Summerslam Preview

For the first time in a long time, WWE seem to have decided to make Summerslam a big deal.  Always seen by the fans as one of the bigger events.  Recent years have failed to live up to those expectations.  There have been some big moments, Lesnar demolishing Cena for example, but the event has always felt a few notches below Wrestlemania.  This year it feels different.  Not only has the show been expanded to four hours, but we have a huge main event and the kind of celebrity participation that is usually reserved for the biggest show of the year.  Summerslam feels like a big deal and what goes down this Sunday, could well shape the WWE all the way up to Wrestlemania.

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Frank Turner – Positive Songs for Negative People

Frank Turner has had one hell of a career since the end of Million Dead back in 2005.  He has played 1708 solo shows (as of Sunday the 9th of August 2015) and released six albums.  That’s not even mentioning side projects like the brilliant Mongol Horde.  In that time, he’s risen from playing the back rooms of pubs to a handful of people, to selling out arenas, all seemingly off the back of word of mouth and good songs.  It’s a journey that now continues with Positive Songs for Negative People.

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Southpaw

Boxing films are notoriously hard to pull off.  They can go from the sublime to the ridiculous very easily, as director’s try to capture the frantic nature of the sport.  The truth is that the best boxing films don’t focus on the sport itself, but the people involved in it.  Which is exactly what Southpaw tries to do.

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WWE 2K16

Footage has just been released of WWE 2K16, showing that…  well it’s pretty much the same as all the other ones.  WWE games have been running off the same tired engine for years now and even with a change in developer, it doesn’t look likely to stop anytime soon.  Sadly, that engine just doesn’t work and creates an experience that has more in common with a fighting game than a wrestling game.

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Roddy Piper

If John McClane had been fighting against a faceless bad guy in Die Hard it’s a safe bet that it, like hundreds of other action films, would have been forgotten instantly.  Hans Gruber made him, because a good guy needs a bad guy.  Roddy Piper was that bad guy.  He was the ying to Hulk Hogan’s yang and it’s a pretty safe bet that without the Hot Rod, Hulk Hogan would never have reached the height of celebrity that he did.  On the week that it came out that Hulk wasn’t the squeaky clean American hero that he wanted us all to believe, Roddy had to upstage him once again.  Sadly, this time he did it by leaving this Earth behind.

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Lamb of God – Sturm und Dran

If tough times create great music, then we can all be forgiven for getting a little bit excited about the new Lamb of God album.  Throw in the fact that they are consistently one of the best heavy metal bands we have and Sturm Und Drang already feels like a contender for album of the year.  However, after all the shit that Lamb Of God, and in particular lead singer Randy Blythe, have had to go through in the last couple of years, can it really stand up to fan’s expectations?

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Lifeline

The rise of mobile gaming has led to a lot of crap.  Free to play games, which in reality require you to pay several hundred pounds to actually achieve anything, and thousands of clones of more successful games.  However, it’s also led to some very interesting developments in text adventure games and other experiences of that ilk.  One example of that is Lifeline, a text adventure that sees you communicating with an astronaut who has been stranded on a moon.

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