Month: January 2018

The World Ends With You is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2018

One of the most unique action RPG’s in Square Enix’s back catalogue is coming to the Nintendo Switch. The World Ends With You: Final Remix, an updated version of the Nintendo DS classic is coming to the Switch with updated controls and a brand new scenario.

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Dark Souls: Remastered brings From Software’s accidental masterpiece to the Nintendo Switch

Bandai Namco have announced that Dark Souls: Remastered is on its way to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC. In a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini broadcast overnight, the House of N also confirmed the game would be coming to the Nintendo Switch.

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From Barcelona to Florida, L.E Hotels add historic new properties to Luxe Collection

2017 was a big year for global hospitality brand L.E Hotels and their popular “Luxe Collection” of boutique hotels. The group are heading into the new year with a trio of brand new properties plus one completed refurbishment, bumping the collection of independently owned and operated luxury hotels up significantly. The newest Luxe Collection additions…

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Book Review: Start 2018 off the right way with Sarah Knight’s You Do You

Sarah Knight, anti-guru and author of best sellers The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck and Get Your Shit Together, is back with another empowering message for her readers. Only this time they can actually print the book’s full title in The New York Times. Score! Are you difficult or do you just…

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Book Review: Daniel Shand’s Fallow is a wild ride through the Scottish highlands, helmed by an increasingly unstable narrator

Paul and Michael Buchanan are in hiding. Moving from highland village to highland village, the brothers are trying to avoid the press and police surrounding their home after Michael’s release from prison. Convicted of the murder of a little girl when he was a teenager, Michael relies heavily on Paul to source them food and…

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Book Review: Mary Beard explores the ancient roots of modern misogyny in Women & Power: A Manifesto

Drawing on lectures delivered in 2014 and 2017, Women & Power: A Manifesto is a small, yet powerful exploration of the historical silencing of women in the public sphere. The Ancient Roman and Greek cultures we so often hold up as the basis for our democracies today were never particularly kind to the loud woman…

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DZ Deathrays, Ecca Vandal, Holy Holy & more onboard for Secret Garden 2018

This year marks the 10th anniversary of one of our favourite festivals, in Secret Garden and boy, they’re turning things up to celebrate. As with many previous years, this one has sold out, with the likes of DZ Deathrays, Ecca Vandal, Holy Holy, Paces and more set to perform. Held over two days, this year’s Secret Garden festival brings the…

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Music Video of the Day: Insecure Men “Teenage Toy” (2018)

Led by Fat White Family‘s Saul Adamczewski and Childhood‘s Ben Romans-Hopcraft, Insecure Men have fast become an act to watch in 2018. The music is a great blend of electronic pop, with a nostalgic throwback element to the pop music being generated in the 80’s and early 90’s. Insecure Men’s self-titled debut album is out next month but in the meantime,…

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Angie McMahon, T$oko, Exhibitionist, Paradise Club & Hatchie join the Laneway’s Class of 2018

The St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival is just weeks away from kicking off their 2018 tour in Adelaide (triple j broadcasting live from Hart’s Mill, no less), and to bolster an already strong line up featuring the likes of Aldous Harding, Anderson .Paak, Father John Misty and more, triple j Unearthed have revealed the winners of their annual Laneway comp! Starting…

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Tropical Fuck Storm, Ceres, Baker Boy join The Smith Street Band’s inaugural Pool House Party

The Smith Street Band‘s recent invite for Melbourne-heads to join them at the Coburg Velodrome in March for their first ever Pool House Party has now been followed up with a stacked line up of Australian talent to get around! Joining the Smith Street Band for the March 17th event will be Tropical Fuck Storm, Gareth Liddiard‘s…

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The Overwatch League kicks off at 11am. Here’s where you can see every Week One match live

The day has finally arrived. One of 2018’s biggest esports events, the Overwatch League, kicks off at 11am AEDT today. With nine matches scheduled across Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we’ve got all the times and stream details so you don’t miss a moment of the action.

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Jamie’s Italian is offering some of their signature pasta dishes for $10 this month

Break out the pocket change because Jamie’s Italian have significantly dropped the price for some of their signature pasta dishes for the month of January. Across all six venues throughout Australia, Jamie Oliver’s namesake restaurants will offer select pasta dishes for $10 from Monday 15th to Wednesday 31st Jan both lunch and dinner hours. Kicking…

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Donut Papi open permanent shop in Redfern (Sydney)

From Belly Bao to Bakedown Cakery, it’s a beautiful thing when a nomadic food business becomes so ridiculously popular they can open up their first brick-and-mortar shop. The latest is the market-famous Donut Papi, who have been slinging some of the city’s best donuts for the past two years at various spots around town; they’ve…

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The 2018 St. Kilda Festival is a great example of a free live music event done right

It’s the country’s largest free music festival event so it’s safe to say that when the crew behind the St. Kilda Festival get together to nut out a line up that consistently reflects talented Australian musicians, a sense of summer fun and entertainment that will draw the numbers out in force, they mean business. Which is…

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Single of the Day: Youngr “Ooh Lordy” (2018)

We first met Youngr in a hotel lobby at The Great Escape back in 2017. Ahead of a wild final-night-of-festival show, the producer and multi-instrumentalist was approaching what wound up being a sweaty, wall-to-wall banger of a gig that had Youngr emerge as an artist to watch going into the rest of the year. It’s no…

