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POV: The Haunted Island A Frog Detective Game

POV: The Haunted Island A Frog Detective Game

Browsing one of my favourite gaming news websites, Destructoid, I came across a recommendation for this game (currently sold for $1 on Humble Bundle and £3.99 on Steam). The game in question is “Grace Bruxner presents: The Haunted Island a Frog Detective Game”, and despite its long title, the game itself is quite short with a completion time of an hour. I instantly knew I was in for a good time upon discovering that the game’s graphic settings had been replaced with lyrics to ‘Low by Flo Rida’ – of course, being a man of culture, I chose “apple bottom jeans” as my graphics setting.

The menu screen of the game also had me chuckling as I saw on the left an anthropomorphic frog that was clearly high as a kite and on the right a sloth that looked like it was on PCP. To add further to my experience was surprisingly nice jazz piano music playing in the background. Featuring seriously thought out names like Lobster Cop, Mo “Mouse” Mouse, Fresh X (the alligator) and a load of other quirky characters, this game is not to be taken seriously in the slightest. The humour featured is very much dead-pan jokes, delivered alongside a buffet of wholesomeness, making the game that much more adorable.

The adorableness continues with the whole entire basis of the game’s mystery being “there’s a sloth who is hearing a lot of spooky ghost noises around his island” … that’s literally it. Treading on similar lines as Poirot, the low polygon frog detective must endeavour to figure out the mystery. It is my recommendation that you get the game for 77p from the humble bundle deal, Day of the Dev, just so you can experience an hour of chill music, wholesomeness and quirky dead-pan humour.

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POV: Super Mario Bros. Film Because That Exists!

POV: Super Mario Bros. Film Because That Exists!

This week I sacrificed my Sunday evening to watch (again) the horrific video game movie that is “Super Mario Bros.”. Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, the film was both atrocious in its directing and actual content, with so much miscommunication between previous directors and Nintendo that the eventual

By Connor Winzar
How the Supreme Court ruling on gender is impacting queer people at Imperial

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How the Supreme Court ruling on gender is impacting queer people at Imperial

Last month, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010), the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.  The case brought before the court, For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, asked if transgender women should be included

By Oscar Mitcham and Isabella Duchovny
College opens Imperial Global India in Bengaluru

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College opens Imperial Global India in Bengaluru

Imperial College London has launched its fourth global hub in Bengaluru. The hub will host research programmes with Indian partners, focusing on some of “the world’s most pressing challenges in areas such as climate change and sustainability, food and water security, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).” Launched at the Science

By Mohammad Majlisi