(opens in new tab) The wait is over. Game Of Thrones is back. Sex and horse decapitations and dragons and the legend that is Tyrion Lannister will have us glued once more to the screen. And it’s not just us fantasy fans who’ve recognised the brilliance of Peter Dinklage’s performance …
Read More »Join Iain M Banks for the launch of the new Culture novel
To celebrate the launch of his new book The Hydrogen Sonata the top SF author is appearing at Bath’s Topping & Company Booksellers in October One of our favourite fictional cultures is, um, The Culture, the creation of SF author Iain M Banks. The announcement of a new book from …
Read More »Ghost Recon: Future Soldier co-op preview Learn to be a team player
The thing about military combat is that tactics is everything. You don’t sprint through the jungle spraying bullets onto enemy positions, survive more than three gunshot wounds, or single-handedly stop world ending nuclear launches. Either you work with your team or end up – you know – dead. Tom Clancy’s …
Read More »BLASTERMIND Mothers Day
Some of the actresses may have played mothers in others things, but we’re only after answers relevant to the films and shows the images below come from. And one of them is a surrogate mum, we know, but she did such a good job she’s a shining example of the …
Read More »The Science of Fallout, part 2
A couple weeks ago, we took our first steps into the charred remains of North America to try to investigate how much – if any – of Fallout’s world we can look forward to (or dread) in the future. In fact, it was really more dread than hope. Portable nukes …
Read More »Tweets Of The Week
Jayne and Mal reunited, Fallout: New Arrakis and birthday wishes for Jensen Ackles in this week’s tour through the Twittersphere
Read More »Deadlight preview – first look
Microsoft had no shortage of games on display at its recent Spring Showcase event in San Francisco. While it had a strong presence of core classics and the next wave of Kinect games, it was the Xbox Live Arcade corner that had some of the biggest surprises. Among several games, …
Read More »Video: If the dubstep infestation of video games continues – the horrible, logical conclusion
As any publisher of modern video games will tell you, if your game doesn’t have dirty great swathes of dubstep shoe-horned into both its trailer and soundtrack (Far Cry 3, Syndicate, SSX, and probably a thousand other upcoming games, I’m looking at you), then you might as well not bother …
Read More »Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time GR GamePlay demo
It’s been more than six years since Sly Cooper last starred in a caper, but the raccoon cat-burglar’s long-awaited return to action is just over the horizon. Earlier this week, we got a chance to tackle Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time for ourselves, and judging from what we’ve played so …
Read More »Sci-Fi Bargains Of The Week
The Return Of Captain Coinsaver (aka, Steven Ellis) with his super money-saving hyper-powers
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