Review: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
The last time a game based on Aliens was released for computers and consoles, we got the absolutely disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox and Sega. A buggy, derivative, just […]
The Titan Books Alien Series: Review Links
Having made my way through the entire current series of Alien novels from Titan Books, which began with Alien: Out of the Shadows in 2014, I’ve now reviewed all of […]
Book Review: The Humans (2013)
A successful mathematics professor on the verge of a hugely significant breakthrough is found wandering naked through Cambridge. His family and friends – even his dog – realise that Andrew […]
Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis (2021)
Author Alex White’s previous Alien novel, Alien: The Cold Forge, was a remarkable book – though it took place in a Weyland-Yutani lab in which experiments to weaponise Xenomorphs were […]
News: The Switch Collector: Volume One – Reprint
Video game historian and writer Jeffrey Wittenhagen crowdfunded the first printing of The Switch Collector: Volume One back in 2019. The book is a beautiful coffee table tome that features […]
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Well, it doesn’t happen often – does it? Regular readers of the blog will know that I’ve been catching up with the Titan Books Alien novels, which I’d been reading […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Learn Python through Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales
Coding is a skill that is becoming ever more important in the modern world – and is likely to continue increasing in importance as the world shifts towards the digital […]
Book Review: Aliens: Phalanx (2020)
I’ve read a lot of xenomorph-related books this year, having got myself all excited about video game Aliens: Fireteam Elite, which is finally out tomorrow. In getting myself all worked […]
Book Review: Alien: Prototype (2019)
It’s a shame that so many Alien-related novels fall back on so many obvious tropes or rely on familiar characters to spin their tales. Though Alien: Prototype is loaded with […]
Book Review: Fear Street: The New Girl (1989)
RL Stine is an absolute powerhouse in the world of gently scary, creepily amusing kid-friendly horror thanks to his perennially popular Goosebumps titles. There are sixty two titles in the […]
Book Review: Alien: The Cold Forge (2018)
“You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.” – Ellen Ripley, Aliens (1986) That quote has […]
Book Review: Alien vs Predator: Armageddon (2016)
The Rage War trilogy comes to a close – following Predator: Incursion and Alien: Invasion – with Alien vs Predator: Armageddon. It’s been an odd ride, with the first book, […]
Book Review: Alien: Invasion (2016)
The second book in The Rage War trilogy (following Predator: Incursion), Alien: Invasion centres on the newly revealed ‘Rage’ and their weaponised Xenomorphs, each battalion of which is headed up […]
Book Review: Predator: Incursion (2015)
Despite feeling at times – with Ripley shoehorned into events between Alien and Aliens – like little more than fan fiction, the supposedly canonical Alien: Out of the Shadows by […]
Book Review: Alien: Sea of Sorrows (2014)
A direct sequel to Alien: Out of the Shadows, albeit set 200 years later, Alien: Sea of Sorrows mostly takes place on LV-178, site of the abandoned mines that featured […]
Sirens: Battle of the Bards – An Interview with Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone
“I was eight years old,” Satine Phoenix reveals, about her first encounter with Dungeons & Dragons. “I found the starter box in my basement. It had my Dad’s old characters […]
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