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New free music series ‘Southern Sounds’ kicks off in Melbourne this Thursday

Inspired by the spirit of New Orleans, the new live music series helmed by Southern Comfort – ‘Southern Sounds’ – is kicking off this Thursday in Melbourne, with Remi taking the reins at the Northcote Social Club for an unmissable free event. The series heads to Sydney and Brisbane as well this month, with each curated event…

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PC Gaming Set for a Revolution With NVIDIA’S Big Format Gaming Displays

With the introduction of NVIDIA’s Big Format Gaming Displays, PC gaming is set to undergo a theatre-sized revolution, bringing together NVIDIA’s G-SYNC and SHIELD technologies to create a supersized, streamlined gaming experience.

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The Station drops February 20, gets a mysterious new story trailer

The Station, a first person explore-em-up that’s had us thinking most of the morning. A derelict space station. A stern warning about interfering in research. Signs of a struggle. Strange things are afoot at the orbital Circle-K.

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CES 2018: The HTC Vive just got a major upgrade, with more power and wireless VR options

Wireless VR, the current and most pressing of two holy grails for virtual reality hardware manufacturers, will be a reality for the HTC Vive by the end of 2018. Unveiled at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, the HTC Vive will be receiving a powerful new model this year and an adaptor for wireless use.

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Film Review: The Post (USA, 2017) is a thrilling look at a significant point in history

These days the words, “The Post” are more likely to get you thinking about a blog then a newspaper. In fact, Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Post is all about history and a bygone era in print journalism. It’s a historic thriller and bio-pic that looks at how The Washington Post handled the decision to…

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5 video games we’re looking forward to in 2018

It’s a new year, which means that there’s gonna be a lot of new releases. Its also 2018, which means that we’re gonna get our hands on soo many amazing titles. It was hard enough to narrow my list down to just 5 games, but these are the ones that I know with 100% certainty…

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Aussies Abroad: Amy Shark, Dean Lewis, Alex Lahey & more head to the 6th Annual BottleRock Napa Valley

The lineup for the 6th annual BottleRock Napa Valley festival was announced today, with a slew of Australians joining the impressive music, wine, food and craft brew event, held annually in heart of the Californian city of Napa. The event runs at the Napa Valley expo for three days from the 25th to the 27th…

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Interview: Phil Jamieson on stepping from rock n roll into musical theatre with American Idiot

Having led one of the country’s most beloved rock bands for over 20 years now, Grinspoon‘s Phil Jamieson is well used to stepping out on to stage with thousands of faces looking back at him. Which is why it might seem like a natural fit for a performer such as he to join the cast of American Idiot,…

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Sydney Festival Review: The Town Hall Affair argues the need for more lively feminist debates

The original “Town Hall” debate was no ordinary affair. So it should come as no surprise that the one-act play based on this historic event is no ordinary piece of theatre. The show comes courtesy of New York’s The Wooster Group and rather than a straight, re-telling of an already chaotic feminist discussion, they inject…

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Bondi’s The Stuffed Beaver opens new diner in Crows Nest (Sydney)

From Bondi to the Lower North Shore, popular American-style diner The Stuffed Beaver has officially expanded, opening up a new venue in Crows Nest with a playful rock ‘n’ roll dive vibe with the winning combo if indulgent food, cold brews, and a giant 120-inch screen for sports fanatics of all kinds. The space, with…

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Review: Handmade seafood pastas a strong point for Olio Kensington Street (Sydney)

Looking out those big arched windows down onto bustling Kensington Street while heaping through some lovely handmade pasta in a generous, well-designed historic space atop The Old Rum Store is my idea of a good evening out. As is sipping a perfectly refreshing nergroni on an open-air terrazza (terrace) while the faint summer breeze blows…

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Live Review: Vince Staples goes heavy on production for memorable Sydney show

I’ve never heard a Vince Staples song I didn’t like. The tough, nihilistic tone of his own brand of no-frills hip hop is perfectly placed over just about any contemporary production with even the slightest bounce to it, frantically transforming each beat with his elastic flow and nasal cadence whether it lean towards EDM or…

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Interview: Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains set to debut Solide Mirage in Australia at the Adelaide French Festival

With the inaugural Adelaide French Festival just around the corner, we’ve been finding out some more about the artists and shows that will be coming to the Adelaide Festival Centre this January 12th – 14th. One of these groups is the talented Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains. Bringing their latest album Solide Mirage out to Australia, the band are…

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Music Video of the Day: Belle Miners “Night Flight” (2018)

Folk-pop trio Belle Miners are currently on the road with their Powerful Owl record; an album we’ve come across in recent weeks and have been struck by. Blending gorgeous harmonies with stunning folk-pop instrumentation, Belle Miners’ “Night Flight” is already a winner in our eyes and today, we’re sharin’ the music video so you can get switched on…

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Live Review: Field Day conquers sound issues in bringing a great New Year’s Day experience to the Domain

You should start the new year off celebrating and having fun, so what better than to dance in a field with over 26,000 fellow friends? With three stages at The Domain, I did exactly that on January 1st at the Sydney’s Field Day. Starting the day early in full sunshine on the Centre Field stage was E^ST, who…

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