• Tech Talk: An Alternative to Better Graphics.

      Adam Poliquin Computer Technology Senior Seminar   1440p. 120 FPS. Some of you reading this look at that jumble of characters and see gibberish. Others see performance they merely dream of attaining. There are others still, I’m sure, that look at those numbers and laugh pitiably at the peasants. This article is not for… Read more

  • Episodic Gaming and Hitman

    Episodic Gaming and Hitman

    Christian Guthrie CNMS Major   Ever since the announcement regarding how the recently released stealth game Hitman would deliver its content through use of an episodic model, some confusion has left consumers and gaming enthusiasts with multiple questions on why IO Interactive (the developers of Hitman) had stepped away from a usual launch strategy. What… Read more

  • Can The Division Stand Out?

    Can The Division Stand Out?

    Christian Guthrie CNMS Major   Ubisoft’s latest game titled The Division hit stores a few weeks back. Not only was this new intellectual property from the company, it has been breaking records since launch. In the first five days, the game reached $330 million in sales. Not only did this break Ubisoft’s record for their… Read more

  • A New Way to Look Home: Instructor Megan Grumbling Reads From Her New Book of Poems

      Illaria Dana Education Major   The audience is lively. People chat with drinks in hand while two projectors, one located behind the stage and one to the right, show images and films. Some are hazy and old-looking. Others are clear and crisp images of water and crackling leaves. The median age of the audience… Read more

  • There Can Be No More Waiting

    Nicholas Moll Marine Science Major   Last week, over a dozen restaurant servers at a press conference in Portland to support raising the minimum wage on the ballot this November. Over the summer many of them helped collect signatures for this referendum which would raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour in 2017 and… Read more

  • Passing on a Thank You …

    I have been thinking about writing this for some time now, and figured this would be as good a time as any, and maybe because of what we are going through now as a college, the best time. We are going to lose some members of our community soon due to some lean economic times.… Read more