Archives for December 2009

The 2009 Broken Frontier Awards

December 31, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Comic site Broken Frontier have announced the winners of their sixth annual awards. The award process tooks votes from fans and professionals to select winners from BF compiled shortlists. Best Writer: Mainstream Geoff Johns Best Writer: Independent Terry Moore Best Artist: Mainstream Steve McNiven Best Artist: Independent Gabriel Ba Best Publisher Dark Horse Best Ongoing Series The Walking Dead Best Limited Series The Umbrella Academy: Dallas Best Debut Book Batman and Robin Best Original Graphic Novel The Hunter Best Webcomic Girl Genius…

Mondo Comico in the press and on the web

December 31, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Kudos to Mondo Comico. The Nottingham gaming and comic shop made the news today with a feature in This Is Nottingham. Rather than endure the standard press poking fun at roleplaying and the Simpson’s fed ‘Comic Guy’ stereotype Mondo Comico walked away from the encounter smelling of roses.…

Future US to publish official World of Warcraft magazine

December 31, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The American wing of Future Publishing, Future US, will publish a subscription only official magazine to the mighty MMO World of Warcraft. The first issue is promised for the “end of the holiday season” and will be ad-free.…

Blood Bowl out in Europe

December 30, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Bowl is one of my favourite Games Workshop games of all time. My tem was a mix of humans and dwarves. I played Blood Bowl II and even painted the models.…

Final Fantasy VII remake coming in 2010?

December 30, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just as players in Japan are beginning to call out critics as “getting it wrong” over Final Fantasy XIII – the critics loved it, the players complain its too linear – we’ve rumours that Tetsuya Nomura might be returning to Final Fantasy VII.…

SciFi to SyFy – logo rated among ten of the best rebranding in 2009

December 29, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The blog network Under Consideration runs a brand blog called Brand New. Yeah; clever name – but you’d expect that from a brand blog. This blog discusses whether brands are successfully portraying their identity through the visual stylisation of their logo and other wanky conversational topics like that.…

Interactive Christmas Adventure on YouTube

December 28, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I remember Christmas breaks in which I’d cobble together a whole (and very bad) RPG system for friends and family, throw together a quick (and very bad) game and whittle away the holiday hours in grand adventures.…

No Publicola, no

December 28, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Writing in for a post in Publicola Sam Machkovech gives his suggestion for the top five gaming failures of 2009 and he gets it all wrong. At least, that’s what I think and I don’t mind saying so.…

Upular is a fantastic musical mashup of Disney’s Up

December 27, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pogo is an artist from Perth in Australia. He seems particularly talented in taking tiny samples from movies and pulling out some fantastic electronic music. Upular takes some small samples from Up and turns out to be a relaxing and yet up beat musical mashup.…

Scene from Doctor Who: The End of Time part 2

December 27, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Planet Who News TV has an “exclusive” video trailer from the second of the two part, last of the 10th Doctor, The End of Time. Slightly odd, can’t find a website to go with the YouTube channel.…

The 2009 Broken Frontier Awards

Mondo Comico in the press and on the web

Future US to publish official World of Warcraft magazine

Blood Bowl out in Europe

Final Fantasy VII remake coming in 2010?

SciFi to SyFy – logo rated among ten of the best rebranding in 2009

Interactive Christmas Adventure on YouTube

No Publicola, no

Upular is a fantastic musical mashup of Disney’s Up

Scene from Doctor Who: The End of Time part 2

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