Tagged: indie

MOVIE REVIEW: Detachment 0

MOVIE REVIEW: Detachment

Starring: Adrien Brody, James Caan, Lucy Liu, Christina Hendricks Director: Tony Kaye Genre: Drama Runtime: 97 minutes What do you do if the school you teach has become an anarchy of violent students, harassing the teachers and other students alike? What do you do if the neighbourhood you live in goes to hell, with prostitutes and gang violence determining the face of the streets? What do you do when the last person you love is about to die? All these questions are fired upon Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) at once....

THE5: Best Indie Games I’ve Played 0

THE5: Best Indie Games I’ve Played

We’re back baby! After regretfully forgetting to compile a list last week, I’m now back on track with another addition, the third to be exact, to ‘THE5’, with this weeks topic: Best Indie Games I’ve Played. What are the rules for this list, you say? Well, the games need be ‘indie-developed’, which means the games aren’t backed by a publisher, like EA, Activision or Ubisoft. The second criteria for it to be on this list, is that I should have at least played it once. I can’t judge on games...

Lets talk about Music 0

Lets talk about Music

Seeing as this is a new blog, I shall grab this opportunity to introduce my favourite band – Faunts. Faunts is a Canadian post-rock indie band. That’s music-language for relaxing, almost atmospheric music. I’ll give you an example: This band has made two full albums, an EP and an album full of remixes. They are sadly on hiatus, and little is known if they will ever produce a new album. I stumbled upon this band as one of their songs (the one above) featured in the credits of a videogame...

‘Orcs Must Die!’ review 0

‘Orcs Must Die!’ review

Not every game needs a big budget behind it, like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Lately, a lot of games achieve succes without the backing of a big company. Games like Minecraft, which has sold over 20 million downloads, are the beginning of a new age for indie developers. A lot of these games are being offered a platform on Steam, a downloadable platform for games which resembles the likes of Apple’s iTunes. One of these games is Orcs Must Die!, a tower defense-like game which features high-paced, third...