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From Preparation To Exploration: Navigating Travel As A Gamer

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From Preparation To Exploration: Navigating Travel As A Gamer

Travelling as a gamer presents unique challenges and opportunities. Whether you’re attending gaming conventions, exploring new gaming destinations, or simply gaming on the go, careful planning and preparation are essential for a smooth and enjoyable experience. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore a range of travel tips tailored specifically for gamers, covering everything from packing essentials to maximising gaming experiences while on the road.

Pack Smart: Essential Gear For Gaming Travel

When packing for a gaming trip, it’s crucial to prioritise essential gaming gear to ensure you have everything you need for an immersive gaming experience. Key items to consider include:

  • Portable Gaming Console: Let’s start with the basics, shall we? A handheld emulator device and a portable gaming console are essential for gaming on the go.
  • Gaming Laptop: A high-performance gaming laptop is a must-have for gamers who prefer PC gaming or need more versatility while travelling.
  • Gaming Accessories: Travel can be unpredictable, with delays, strikes and breakdowns setting you back. Don’t forget to pack essential gaming accessories such as portable controllers, gaming headphones, and spare batteries or power banks to keep your devices charged.
  • Travel Cases and Bags: Invest in durable travel cases or bags designed specifically for gaming gear to protect your consoles, laptops, and accessories while on the move.

Internet Connectivity: Stay Connected For Online Gaming

A reliable internet connection is crucial for online gaming while travelling. To ensure you stay connected on the go, consider the following tips:

  • Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot: Invest in a portable Wi-Fi hotspot or a data SIM card for your smartphone or tablet to ensure you have internet access wherever you go.
  • Research Connectivity Options: Research the internet connectivity options available at your travel destinations, such as Wi-Fi availability in hotels or cafes, and plan accordingly to avoid interruptions to your gaming sessions.

Maximise Gaming Experiences: Explore New Destinations

Travelling presents an excellent opportunity to explore new gaming destinations and experiences. Consider the following tips for maximising your gaming experiences while on the road:

  • Visit Gaming Cafes and Arcades: Research gaming cafes, arcades, and gaming-themed attractions at your travel destinations to immerse yourself in local gaming culture and meet fellow gamers.
  • Attend Gaming Conventions and Events: Check for gaming conventions, esports tournaments, and gaming-related events happening at your travel destinations and plan your trip around these events for an unforgettable gaming experience.

Stay Informed: Use Up-To-Date Review Sites

Before embarking on your gaming travels, it’s essential to stay informed about the latest games, gaming gear, and travel tips for gamers. Utilise up-to-date review sites dedicated to gaming for valuable insights and recommendations:

  • Comprehensive Reviews: Look for review sites that offer comprehensive reviews, comparisons, and recommendations for gaming consoles, laptops, accessories, and games.
  • Online Casino Reviews: It can be frustrating to fancy a few games of online slots while you’re travelling but do not know where to start. Find reviews of the best slot sites in the UK before you travel to ensure you enjoy the best gaming experience. This way, you don’t need to waste any time.
  • Travel Tips and Guides: Review sites often provide insights into gaming communities, events, and conventions happening around the world, allowing you to plan your gaming travels and experiences accordingly.

Explore Local Gaming Communities: Connect With Fellow Gamers

One of the most rewarding aspects of gaming travel is the opportunity to connect with fellow gamers and explore local gaming communities. Consider the following tips for immersing yourself in the local gaming scene:

  • Gaming Meetups and Events: Research local gaming meetups, tournaments, and events happening at your travel destination. Joining these gatherings is a great way to meet like-minded gamers, exchange gaming tips, and make new friends.
  • Gaming Cafes and LAN Centres: Seek out gaming cafes, LAN centres, and esports venues where gamers gather to socialise and compete. These establishments often host gaming tournaments, viewing parties, and other gaming-related activities that you can participate in or observe.
  • Online Gaming Communities: Join online gaming communities and forums dedicated to the gaming scene in your travel destination. Engaging with local gamers online can provide valuable insights into the gaming culture and help you connect with gaming enthusiasts before your trip.

Document Your Gaming Travels: Create Gaming Travel Memories

Documenting your gaming travels is a fun and creative way to preserve and share your gaming experiences with others. Consider the following ways to document your gaming adventures:

  • Travel Blog or Vlog: Start a travel blog or vlog dedicated to your gaming travels. Share your gaming experiences, travel tips, and insights with your audience through written posts, videos, and photos.
  • Social Media: Use social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to document your gaming adventures in real time. Share photos, videos, and stories of your gaming experiences with your followers and engage with the gaming community online.
  • Gaming Travel Journal: Keep a gaming travel journal to record your thoughts, memories, and highlights from your gaming travels. Include details such as the games you played, the people you met, and the gaming venues you visited to create a lasting memento of your gaming adventures.

