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Andrew Carroll

Andrew Carroll

Andrew is a graduate of English and Film Studies in UCD where he wrote for the Film & TV section of the University Observer. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland and currently resides there. Andrew has had a lifelong interest in film and despite being consistently outspoken on the matter insists that The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the best film ever made. He also maintains a blog at carrollcritiques.wordpress.com

Film

“Ripley Signing Off…” | Alien at 40

Andrew Carroll
It sucks when you don’t get along with your co-workers. It makes every shift a drag and makes most jobs even worse than they already are. Now imagine your job is hauling 20 million tonnes of ore through deep space with a group of people…
Gaming

6 of the Worst Mission Types in Gaming

Andrew Carroll
We all have bad days in our jobs. We all have days where we say "Fuck it" and throw a bunch of crap together and call it work. The same can be said of missions in video games. A great deal of early video games have missions that now seem…
Gaming

The Greatest Video Game Action Sequences

Andrew Carroll
There are plenty of video games that don't need a good action sequence to get their story or intention across but that's not why we're here today. Today we're here to talk, in the words of a great man, about "Babes, bullets and bombs!" Well…
Gaming

Reggie Retires, An Industry Salutes

Andrew Carroll
The name Reggie Fils-Aimé may not be familiar to everyone but in the modern world of gaming it's a name bestowed upon a man, a myth and a legend. Two days ago on April 15 Reggie Fils-Aimé, President and COO of Nintendo America, retired. Not…