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Category: Gaming

UCC Gaming in 2019 and beyond

By Express Staff   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on April 10, 2019June 25, 2020

2019 could still prove to be on of UCC’s most prosperous years for gamers. With greater opportunities to come, this article will sum up some of these: Netsoc UCC Netsoc will continue to offer weekly gaming events, ranging from tournaments to more casual gaming. All events will be placed on social media before hand so…

Netsoc Rebels narrowly miss out on qualification

By Cathal Donovan O Neill   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on April 9, 2019April 8, 2019

Disappointment for UCC Esports as the League of Legends squad failed to qualify for the next round of Irish Collegiate Esports. A combination of bad luck and overaggressive plays resulted in the Netsoc Rebels missing out on a place in the knockout stages by one point despite their hugely positive start. The team’s third game…

Revolution not evolution: The Games Industry’s troubling record with innovation

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on April 9, 2019April 8, 2019

Last week saw the announcement of the Google Stadia, a console which I covered in this paper a few months back when it was leaked under the code name ‘Project Stream’. Stadia is without a doubt an ambitious project and stands at a level of innovation that the industry is crying out for in its…

Netsoc Rebels

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on March 20, 2019March 19, 2019

Just a week after its formation, The UCC Esports team was met with some disappointing news. Due to issues with other colleges, the inter collegiate Overwatch Tournament was cancelled. The team were obviously disappointed, but will be given another opportunity to represent UCC during the summer Overwatch tournament. This left the Rebels’ League of Legends…

Rinse and Repeat: Moral Panic, Violence and Video-Games

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on March 20, 2019March 19, 2019

Violent video games are nothing new. Wolfenstein (1992), Doom (1993) and Mortal Kombat (1992) are all household names in the video game communities. As technological advances lead to more and more realistic video games, the violence that games portrays becomes much more real also. This article is not here to debate whether or not this…

Violence in Video Games

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019

Violent video games are nothing new. Wolfenstein (1992), Doom (1993) and Mortal Kombat (1992) are all household names in the video game communities. As technological advances lead to more and more realistic video games, the violence that games portrays becomes much more real also. This article is not here to debate whether or not this…

Gaming is good for you – the Mental, Physical and Social Benefits

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on February 24, 2019February 22, 2019

Often, in modern culture, video games are portrayed in a negative light. Whether it be isolation, deterioration of mental and physical health or the formulation of violent thoughts. While some of these arguments may hold some merit, they are often conflated as fact. In recent years, certain aspects of the media have attempted to link…

UCC Netsoc Announces Esports Team

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on February 24, 2019February 22, 2019

This week, UCC Netsoc, the Networking, Gaming and Technology Society, has entered a team into Irish Collegiate Esports’s Overwatch Collegiate Championship.  A team of 6 UCC students will compete at inter-varsity level against various colleges across Ireland. The Netsoc Rebels will be the first official UCC eSports team to compete in any Irish Collegiate Esports…

WARPCON XXIX

By Cian McGrath   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on February 24, 2019February 22, 2019

WARPCON is an annual gaming convention run by the UCC WARPS Society. WARPCON is a three-day gaming event hosted on the campus of University College Cork and is one of the best options in Ireland for a weekend of fun, games and just pure shenanigans. This year’s convention ran from January 25th to 27th. The…

Worst Gaming Peripherals

By Express Staff   Posted in Byline Gaming
Posted on February 16, 2019February 14, 2019

Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Included as a part of Tony Hawk: Ride, this controller was literally a skateboard, that you were meant to balance on as if were a controller. Poor build quality definitely didn’t help this ridiculous idea. Game Boy Booster Boy The game boy was huge, like insanely huge, when it was released….

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