Incorporate Gaming Into Your Itinerary: Gaming-Themed Sightseeing

Integrating gaming into your travel itinerary can add a unique and memorable dimension to your overall travel experience. Consider the following ideas for incorporating gaming-themed sightseeing into your travels:

  • Gaming Landmarks: Research gaming-related landmarks and attractions at your travel destination, such as famous gaming studios, esports arenas, or gaming-themed museums. Plan visits to these locations to learn more about the history and culture of gaming.
  • Gaming Tours: Look for guided gaming tours or self-guided gaming trails that highlight notable gaming landmarks and hotspots in your travel destination. These tours often include visits to iconic gaming venues, historic gaming sites, and local gaming hangouts.
  • Gaming-Inspired Activities: Participate in gaming-inspired activities and experiences unique to your travel destination. Whether it’s a gaming-themed escape room, a virtual reality gaming experience, or a live-action role-playing event, incorporating gaming into your itinerary can add an exciting twist to your travels.

Conclusion: Level Up Your Travel Experience As A Gamer

Travelling as a gamer offers a unique blend of adventure, excitement, and gaming experiences. Following these travel tips tailored specifically for gamers can ensure a smooth and enjoyable journey while exploring new gaming destinations, meeting fellow gamers, and maximising your gaming experiences on the road. Whether you’re attending gaming conventions, exploring gaming cafes, or gaming on the go, careful planning and preparation will help you level up your travel experience as a gamer.

Four Different Beatles Biopics in the Works From Sam Mendes

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Four Different Beatles Biopics in the Works From Sam Mendes

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917, Skyfall) is planning to direct four different Beatles biopics, with each film focusing on a different member of the band. They’re all set to be released theatrically in 2027.

“I’m honored to be telling the story of the greatest rock band of all time, and excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies,” Mendes said in a statement. The project has full cooperation from the band’s surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the George Harrison and John Lennon Estates, and Apple Records.

Mendes will produce the films alongside Neal Street Productions’ Pippa Harris and Julie Pastor. “We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic experience: four films, told from four different perspectives which tell a single story about the most celebrated band of all time,” Harris commented. “To have The Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do this is an immense privilege. From our first meeting with Tom Rothman and Elizabeth Gabler, it was clear that they shared both our passion and ambition for this project, and we can’t think of a more perfect home than Sony Pictures.”

Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, added: “Theatrical movie events today must be culturally seismic. Sam’s daring, large-scale idea is that and then some. Pairing his premiere filmmaking team, with the music and the stories of four young men who changed the world, will rock audiences all over the globe. We are deeply grateful to all parties and look forward ourselves to breaking some rules with Sam’s uniquely artistic vision.”

Lightning Bug Announce New Album ‘No Paradise’, Release New Single

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Lightning Bug Announce New Album ‘No Paradise’, Release New Single

After sharing a couple of demos, Lightning Bug have formally announced their upcoming album, No Paradise. The follow-up to 2021’s A Color of the Sky lands on May 2. New single ‘December Song’ comes with a video frontwoman Audrey Kang wrote, directed, and filmed on the Greek island of Andros. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.

Kang began writing No Paradise after completing a 4,000-mile motorcycle ride from Mexico to New York. Opening up about ‘December Song’, she said: “I’d just gotten back to New York City after spending every last droplet of energy I had on riding a motorcycle from Nayarit to NYC. When the trip was over, I fell into the lowest low I’ve known. December Song was my way of giving my life some meaning again, by thinking of my sadness as part of a story, a season. In the song, I retell the myth of Persephone from the perspective of Demeter as she awaits her daughter’s return to a land made barren with grief.”

Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Lightning Bug. 

No Paradise Cover Artwork:

No Paradise Tracklist:

1. On Paradise
2. The Quickening
3. The Flowering
4. The Withering
5. Opus
6. December Song
7. Serenade
8. Lullaby for Love
9. I Feel…
10. Morrow Song
11. Just Above My Head
12. No Paradise

Nourished by Time Announces New EP, Shares New Single ‘Hand on Me’

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Nourished by Time Announces New EP, Shares New Single ‘Hand on Me’

Nourished by Time has announced a new EP, Catching Chickens, the Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer’s first release for XL Recordings. Following his 2023 debut LP Erotic Probiotic 2, the 5-track collection will be out on March 22. To mark the news, he’s shared a new single, ‘Hand on Me’, along with a music video shot by Josh Renaut that’s “about being reminded that you’re an angel by other angels, featuring a surrealist commentary on celebrity culture,” according to Nourished by Time. Check it out below.

