Daily Archives: December 17, 2009

Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend

  By Stephen Colfer | December 17, 2009 - 7:27 pm | Games, The Culch
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Team Fortress 2 is the best online multiplayer game ever. It’s perfectly balanced, competitive, insanely fun, cheap and above all doesn’t take itself in the slightest bit seriously. Valve’s now 2 year old masterpiece is free to play in it’s entirity for the weekend. It’s available to preload on PC now, so you can start playing straight away once it all goes live this evening. No charge, no catch, all you need is a Steam Account which is also free. It should run on pretty much any computer bought in the last 2-3 years. Already own Team Fortress 2? Did I mention there’s yet another completely free update to the game once again adding more content than most paid for DLC expansions.

Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.9

  By Niall | December 17, 2009 - 2:12 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Today brings us to my one and only foreign language film in the Top 25, well I say one and only but there is another yet to come that has large parts not in English. This film proves that great cinema, strong story-telling and indeed good old-fashioned scares are not subject to the constraints of language. A true fright at 9 is…

The Longest Night - CODES and Gemma Hayes joined by Glen Hansard

  By Darren Byrne | December 17, 2009 - 11:33 am | Events, Music, The Culch
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The 21st of December is the longest night of the year, the worst night of the year to be without a home. Dublin Simon Community are asking you to get onboard and play your part in ending homelessness this December 21st. Some of Ireland’s hottest music acts have been lined up to perform at Dublin Simon’s Longest Night gig on the 21st at The Button Factory, Temple Bar. Dublin’s newest music sensation and friends of Culch.ie, CODES, have been confirmed to perform at the event, along with one of Ireland’s most accomplished female artists, Gemma Hayes. Also performing will be the extraordinarily talented Colm Mac Con Iomaire, the fiddle player with The Frames. Colm supported Swell Season last December in the Olympia and was amazing in his own right. Speaking of Swell Season, Glen Hansard has just been confirmed to join the lineup. The Longest Night is a fundraising project … There’s more →