Author: Brad Lang

In a world that’s very much slowly turning into the digital wasteland envisioned by the Watch Dogs franchise, now might be the best time to go back and play one of Ubisoft’s best open-world games. I’m not talking about the original 2014 Watch Dogs because that game suuuuuuuucked. Instead, I’m referring to 2016’s Watch Dogs 2, a game that built on and improved nearly all of the negatives of the first game. It’s still a bit pricey, as I’m sure you’re aware but Ubisoft has proven to be fairly generous with its older titles in the past which is the case…

Ah, the days of my youth. While all those jocks were out there kicking their rugby balls and footballs and…cricket balls I guess, my time was spent in better environments. Specifically, the environments of Sandbox, Sandtrap, Blackout and Valhalla, otherwise known as the four best maps in Halo 3. My friends and I spent hours playing together, with me often winning due to the fact that I was the only one of us with an Xbox 360 who actually put some time into the game. That doesn’t count too much, right? While it’s been years since I jumped into Halo 3’s multiplayer,…

Rian Johnson is a bit of a…mixed figure in the eyes of the many filmgoers. Look, whatever your feelings on his most divided film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Johnson has proven himself to be a director with a wide range with the excellent murder mystery film Knives Out and a pretty chill guy on social media too. Yet if you needed even more evidence that Johnson is just a cool guy who wants to work on fun projects, his latest bit of work is sure to run home that point. Turns out, Johnson is super into Pokémon. So much so that…

Listen, no-one wants to keep around an app that’s going to harvest all your personal data. That’s just not cool, you know? We put our lives onto our smartphones and some degree of trust into the multi-million dollar corporation apps that offer so many benefits to modern life. LinkedIn? I wouldn’t have my current job if it weren’t for LinkedIn. Oh, and let us not forget about all the happy hours I’ve wasted sifting through all the good content on Reddit, while also ignoring all the bad content on Reddit. They’re two apps that I think are essential to my phone use…

How do theme parks maintain their secrecy for so long? Like, whenever you hear about Disney or Universal setting up some new major attraction, you’d think it’d be pretty easy to see it being developed. Sure, they have all that scaffolding with the big…curtains to keep prying eyes from seeing too much but it still baffles my mind how something so large and ostentatious can remain unseen for so long. That was the case for a long time with the long in-development theme park Super Nintendo World over in Universal Studios Japan. While the new attraction was meant to open…

I want you to stop what you’re doing and come on a mental trip with me. Close your eyes and open your mind, imagining the most awful, rancid and ungodly place in human existence. Everywhere you look, there’s decay and disgust with very little chances of seeing hope or goodness in the darkness. Did you also spend those agonising moments envisioning the YouTube comments section? Yeah, you and every other person who’s watched a video online in the past decade. While YouTube’s new idea will likely not solve the wasteland that is the comment section, it should make life a…

Now, when being blasted into the great beyond, it makes sense that astronauts will likely experience a severe case of sensory overload. The sounds, sights and feeling of exiting our atmosphere to float in zero gravity…well, there’s nothing that can quite compare to it, I’m sure. Having said that, one should also spare a thought for our poor nostrils as they try to fathom what intergalactic smells could possibly await them…right before their owner’s head explodes due to the all-consuming vacuum of space. Really, he should have known better than to take his helmet off to try and sniff an…

Back in 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw Facebook exposed as sharing private, personal data with developers that shouldn’t have access to that kind of information society was blessed for two reasons. One, because we finally got to see Mark Zuckerberg shed is human skin and reveal his robotic inner-workings and two, it also resulted in the social media platform implementing stricter privacy and developer policies. Great! So we never have to worry about this ever- oh and they’ve gone and done it all again. Come on, Facebook! You can’t keep making the same mistake! In a recent…

This is one for all you couples living together, the sorts of partnerships where one of you is all about those chill lofi hip hop beats to study/relax to and the other is drawn towards the more aggressive head-banging of hardcore death metal. It’s pretty frustrating to figure out who gets to own the shared Spotify account especially when your Discover Weekly algorithm is becoming more and more confused by the wildly different music selections. Fortunately, Spotify has a solution for all you that might experience this problem as it ushers into existence Premium Duo. Premium Duo, as you might…

I’m a little biased when it comes to Pinterest because I actually really like the app. While it’s not much of a social media platform, it’s a great source for ideas and images; it’s the first place I check when looking for art of specific characters or concepts when I’m making my own creations in a written story of a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Pinterest just seems like the kind of app that’s been around for ages now, nothing really comes close to competing with it. Yet that didn’t stop Facebook from trying with its hand at developing its…