You would have to be a hard-hearted gamer not to love the Lego games, based on popular franchises such as Star Wars and Batman, with their slapstick take on plotlines and amusingly mumbled dialogue, reports The Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/technology/games/article3019247.ece

Pitching you into familiar scenes from all the Pirates films (including the fourth, On Stranger Tides, which is out on Wednesday), the latest game boasts beautiful graphics and, crucially, gets Jack Sparrow just right — brilliantly converting Johnny Depp’s peculiar rum-addled gestures and camp running gait into blocky form.

Minor niggles aside (for example, there’s no option to save a game mid-level; the game crashed on me twice), Pirates eliminates some of the frustratingly illogical trial-and-error puzzle-solving of previous Lego games with new icons and floating indicator arrows, while the two-player option makes it a splendidly madcap game to play with kids. Yaar!

In 2009 the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival took place and it was documented and put on youtube some time last year. Digging around for information about the Irish AFL team I came across this video and it’s really worth the watch. It’s only had 200 or so views, but it covers a lot of the stuff that happened. If you’re into slightly obscure arts practices this is the video for you, if you’re not.. kindly back away.

The sponsor – Ulsterbank is better known for it’s financial services – financial investmentsinstant access savings accounts and the like, but it’s been reaching out over the past few years to put some money back into events. This is a prime example of it.