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The Origin of El Chapo – An Explainer
The Origin of El Chapo – A Vox Explainer featuring two DEA agents who discuss how they discovered his identity and how he changed the drug trade.
What We’re Playing: Genshin Impact
What We’re Playing: Genshin Impact – a gacha game from miHoyo, a Shanghai-based company. It’s one of the most popular games in the world, and at its base level, is free to play: very much like a CRPG version of Breath of the Wild. The gacha system (paying to pull lootboxes for possible characters) is …
Brand Evolution or a Rebrand?
Photo: AFP As I write this article, the Cleveland Indians, an American professional baseball team, has become the second major American team to drop a racist nickname. This follows the Washington Football Team, which was previously known as the Redskins. Cleveland had already phased out logos and imagery of its cartoon mascot, Chief Wahoo, after …
What We’re Watching: Monster Hunter
We caught the Monster Hunter film over the break and it was… surprisingly not as bad as we thought it would be? Tony Jaa was great. It did bring back bad memories of fighting Diablos in the game, but other than that, it was entertaining.
How Stardew Valley was Made
How Stardew Valley was made by one person — one of the most popular games on the Switch, and one of the most popular farming games to date.
What We’re Watching: Death to 2020
Death to 2020 – a Netflix original production by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones under their Broke and Bones production company. A sort of funny if ghoulish watch reminding everyone of what happened last year, with actors such as Samuel L Jackson playing roles just for the film.
Snickers: First Visitors
Ace Metrix has named this Snickers ad, “First Visitors”, the funniest ad of 2020 – about a man who forgets how to act socially after quarantine.
Doc Morris Xmas 2020
Doc Morris has created one of our favourite Christmas ads for 2020, featuring a grandfather’s strange pre-Christmas workout routine.
Dragon Age 4
Dragon Age 4 cinematic trailer! It dropped during the Game Awards, setting up the story for the highly anticipated new instalment in the series.