The Nintendo Switch is Selling Better Than Any Nintendo Console EVER
After a few major missteps over the last decade or so, it's nice to see Nintendo getting headlines for the right reasons after the release of the Nint...
Irks and Quirks With Oliver Smith: “The Selfie”
So at the first look of the title you may think to yourself “Yay another article bashing young people and their vacuous and vain need to constantly li...
Stream These Films on Netflix and Hulu Before They Expire
It's Auckland Anniversary weekend for a third of the country and that means precious free time to sit on your couch or lie in bed and watch ... someth...
Irks and Quirks With Oliver Smith: Why do people take pizza so seriously?
Irks and Quirks is a comedic series that deals less in facts, news, or events, and instead is weighted more on opinion. Whose opinion you ask? Oliver ...
Irks and quirks With Oliver Smith: Why do people like Boba Fett?
Star Wars is one of the best known franchises to ever exist. It is a divisive series with a split between a large and devoted fan base, and old school...
Fantastic Beasts Needs To Fix Its Protagonist Problem
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a certifiable hit. The film has pulled in over US$717,000,000 at the box office and is also a hit with crit...
The Movie Business: ‘Your Name’ Moves Past ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ to Become #5 Film of All Time in Japan
Your Name continues its box-office romp, smashing records and winning awards!
In our new series, Shawn Moodie goes behind the headlines to discuss ...
Anime Masterpiece Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) Is Coming To NZ Cinemas
Makoto Shinkai's (The Garden Of Words) anime masterpiece Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) is being released in cinemas for a limited run this December.
Th...
Watch The First Teaser For ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2’
Guardians of the Galaxy is one of our favourite blockbusters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now Disney and Marvel have premiered the first t...
Highlights From Taika Waititi’s Reddit AMA
Kiwi director and all-round good guy Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Thor: Ragnarok) recently did what all the cool kids in Hollywood are...
Stardew Valley 1.1 Update is live!
A while ago we wrote about a comfy game known as Stardew Valley. It was (and still is) the epitome of comfiness. And on October 3rd it received it's v...
Fallout 4 Wasn’t Very Good
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Fallout 4 recently. I have no idea how many hours I’ve played (and I don’t want to know because I’ve already gone ...
Irks And Quirks With Oliver Smith: Nostalgia
Before I start to rant and ramble, I might as well introduce the scope of this series. Irks and Quirks deals less in facts, news, or events, and inste...
An Interview With James McFadgen, Owner Of Cakes n Ladders, Auckland’s Only Board Game Café
We've seen a real resurgence in tabletop games in the last few years so it comes as little surprise that Auckland would eventually find itself with a ...
Darth Vader Returns In New Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer
Gareth Edwards' Rogue One finally has a new trailer, and it features the biggest villain in the history of Star Wars: Darth Vader himself. The clip, w...
In Review: Batman: The Killing Joke
Disclaimer: This review contains spoilers
It is hard to quantify the impact that The Killing Joke has had on the culture of comic books. It represe...
Iron Maiden: Legacy Of The Beast Released
The wait is over! Metal and RPG fans can now download the much anticipated mobile game Iron Maiden: Legacy Of The Beast.
The action-packed, free-to...
Pokemon GO is a go
I would like you to cast your minds back to when you were ten. Sitting at home on a rainy weekend afternoon, in your hands resides a Game Boy. Inside ...
E3 – Four Days of Rehashes
Every year E3 peaks it's head and catches most by surprise. This could be because the E3 is media only, or it could be that a lot of E3 seems to be Re...
Lacking Context: An Attempt to Review Phantasmal
I love horror video games so I decided I absolutely had to play “Phantasmal”, a new indie survival game from developer Joe Chang. When I say I love ho...
A New Dawn of Justice
Batman Vs. Superman was not a good film. Shut up. It wasn’t. No, Jewish lizard-men at Marvel did not sabotage this movie. The plot didn’t make any sen...