Comic Book Review: Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards #2 (2022)
The evil Dr Tod has possession of an alien bomb, primed with a substance that will mutate humans that come into contact with it once detonated. Dr Tachyon – one […]
Comic Book Review: Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards #1 (2022)
A long running shared universe series of novels and short story anthologies, the very first Wild Cards fiction was published back in 1987. The universe itself arose from a Superworld […]
News: Critically Acclaimed Linguistic Puzzle Game ‘Heaven’s Vault’ To Be Released Physically By Strictly Limited Games
One of the most highly acclaimed indie puzzle adventures of the last few years, Heaven’s Vault is being released in physical limited editions by Strictly Limited Games on PS4 and […]
Comic Book Review: Alien #11
With their fellow survivor retrieved from the Xenomorphs – albeit at a terrible cost – Jane and the Spinners make their way to Gamma Station, now inhabited by another group […]
Comment: Comixology No More
For more than a decade, the Comixology app has enabled me to conveniently keep up with reading a vast array of comic books; not just providing an easy way to […]
Comment: Guilty Pleasures
In conversation with a friend recently, she told me that she was watching a certain TV show fairly compulsively. She felt compelled to add: ‘it’s a guilty pleasure’, perhaps to […]
My Book of the Year 2021
My choice for the best book I read in 2021 didn’t come out last year at all, but going by my rule of the ‘My X of the Year 2021’ […]
Book Review: Alien: The Official Cookbook
Filled with hilariously incentive recipes to turn usually innocuous meals into creations resembling different stages of the Xenomorph life cycle, Alien: The Official Cookbook is a great gift for the […]
News: [lock-on] 002 from Lost in Cult Launches Today
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign – which ran for the last few weeks of August this year – the second volume of premium gaming journal [lock-on] from Lost in Cult […]
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 […]
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