Soldiers

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | Console, Nick, RPG, Video, books, games | Comments Off

Does your barbarian or dwarf warrior need a more interesting weapon? Try this out.
What war is really like.
Rising star Mark Charan Newton interviews established tie-in writer Dan Abnett about writing tie-in fiction. I’ve you’ve never read Eisenhorn you should – it maybe a Warhammer 40k book but it’s also excellent! And very cheap now it’s in a omnibus format.
How we write about the Apocalypse has changed in the last 20 years. And here’s an interesting piece about how Sci-Fi looked at the Cold War. (Both from io9.com which is now on my RSS reader)
The Brainy Gamer get into why Dragon Age is filled with “RPG things”.
Bioware on what they’ve learned from Bethesda.
The AV Club keep up the good work with the latest Gateways to Geekery on Philip K. Dick.
And, finally, The Times online has 70 facts you didn’t know about Marvel Comics in honour of Marvel’s 70th birthday. There’s a bunch of other articles there too.

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