The Last Parsec is a Savage Worlds sci-fi from Shane Hensley’s Pinnacle Entertainment. As this post goes live there’s still about three weeks to run and the Kickstarter is about %600 funded. That’s about $48,000 raised on an $8,000 ask. Since races, technology, ships, creatures and core elements like that are part of the required […]
A New Way for an Old System: A Review of Nova Praxis, Savage Worlds Edition
For those of you who just want to hear the bottom line, here it is: Nova Praxis: Savage Worlds Edition is more or less exactly what you would expect. If you like the freaky transhuman setting but don’t like the Fate system, then the Savage Worlds take on it may be more your cup of […]
A look inside: The Art of Jim Burns – Hyperluminal
Jim Burns is an artist with works on covers of books from George R R Martin, Neil Gaiman, Peter F Hamilton, Terry Pratcheet, Robert Silverberg, Joe Halderman and even Anne McCaffrey. The list goes on. He’s worked on concept art and ideas for movies like Blade Runner and over the last 40 years is responsible […]
The latest Interstellar trailer gets down to amazing details
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar started off by teasing us what the movie would be about. This trailer lets us know. Okay, sure, we’ve a much better idea of what Interstellar will be about and it’s look and feel. This is true. I can tell there’s still plenty of twists, turns and surprises. It’s easy to see […]
A look inside the Ultimum RPG
Ultimum is a tabletop RPG by Paradigm Publishing. A mix of the computer game Borderlands, with Pathfinder and even a spot of Minecraft set on Earth a million years into the future the game has a distinct art style. Never heard of it? Ultimum isn’t out yet. The Kickstarter isn’t even live but if the […]
The sci-fi future as illustrated by Mark Sanford
Mark Sanford is a graduate of California State University of Fullerton and uses CS4 on an Intuos3 tablet for his digital work. Known as “MultiMage” on Deviant Art you can check out his gallery of work. There’s healthy mix of style and genre in Mark’s main gallery. For this post I want to showcase some […]
Genre-hopping drama: A review of Ecko Burning
Ecko Burning is the sequel to Ecko Rising. I enjoyed Rising even though I had to wrestle with it. I wrestled less with Burning and enjoyed it more. Our anti-hero is a full tech cyberpunk creation called Ecko. A mission goes wrong, he falls off a roof and wakes up in a fantasy world. There […]
Short film: LIFE
A few seconds into this short animation from Pixelhunters and I’m thinking of Destiny. It’s the planet, the drop ship and then the well armoured Titan. Okay, that armour is pretty intense for Destiny so perhaps it’s more like Warhammer 40K. A minute or two later and I’m getting Sin City vibes from the narration. […]
This is Your Brain on Slugs: a Review of Brain Slugs from Planet X
For the GM on a tight time-budget, the internet is overflowing with adventures for just about any RPG system, many of which are very affordably priced. Buyer beware, however, as many of these adventures are a “you get what you pay for” deal. “Brain Slugs from Planet X” is one such example. “Brain Slugs from […]
Short film: Space Cat Hob
This animation took two years to make. The team had no money. The result is a rich sci-fi filled with action, drama and surprises. What do you think? Does it teach you to trust cute things but be cautious of ugly things? Or perhaps it suggests to you that cat warriors would be too easily […]