Catching Chickens EP Cover Artwork:

Catching Chickens EP Tracklist:

1. Hell of a Ride
2. Hand on Me
3. Poison-Soaked
4. Had Ya Called
5. Romance In Me

Couch Slut Announce New Album ‘You Could Do It Tonight’, Share New Song

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Couch Slut Announce New Album ‘You Could Do It Tonight’, Share New Song

Couch Slut have announced a new album: You Could Do It Tonight will be out April 19 via Brutal Panda. The follow-up to 2020’s Take a Chance on Rock ‘N’ Roll was recorded with Uniform’s Ben Greenberg and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios in London. Check out the new single ‘Ode to Jimbo’ below, along with the album artwork (by Leandro De Cotis and Tahir Carl Karmali) and tracklist.

“‘Ode to Jimbo’ is the first, like, love song that we’ve ever done, and I did that for my friend’s bar that I go to every day,” vocalist Megan Osztrosits said in a statement, referring to the Brooklyn bar Jimbo Slim’s.

You Could Do It Tonight Cover Artwork:

You Could Do It Tonight Tracklist:

1. Couch Slut Lewis
2. Ode To Jimbo
3. Wilkinson’s Sword
4. The Donkey
5. Presidential Welcome
6. Energy Crystals For Healing
7. Downhill Racer
8. Laughing and Crying
9. The Weaversville Home For Boys

Blunt Chunks Announces Debut Album ‘The Butterfly Myth’, Shares New Single

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Blunt Chunks Announces Debut Album ‘The Butterfly Myth’, Shares New Single

Blunt Chunks – the project of Toronto artist Caitlin Woelfle-O’Brien – has announced her debut album, The Butterfly Myth. It’s set for release on April 19 via Telephone Explosion. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Psyche’s Flight’, which features drummer Duncan Hood and keyboardist Nick Nausbaum – Woelfle-O’Brien’s bandmates in Jaunt – as well as percussionist Ed Squires, saxophonist Karen Ng, and keyboardist Diego Gaeta. Check it out below.

“‘Psyche’s Flight’ is a simple song about feeling better and being kinder to yourself,” Woelfle-O’Brien explained in a statement. “It was February, I had lost my Dad a few months prior, and I had the opportunity to partake in an artist residency on a Permaculture farm in Mexico. I escaped the Ontario Winter and felt the warm sun on me for the first time in ages. I wrote this song a week into the residency on the rooftop patio. I finally didn’t feel so depressed anymore and I guess it’s about that freeing, hopeful feeling you get when you travel somewhere new and beautiful. On a production level, I wanted the instrumentals to be euphoric and sunshiny. Like you’re immersed in a beautiful, new landscape for the first time. Duncan’s drumming really spiced things up and Karen’s sax harmonies give the layers of euphoria I was after.”

Recorded at Patchwork Sound studio, The Butterfly Myth also includes contributions from studio head David Plowman, co-producer Nathan Burley, as well as members of Queer Songbook Orchestra, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bernice, Mother Tongues, and more. “Getting together with people to create something is that much more special because, as you get older, you know what it’s like to be home alone, to be a little lost and isolated, wondering where your friends are,” Woelfle-O’Brien said. “To have so many people lift me up when I can’t lift myself up is a really beautiful part of the Blunt Chunks project”.

In 2022, Blunt Chunks released a self-titled EP, which made our best EPs of 2022 list.

The Butterfly Myth Cover Artwork:

The Butterfly Myth Tracklist:

1. Fill My Cup
2. Psyche’s Flight
3. High Hopes
4. Limbo
5. Every Day
6. You Are My Love
7. Breathe
8. Higher
9. Can’t Be The End

Young Jesus Announces New Album ‘The Fool’, Shares New Songs

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Young Jesus Announces New Album ‘The Fool’, Shares New Songs

Young Jesus has announced a new album, The Fool. The follow-up to 2022’s Shepherd Head is set to arrive on May 24 via Saddle Creek. Today’s announcement comes with the release of two new songs, lead single ‘Brenda & Diane’ and its companion track ‘Hollywood Ending’. Take a listen and find the album artwork and tracklist below.

According to a press release, Young Jesus’ John Rossiter decided to quit music following the release of Shepherd Head to focus on gardening. “You know, when gardening, the right decision to make for the landscape is usually the one that is already happening,” he said. “It just takes time to read what that is.”

After Shahzad Ismaily reached out to him over email, the musicians would improvise whenever they were in the same town, and Rossiter went on to record part of the album at Shahzad’s Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn. He crafted the songs at home in Los Angeles, working with Alex Babbitt and Alex Lappin.

