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Friday Debate: Which is the better wing? KFC Zinger/Dunked wings or Chicken Licken Hot wings?

By Geoffrey Tim
July 20, 2018
in :  Lifestyle, Opinion
167

What say you? Which chicken wing is superior? Zinger Wings? Their gross dunked variant? Hot Wings? Or are you like some other people in the office who think that chicken wings are a waste to begin with; little bits of oily chicken scraps that aren’t even worth bothering with?

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Friday Debate: What snacks do you wish would come back? (aka Please bring back Tempo, Cadbury)

By Geoffrey Tim
July 13, 2018
in :  Lifestyle, Opinion
107

Anyway, the point of this is that I miss Tempo, and I really, really hope that Cadbury brings it back one day. If not, there’s at least the Dairy Milk 5Star slab keep my sporadic sweet tooth sated. Now along with Tempo, what other foods, snacks and confections do you wish they’d bring back?

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Nioh and the future potential of Team Ninja

By Alec Brynard
July 11, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
0

Team Ninja’s Nioh was a quiet hit around its early 2017 release. It had an incredible level of depth to its speedy and precise combat, a mystical ancient-Japanese setting and a punishing level of difficulty – mimicking its contemporaries in the hard-core Action RPG genre, but arguably reaching new heights of balance and craft. Its artistic vision was strong, but …

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Friday Debate – What was the greatest cartoon series of your childhood?

By Darryn Bonthuys
July 6, 2018
in :  Entertainment, Opinion
128

Which cartoon series was the very damn best thing you ever saw when you were a kid? Wax on with that nostalgia! Let us know in the comments below. PS: The answer is of course, Cow and Chicken.

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Friday Debate – If you could have anything from video games in real life, what would it be?

By Darryn Bonthuys
June 29, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
76

Thank goodness for video games, movies and comic books then, brief respites from a world that is unjust and unfair on multiple levels. Imagine if we could bring some of that magic back home with us though. What if you had a chance to bring an aspect from your favourite video games back with you? What would you choose?

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Mainstream media and pushing false narratives in gaming

By Glenn Kisela
June 8, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
28

City Press recently published an article discussing Overwatch and its esports scene. With the context that the intended audience would know very little about gaming, it started well enough. The author highlighted the praise Blizzard’s crown jewel has received regarding its diverse cast as well as its rapidly growing esports scene. Things quickly unravelled as the lack of basic research …

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A Dreamhack Come True: How I made it to the Hearthstone Top 16

By EsportsCentralZA
June 5, 2018
in :  Features, Gaming, Opinion
2

By Dylan ‘Dib’ Brown Dreamhack is an event that started as a LAN back in Sweden and has grown to one of the most significant regular esports events across the world, and across different games. They have been running Hearthstone Grandprixs since 2015 as some of the biggest events on the Hearthstone calendar. For 2018 they also count as Hearthstone …

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Friday Debate: Should game concepts like Battle Royale be legally protected?

By Geoffrey Tim
June 1, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
11

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds PUBG Corp. is busy trying to sue Epic games for the similarities in game concepts between it, and the most popular game on the planet right now, Fortnite Battle Royale. Those concepts themselves aren’t entirely new, stemming from a Japanese movie called Battle Royale, that put dozens of children on an island with goal of being the last one standing – Basically, a precursor to The Hunger Games. It brings up an interesting question in video games: Should those ideas be protected?

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Nostalgia in media: Why do we keep looking to the past?

By Sam Spiller
May 31, 2018
in :  Entertainment, Features, Opinion
12

When it comes to popular media, we love to look back towards "the good ol' days". But while this reverence for nostalgia can be great, often it also leads to some laziness.

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Sponsors in SA esports: Is esports worth the investment?

By EsportsCentralZA
May 31, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
0

Internationally, the world’s biggest brands are investing in esports. Locally, we’ve seen huge brand names like Samsung and Red Bull spending their marketing money on esports events. Can potential sponsors gain value from involvement in the South African scene?

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Why the Video Game Violence Saga Will Never End

By Alec Brynard
May 28, 2018
in :  Gaming, Opinion
0

Since pixels could bleed, charlatans everywhere have poured great zealous into their quests to create arbitrary connections between video game violence and cruelty from the youth. Their efforts have, predictably, been entirely fruitless and repeatedly disregarded.

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Dark Souls – a lifelong lesson learned only through death

By Adam Meadows
May 25, 2018
in :  Features, Gaming, Opinion
0

Dark Souls seldom gives you the keys to the castle. Everything from the smallest victory to the game’s oblique narrative has to be taken from its clawed grasp. Story isn’t dished out in hour-long cut scenes or a 500-page codex. Like everything else in Souls, story requires effort, patience and dedication, as you extract information from cryptic dialogue and myriad descriptions.

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