Some lucky gamers are getting to test Elite: Dangerous already. In this video we get to see some of the action with a walkthrough from the Frontier Developments team. The video actually reminds me of Elite – especially with the name of the ships. It feels very MMO too and I can see how it […]
Sci-Fi Articles
Delve into our stories on Sci-Fi. This collection covers topics in PC, Interviews, and Books.
Sex elves and AD&D: An interview with Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff is the author of The Silvered a new mage and werewolf fantasy out in the UK via Titan Books. Before The Silvered, Tanya had already grown an audience of loyal fans through the sci-fi Confederation series and hits like the Enchantment Emporium and Blood Books. The Ravenloft novel Scholar of Decay was written […]
Chaosmos board game is a love letter to sci-fi master William Sleator
This post by Joey Vigour, the lead designer at Mirror Box Games, is about YA sci-fi author William Sleator and his book Interstellar Pig. Strange as it may sound, Interstellar Pig is the inspiration for the Chaosmos board game that’s close to raising $100,000 on Kickstarter. William Sleator is gone now, but every used bookstore […]
Cyberpunk RPG soundtracks kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] This is a RPG campaign that gets to use the word retrofuturistic in the pitch. It’s the project by an artist called Strangelette who suggests her mind might be akin to The Addams Family taking on a 3D role-playing game. The pitch is to provide soundtracks for roleplaying games. We’re talking Shadowrun, […]
Renowned planet killer and artist: Adam Burn
Based in the UK Adam Burn is an artist with oodles of gaming experience. He’s worked for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games as well as bands, other game developers and authors. He’s produced art for the multiplayer Novus Aeterno, likes sci-fi, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect and Borderlands.
Review of “Stark’s Command”
Stark’s Command, by Jack Campbell writing as John G. Hemry, is the second book is his series following the military adventures of the titular protagonist. Consequently this is my obligatory[i] SPOILER WARNING that this review references events that occurred in the first book. If you have yet to read Stark’s War (i.e. the first book) […]
Humanity as the aggressive aliens: A review of Valour’s Choice
I was cautious. I had recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Tanya Huff’s werewolf and mage drama The Silvered and now found myself with Tanya Huff’s military sci-fi Valour’s Choice. I like sci-fi but fantasy seems to have an easier job of pleasing me. I was cautious because I was struggling to believe Valour’s Choice would […]
Dead Agressor: Exodus trailer
The trailer for Fafner in the Azure: Dead Agressor: Exodus contains some fantastic animation. The harbour scene looks incredibly well drawn. The video also seems to focus on stern or gloomy looking people. This is actually a sci-fi anime, a mecha series, that had been planned for 2013 but now has a Q3 2014 release […]
Short film: The Signal
It’s the year 2046 and the world is deep in an energy crisis. Hope may come in a new form of energy known only as The Signal. The catch? Rebels insist The Signal causes a deadly sickness. If you liked the short you can pop over to the microsite for the movie and see how […]
Boob ninja: A review of Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere part 2
It seems pointless to deny that any reviewer who has made it to season 2 of Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere and who is still going has considered the anime’s combination of boobs and ninja. In fact; that’s the concise review. Boobs and ninja. In fairness to Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere it […]