Speaking about ‘Brenda & Diane’, Rossiter said in a statement:

Brenda and Diane are on the run. The main character thinks he’s better than them. But sits down to talk to them, to humor them. Sees that they have a whole, complex life. Humbling for the main character and his sense of superiority and judgment. Brenda and Diane invite him into life.

As with many of these songs, recording this tune mirrored the content of the song. Alex Lappin, the producer, really challenged me to craft a narrative with the vocal delivery. I was resistant because I like how I sing normally and I don’t like to deviate from my usual delivery– it makes me feel safe. Makes me feel detached.

But we really worked on this one, and I felt I left my ego a bit. Was able, thanks to Alex, to find what the song needed rather than what I wanted.

Of ‘Hollywood Ending’, he added:

The best part of this tune is the strings. Alex Babbitt arranged the strings and his parents, Frank and Cornelia, played cello and violin on it. Around that time, Frank had become very sick.

A couple months later, I was visiting family in Chicago over Thanksgiving. I went to the church I grew up going to with Alex and his brother Ben Babbitt. Ben played organ (pipes throughout the church!) and Alex and I sang, standing at opposite ends of the church. Improvising. We really grew into our voices in there, everything became so resonant, swirling. When we finished we knew we were present for something very special. We reached places vocally and emotionally that we don’t get to often. A few months later, Frank passed. This song is dedicated to the memory of Frank Babbitt.

In December, Young Jesus’ ‘The Weasel’ featured on the soundtrack of Brit Marling and Zal Batmangli’s FX show Murder At the End of the World. Revisit our inspirations interview with Young Jesus.

The Fool Cover Artwork:

The Fool Tracklist:

1. Brenda & Diane
2. Two Brothers
3. Rabbit
4. Rich
5. Moonlight
6. MOTY
7. The Weasel
8. Am I The Only One?
9. Sunrise
10. Dancer
11. God’s Plan

 

Kelly Moran Announces New Album ‘Moves in the Field’, Unveils New Song

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Kelly Moran Announces New Album ‘Moves in the Field’, Unveils New Song

Kelly Moran has announced a new LP called Moves in the Field, which is slated for release on March 29 via Warp. Following 2023’s Vesela EP, it marks the composer and pianist’s first album since 2018’s Ultraviolet. To mark the news, Moran has shared the new single ‘Butterfly Phase’. Check it out along with an album trailer below.

“In early 2020, Yamaha loaned me a Disklavier player piano — a special instrument that allows you to record your performance for the piano to play back on its own,” Moran said in a press release. “I was initially working on a duet for myself and another pianist, but when the pandemic hit, the player piano became my duet partner.

“I began writing a series of duets for myself and the Disklavier, exploring all the different ways I could utilize this instrument to merge its inhuman capabilities with my own playing,” she continued. “The Disklavier allowed me to record multiple layers of my playing so I could create music on the piano that would require more fingers or greater endurance than I physically have – like chords that had more than 10 notes in them, or chords that were spaced out farther than my hands could stretch. Sometimes I’d record a pattern and then speed it up to play back faster than I could ever physically play. My imagination exploded at all the possibilities this instrument allowed me to create, and these explorations culminated in my new record Moves in the Field.”

Moves in the Field Cover Artwork:

Moves in the Field Tracklist:

1. Butterfly Phase
2. Superhuman
3. Don’t Trust Mirrors
4. Dancer Polynomials
5. Sodalis (II)
6. Leitmotif
7. It’s Okay to Disappear
8. Hypno
9. Moves in the Field
10. Solar Flare

Another Michael Detail New Album ‘Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down’, Share New Song

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Another Michael Detail New Album ‘Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down’, Share New Song

Another Michael have shared the details of their new album Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down, which has been set for release on May 31 via Run for Cover. It was originally announced alongside its sibling record, Wishes to Fulfill, which came out in September. Today, the band has unveiled a new song from it called ‘Is There A World?’. Listen to it below.

Check our Artist Spotlight interview with Another Michael.

Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down Cover Artwork:

Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down Tracklist:

1. I’ve Come Around To That
2. Seafood
3. Mudslide
4. Is There A World?
5. I’m Your Roommate
6. Another Reindeer
7. Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down
8. Maureen
9. I’m Not Mad Anymore
10. The Diner’s Spoon
11. Like I Won A Car

Khruangbin Release New Song ‘May Ninth’

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Khruangbin Release New Song ‘May Ninth’

Khruangbin have dropped ‘May Ninth’, the second single from their upcoming LP A la Sala. Check out a visual for it below.

A la Sala, which is Spanish for “To the Room,” will arrive on April 5 via Dead Oceans. It was led by the single ‘A Love International’.

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