Tuesday, 10 November 2009

The Week In Geek...

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

(1) Pulp Gets Savage: Adamant Entertainment has released its first product for Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition, its Savage Worlds' pulp era line of modules and adventures.

(2) Looking Super: Cover art for the forthcoming Supersystem 3rd Edition miniatures game has been revealed, ahead of its planned November 22 release.

(3) Rise Of The Supers: Comic book superhero-themed Savage Worlds licensee Daring Entertainment is bringing out Dawn of Legends: Second Edition next year and a compendium of superpowers for the Savage Worlds system Daring Supers.

(4) 2013 To Follow 2012: Master of disaster Roland Emmerich is planning a TV series, 2013, to follow on from this month's epic 'end-of-the-world' movie 2012.

(5) Why The World Won't End In 2012: Countering the top ten doomsday scenarios with scientific fact.

(6) The Toaster's Toaster: Get your own limited edition Cylon toaster!

(7) Drip, Drip, Drip: Three minutes of clips from this month's Doctor Who special: Waters Of Mars, courtesy of The Guardian.

(8) Set A Date With Dreamland: The new Doctor Who animation, Dreamland, premieres on the BBC Red Button service on Saturday, November 21.

(9) Because No One Demanded It: Coming to a bargain bin near you next year! Uwe Boll begins filming Bloodrayne 3: The Warhammer in January. Kristanna Loken returns to the lead role for a war story mixing Nazis and vampires.

(10) Wesley Is Romulan: Turns out ultrageek Wil Wheaton provided the voices for all the Romulan's in Nero's crew in the Star Trek reboot.

(11) See How Medical Zombies Scrub Up: HeroPress faves' Studio Miniatures has released its latest batch of zombie miniatures: hospital staff.

(12) Comics Are "Sophisticated Literature": New study promotes the benefits of children reading comics.

(13) Evil Schemes To Take Over The World: friend of HeroPress and Savage Worlds licensee The Evil DM unveils details of products he aims to have ready by next Gen Con.

(14) Getting Crafty: Ghosts of Albion author Tim Brannan has been converting the characters from top teen witch movie The Craft into Unisystem and Witch Girls Adventures characters.

(15) Force-d Back: Publication of The Complete Vader has been pushed back to October 2011 due to problems in the printing process.

(16) Fans Want Movie Halted: Fans of Conan The Barbarian hope to use "people power" to force filmmakers to rethink current controversial plans for a Conan movie.

(17) It's That Knight Again: The Tuesday Knights return to role-playing action tonight... with the same characters as last time (yes, they all survived for once!)

3 persons have something to say about this!:

Tim Brannan said...

Awesome!! I made the "Week in Geek!"

And I actually am looking forward to the new Bloodrayne movie. Yeah they are trainwrecks but they are so bad you ahve watch them.

I have been busy playing with my witches again, what's up with the new Conan movie?

The Acrobatic Flea said...

"Fortune and glory, kid, fortune and glory!"

Always enjoy reading your Witchy updates, Tim.

As to the Conan movie, as far as I can tell, some hardcore Howard fans have taken exception to script/story info that has leaked out and want the filmmakers to have a serious rethink about making this Conan moive more true to Howard (which is understandable)

Siskoid said...

(4) Now THAT is ridiculous. Not only does 2012 promise to out-stupid Transformers2, but the end of the world actually has a sequel. "2012: Not Quite the End"

(5) Oh Science, will you never learn?

(7) Do I dare? No I think I won't spoil myself with even that. (Or will I?) (Damn it, I don't know that I can trust myself.)

(12) I could have told them that based on my own life.

(14) Congratulations for making it this far, Tim! Now roll the dice to see if you can make it to the next level!

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