Samuel Leone was the leader of the London gang D.A.F.P. when a rival gang – The Shady Boys – killed his brother and knocked him into a coma. Later, when he awakes, Mister Who is a changed man. He becomes a private, he becomes a vigilante and he vows to carry out Karma’s work. Karma […]
Archives for June 2011
Ellen McLain’s music: GLaDOS sings
The voice of GLaDOS in Portal and Portal II is Ellen McLain. While not being awesome as a voice actor in Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 or Portal, Ellen McLain is an opera singer. I’ve not found it easy to dig up samples of Ellen McLain singing. I’m sure people search for McLain’s music but […]
Airship Pirates preview
Cakebread & Walton have released the first preview of the Airship Pirates RPG. This is a steampunk RPG based on the music of Abney Park. As Cakebread & Walton point out this is a works in progress so ignore the references to page XX. Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton are the designers behind for Clockwork […]
E3: A Game of Thrones – Genesis trailer
The website for A Game of Thrones – Genesis is already live and busy. Genesis takes place 1,000 years before the first book so should be spoiler free. In the strategy game you play as one of the eight significant houses in Westerous and attempt to take control of the Iron Throne. Cyanide, developers, promise […]
E3: BioShock Infinate trailer
Just when you thought all the best trailers from E3 had dried up – Geek Native manages to dig up 2K and Irrational Games’ BioShock Infinate teaser. This is expected out in 2012 and will be for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If it comes out late enough in the year then it may […]
Leicester City Council unprepared for zombie invasion
In national news today from the BBC comes the revelation that Leicester City Council is unprepared for zombie invasion. Should When the zombie invasion occurs in Leicester it will be the council who will have to deal with it. The discovery follows a Freedom of Information request from a “concerned citizen” and had the council […]
More pictures from Syfy’s new sci-fi TV show and MMO
The working title for this project still seems to be Defiance although I’m sure it was announced as One Earth at the start of the year. The TV Defiance series is being produced by Universal Cable Productions, written by Rockne O’Bannon – who’s worked previously on Farscape, Warehouse 13, Alien Nation and DSV. The MMO […]
Terminix channels Lovecraft horrors via the TV
I love the Scottish summer. It’s my favourite week of the year. One advantage of Scotland’s weather is that there’s far less pesky insects. There’s nothing that’s really going to eat your house. We’re not all so lucky. Over in the States there’s a company called Terminix that earns its income from helping homeowners deal […]
Can GLaDOS the potato-borg survive forever?
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System? Potato? Potatoborg? Obvious Winner had an obvious winner when one of their readers, David, sent in some photos of the potato-powered portal menance. This powerful potato home was made from scrap but it irrigates and positively ionizes the water. There is one system for an air pump at the […]
Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter trailer & Heroes of Neverwinter screens
There are two “Neverwinter” games coming out and the PR material for both are being lumped together. Â There’s a RPG for Facebook and a more typical action RPG. Atari have the D&D franchise when it comes to company games but different developers become involved with the game. There are different developers on the different Neverwinter […]
