(1) Alien Contact In A Few Years: Senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak believes we could make contact with an alien race by 2025.
(2) Fight Zombies For Free: A free online MMORPG is being developed, to go online early next year, where players take the roles of urban survivors after the zompocalypse.(3) Return of The Dynamic Duo: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (stars of Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead) have teamed up for Pete, a road movie about a couple of slackers travelling across the United States.
(4) Superman Quits Earth: Superman is to leave Earth "forever" in DC Comics next year.
(5) Watchmen Gets Video Treatment: A dreadful-looking video game prequel to the Watchmen movie is being worked on.
(6) Travel Back In Time With Doctor Who: The BBC has set-up an online archive of old Doctor Who material, so that fans can explore the behind-the-scenes origin of the long-running show.
(7) The Rats Are Back: Rats have returned to the German town of Hamelin and the Pied Piper is nowhere to be seen.
(8) Pushing Daisies Pruned: The sublime Pushing Daisies has been cut down in its prime due to low viewer ratings.
(9) Gen Con For Sale: The world's most famous RPG convention is up for sale!
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Again another great list of links. Thanks for those - especially the Dr Who archives one.
Sad to see the demise of Pushing Daisies. I quite liked the weird, slightly surreal programme. Ah well.
As to the Watchmen game, I have no problems with it. I believe it's set in the past during the riots that were mentioned in the comic. The book established that the characters used to be costumed crimefighters and this ties in to that. Warner Bros obviously want to make as much money from this as possible so why not release a video game?
My only concern would be who this is aimed at? The comic book (and film, probably) isn't exactly for young kids.
Thank you for the kind words. As a life-long klutz, I generally have an aversion to any sort of video game that involves skill.
Combine this with my numerous bad experiences with 'licenced products' that don't live up to the quality of their source material and I have an in-built prejudice against any video game connected with such a well-loved and respected piece of literature as The Watchmen.
Hey Heropress-- you can read our exclusive interview with the developers of "Zombie Pandemic" at "Blog of the Living Dead" --
zombie-night.blogspot.com
Great work on the site guys!
Thanks for the kind words :-)
The Blog Of The Living Dead has been on my Blogroll for quite some time. Great interview, by the way.
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