If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Kalypso has announced the release of the sequel to Dungeons on the PC. Dungeons: The Dark Lord gives players a chance to show off their nefarious side once again, crafting a dungeon with elaborate traps and monsters guarding treasure [...]
Good news for fans of the more modern flavours of Star Trek, the (not quite so modern) Next Generation variety in particular. Because Star Trek: The Next Generation is all set to warp onto Blu-ray, and not just in its original format, naturally. As with the original Star Trek remastering for High Definition, smart new [...]
NCsoft and Paragon have announced that their super-hero MMOG, City of Heroes, has joined the ranks of those massively multiplayer games which boast a free-to-play model. The so-called Freedom model grants access to level 50 with nothing necessary in terms of subscription. Players will, of course, have the opportunity to purchase new content as and [...]
The launch of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim creeps ever nearer, and a few more details have been revealed about the game which is due in the second week of November. Bethesda has just officially announced the voice cast, which contains a generous scattering of “names” from the stage and screen. These include Academy Award nominees [...]
Yes, it’s definitely an odd title for a film, and it doesn’t sound even remotely science-fiction. But in actual fact, The Secret Lives of Road Crews is about an alien invasion of Earth. And who can we rely on to save us from this monstrous menace? Road crew workers, that’s who. Presumably they’ll be stopping [...]
Remember Enslaved, the action-adventure which came out last autumn? It was a very smart post-apocalyptic re-imagining of the traditional tale of Monkey, the cheeky chappy with a staff, headband and his own fluffy portable cloud to zoom around on. Released to considerable critical acclaim – we played it and thoroughly enjoyed it, too – you’d [...]
There’s more news from the timelines regarding your favourite Doctor and pals, but unfortunately, it’s not of the good variety. According to the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine, the next season of the Doc, number seven, won’t be airing come the spring of next year. In fact, it won’t start until the autumn of [...]
Here’s an interesting idea: Risk, the classic board game, meets Metal Gear Solid. In a board game, not a computer game mash-up. Yes, it’s a novel idea certainly, and the changes involved aren’t merely about decorating the board and pieces with an MGS theme. Although obviously that’s been done, with some rather nifty looking artwork [...]
Some more rumour material has popped up on the next Terminator film today. If you’ve been following developments on T5, then you’ll know that Justin Lin is – or was – on board as the director. Back in May it was even rumoured that the entire original cast, or as much of it as possible, [...]
Robot Entertainment has announced a release date for its Orcs Must Die game. And you can expect the green-skinned unfortunates to start dropping likes flies come October 5th on Xbox Live Arcade, and a week later on the PC via Steam (and other digital distribution mediums). Orcs Must Die is an action-strategy title with strong [...]
Good news for those of you who have signed up to beta test Diablo III. Blizzard has begun the process of sending out invites to test the game in closed beta, so some lucky folks will be getting a notification in their email inbox. The company is after a range of different PC specifications to [...]
If you missed Homefront, it was a shooter THQ released back in March, set in the year 2027 where America had been crushed under the merciless heel of the South Koreans. The player was a part of the US resistance against the occupying forces, and it was a decent enough FPS, although the game received [...]
Here’s a tale which will be inspirational to all those amateur script writers out there, beavering away at their keyboards in hours or even minutes snatched before work and bedtime. A British part-time script scribbler who worked in cinema – because it was the closest he felt he could get to the world of film [...]
You may not remember the late eighties TV series, Beauty and the Beast. To be quite honest, we’d pretty much forgotten about it until news surfaced that there was another possible reboot – or two – of a retro TV franchise on the cards. Beauty and the Beast starred Ron Perlman (who later became Hellboy, [...]
If you’re heading down to the Eurogamer Expo at Earls Court, which starts on Thursday and runs through the weekend, then you can have a crack at setting a Guinness World Record (for the Gamer’s Edition of the famous book, that is). And it’s an unusual record too, with the charity SpecialEffect having a booth [...]
Want to know what a Dalek invasion really looks like? Never mind the Beeb’s special effects, just get yourself down to Rob Hull’s house in Doncaster. Because the Guinness World Records has recognised Rob as the record holder for the world’s largest collection of Daleks. Bizarrely, Rob isn’t actually much of a fan of the [...]
Kalypso has unleashed a new trailer for its upcoming naval merchant adventure game, Port Royale 3. Set in the 17th Century Caribbean, where the European naval powers are fighting for supremacy, the game casts the player as a young Captain eager to prove his worth in the new world. The campaign allows for two different [...]
The man at the helm of Star Trek 2 has been confirmed as JJ Abrams. He was rumoured to be the front runner for the director’s chair back in May, naturally enough given that he directed the first feature. At the same time speculation pointed to the film being pushed back six months to the [...]
An expansion is coming for the massively multiplayer RPG Allods Online, due to arrive in October. The as yet untitled expansion for gPotato’s free-to-play MMORPG includes, amongst the broad changes, a lessening of the levelling curve to allow for players to make quicker progress. Tweaks are planned for both the low level and high end [...]
Rockstar has announced that the Game of the Year Edition of Red Dead Redemption, its critically acclaimed western shooter-adventure – which achieved some 160 game of the year honours – will be released next month. It’ll be out on October 14th for the Xbox and PS3, and the GOTY version will be the definitive one, [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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