Archive for January, 2009

Deathtroopers

Posted by Lance on 29th January , 2009

The (evil? Galactic?) Lucas Empire recently announced a new horror-themed Star Wars genre novel entitled Deathtroopers. Not much more info available beyond the October 27, 2009 street date and cover art, but here’s a link to the post on StarWars.com. Sounds intriguing!

Published, Kinda Sorta

Posted by Lance on 15th January , 2009

Back in August, I had posted about a review article I’d written being slated for publication in the quarterly woods paintball magazine Recon. To the sorrow of legions of woodsballers however, Recon will no longer be gracing our mailboxes – the magazine folded a few months ago due to financial problems. I was surprised to [...]

Families that Slay Together…

Posted by Lance on 12th January , 2009

Well, I finally succumbed again to Azeroth’s siren call and logged back onto World of Warcraft to explore the Wrath of the Lich King expansion’s new continent of Northrend. I must say that WotLK offers the most engrossing and innovative WoW quest content to date. Blizzard has also managed to reduce the drudgery a bit [...]

Aliens: Colonial Marines – Game NOT Over, Man!

Posted by Lance on 12th January , 2009

Reports that Aliens: Colonial Marines was KIA were apparently only subversive Weyland-Yutani corporate propoganda. According to Dan Stapleton on the latest PC Gamer podcast, Sega PR reps insist that the game is still very much alive and that development is ongoing at Gearbox. Yay!