Dangers in the shadows: Art from Brad Wright
Bradley Wright is a concept artist who has worked on titles like Chronicles of Riddick, Assult on Dark Athena and Syndicate. More recently, he's been working with The Creative Assembly and Sega on Alien.
Genre Police: Taking Up Space?
Okay….this is gonna be a difficult one.
It’s gonna really be a column about how we can’t do a column that turns into a column. We’re going to look at how we look at science fiction, how historically it has evolved and how that isnt’ helpful to us.…
Competition: Alien – Sea of Sorrows
Did you know there will be a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus? Prometheus 2 will be called Alien Covenant. We knew Prometheus was a prequel to Alien so perhaps its about time we had a full on merger.…
Braille dice, d20 style
This week we’ve looked at a 3D-printed d20 that spoke to you. The idea was it’ll be great for those with visual challenges but some gamers doubted any dice with magnets inside.…
Awesome Alien fan art from Ïve Bastrash
These illustrations are the work of Ïve Bastrash. I love the bold colour and design. The Canadian artist is based in Toronto and has a major in Comic Books. He’s the lead 2D artist for a mobile-game artist.…
Relive the best of 2014’s gaming in under 2 minutes
Malcolm Klock has put together this montage of some of the great games of 2014. He stresses that if your favourite game is missing it will probably due to editing rather than it not being worthy.…
Competition: Alien – River of Pain
River of Pain is the last in the new and official of Alien Universe novels. Written by Christopher Golden the book explores the never-told-before story of doomed colony that featured in the original Aliens film.…
Rather strange xenomorph ring becomes a brass knuckle
If this xenomorph ring wasn’t already large enough to act like a bass knuckle in the event you decide to wallop someone – it actually can become a brass knuckle. Want one?…
Giger designed Bambi alien
What if one of our friendly Xenomorphs landed in Bambi’s forest and the resulting next generation of alien had that Bambi alien look. What if all that happened in gilt bronze and in limited numbers?…
Alien – The Illustrated Story review
Frank Miller said of this book;
“Alien – The Illustrated Story might just be the only successful movie adaptation ever done in comics. It’s an amazing graphic novel.”
You may disagree with Miller but the comment shows just how good this graphic novel is.…
