When I was a kid, around eight or nine years old, on rainy evenings, my Uncle would tell my cousins, and I duppy (ghost) stories. He would sit by the open back door as the rain poured outside, and the faint sound of thunder rolled across the sky. We…
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Duppy Stories: Teeth Like These
When I was a kid, around eight or nine years old, on rainy evenings, my Uncle would tell my cousins, and I duppy (ghost) stories. He would sit by the open back door as the rain poured outside, and the faint sound of thunder rolled across the sky. We sat…
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Quickie Review: IT Chapter 2 – The Funniest Movie This Year [Spoiler Review]
There will be spoilers in this review IT Chapter 1 was the scariest movie I’d seen in 2017, there were so many scenes that caught me off guard. It had a lot of creepy imagery that, to me, was very scary. It was a disturbing film that used its scares…
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Trailer Park: Bad Boys for Life & Creepshow
Bad Boys for Life Let me tell you a quick story when I was 8 years old, my dad worked a lot. Usually, he worked nights, and I didn’t really see him that much. When I was going to school he was coming in from work and going to bed,…
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#Throwback #SecondLife Revisited: The Twisted Hunt
The Torch EG has had an on and off-again relationship with the virtual world Second Life over its 8 years of life. That’s a long time. We began life as a Second Life based blog and expanded to entertainment outside of the virtual world, but now and again we like…
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Take This Shines Light on Mental Health Within the Game Industry
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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