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Halloween Video Playlist Part 1

October 4, 2010October 6, 2010 Pete Chapman Call Of Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Film, H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, horror, HPLHS, video2 Comments

What will you be watching on Halloween? As a ramp up to All Hallows Eve here is the first in a series of suggestions… If classic science fiction deals with the question, “What if?” then the steam-punk or historical revisionist work amuses itself with, “If only…” When H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” was published in Weird Tales in 1926, the technology existed to make a silent movie of it, if only anyone had been so inclined. In 2003, a group of H.P. Lovecraft fanatics; a live action role-playing group…

The Start Show – Benjamin Rivers interview

October 2, 2010October 7, 2010 Doug Groves Arcadian Renaissance, Dyad, Hand Eye Society, interview, N+, Nidhogg, Nuit Blanche, Retro Sabotage, Show, The Start Show1 Comment

With the Hand Eye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance happening tonight as part of Nuit Blanche, we figured it would be appropriate to post this interview with The Start Show co-organizer Benjamin Rivers. When we first interviewed him, it was at Fan Expo as a comics creator. We actually had no idea about his involvement with Hand Eye at the time. Well, we know better now. The Start Show, which I hope becomes an annual event at the very least, showcased a number of great indie titles, including N+, Dyad and Spooky Squids’s…

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Minecraft – A First Person Builder

October 2, 2010November 10, 2010 Pete Chapman 16-bit ALU, first person builder, FPB, FPS, Minecraft, open source, PC gaming, sheep, TNT, video, YouTube2 Comments

Two weeks ago my sixteen year old son, Reid, was playing with it. Earlier this week Cory Doctorow was writing about it at Boing Boing. What is this thing called “Minecraft”? If you know about it then you’re probably playing it. If not…then…so you don’t feel out of the loop tonight when the people who hang out in the kitchen talking at parties weigh in on this one: here’s a crash course. Minecraft is an online game which uses the visual conventions of a first person shooter for constructive purposes, literally….

Fan Expo 2010 – Bedlam Ink

October 1, 2010October 5, 2010 Doug Groves Bedlam Ink, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, Jessie Lam, Lost Girl, motion comic, Navid Khavari, Show, Showcase, Tigh Walker, video, webcomic4 Comments

The folks over at Bedlam Ink, who are charged with doing additional storytelling for the new Showcase series Lost Girl were at the Fan Expo booth this year. This included both a printed comic, which is a standalone story, as well as a motion comic that works as a prequel to the TV series. Jessie, Navid and Tigh from Bedlam Ink were kind enough to take some time to talk with us about how the comics tie into the series, and some of the process of developing the comics for…

Evangelion 1.11 – You Are (Not) Alone – review

October 1, 2010October 4, 2010 Peter Brunton anime, blu ray, Evangelion, Funimation, Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion, review, Tokyo-3, You are (note) alone2 Comments

Blu-Ray Release by Funimation Directors: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, and Hideaki Anno (Supervising) Writers: Hideaki Anno, Yoshiki Sakurai So, I recently picked up the blu-ray release of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, and realised that not nearly enough people know about this thing. More than a few of you are probably familiar with the original Neon Genesis Evangelion, but for those who aren’t, here’s a primer: Shinji Ikari, an introverted teenaged boy with obvious family issues, on top of the usual “bundle of hormones and crazy”, has just arrived in…

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I Have Seen the Future and It is Shared.

