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Video Game Review:
‘Winter Ember’

Become the long assumed dead aristocrat, Arthur Artorias, as he takes revenge upon Greater Heaven, a religious order with an iron grip on the remains of his homestead.

April 22, 2022 — Is it just me, or are stealth games inherently silly? Any genre that features grown men crouching and crawling around in the shadows, sidestepping like a demented crab escaping from a rock pool is not one that can be taken seriously. The silliness doesn’t stop there, however. Each game features guards with the memories of goldfish and copious patches of long grass to hide in (why do sinister organizations never do any mowing?)

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Full Moon Fortnight: Herknungr, NYTT LAND, Dreyma, Månegarm, Powerwolf, Etc.

By way of the “Pink Moon“, so far April has graced the Kurgan with some fantastic releases and brand new sounds from folk and metal artists from all over the world.

April 16, 2022 — The first half of April has brought tons of musical excellence by way of the dawn goddess as she dances forth under the Pink Moon. Spring-time full moons were unique events to our ancestors and in heathen cultures. Known as the “Pink Moon”, it is so named due to the blooming of wildflowers in April — hence, the name is somewhat misleading as the moon won’t actually appear pink. Read on for the rundown.

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New Moon Fortnight: Neofolk & metal by Noiduin, Bjarla, Sowulo, Faun, Danheim, Foresaga, Etc.

In this ‘New Moon Fortnight’ we cast an eye over the latest and greatest Kurgan-approved releases in neofolk and metal, and a couple of new, promising artists.

April 1, 2022 — As the new moon of April occurs on the first date of the first month of magical spring, the forces of folk and metal team up once more to gift the world with a variety of artistic endeavors and some rather epic music. With such a bountiful bevy of recently-released material, we put veteran music journalist James Paterson to task with articulating the finer points of today’s neofolk and metal rundown.

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Video Game Review:
‘Syberia: The World Before’

‘The World Before’ intertwines two timelines; that of Daha Roze, a pianist in the fictional country of Osthethal in the 1930s, with protagonist Kate Walker in the 2000s.

March 31, 2022Syberia: The World Before is a game all about history, albeit not in purely narrative terms, even though its dual storylines are set in both the 1930s and at the turn of the millennium around the early 2000s. Rather, it is in its gameplay mechanics and structure that this latest installment in the adventures of Kate Walker reveals itself to be a video game firmly stuck in the past — in a few good ways.

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