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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Facebook just became relevant again

    Facebook has been hitting the headlines in recent weeks, first with it’s mammoth WhatsApp purchase (really they payed all that money for an audience of ‘feature phone’ users in the developing world), and then it’s shocking entry into VR with the Oculus takeover. Today Facebook announced something that, at least in the short term, could… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 12 – Sex & Sexuality

    Download: Episode 12 We discuss… 1) Guilt of the video game millionaires 2) Interesting article by Samantha Allen about joining the fringe medium of ‘queer’ games with the mainstream gaming audience. It highlights the veritable renaissance of sexual politics video games. 3) What we’ve been playing – GTA 5, Brothers a tale of two sons Read more

  • ‘Mad Scientists of Music’ – April Update

    It’s April and I’m closing in on a final shape for the show. It’s been almost a year since I started preliminary research and interviews for ‘Mad Scientists‘, an enormously self indulgent amount of time to work on a radio documentary series. And yet, I feel I’ve hardly scratched the surface of the Irish experimental… Read more

  • Bathos – Episode 3 – The Gareth Stack Show Live

    This weeks show featured interviews with horror writer Graham Tugwell, and esoteric religious expert, writer and publisher Andrew Philip Smith. We also have two fantastic short stories from Irish writer Patrick O’Flaherty. The show was produced by superproducer Ronan Misteil, and presented by Andrew Booth. Special guest was Gareth Stack. The show is produced live… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 11 – A Rift In Cyberspace

    Download: Episode 11 We discuss… 1) With the first teasers and trailers released for next gen only Ubi titles like Assasins Creed Unity (5), and The Division – what can we expect from the next generation – Indie game ‘the vanishing of Ethan Carter’ from ex people can fly dev, amongst the first to use… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 10

    Download: Episode 10 We discuss… 1) More VR rumours Sony’s VR unit ‘morpheus’ – 300 dollars / euro with camera (loss leader) – will be named PS View or imagine or some crap – may be out before Rift (early 2015) – lots of software in development in house – including VR Last of Us,… Read more