Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is due out next year, and the anticipation has been high since we first busted out our reveal trailer; but one thing a decade and a half of working in the games industry had taught me is that everything takes longer than you expect it to. Modern videogames are massive projects with a myriad of moving parts, and getting them ( Read more... )

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I love New York in June, how about you? Of course, that fact is irrelevant considering I was just out there and it’s actually October, so never mind. I’m back from a week in the Big Apple, and it’s been an experience. Staying at a nice place just the right side of Daredevil’s Hell’s Kitchen turf, I had a day or so to do some un-work stuff - ( Read more... )

I’ve been a bit radio silent over the past few weeks, and that’s because I’ve been blasting my way through the last few chapters of my next Warhammer 40,000 works for Black Library. First up was Hammer & Anvil, a Sisters of Battle novel that’ll be hitting bookstores around Yuletide (and will obviously make an Xcellent Xmas gift). That was followed ( Read more... )

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Back in February I posted  this blog entry about the oncoming nerdrush of Tron Legacy, waxing lyrical about a movie from my childhood and putting my heart on my sleeve for the sequel.

I said these things: "You have to be a certain kind of geek to get Tron. It's the fever-dream of every gamer, the Narnia of the Atari generation; the fantasy of ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the Stag Do for the estimable mrmrsmith, and despite being in the throes of a filthy cold, I joined him and the lads in a perambulate around London for beer and idiocy. Of course, being geeks, the drinking was enlivened by a ARG-ish historical challenge game set up by dapper best man Giles that involved us chasing down clues around ( Read more... )

Oh, this is a good year to be a 1980's geek.

Check out more coolness from the upcoming Space Battleship Yamato live action movie Here.