Type in Video Games and Mental Health into your Search Engine and you will come across a lot of articles speaking about how video games affect your mental health. However, one topic that seems to be slip by, but has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years surrounds the…
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Virtual News: Happy Birthday Second Life
This weekend marked the 16th birthday of the virtual would of Second Life. Founded on June 23rd 2003 by Philip Rosedale, and now sustained and ran by Linden Labs headed by Ebbe Altberg, the virtual world grew to become a powerhouse with its open source engine, house 50,000 users and…
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‘The Sinking City’ Joins The Lovecraft Universe
We all love a bit of H.P. Lovecraft here at the Torch EG, so any piece of media that shows off his work and adds to the Lovecraftian mythos we are always totally on board with. Enter, ‘The Sinking City’ an upcoming action investigation games that is inspired by the…
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Virtual News Bites: Things That Are Too Short To Go Into a Post of Their Own.
My.SecondLife Back Online. Recently the virtual world of Second Life lost their profiles, as my.secondlife.com, the site that housed all of the residents’ profiles went down for three days. What is my.secondlife? It is the social network site of the virtual world of Second Life. Residents can update their status,…
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GTFO, It’s A Grid Drive!
The residents in the virtual world of Second Life (SL) are always finding new and unique ways to entertain themselves in the vast virtual realm. From opening clubs, making clothes and building structures such as houses, anyone would argue that giving residents the right tools can help them to create their…
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Evolution of the Chatbot
The artificial assistant has been around for some time now, since the mid-90’s Clippy for Microsoft Office. Today’s version is much more intelligent, and we helped it get there. Today we see them everywhere, as in-store assistants, as sales representatives and even as medical helplines. The chatbot has become so…
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Book Review: Stranded With the Cyborg by Cara Bristol
Stranded with the Cyborg is a 2015 Erotic Romance Novel by Cara Bristol. Assigned to be the bodyguard of his former protectee, Penelope Isabella Aaron the daughter of the ex-president of the Alliance of Planets as she embarks on her first diplomatic mission as Terran Ambassador, CY-OPS Cyborg Agent Brock…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | SHAZAM!
Having disbanded their cinematic universe, instead deciding to focus more on the standalone films for their array of superheroes, allowing them space to breathe and not be under pressure to have everything build to something major, the DCEU picked themselves up off the floor with Aquaman. After the disaster that…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | US
Riding on the wave of success Get Out has provided him with since 2017, Jordan Peele returns with Us, a psychological horror that promises to get under your skin even more than his debut effort managed to. Peele showed innovation aplenty with Get Out, the social commentary apparent in the…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews | CAPTAIN MARVEL
With the 21st feature film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios have their first female-led superhero film in Captain Marvel. This is something that should be celebrated but we unfortunately live in a world where internet trolls try and trash a film before it’s even released, the most ludicrous…
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