Category: Culture
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One unconventional approach to storytelling later, and Malcolm McDowell would be proud!
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Late 2011 is currently set to see the emergence of several third installments of best-selling shooters, including Resistance, Modern Warfare, Battlefield, etc. However, the first of these inevitable blockbusters to prise our student loans from our greedy little fists is the hotly anticipated Gears of War 3. Previous installment Gears of War 2 split fan…
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The Edge takes a look at the brand new first trailer for the upcoming fifth installment in the Grand Theft Auto series.
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Rockstar Games are best known for their immensely popular Grand Theft Auto series, the gaming franchise that introduced us to free-roaming ‘sandbox’ gameplay — a vast world in which one ‘freely roams’, visiting certain locations if they wish to do certain set missions. This meant that the world’s youth could sit mindlessly for hours, going…
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The Jackass star visits Southampton University on his debut UK stand-up tour, impressing the crowd with his mostly sex-based anecdotes.
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A pin that gets dropped on the floor; the psychotic ghost of a teenage girl; a magician with superhuman card-shuffling abilities; and a pair of camp bandits who prance their way to escape. Above are just a few of the characters played by The Pajama Men in their live show The Last Stand to Reason,…
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Francis Pearson defends Stewart Lee from smug Telegraph journalists
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As an all-new series approaches, The Edge looks back at what we loved about the original series
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Though I only found what I saw of The Inbetweeners moderately amusing at best, the premise of actors and writers Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet’s Channel 4 comedy showcase pilot Chickens intrigued me. Mainly because period comedy, when done right (Dad’s Army, Ripping Yarns, Blackadder) is often excellent, but the show’s set up has a…
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A look at TV comedy for October 2011
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Often Brits have a perception of American stand-ups as being more crude, degenerate and less sophisticated than our own comedians. While it’s hard to deny that such low brow comics exist across the Atlantic (Cars 2 star Larry the Cable Guy for one), given that the USA has a larger population and a greater amount…
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A serious piece, but always entertaining; Sandi Toksvig’s drama is a gem
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Don’t know what to make of the riots? Sky does the thinking for you…
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A brief history of the podcast, and which you should download today