5 Surprising Games Based On Shows Or Films
When we think of video games based on popular entertainment, there are certain genres that come to mind. Horror, action, and adventure films and shows tend to m...
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Interstellar Cartography
Interstellar (Nolan, 2014) is an intriguing motion picture. One interpretation could imply that the protagonist (Cooper) is a disillusioned farmer who wants to ...
Life Hacks for Culinary Dunces
I would just like to be clear, before you read this article, that I’m not trying to torture your arteries. Not actively. It just so happens that a large portion...
The J Word
It’s that one word that makes us moan and groan about having one or not having one. It brings a cuss word on Monday mornings and makes you feel like you deserve...
A Clink In The Armour
I was recently trying to find a decent restaurant to take my girlfriend to on Valentine’s Day. On previous experience of finding a new restaurant, taking a quic...
Relationships at High Speed: What is the rush?
I want you to imagine an ice lollypop left on the kitchen bench in a warm house. The room temperature slowly melting the ice lolly into a slushy mess leaving on...
I’m Not Sure Maggie Would Have Liked This Game
2015 is the year that I found a new love. In all honesty, I’ve been searching for something for a while. Probably ever since Joel and Ellie left a huge hole in ...
10 Ways To Test If He’s Different From The Rest
After weeks of trashy telly, calorie consuming chocolate and affordable alcohol, you’ve lost all hope in ever recovering from the worst feeling imaginable - hea...
On The Psychedelic Experience
‘Alcohol just gives me a bad head..Mushrooms gave me love and understanding..Bad head? Love and understanding? Bad head? Love and understanding? It’s a hard cho...
Dropout Dilemma
For many students, getting into university is a challenge. On top of having to meet course entry requirements, there is also the whole attending of countless op...
Making The Most Of Being A Student
Many people reading this will be trying to fill a spare hour in their day, or taking a break from lengthy assignments whilst sitting in a grotty chair...
Drunks, Lovers, Sinners and Saints – It’s All Relative
“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth...
“Let Me Take a Selfie” – The Globalisation of Vanity
Selfie - “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” It’s official. Th...
Tips for students travelling around London
If you haven’t noticed London is absolutely massive and with 8.4 million people living in London (2013), it is about time somebody made a list of helpful pointe...
What is your next route?
Is it just me who thinks life is going fast? Maybe even a little bit too fast!Don’t get me wrong, I have been going along with you on this 'growing up' jour...
The Dark Lonely Desperation of the Suicidal
It came as a raw and vivid shock to me when one of the strongest people I have ever met informed me he was planning his suicidal. This man was my father; his re...
Part-Time Further Studying: Pros and Cons
I am currently four weeks into my new course, an MA in Creative Writing. Undertaking it on a part-time basis, I have found the experience of postgraduate study ...
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Shyness: The Forgotten Silent People
Shyness is quite an unusual characteristic in the sense that it seems to attract a multiple of reactions and emotions from people. Some people interpret shyness...
The Fault In Our Education System
When we begin secondary school, it seems we are removed from the happy, creative haven that is primary school and dropped into a daunting new world where the ma...
Sam Pepper strikes again
Once deemed the most annoying housemate of Big Brother 11, Sam Pepper, 25, from Folkestone, Kent has been accused of sexually assaulting a number of teenage gir...
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Octodad & Octodad Dadliest Catch: Review
Octodad:I'm all about indie development, I think it opens up avenues for games that the large companies wouldn't touch with a 49-and-a-half foot pole. Games...
Life’s big decisions: Moving away / staying at home?
The last year of College can be one of the most stressful years of your life. You come back from summer, eagerly anxious to turn eighteen and start going out li...
Your lips will love you!
It is starting to get colder, the nights are getting longer and the summertime is well behind us now but instead of feeling low and down about this we can look ...
Fotonica – App review
Platform: IOS
Price: £1.99
Developer: Santa Ragione
Pros: Detailed and stylish world to explore. Unique music and highly addictive game play.
Cons: No overa...
Surviving the first week of University
7 Simple Rules: Have fun with Freshers weekFreshers week all is about fun getting to know your new university and celebrating your new found f...
The big decisions: moving out or staying at home?
The last year of College can be one of the most stressful years of your life. You come back from summer, eagerly anxious to turn eighteen and start going out li...
Little Slice of Heaven
Sat in the back corner of a small quaint café hid behind a hundred books, I scan the shelf of well thumbed and loved paperbacks, a few stand out to me and I won...
Why is everybody so stupid?
Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones.
Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but c...
Budgeting is Essential
Well, now is the best time to start thinking about your student finances, according to Salford student accommodation provider Portergate.Drawing up and stic...
20 000 Days on Earth: Review
Any docu-fan, any filmmaker or anyone who’s been enjoying what digital cinema has to offer owes themselves a viewing of 20 000 Days on Earth.Nick Cave conta...