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Edge Of The Empire, The Star Wars Game We Didn't Ask For?
Star Wars - Edge of the Empire is the new role-playing game based on the biggest science-fiction license out there. There have been numerous incarnations of Star Wars over the past few decades, with...
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Star Wars... A Retrospective
I have a lot of love for Stars Wars. I mean actual Star Wars... The three actual Star Wars films, not all the other stuff that varies in quality from amusing to atrocious, mostly the latter. While I...
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Wraith: The Oblivion... A Retrospective
A year ago I did retrospectives of Vampire: the Masquerade and Vampire: the Dark Ages, fully intending to follow them up with a retrospective of Wraith: the Oblivion not long afterwards... Obviously...
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Mephiston: Lord of Death
I don't normally go for the 'box opening' posts, but in this is a rare instance I will. This is the first of The Black Library's 'Lords of the Space Marines' novels, Mephiston: Lord of Death.I picked...
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Satanic Panic!
It finally happened. After twenty years of involvement in the tabletop role-playing hobby, I finally encountered someone who buys into the Dungeons & Dragons Satanic Panic!Yeees!! I am not...
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My still fairly new (and thus under warranty) laptop was playing up a little, so I decided to have it looked at while it was still free to do so. It ended up going to Germany! They restored it to...
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You Can Run Away All You Like And Still Be Home In Time For Tea!
After a far too long wait, Matt Smith is back as Doctor Who! In what certainly feels like the first episode of a new season (but is in fact only the seventh episode of a season that started so long...
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Technically no. In reality, also no. But still, let’s give it a stab.
The Rings of Akhaten struck me as an odd combination of new and old Doctor Who. The studio-as-alien-world feel was very classic and it was a delight to see so many prosthetic aliens in one place. The...
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Oh, Glorious Day!!
You were corrupt, evil and you damaged this country.You caused needless deaths, suffering and misery.You persecuted those least able to defend themselves.You inspired a generation of soulless scum to...
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Steampunk Spider-Man (Part I)
Regular visitors will recall I put up a gallery of Denis Medri's absolutely awesome Rockabilly Batman concept art (seriously, I want to play that as an rpg!) last month. Well, for the next few days...
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Steampunk Spider-Man (Part II)
Today we have steampunk Black Cat, Vulture and Kraven the Hunter, who is the mos obvious fit for this concept as a great white hunter.Whiskers on the mask are an amusing detail.Still cranky!The...
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Steampunk Spider-Man (Part III)
Today we have another hero in Daredevil and two more classic villains, Electro and Rhino. All of these I particularly like.That costume looks REALLY good!Electro, still the master of subtlety...You...
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Steampunk Spider-Man (Part IV)
So here we are, the fourth and final installment of Denis Medri's steampunk Spider-Man concept. Venom is by far my favourite here, and indeed of the entire collection! I think it is a shame Denis...
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Hair, Shoulder Pads, Nukes - It's the 80's, Everything is bigger!
Well, wasn't Cold War the Troughtoniest episode since Troughton? The cold war era, Ice Warriors, a base under siege... Yes, that was a lot of fun.I think this is the best episode of series 33's part...
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X-O Manowar: By the Sword... A Review
If Conan stole Iron Man's armour, you would have X-O Manowar! X-O Manowar: By the Sword is the first trade paperback collection from the relaunched, rebooted Valiant Universe. I was passingly...
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Well done. I am The Doctor and I am afraid.
Hide was such an annoying episode for me. The 70's setting, haunted house and very minimal (but strong) cast would have made for an awesome episode... If they hadn't gone out of their way to make it...
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Archer & Armstrong: The Michelangelo Code... A Review
The second Valiant trade-paperback collection I picked up was Archer & Armstrong, about which I knew almost nothing except that the concept amused me. One is a young protege assassin raised by a...
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Salvage of a Lifetime?
Meandering Pre-Review Opinion...One of the very worst things a creator should ever do is destroy the mystique inherent in his work. I always call it "Romulan Syndrome" because they were the...
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Iron Man 3
I saw Iron Man 3 on Saturday and now I've had a few days to absorb it. I tend to do that with movies, think on it and find out what stuck with me.We're going to sell SO MANY TOYS!! This is a Spoiler...
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Ignore All The Keep Out Signs
Finally! After two episodes of rapidly diminishing quality, things pick up tremendously in "The Crimson Horror" by Mark Gatiss. As a writer for Doctor Who, he has been a bit hit and miss, but this is...
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