Daily Archives: October 8, 2010

Patrick Liu Interview, Medal of Honor Multiplayer Producer

  By Stephen Colfer | October 8, 2010 - 12:00 pm | Games
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While on a quick trip to show off Medal of Honor’s Multiplayer to Ireland, I had a chance to sit down with its Producer Patrick Liu from Dice. here’s what he had to say concerning Medal of Honor’s Game modes, harking back to the old school and truely balanced gameplay. Culchie: Was the community feedback from the Beta what you were expected or did it take things in a different direction? Patrick Liu: Most of the stuff was expected, the cry for more recoil thing was not so much, at first we wanted to make a game that was more accessible but obviously people wanted something more of a hardcore game and we’re fine with that! We love that and we did that! Culchie: You’ve mentioned how your basic deathmatch mode, Team Assult harks back to old school level design, what aspects do you think have been lost now that … There’s more →

300 Years of Smithwick’s

  By Anto | October 8, 2010 - 11:50 am | Competitions, Featured Post, Site News, Tourism
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The following is a guest post by Christian Hughes. Christian is a social media advocate and enthusiast and runs the popular digital marketing blog, Digitology. He can also be found on Twitter: @christianhughes Culch has written about Guinness of late with Arthur’s Day just gone but what many people don’t realise is that Guinness isn’t Ireland’s oldest pint, and St. James’s Gate isn’t Ireland’s oldest brewery! 2010 marks the 300 year birthday for the Smithwick’s St. Francis Abbey Brewery in Kilkenny. To celebrate the milestone, the brewery has thrown open it’s doors and is inviting the public to tour the brewery. Always striving to keep you guys informed and not needing a second invite to view a brewery, Anthony and I were delighted to recently attend a private tour to get the full story.

Review: The Social Network

  By brogen | October 8, 2010 - 9:00 am | Movies & TV, The Culch, The Internet
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In autumn 2003, after being dumped by his girlfriend, Harvard student and computer whizz kid Mark Zuckerberg had an idea. This idea was to create a version of hotornot.com solely focused on students at the university. The site was quickly shut down, but not before it had received 250,000 hits in just a few hours. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss hear of Zuckerberg’s technical know how and invite him to help them create an online community exclusively for Harvard students – the Harvard Connection. Refining the Winklevoss twins’ initial idea, Zuckerberg creates The Facebook, an immediate success. This film tells the story of the early years of Facebook and the accusations Zuckerberg faced about intellectual property theft.

An Introduction to … Elliott Smith

  By Lisa McInerney | October 8, 2010 - 8:17 am | Music
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Should the pesky kids in your life be deaf to everything but what’s screamed out by blubbing monkeys on The X Factor, should you be nearing tears yourself on the back of the conundrum that pits you somewhere between recognising Simon Cowell’s unifying impact on your family’s Saturday nights and his evil death grip on the gullet of the arts, should you be reaching, grasping for some gentle way of re-educating the generation below yours, well, have I got just the yoke for you. On October 29, Domino will release An Introduction to … Elliott Smith on CD and lovely collectable vinyl. It will feature fourteen tracks compiled from all seven of Elliott’s albums: Roman Candle, Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO, Figure 8, From A Basement on the Hill, and New Moon. Domino state their intention as “enabling new generations to learn about Elliott’s music by providing a pathway for people to delve more deeply into his … There’s more →