September 30, 2010October 4, 2010 Pete Chapman A.I, artificial planet, Orion's Arm, science fiction, Singularity, Turing Test, worldbuilding0 comment

Does science fiction have a future? It’s past as a genre of pulp fiction that came up with the twentieth century leaves it in a precarious position at the beginning of the twenty-first. Once, like the buffalo, it roamed across the wide open spaces of the news stands and now only a handful of those magazines still exist and it’s been a long time since the days when a single short story sale could secure two month’s rent in Greenwich Village. There are novels, truck loads of novels as the…

Ubisoft crossover fever: Assassins Creed, CSI and Pets to have Facebook components

September 30, 2010October 3, 2010 Doug Groves Assassin's Creed, Brotherhood, crossover, CSI, CSI Crime City, facebook, Hamsterz, iPad, iPhone, Nintendo DS, PC gaming, Petz, PS3, Ubisoft, Wii, Xbox2 Comments

Do you like console gaming, but somehow find yourself wasting too much time on Facebook, making you fell guilty for not using your beatiful next gen console to its fullest potential? Depending on how you look at it, maybe Ubisoft is going to give you a reason to fire up the console more often, or maybe they’re just going to suck you all the way into the black (and blue – so much blue) pit that is Fb. At a press conference in San Francisco, they’ve announced that they’ll be…

Nine Questions with Lost Girl Creator and Writer Michelle Lovretta

September 30, 2010October 2, 2010 drsquid Anna Silk, canada, Fan Expo, interview, Kris Holden-Ried, Lost Girl, Q&A, Showcase, Television, TV, writer74 Comments

Last week we put up our interview with the stars of the new Showcase Original TV Series Lost Girl. This week we got a chance to interview Michelle Lovretta, the creator, co-show runner and writer of five of the thirteen episodes, via email. In the interview Michelle talks about the show, how the lead character Bo relates to other strong female genre show characters, the role of sexuality in Lost Girl and much more. I will also be posting my thoughts about the actual show soon, probably after I have…

Fan Expo 2010 – Gravy Train

September 30, 2010September 30, 2010 Doug Groves April Mullen, Fan Expo 2010, Gravy Train, interview, Show, Tim Doiron, video5 Comments

We first met April Mullen and Tim Doiron at 2009’s Fan Expo, they were promoting the DVD release their hilarious mockumentary Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser. Between then and now, they’ve gone on to make another feature film, Gravy Train, which premiered this past April, and has now launched on DVD, but you can find out about that, and more, in the video interview.

Fan Expo 2010 – Nerd Girl Pinups interview

September 29, 2010September 30, 2010 Doug Groves Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, interview, Nerd Girl, Nerdgirlpinups, Show, video1 Comment

One of the stops we made during Fan Expo this year was the Nerd Girl Pinups booth. For a couple of years now Nicole (friend of the show) and the gang there have hosted a Fan Expo after party a few blocks up from the convention floor. Dave talks with Katherine Curtis and Kenickie Street about what’s new with nerdgirlpinups.com, and gets the lowdown on their new calendar, which you can check out here.

Left for Dead: The Sacrifice Comic Part Three Out Now – get ready for mashups

September 29, 2010September 30, 2010 drsquid Comics, L4D, L4D2, Mac gaming, PC gaming, The Sacrifice, Valve Software, Web Comics, Xbox 3601 Comment

Last night Valve released the third part of their “The Sacrifice” online comic that details the events in between Left for Dead 1 and 2, the ‘Passing’ DLC, and the “The Sacrifice” DLC (for both the first AND second games) coming on October 5th. The comic itself also fills in a lot of the backstory of the characters of Left for Dead 1, and is currently available online here. Also a few days ago on the Left 4 Dead blog Valve detailed their plan to expand how the comic will…

Child of Eden at Tokyo Game Show – Rez Super HD?

September 28, 2010September 30, 2010 Doug Groves Child Of Eden, Genki Rockets, Microsoft, Playstation, PS3, Rez, Rez HD, Sony, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Tokyo Game Show, Trance Vibrator, Ubisoft, Xbox Live Arcade4 Comments

Child of Eden, from Q? Entertainment, the spiritual successor to Rez HD (Rez remade), had an extended demonstration at the Tokyo Game show. If you’re not familiar with Rez HD, it’s ostensibly a 3rd person shooter where your hacker avatar attempts to infiltrate an advanced computer network controlled by an AI named Eden. The game itself was completely on rails, but that didn’t stop it from becoming one of the best titles released on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. What makes that game stand out is it’s balance of visuals and…