Monthly Archives: October 2014

Twin Peaks Returns in 2016

Oh mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey. A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you? Put on a pot of damn good coffee and slice some cherry pie. David Lynch and Mark Frost are teaming up to bring back the iconic cult hit supernatural murder mystery Twin Peaks for a nine episode third season to air on Showtime in 2016.

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Comic Book Pull List for October 8, 2014

Oct 7

Posted by Steve Murray

I’ve left it until the last-minute so here’s a quick, thrown together comic book pull list for this week.

Injustice started as a comic book prequel to the video game but it seems as though the comic has more staying power than the game. It’s time for Injustice: Gods Among Us – Year Three #1. With war engulfing the Earth and a great evil threatening mankind, can the Avengers and X-Men co-exist long enough to help? The answer lies in the nine-part miniseries Avengers and X-Men: Axis. And George R.R. Martin’s Meathouse Man short story gets its own one-shot comic book treatment from Jet City Comics.

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A Look at Steam Discoverability with Indie Devs, Writers and PR

With the recent Steam Store overhaul to improve discoverability of games and customization of the store, Popular YouTuber and common sense advocate John Bain, better known by his nom de plume, TotalBiscuit, held a panel discussion to look at the effects of the changes to Steam and the advertising of video games.

As part of his three-hour roundtable, he is joined by indie developers Howard Tsao (Guns of Icarus), Mike Bithell (Thomas Was Alone) and Andrew Spearin (Insurgency), writer Mike Rose (Gamasutra) and PR rep Tom Ohle (Evolve PR) for the discussion.

Posted on October 7, 2014 | Video

Haven: Much Ado About Mara Review

Oct 7

Posted by Steve Murray

Not to start all of my reviews this week with a question but how do you follow-up on an episode where nothing happens and all your protagonists are spinning their wheels? You make everything happen this week and start pushing this season forward. Sure, it hits reset on a couple of characters but it’s for the best.

This week, The Guard have Mara and it looks like Dwight is about to assume the throne of this season’s Big Bad much like Jordan did last season. Fortunately, that was a red herring and the season is progressing along its logical path.

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Tags: Haven, Review, Stephen King, Syfy

Game Trailers Roundup for October 6, 2014

Oct 6

Posted by Steve Murray

There are a couple of big releases tomorrow and I have trailers for none of them. That doesn’t make for a particularly topical game trailers roundup. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have trailers for games you want to know more about.

Today’s roundup includes trailers for Civ: Beyond Earth, Far Cry 4, Dying Light and Dragon Age: Inquisition. If those don’t strike your fancy, you can always watch a launch trailer for Styx: Master of Shadows and a teaser for F.E.A.R. Online. Not a bad little post for watching.

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The Steam Halloween Sale Starts October 30th

Oct 6

Posted by Steve Murray

Are you a fan of big discounts? Are you a fan of horror games? Well, if you answered yes to either of those questions (but preferably both questions), Valve has you covered. The Steam store will be running a special Halloween Sale from October 30 to November 3rd so you can get discounts on your favourite Halloween themed games.

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Tags: Business of Gaming, Steam, Steam Halloween Sale 2014, Steam Sale, Valve

Doctor Who: Kill the Moon Review

Oct 6

Posted by Steve Murray

What happens when you take the training wheels off your bike? You either fall over and land on your head or you ride straight and true.

That was the question on Doctor Who this week. Though it feels like a question that has been asked time and time again, the question was asked again of Clara. Unlike every other time that Clara might have been left to ride on her own, this was the first time that she pushed back.

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Tags: BBC, Doctor Who, Jenna Coleman, Kill the Moon, Peter Capaldi, Review

Geek Links of the Week

Oct 3

Posted by Steve Murray

Verizon is suing the FCC over Net Neutrality rules but other big wigs in the industry think that this suit could backfire and make things worse (for them). [Ars Technica]

Is Bungie’s Destiny really an unintentional criticism of consumer culture? [The New Yorker]

While the Xbox One’s Japan launch was an unmitigated disaster, the Chinese launch didn’t turn out too badly. [Tech in Asia]

If you’re a tech journalist who covers Apple with their blessing, don’t talk about bendy iPhone 6 Pluses. The editor of Computer Blid, Germany’s biggest tech magazine, had his Apple press credentials pulled for posting a video showing that the iPhone 6 Plus could be bent. [The Register]

Are you looking forward to The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron? Disney/Marvel is going to include a preview of the movie on the DVDs and Blu-Rays of Guardians of the Galaxy. [Screen Crush]

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America’s Supernatural Claims to Fame (Infographic)

Oct 3

Posted by Steve Murray

Welcome to et geekera’s 31 Days of Halloween! If you read my Haven reviews, you’ll get that joke. If not, you should read them and watch the older episodes. It’s actually a fun show.

Anyway, since we’ve reached the month of October which means that everyone wants to talk about ghosts, monsters, the occult and other things that go bump in the night. So let’s kick-off our on and off look the frightening with an infographic from the folks at Movoto looking at the most famous supernatural creature or story in each US state. What can I say? I’m a fan of a good ghost story.

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Tags: Ghosts, Horror, Infographic, Monsters, Supernatural

The Visual History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Infographic)

Oct 3

Posted by Steve Murray

I think I mentioned this before but I was pretty big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was growing up. I was never into the original TMNT comics but I do remember reading a few of the comics in the early 90s. While those two were pretty close visually but they were very different from the live-action Ninja Turtles movies of the early 90s. Since then, TMNT has kept going and 2014 marks 30 years of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.