Featured Story #1

More Cthulhu Fiction From Chaosium - ‘Cthulhu’s Dark Cults’

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing new Cthulhu stories appearing on the horizon. Chaosium is doing us a great service by not only publishing an awesome role playing game, but keeping us filled with enough fictional creepy goodness to keep us satiated between... [Read more...]

Featured Story #2

Napoleon: Total War - The Peninsular Campaign Coming Soon

Releasing Sometime in June 2010, The Peninsular Campaign Downloadable Content is a new and independent campaign for Napoleon: Total War based on the conflict in the Spanish Peninsula between 1811 and 1814. It was during this era that the Spanish resistance gave their style of... [Read more...]

Featured Story #3

Napoleon: Total War - Imperial Guard Pack DLC

I had a nice surprise on my computer this morning when I jumped into Napoleon: Total War….some free goodies…The Imperial Guard Pack which includes an alternate Waterloo Battle from the British side. The Imperial Guard Pack features 6 brand new units and contain an... [Read more...]

Featured Story #4

Commands & Colors Napoleonics From GMT Games

Commands & Colors Napoleonics has just gone up on GMT’s P500 list. Commands & Colors: Napoleonics allows you to re-fight epic battles of the Napoleonic era. In this core volume, the focus is on the French and the British, two bitter rivals in the struggle for European... [Read more...]

Featured Story #5

Cthulhu Fiction: Mysteries Of The Worm, 3rd Ed By Robert Bloch

This just in from Chaosium: Mysteries of the Worm New Edition to Release August 2009. The book is printed and should arrive at our warehouse next week. Mysteries of the Worm 20 Early Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Robert Bloch Third Edition $15.95 CHA 6037 ISBN 1-56882-176-X ISBN-13:... [Read more...]

Movies/TV

Fan-Funded Nazi UFO Movie Has Raised $7.65 Million

You must have loved the trailer for that Nazi UFO movie we showed you last week, because thanks to fan donations, the project has already pulled in 90 percent of the feature-length project’s $8.5 million budget.

Iron Sky’s premise is that Nazis in flying saucers escaped to the moon during the closing days of World War II, and in 2018 they return to conquer the Earth. Casting for the film is almost done, and filming will begin in Australia and Germany later this year.

Though Iron Sky’s success in pulling in fan funding might encourage others to create films in which the audience and investor are the same, special-effects guru Samuli Torssonen warns that theirs is a special case.

“We didn’t come out of nowhere,” he said. “We’ve been building our Internet community and visibility since 1999, with Star Wreck. You have to invest a lot of time and energy to win the trust of the Internet audience.”

Teaser Footage Below: [Read more...]

June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

Technology

Microsoft Kin Phones Discontinued

The supposed ultimate social networking phone from Microsoft, the Kin, has been discontinued. Microsoft has officially announced that they won’t be producing any more Kin phones because of poor sales.

The Microsoft Kin phone is far too expensive for a phone that was designed to be used as a social networking phone and obviously aimed at the teenage market. However, Microsoft will continue to provide support for those who have already purchased the Kin phone. [Geeky Gadgets]

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July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

Comic Book News

Marvel Digital Comics - Free Mondays (6/28/2010)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection or a comic that’s in stores now.

How would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the school and work week? Here ya go!

MARVEL MANGAVERSE #1
MARVEL MANGAVERSE #2
MARVEL MANGAVERSE #3
MARVEL MANGAVERSE #4
MARVEL MANGAVERSE #5

Find our what next week’s five free digital comics will be below!*

DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH #1
DOOMWAR #1
ULTIMATE COMICS ARMOR WARS #1
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #1
UNCANNY X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #1

June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Gaming

DIY Halo Elite Costume - Amazing!

Oh, you’ve made your own assault rifle from Halo? That’s cute. Wait, you’ve made your own Spartan suit? Meh, it’s okay, we guess. See, the dudes at Peter Mander FX have ruined us forever, because they’ve produced about the best homage to Halo one could ever hope for: the ultra-realistic Elite suit you see above.

Largely comprised of plastic, TLC and dark magicks, the suit not only looks impressive, but it’s animatronic. We can’t imagine the blood, sweat and/or tears it took to produce such a lifelike recreation of this Covenant class, but we can get some idea from the video documenting the creation of this behemoth, which you can find past the break. [Read more...]