The glitz and glamour of high stakes gambling is central to some of the biggest box office successes of our time. Casinos, especially in Las Vegas, with their connections to the mob, are the perfect s…
Cool Online Gaming Trends to Watch Out For
Online gaming is a huge part of our modern culture, from Richard Bartle’s pioneering MUD – a role-playing, dragon slaying, player vs player game – in 1978, to the huge popularity of X-Box Live, …
What Is a BIOS And What Can It Do? PlayStation BIOS And Emulators in The 21st Century
BIOS or Basic Input Output System is hardware and the very first thing your computer reads in and runs when it is turned on. So, it is the first thing that your computer does when you switch it on. Th…
What next for Ghostbusters?
Last year’s all-female revamp of Ghostbusters was one of the more divisive movies of recent times. Despite some favourable reviews and moderately respectable box office revenues of $229 million, there…
Classic Video Games Everyone Remembers from Childhood
In the Beginning From the days of our grandparents playing Nim in the 1940s to our cooler, older siblings playing arcade games in the 1980s, video games have been part of our culture for decades, and …
Book Review: The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus is a tale of intense beauty and imagination, and takes the reader on a journey within the magical world of the circus itself. The plot is not difficult to…
Platform Wars: Do PC and Consoles have a Mutual Enemy in Mobile Gaming?
Any eight-year-old will tell you that the Xbox is rubbish and that smartphone games are the exclusive domain of the unwashed “casual” player but that kind of award-winning rhetoric skips over the fact…