Upon reading the response to the survey conducted by The Boar on the gaming community at Warwick, I found myself disappointed with the gender split. A measly 20.5% of the responses answered female, with 74.4% identifying as male, 2.6% preferring not to say, and the last 2.6% responding as other....
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University is the time in which many discover their vocational and personal ambitions. Though Law, Accounting, Banking and Finance may be among the candidates that your teachers and parents have advocated for; there is something so alluring and intriguing in the Videogames industry. Though as an industry which makes more...
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Very little has been discussed of Bioshock 2. Dismissed only as the disappointing middle child in the Bioshock trilogy, struggling to compete intellectually and narratively with its bold and intriguing siblings. Upon acquiring the Bioshock Collection I saw the game as a mere extension to its predecessor, something that I...
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The general election is just around the corner and with the main political party leaders plastered across every form of media, their policies, pasts and personalities scrupulously examined, we couldn’t help but make comparisons between them and our favourite videogame characters. Theresa May, Conservatives – Sofia Lamb, Bioshock 2 Cool, calm...
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As many might be aware, mental health awareness week was two weeks ago; however what is often the case with these awareness weeks is that people talk for a while, think about it for a bit and then go back to never mentioning it again for a year. Mental health...
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It’s that time of year again; the daffodils are out in bloom, the supermarkets are engaged in a creative Easter related chocolates arms race and the Church of England has engaged in a Twitter war against a sweets company… what do you mean that doesn’t usually happen? Well regardless of...
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You don’t have free time, you only have time for games. Reviews, top-tens and playthroughs fill up your YouTube recommendations. Your nightmares are filled with lag, buffering symbols and disconnections. You talk in a strange language that your friends don’t understand, using words like MMO, RPG and FPS. You are...
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Hitman, Mass Effect and H.P. Lovecraft: Our editorial team share their picks of the week.
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January is a month for new year’s resolutions* and here’s the first installment in ours: our picks of the week. Cameron Clark – Gravity Rush 2, released January 18 A title that runs the risk of disappearing under the radar, the excellent Gravity Rush 2 launches this week. Building upon...
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Matilda Smith reacts to The Last of Us: Part 2 reveal trailer and walks us through some of her hopes for Naughty Dog's thoughtful sequel to the 2013 hit.
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There’s so much reading. It doesn’t count. They talk too fast to take notes. It doesn’t count. Assessments are tough. It doesn’t count. How do you even write this? It doesn’t count. Whatever the grievance, whatever the worries, those ‘comforting’ words are told to us. First year doesn’t count. No...
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Far from creating dynamic and multi-layered characters, many games often resort to stereotypes in their depictions of black characters. But why is this?
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