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I know this has been out for a while now (since November last year) but this still looks very cool. Why can't they make a feature length movie like this?

16 November 2010

16 November... You may not have thought there was anything particularly special about that particular date (unless your birthday happens to fall on that day, in which case you share it with the Roman emperor Tiberius, Oswald Mosley, Griff Rhys Jones, Frank Bruno and Danny Wallace) but you'd be wrong.

For a start, from 16 November there's only 45 days left until the end of the year. On this day in 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, Hessian mercenaries captures Fort Washington from the Patriots. On this day in 1857, twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded (the most in a single day) after the second relief of Lucknow. On this day in 1938, LSD was first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. In 1940, during World War II, in response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombed Hamburg. In 1945, Operation Paperclip saw the United States Army secretly admit 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology, on the very same day that UNESCO was founded.

But 16 November 2010 is going to be a special day as well. First off it's the day that the Solaris Books horror anthology The End of the Line is launched at Foyle's Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London...

and secondly because this is out the same day...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain - the gamer's review

Thanks to Fighting Fantasy Collector Jamie Fry for this...

Darksiders: Wrath of War

I wish I'd thought of this idea for a gamebook first...

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain - DS trailer

Ian Livingstone forwarded this to me today along with the message, 'This is funny and good.' And he's not wrong.


Check it out for yourself here. (Can't quite get over the voice-over guy's intonation at the end either.)

I'll never look at an Iron Cyclops in the same way again. (Was this what Ian originally intended? I'll have to ask him next time we meet up.)

Arkham Has Moved...

Good news! Batman is back...

Dante's Inferno trailer

Just before I go...

If you're a fan of gaming, the fantasy genre or just people battling demons of preposterous proportions, and you've not yet seen the trailer to the new Dante's Inferno game then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this.

The video game, which is being produced by Electronic Arts, was subject to a Hollywood bidding war, which ended with Universal Pictures winning the right to develop a big screen movie adaptation. The property is a modern interpretation of the famous poem written by Dante Alighieri in the early 1300s. The narrative poem describes Dante’s imaginary journey through the nine circles of hell where he see the damned being punished for the sins they committed on Earth.

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain on Nintendo DS

Exciting news, Fighting Fantasy fans! Aspyr Media and Big Blue Bubble have partnered to launch Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain for Nintendo DS™.

Based on the legendary book series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a first-person fantasy role-playing game that takes players on an elaborate adventure through the Firetop Mountain Keep, the scene of the first entry in the renowned literary line.

To find out more click here and here.

I want to know who this bad boy is!