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When book and movie worlds collide! The steampunk author discusses the route from page to screen This is a guest blog by author Stephen Hunt… I came fairly close to achieving this goal in the great apple-bobbing sideshow fair that is the publishing/movie-TV world conjunction. My first novel, The Court …

Wallsauce.com has recently introduced a range of wall mural products for fans of Batman, Superman, The Justice League Of America and The Hobbit . The wall murals are all made to measure and can be printed to order, to suit different wall sizes. Not only can you choose from DC …

A little reminder: the World Science Fiction Convention returns to London after 49 years. Sign up now… As you may know, the World Science Fiction Convention (this year dubbed Loncon ) is going to be held in London this August – for the first time since 1965. The guests of …

Who, exactly, asked for this? You and I don’t run multimillion-dollar video game companies. We’re not fully cognizant of all the incredibly hard work, nerve-wracking deadlines, and unforeseen costs that go into making amazing games; we simply want to play and enjoy the finished product. But even if we’re not …

Party like it’s 1989 Blah blah indie games. Blah blah, cheap NES game rip-offs. Weve all heard the tedious battlecry of the anti-indie backlash by now. Its usually a load of old rot; an uninformed nonsense-rant that takes the pixelart aesthetic as a jumping off point and then looks no …

Mein shooter Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992–meaning that the Wolfenstein franchises is over 20 years old. Gaming was in a much different place back then. The SNES has only just launched, and the first-person shooter genre wasn’t really a thing. Back then, the idea of walking around and shooting …

SID 6.7 – Virtuosity (1995) The Evil Computer : A virtual reality serial killer, SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is being targeted by Lt Parner Barners (Denzel Washington). Later, of course, he transforms into a regenerating android, which means he has even more power than before. But that also makes him …

Let me begin Back in my college days, I was forced to take a speech class in order to complete my degree. Being that I didnt have any great fear of public speaking, I figured this would be a simple class I could easily breeze through. The professor I ended …

Robopocalypse author Daniel H Wilson discusses the rise of our robot overlords (and gives his advice to new writers)… When Steven Spielberg is committed to directing a novel based on one of your books, you’ve made it. That’s the case with Daniel H Wilson’s Robopocalypse , which also made fans …

Please go easy on me Fighting game bosses are built from the ground up to be the most unfair, cheap duels possible. Think about it in the context of a ’90s arcade: You’ve sunk an outrageous amount of quarters and minutes of your time into this arcade machine, fighting tooth …