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Anyone with an interest in videogames and the gaming community will be aware of the poor reputation they have for their treatment of women. One only has to think back to 2014’s misogynistic, online harassment […]

Buying a Nintendo 3DS when I turned 22 reminded me how happy I really was through my darkest episode of homesickness.

One summer afternoon, as I’d just turned 11, my auntie gave me my dearest non-human p […]

Indie games are going to dominate the gaming landscape in 2021. As larger AAA studios continue to face the difficulties of remote operation, and are still being forced to delay new titles for the greater good, […]

That feeling of nostalgia for an event you didn’t attend—it is hard to explain in words my feelings about missing Muse’s 2011 Reading and Leeds set, where they treated the masses to Origin of Symmetry in its e […]

1971 was the year which saw Carole King’s Tapestry transform the New York native from one of the most prolific songwriters of the era into a world-renowned singer and performer. In the 50 years since its r […]

Maybe this is the answer: maybe the answer is not to get trapped in questions of whether you are looking too far forward or are stuck in the past, but instead to simply carry on doing something. Greta Van Fleet […]

Hometown: Edinburgh

Listen to: ‘Sunshine,’ ‘Pure Frustration,’ ‘Shine’

NANI’s early forays into music foreshadow the eclectic, genre-blending style that she has become so known for in Edinburgh’s i […]

Stuck on what to stream this month? Unlike other lists, we’re on hand to recommend a variety of films for every mood, from tear-jerkers to trailblazers. Here are our picks for the best films to stream in the UK t […]

Do you ever wake up in the morning and just lie there in that liminal space between dreaming and reality? If not, take a moment to try it, because that same feeling is where you’ll find the second season of w […]

Danish-born singer songwriter Amalie Bryde relocated to London to follow her passion of music. Now she’s released her debut EP Lay Down which is filled with six “rhapsodic, resonant and reflective” tracks. She s […]

Movie Monday: Film Recommendations By Our Contributors

It might be hard to believe that a slasher movie about killer plants would ever feel timely. But in 2021, more than a decade after it was widely panned by […]

Chances are, unless you watch Disney Channel, the name Olivia Rodrigo meant nothing to you at the start of 2021. Then in mid-January, using her newly earned ‘drivers license’, she crashed onto the scene with a d […]

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden is “very hopeful” for a full theatre reopening on 21 June, following successful test events.

The government’s Events Research Programme organised various large-scale indoor ev […]

As literature graduates, we’ve studied a range of novels. But, for mental health awareness week, we look at the best ways that mental illness has been portrayed in fiction. These excellent novels navigate a f […]

This summer, Glasgow will host a month-long outdoor festival called “Live at No. 40”, which will include shows to entertain audiences of up to 150 people.

Scottish Opera, the Citizens Theatre and the Sco […]

In the post-#MeToo world, and at a time when diversity in cinema is a more widely-discussed issue than ever before, a great cultural re-examination is taking place. The icons and totems of film, music and […]

The plans for Borderlands 3 to be fully cross-play have been altered after Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software, revealed that PlayStation support has been pulled.

Pitchford wrote on Twitter that he had […]

Sometimes with humongous franchises like Star Wars, there are hidden gems that seem to fall through the cracks, and one of those is the severely underrated animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars – the 2003 […]

You might not recognise the name John Swartzwelder, but you’ll almost certainly recognise his work. For more than a decade, Swartzwelder worked as a writer on The Simpsons and penned some of the show’s most iconi […]