If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Rebellion Publishing have announced the opening of a new digital store in which users can download the best in genre writing with a click of a button. Solaris and Abaddon books, an imprint offering a wide range of sci-fi, horror [...]
Some good news in these days in which we’re more accustomed to reporting about the premature closure of sci-fi shows rather than the arrival of fresh meat. Syfy has just announced that it has three new scripted projects on the boil, under development by Universal Cable Productions, CBS TV Studios and Fox TV Studios respectively. [...]
Those keenly awaiting the PC version of the acclaimed Batman: Arkham City need wait no longer – at least for a release date. That’s because Warner Bros has now dated the game on the non-console format, and it’s due to arrive on November 25th on shelves in a game store near you. That’s just two [...]
Solaris books are set to release a fresh and fun title from debut author Gaie Sebold just in time for the New Year. Babylon Steel will be available from the 27th December in the UK and 5th January in the US. “Ex-sword-for-hire Babylon Steel runs the best brothel in the city. She’s got elves using [...]
Solaris has announced a new book that it has commissioned from Gareth l.Powell, author of The Recollection and Silversands and one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction. Ack-Ack Macaque is due for publication in January 2013 and is based on the short story of the same name which won Interzone magazine’s 2007 [...]
Winners of the World Fantasy Awards for 2011 were announced last weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. Best Novel was Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death (DAW), which was also a Nebula Award finalist for best novel. Both the Best Novella and Best Short Fiction awards came from Stories: All-New Tales, edited [...]
Fans of Magicka – or moreover, folks who missed out on Magicka – take heed, because a complete edition of the game is coming out. If you’re not familiar with the Paradox Interactive published title, Magicka is a tongue-in-cheek Norse flavoured action RPG in which four wizards try to take down the bad guys with [...]
It’s coming like a Cacodemon hissing down a dark corridor, as we knew because John Carmack had already announced the release of the Doom 3 source code was due to happen this year. And indeed now Rage has been unleashed on the world, to a slightly mixed reception, id Software’s founder Carmack has confirmed via [...]
Talk of a reboot of The Fly, another classic old flick, has been buzzing about the rumour mill for a few years now. When the first rumours emerged, David Cronenberg – the director of the 1986 classic which was itself a remake of a movie from the fifties – at first apparently wanted nothing to [...]
A high-definition launch trailer has been pushed out for the upcoming game, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Gametrailers is hosting the exclusive version of the trailer for the remastered version of the classic shooter which is due out in two weeks time. Take a peek at it here. It’s a minute and a half long and [...]
So, what’s the scariest film you could possibly watch for Halloween tonight? Moviepilot.com, a recommendation platform for movies and TV shows, decided to find out the answer to this question with a Facebook poll. Almost 23,000 votes were cast over a period of three days, and nearly half of those plumped for the same horror [...]
Matt Smith has put a dampener on speculation that he might be leaving his role as Doctor Who soon. Well, to a point, anyway. This comes after he made some comments to VH-1, in which he said he had another year of Who to film, and then he’d look towards the west and Hollywood for [...]
The Walking Dead has only just shambled back onto our screens for season two, minus Mr Darabont, the showrunner who famously exited mid-way through putting together the second outing. And already the good news has come through that the zombie apocalypse has been green lit for a third season by AMC over in the US. [...]
Rockstar has announced that LA Noire: The Complete Edition will be arriving on the PS3 and Xbox next month. It was already announced for the PC back in September, arriving on November 11th. The Complete Edition will emerge on consoles a week later on the 18th. The complete version includes the original game, of course, [...]
The World Fantasy Awards for 2011, including two Lifetime Achievement winners, will be awarded at the World Fantasy Convention, to be held in San Diego, California on 27 – 30 October, with the awards banquet scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon, 30 October. The nominees for Best Novel are Zoo City (Jacana South Africa; [...]
The TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), created in 1953 to provide funds so that well-known science-fiction fans can cross the Atlantic to attend conventions, has announced the candidates for its 2012 ballot. TAFF regularly helps American fans attend conventions in Europe and helps European fans to go to conventions in North America. There are three nominees [...]
A modern movie version of The Twilight Zone is coming – of course it is, a modern movie version of everything retro is coming, it would seem – and now the project has a name attached to direct. And that name, picked by Warner Bros, would be Matt Reeves, at least according to Deadline’s ever-present [...]
The Secret World is an upcoming MMORPG from Funcom, the producers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan (which recently went free-to-play). And it’s a massively multiplayer title which has quite a few online gamers hot under the collar, as it sounds quite different from your run-of-the-mill MMOG in some respects. Even if the title [...]
Here’s some news for thunder fans everywhere regarding the next instalment of Thor. A director has been confirmed to take control of the sequel, none other than Patty Jenkins according to Den of Geek. Jenkins is most famous for directing the 2003 flick Monster, which was a dark tale of murder that stared Charlize Theron [...]
It’s now less than a month until the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim bursts forth in all its role-playing goodness onto PCs, Xbox and PS3 consoles across the land. Skyrim is about to go gold – to all intents and purposes it’s finished – and there’s a tradition at Bethesda when it comes to their games. [...]
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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