It’s never easy staging a well known play that everybody knows backwards and can quote verbatim, as I discovered when treading the boards in Blackadder in my Rostra days. From January to March (2012), both BEDS (Bangor English Drama Society) and Rostra performed four productions native to the British Isles (a term that includes Ireland)...
The online strategy game, League of Legends was released during autumn 2009 and is a game which requires the player to have quick reflexes and excellent teamwork abilities. Overall, the game itself is very simple but also complex at the same time, for reasons which will be explained later. The main aim of the game...
A review of Mass Effect 3, like any review of any entertainment media, boils down to one ultimate question: is it worth the price of admission? If that is ultimately all you want to know, then don’t worry about skipping to the end, because I will tell you right now; the answer is yes. Flawed...
It’s not often that a design student’s university work gets put straight into market, but 23 year-old student Kieron-Scott Woodhouse from Middlesex University has managed it. He originally designing a concept phone out of steel and bronze which was picked up by a website that specialised in concept phones. After spreading from blog to blog,...
The Internet is spreading, and the world is becoming more and more connected. You can bump into people at an event or on a night out and add them on Facebook to keep in contact. You can meet people at conferences and add them to LinkedIn. It’s not just social networks that are getting bigger...
Laser tag games have been around for a long time. The first commercial game was released in 1984, when Star Trek Phaser toys were developed. At the time, this was cutting edge technology, that the military had had for training for only a few years. From here, it became a much bigger sport, both indoors...
The Game Boy; possibly the most Iconic mobile games console ever. Over 118 million sold around the world. Born in the 90s. Just. Original Game Boy The first Game Boy was announced in 1989, but didn’t reach Europe until 1990, making it a true child of the 90s. It was a steep competition...
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Apr 26, 2012 • Last year’s Summer Ball brought us Stooshe just as they were starting their rise to pop stardom. Their official debut single ‘Love Me’ recently went top 5 in the UK, but which American superstar was featured on the track? A) Travie McCoy B) Travie Walkers C) Travie Quavers Send your answer to editor@seren.bangor.ac.uk and you...
Every so often I’m flicking through the desktops on my iPhone and realise that there’s really nothing at all exciting on there and subsequently end up browsing the App Store. A couple weeks ago I came across a cute little app named ‘Pair’, I clicked on it to explore it a little more. At this...
With almost every phone having an integrated camera these days, everyone is taking pictures of everything at anytime. That’s one of the main reasons why camera apps have become so popular on smartphones with one in particular becoming a favourite among users; Instagram. Providing more than just photo editing tools, Instagram allows users to set...
It feels like I’m forever writing about one Assassin’s Creed or the other but I feel it can’t really be helped. The new installment of Ubisoft’s popular series was officially confirmed by the company back in February of this year and was soon followed by the debut trailer hitting the internet on 5th March. All...
For years now Sony’s Playstation franchise has been seen as market leaders in the fast-growing gaming industry. Since the release of the Playstation One in the mid-nineties, the company has repeatedly released newer consoles and even delved into the handheld console market once before with the PSP. Now though, with the increase in mobile gaming,...
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