Remedy Games have every reason to be pleased with Alan Wake. It looks so good. Okay; I’ve not bought it… but that’s only because I’m forcing myself to play through Final Fantasy XIII. It feels more like a “not bought it yet”. A sign that a game is doing well is that the DLC starts […]
Archives for July 2010
Benedict Cumberbatch to play the Master? Or just messing with Doctor Who?
Is this getting silly? Pretty much everyone who watched Sherlock on the weekend enjoyed it. Benedict Cumberbatch was good. Lots of people could detect the Moffat writing style in the show. Nearly as many people thought Cumberbatch’s Holmes oozed “Doctorness” about it. In fact, the speculation that Cumberbatch would be the natural appointment as the […]
Games Workshop: Revenue up to £126.5 million
UK based Games Workshop posted slightly increased revenue this year. This was not due to any increase in sales – which Games Workshop described as ‘sluggish’ – but due to cost-cutting measures. The news is pretty good. Although the increase in revenue is quite small in percentage terms; from £125.7m to £126.5m the company had […]
Sucker Punch trailer: Alice in Wonderland with machine guns
Zack Synder (Watchmen, 300) described Sucker Punch as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”. I don’t think that’s fair; that seems to overlook the dragons and the samurai. If it looks dark to you, well, yeah; the film tracks a young woman being dragged off into an asylum to be lobotomised. As you can see […]
Buffy season 8 – not undead, it’s a motion-comic
Comic Con saw not only the limited release of Buffy the Vampire Slayer soda but also season 8. Just to explain; season 8 picks off where TV season 7 finishes but as a comic. In fact, you can get the motion adapted comic from iTunes. The pricing isn’t too bad; $1.99 each, or $29.99 for […]
Silly looking Sengoku Basara samurais come to PlayStation and Blu-ray
Funimation and CapCom have got their hands on (some of) the Sengoku Basara license. The anime is coming out on blu-ray on October 12 and so is the computer game. In Europe the computer game will be out just a few days later. The problem here is that Funimation doens’t appear to have the anime […]
Iron Man anime airs in 2011 – teaser video available now
This anime-inspired version of Iron Man won’t reach US TV any time soon. We’re looking at the last three months of 2011. Grok knows how long/if it’ll be before it appears on UK TV. This is a Warren Ellis scripted production – I mean; it’s really his thing, isn’t it. Mr Transhumanist. He’s the guy […]
THQ brings Warhammer 40,000’s Space Marine to the PC
Games Workshop have their earnings report out tomorrow. Today brings the news that THQ Inc it has a 3rd person action/shooter game coming for the Warhammer 40,000 setting. THQ and Games Workshop are really leaving no set of gamers in the dark. Space Marine will ship for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. The […]
Fluffel monster and the dramatic carrot of doom!
Shana Logic gets too much of my money. I can’t help it – these may be hand crafted goodies, specially imported from the States all the way to sunny Scotland – but I simply can’t find these sort of characters anywhere else. For example, there is Boris the Fluffel Monster. You can tell at a […]
Papier mache dragon puppet
Dan Reeder is a man with skill. He can take paper and turn it into monsters. He wrote a book on it. No, really, it’s called Papier-Machine Monsters. Pretty impressive. His website Gourment Paper Mache has a number of videos and pictures of cool paper monsters. I’m guessing “papier mache” is the correct term but […]
