’s eyes. Women hold tightly to your children. Children look into your...
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In but a matter of days the final season of Telltale’s Walking Dead will commence. A series that has been with us since 2012, that’s eight years ago, will begin to travel down its final road. There will be other Telltale series to give us our shell-shaded fix, but I...
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having a range of video games in your repertoire. By all means go for the punishing stuff, the massive RPGs, and the crafty puzzle games, but sometimes you just want to settle down with something chilled and relaxing. The sort of game that doesn’t want...
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Rape culture is often something difficult to pinpoint. As well as a host of other terms; institutionalised misogyny, ingrained sexism, sexual objectification, it’s often subtle and insidious. For men especially, it is difficult to conceptualise something that is essentially absent from their lives. The 98 screenshots recently submitted to Warwick...
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If there’s one thing about universities that receives the most amount of criticism from both within and outside the institution, it would have to be their PC crazed, echo chamber-loving, no-platforming addiction. And hey, sometimes, it can feel like there’s no longer much room for controversy, in a place which...
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We asked our outgoing editors about their time with The Boar Giles Allen-Bowden (outgoing Film Editor): So, I didn’t expect this to be in this position. I applied and was, much to my surprise, assigned the position of Deputy along with Tiff Milner. And that’s as far as I...
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For as long as there have been videogames, there has been videogame journalism. Reviewing, reporting, and retrospecting are all involved in this ever-expanding industry. But to those on the outside, gaming journalism can seem like a tricky business to fully understand, so we caught up with previous Boar alumni Ali...
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Two memories come to mind when I think of my Higher Education and Colonialism. The first is a tutor in my first year immediately shutting down the question regarding the benefits of colonialism without any discussion. The second is of a Singaporean flat mate, also from my first year, informing...
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The Christmas genre seems as difficult for videogames to fit into as the video game movie; except of course for Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider which was is a treasure to all, and I don’t understand why others won’t appreciate its genius. So, unless your family likes to gather around Elf...
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In the wake of the allegations against Kevin Spacey, Matilda Smith looks at the issues for House of Cards and the show's potential future.
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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech at the WMG auditorium last week detailing his new book, ‘My Life, Our Times’.
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