Tuesday, 19 May 2009

The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...

(1) Knock, Knock: The second issue of 'old school' gaming magazine, Knockspell is now on sale.

(2) Clone Wars Street Date: Season One of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be released on DVD (and Blu-Ray) in November. So why did I waste my money on buying "volume one" of the season on DVD a month or so ago?

(3) 'Most Important Movie Of The Year': So says Esquire of The Road, the big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic funfest, which comes out on October 16. The first trailer can be seen here.

(4) Lost On The Way To The Dark Tower: Damon Lindelof talks about adapting Stephen King's epic Dark Tower after Lost finishes.

(5) Let Us Pray: Director Sam Mendes hopes comic book adaption Preacher will become a cinematic reality next year.

(6) New Torchwood Story: Details of the new, original Torchwood audio story, The Sin Eaters, have been released by the BBC.

(7) Dollhouse Opens In UK: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse debuts on the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK tonight at 9pm.

(8) Target On The Move: DC Comics' Human Target is to be developed into a TV series for Fox. Don't get too attached then...

(9) Torchwood To Air In July: The third season of Torchwood will air in July, according to BBC America.

(10) From Out Of The Shadows: Without any warning, the Supernatural RPG appears to be available all of a sudden, but just in pdf format at the moment.

(11) Life-Size Xenomorph: For a mere £6,000 you can have your own life-sized Giger xenomorph (from Alien) in your home or office. How cool is that? Rachel's already said: "No!"

(12) To Middle-Earth: Fantasy Flight Games unveils its latest Lord Of The Rings-themed board game, Middle Earth Quest.

(13) More Castle Chaos: The Tuesday Knights are due to continue their exploration of the vaults beneath White Rabbit Castle this evening in our monthly Labyrinth Lord game.

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ancientvaults said...

Your truly has an article in that Knockspell, but I must say, there are a ton of excellent articles in that issue and the look is very sleek.

The Acrobatic Flea said...

Congratulations :-)

My issue is sitting in my LuLu shopping basket at the moment as I'm trying to save funds. But no doubt I'll actually order it in the next week or so.

ancientvaults said...

Say, don't forget the promotion code for May to save 10%: MAYCONTEST10 in the coupon area on Lulu. An extra 10% off should help out a little, at least with shipping.

Thank you for the congratulations. Almost done with my article for #3.

Jeremy Patrick said...
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Jeremy Patrick said...

RE: # 7 & 8: You gotta give Fox some credit now that they've renewed Dollhouse (Yay!) even though the show tanked TERRIBLY in the ratings (seriously--if you look at a line graph of the ratings, it is a constant downward slide from Episode 1 to the Finale). The only thing I can't figure out is why they would renew it but then keep it on the same night (Fridays) in the U.S.

The Acrobatic Flea said...

>>Say, don't forget the promotion code for May to save 10%: MAYCONTEST10 in the coupon area on Lulu. An extra 10% off should help out a little, at least with shipping.<<

Sadly this code doesn't seem to work for Pounds Sterling :(

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