Game Design with Dr Eben Muse and Dr Melissa Kagen
By Sinclair Davis Folklore, mythology and film studies; German studies. These are probably not the first words that spring to mind when thinking of designing games. But perhaps they aren’t as far...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pulsar, Lost Colony
is pretty fun. I figured I’d start the article by getting to the point. I suppose I’ll elaborate a bit, tempting as it is to chuckle, hit save, and put this in a side column. Pulsar is a developing...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Gaz Thomas, the Bangor graduate that conquered free gaming
Gaz Thomas, 36, is a local from Llandudno Junction who started making games as a hobby in 2008, while studying at Bangor. His website, freegames.org, is now the first-ranked free games site in the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Imperator: Rome
Imperator: Rome, the newest grand strategy from Paradox Interactive, was released on the 25th of April. At the time of writing, it is the 26th of April, and I have logged 12 hours in the game. So,...
View ArticleBangor Mountain is on fire again
A fire has been reported on Bangor Mountain today. The fire is now almost completely extinguished, and no injuries or damage have been reported. Bangor firefighters were called to the fire at around 3...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Your New Vice-Chancellor, Professor Iwan Davies
Tell us about your academic past before you became Vice-Chancellor Well, I’m an academic lawyer, although I also practiced at the Bar. Essentially, my whole life has really centered around finance law,...
View ArticleUniBeat- Bangor graduate develops social media app
Bangor graduate, Meina Tang, has been working on launching a social media platform in Bangor for the past year. She is the founder of UniBeat, a free app intended for students to share their...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Strike March: Bangor protest takes to the streets
Yesterday Bangor participated in a worldwide network of protests pushing for action to be taken to combat climate change. Four million protestors joined the demonstration worldwide. School children,...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Strike March: Voices of the protest
Yesterday saw crowds marching through Bangor in protests supporting School Strike for Climate, a global movement pushing for action to be taken on climate change. (for more information, see our main...
View ArticleCanoeists paddle 25 miles to attend Bangor’s Climate Strike March
Plenty of protestors crossed many miles to reach Bangor’s Climate Strike March yesterday. However, only two of those travellers elected to do so under their own power, in a canoe. Luke McNair and Deio...
View ArticleBangor Students march for People’s Vote
Bangor students marched with hundreds of thousands of protesters in London on Saturday 26th October. This is the fourth major London protest organised by People’s Vote, a campaign group launched in...
View ArticleINTERVIEWS: Bangor’s People’s Vote Marchers
Osian, 22 (voted Remain in 2016) Why are you marching for the People’s Vote today? The urgency of the matter. We’re getting nearer to the 31st of October now and it looks like we’re going to crash out...
View ArticleBangor History: The University
In examining the history of Bangor, it is impossible to ignore Bangor University. Even more so for one of its students, writing in one of its studios, on one of its computers, with its logo sewn on to...
View ArticleQuarantined introvert struggling with guilt of quite enjoying this
Local introvert Tom Thomson has been struck with the unfortunate realisation that he quite likes quarantine, despite an ever-rising worldwide death toll. This comes just after Thomson declined to press...
View ArticleBangor team funded to investigate personal data collection
Image from www.thoughtcatalog.com (CC BY 2.0) A team from Bangor University has been funded by the UK Government to work on a project aimed at giving citizens more control of their personal data. The...
View ArticleArt Society Upcycling – Sustainability Week
The Bangor Art Society held an upcycling workshop last week in celebration of sustainability week at the university. Upcycling is the idea of recycling materials to produce something more valuable than...
View ArticleCanolfan Brailsford to remain a Rainbow Hospital until March
Canolfan Brailsford, Bangor University’s sports and leisure facility, is due to remain a temporary NHS hospital until at least March 2021. The facility began conversion into a hospital in April, and...
View ArticleStrikes on the horizon: Bangor staff declare motion of no confidence
Bangor’s UCU (University & College Union) has partnered with two other trade unions, Unite and Unison, to demand talks with the university under threat of strikes. UCU members have also passed a...
View ArticleWhat’s on the chopping block? A school-by-school summary of the Bangor...
Faced with a £13m hole in the budget, Bangor University has released several business cases detailing their plans to make savings. This includes their controversial decision to cut 200 jobs, which has...
View ArticleHave we lost our marbles? How 500k of us resorted to watching personified...
Photo by Nick Harris (CC BY-ND 2.0) You may or may not have heard of the YouTube channel Jelle’s Marble Runs, or its various sporting series: The Marble League (AKA the MarbleLympics), Marbula One, or...
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