20th Century Fox has launched the 40th Anniversary of this film dubbed the Alien Day.
Short film: Three Alien 40th-anniversary sci-fi horrors
Alien Day is April the 26th, and it marks when Ridley Scott’s classic Alien turns 40.
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. We might even learn something about games […]
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. Alien: Sea of Sorrows is part of the new Alien book trilogy. The first was Alien: Out […]
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. Braille dice aren’t that rare. You can get Tactile Dice on Amazon. What about d20s, though? This rather impressive looking d20 – for […]
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. You might also enjoy his game apps page.
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. I think the final montage is neat. It’s both dramatic and beautiful. It has, as Klock says, been an […]
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. Ripley makes it back to Earth to discover that the planet LV-426 where the crew of the Nostromo found the […]
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? You can pick them from Kilroy’s Attic. A strange ring seems to demand a strange perspective on the video but this is a […]
