Games and Cult

By Gregor Crawford This week BBC aired a 90-minute programme called ‘I Want to Change my Body’. It is based around popular talking subjects of this time; people (young adults in this case) who are setting out to change the way they look physically.

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By Gregor Crawford So you’ve decided to go ahead with it. You’ve found a design you’re happy with, you’ve scouted for the perfect artist. It has taken a few months and a lot of saving but it’ll be worth it. You’re about to commit to one of very few things you are actually bound to [...]

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By Georgi Bomb Yes people, it’s finally here, Diablo III, the highly anticipated next chapter in the award-winning action-role-playing game series is now available for us all to get our grubby little paws on. It has certainly been in high demand, with more than two million pre-orders and 8000 midnight launches, this has certainly whipped [...]

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By Daniel Savage The fourth in an on-going series of London based, urban fantasy novels. The Minority Council details the continuing adventures of the sorcerer, Matthew Swift. Over the course of the series, it would be fair to say Swift has been through a lot; the first page of the first instalment (Madness of Angels) [...]

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By Daniel Savage “My name is Peter Grant, and I’m a Detective Constable in that mighty army for justice known as the Metropolitan Police (a.k.a the Filth). I’m also the first trainee wizard in the Met for fifty years.” The second in Ben Aaronovitch’s ‘Folly’ series, Moon Over Soho relates the continuing adventures of PC [...]

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By Jake Rivett The Thundercats made a reappearance in a brand new Cartoon Network show in 2011, and we where all simply expected to just roll over and love it, along with all the millions of other sequels and reboots that exist, but this one was different, it was special.

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By Robert Bayley If you want to save yourself some time, don’t read any further, just go out and buy this game. If you don’t have a console that can run it, this is all the reason you need to go and get one.

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By Kelly McGarry It’s that time of year again, the tinsel is out, the trees are up and London will soon come to a grinding halt with the first delicate snowflakes hitting the train lines.

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By Kelly McGarry In the last few decades, the art of piercing and tattooing has become increasingly popular throughout all different sub-cultures and is now a mainstream form of expression in our society. Of course, neither of these art forms are anything new, both have been around for centuries and have different meanings depending on [...]

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By Jake Rivett Christmas is a wonderful time for everyone, but it’s an especially awesome time for geeks. They can hide themselves away with their new Blu – Ray box sets, computer games or ignore the whole happy family whilst reading their new comic book! So what do you buy a nerd? Are you stuck [...]

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By Neil Thomason I’ve been asked to talk about straight edge by Culture Bomb, which is cool, but I guess I should preface this first: I am not immersed in the straight edge culture – I don’t listen to a lot of ‘edge’ bands as they tend to suck and be pretty one note in my opinion – and my [...]

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By Robert Bayley With the recent release of the final instalment of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trilogy, the promotional blitz seems to have taken over most of the British countryside. Game franchises don’t come much bigger than the blockbuster series and with the amount of adverts dotting television, websites and billboards you’d be forgiven for thinking [...]

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By Georgi Bomb Halloween is fast approaching so now is the time to think about what to do this Hallow’s Eve? Getting dressed up as Edward Scissorhands, a cat or something slutty is getting a bit dated these days so how about trying something a bit different? Culture Bomb has come up with some rather [...]

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By Robert Bayley Generally, I am going to bang on and on about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, but there is reason and warrant for this. It is the character and story, here’s why. The character one plays, Nathan Drake, has just had a hairy (a pun!) encounter with a set of yetis that are not actually yetis [...]

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By Robert Bayley I am very interested in mythology, be it Norse Pantheon, Christianity, Greek Pantheon, Hinduism, Traditional Beliefs (such as those found in Lesotho or Tanzania) or Satanism. I guess this came from a combination of things; awesome mythological stories such as The Illiad or the Sundara Kanda and my complete lack of understanding [...]

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