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Screenshot: Complex Games Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhuntershave issued a statement to frustrated players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams. Via PC Gamerwhile Complex probably thought they were running a fairly standard (by 2022 … Read More “40K Game Developers Criticized Over Ridiculous Twitch Drops” »
Image: Breakneck Media The last couple of years have delivered us some solid kaiju fun in the form of Ultraman, numerous Godzilla projects from both Japan and the US, and Kaiju No. 8. Whether they’re metaphors for climate change or the atrocities that human beings inflict on one another, or just big ass monsters, watching … Read More “TV Show Based on Jeremy Robinson Sci-Fi Novel” »
The tasteful (yet lavish) covers. Image: ©Alan Lee for the Folio Society’s edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The three books of the trilogy will be quarter-bound in leather, with cloth sides featuring new illustrations by Alan Lee, the English artist who did conception art for Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation, and who … Read More “Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien Special Folio Society Book Set” »
Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, and Kristen Connolly in The Cabin in the Woods.Image: Lionsgate The Cabin in the Woods is a miracle. A singular story packed with biblical stakes, dense mythology, surprises, excitement, and most importantly, little to no room for any type of follow-up, all in one 95-minute package. Released … Read More “10 Years Later & Still Killer” »
Image: Simon & Schuster Collected, translated, and edited by Xueting Chrstine Ni, Sinopticon showcases a massively impressive slate of talent with stories by Nian Yu, Zhao HaiHong, Regina Kanyu Wang, Wang JinKang, Tang Fei, Anna Wu, Han Song, Jiang Bo, Bao Shu, A Que, Gu Shi, and Ma Boyong. Chinese sci-fi has been having an … Read More “World Science Fiction Story Bundle Lavie Tidhar” »
George R.R. MartinPhoto: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) We’re now coming up on the 11th anniversary of A Dance With Dragons, the fifth—and, at the moment, latest—installment of George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series of fantasy novels. Those ten-plus years have seen a lot of changes for Martin, who’d already been a … Read More “George R.R. Martin says he’s “sorry for” people who only care about The Winds Of Winter” »
Kraven goes on the hunt, as he’s wont to do.Image: Marvel Comics Jason Momoa teases his villainous turn in the next Fast and Furious. Another new Crow reboot could be on the cards. Zack Snyder’s next Netflix sci-fi movie Rebel Moon rounds out its cast. Plus, Keanu Reeves’ Batman strikes in League of Super-Pets, set … Read More “Sony Spider-Man Spinoff Casts Alessandro Nivola” »
George R.R. MartinPhoto: Amy Sussman (Getty Images) Embodying the promptness and communicative nature for which he’s become justly famous, George R.R. Martin has issued a new communique this week, announcing the completion of a long-delayed, much-anticipated project that fans have been losing their minds over: The filming of the first season of HBO Game Of … Read More “George R.R. Martin announces House Of Dragons film wrap, Wild Cards comic” »
The SCP Foundation—The grassroots, collaborative, creepypasta-adjacent writing project that largely inspired 2019 third-person shooter Control—Recently removed the image associated with its first and most popular entry, prompting artists to reimagine the monster at the center of one of the internet’s favorite horror stories. The wiki that hosts the SCP Foundation is essentially a shared universe … Read More “Internet Horror Legend SCP-173 Sees Incredible Reinvention” »
The craft worlds are ready to strike back.Screenshot: Play workshop If there’s one thing that keeps the Games Workshop moving, it’s the new range of shiny model sets for it Warhammer table games that make fans toot, ahhing and throws out a lot of money on small plastic warriors. But their latest releases are going … Read More “Games Workshop’s new Eldar models are justice for the space elves” »