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  • Tanked Up 63 – Moor Beaver

    The Will Smith dream team is back! Ben and Aadil talk games over a couple of games. ‘2048’, ‘Gravity Rush’ and ‘Hyperdimension Neptunia’. — Yay Japan! Oh and also, Aadil shows off his inability with the english language, before even having a drink or anything. We drank the Beavertown...
  • Insomniac’s Spider-Man: The Chosen One?

    New to Out of Lives as a guest author is Alfred Rome. Here he takes a moment to give us his thoughts on the upcoming Spider-Man game from Insomniac. So if you haven’t heard the news already, it was revealed at Sony’s E3 presentation that the awesome Insomniac Games...
  • Out of Lives Podcast Episode 67 – Pitchforks At The Ready!

    The Out of Lives Podcast returns in style this week; featuring Adam, Dave & Mete. The topics up for discussion include: Why Mete is actually a Danish female, why Adam is likely to be lynched by DC Comic fanatics and why you shouldn’t let Dave have access to your...
  • Why Sharp Objects could be the next big TV hit

    As the television renaissance continues, several novels which would have one day been snatched up by film companies for adaptation are instead becoming TV miniseries or some even expanded to become a full-blown series. The decline in production of mid-budget films and talent flocking to the silver screen has...
  • This Week’s Movie Releases 23rd – 29th January

    T2 Trainspotting – Released 27th Jan (UK), 17th March (USA). Danny Boyle returns to his beloved cult franchise 11 years after it’s original release. But it’s not just the original director returning though, he’s joined by the original cast as well. This time the story focuses on Mark Renton...
  • Ellipsis Review

    Ellipsis is the seventh studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Biffy Clyro, it’s also an action-packed avoid ’em up from Salmi Games. For anyone still unsure, this is a review for the recent Steam release of the latter. What is an Avoid ’em up? well, it’s pretty self-explanatory so I’m...
  • Tanked Up 62 – Toby’s Caterpillar

    Ben and Lucy discuss the games they’ve recently been playing. Lucy’s been getting into her puzzles in ‘She Remembered Caterpillars’ and ‘Toby: The Secret Mine’ whilst Ben’s been taking advantage of the recent psn sales with ‘Ratchet & Clank’ and ‘Virginia’. Lucy drinks a Moor ‘Raw’ bitter beer and...
  • Tanked Up 61 – 2016 Cloudwater Special

    Happy New Year! Ben and Aadil are joined by Lucy to talk about the ‘Hidden Gems’ of the past year in gaming. Beer-wise we all are drinking the Cloudwater Double IPA ‘v9’ and ‘v10′. Excitement all ’round!...
  • ‘Alternative’ settings for future Assassin’s Creed games

    Assassin’s Creed used to be my favourite video game series with AC2 being my favourite game of all time. I really like the first game despite its shortcomings, the Ezio trilogy is fantastic and I’m a big fan of the more controversial Assassin’s Creed 3. Black Flag is fun...