The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas was able to record the weird and somewhat computer-game like echoes of the Perseid Meteors are they flew over the monitoring centre. These are not dramatic sounds but I found them entirely unexpected. The images from the video include photography from astronaut Ron Garan on the […]
Archives for August 2011
Eligium – The Chosen One MMORPG
Frogster have released a cinematic teaser trailer for their new fantasy MMORPG Eligium – The Chosen One. In Eligium players have to cope with invading demonic hordes. It’s a free to play MMO that promises to do more than dugeons and skirmishes. Eligium is actually Chinese, owned by Shanda, but Frogster have the English, German, […]
Tad Williams’ Otherland: MMORPG trailer
Tad Williams‘ Otherland cyberpunk series is getting an MMORPG of its own. The books are set on Earth, at the start of the 22nd century where technology and society have progressed to full-immersion virtual reality. In a nice touch, one of the books’ main characters – Orland Gardiner – seems to have spent most of […]
Mass Effect 3: Squad Leader trailer
There’s been a few videos out to promote the highly anticipated Mass Effect 3. By “highly anticipated” I mean; we probably know geeks who’ll take the day off work when this RPG is out. This video is the “squad leader” trailer. It actually shows a combat scene that’s so good it’s hard to tell whether […]
Wizards of the Coast and Atari settle legal battle: D&D digital return to WotC
In 2007 Atari signed a 10-year deal to look after the digital rights of Dungeons & Dragons. The goal was to have the computer game company do more of Dungeons & Dragons Online, Neverwinter Nights and other digital successes. It all went wrong in the last few days of 2009 with Wizards of the Coast’s […]
Vigilance Press: Interview with James Dawsey
There have been some recent changes at Vigilance Press. At the start of the month Chuck Rice, company founder, launched the Vigilance Blog. Over on Facebook Chuck Rice also announced that James Dawsey had not only joined the company but had taken the position as owner and publisher. Rice is expected to stay on both […]
Kevin Eslinger’s surreal Sesame Street
Artist Kevin Eslinger has the ability to take the familiar, such as images from our past, and rework them in subtle but dramatic ways. These re-drawings of some old Sesame Street favourites are not hugely changed and yet, well, they feel dramatically different.
Doctor Who: Prequel to Let’s Kill Hilter
The BBC have published a prequel clip to Let’s Kill Hilter. The teasers to the first half of the season where tiny little things; you’d sometimes just get a few seconds of play. That’s not the case this time around; we’re sneaking towards the two minute mark.
Free to Download: Jaws of the Barracado
Jaws of the Barracado is a free (at the time of posting) to download adventure for Bulldogs! It’s from Galileo Games and uses the Fate rule system. This is a delivery adventure and your goal is the leader of the Barracado pirates himself. This means taking the package, with its mysterious seal intact, deep into […]
Mobile Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson have been among the earliest providers of consumer friendly smartphone technology, long before the term ‘smartphone’ gained widespread traction among today’s increasingly mobile-savvy shoppers. Throughout the early to mid noughties they produced a line of Symbian-driven touchscreen handsets that helped define a vision of what convergence devices had to offer. Over the past […]
