Acid for Blood

Hello. I need this:

I’ve been keeping an eye out for news on this ever since Neil Gaiman started talking about it on his blog a while ago. I’m a huge Sandman fan and a Neil Gaiman fan. The Beat has a look at comparisions between an original page from an original Sandman comic, and the re-coloured page for […]

Batwoman is going to be remade into a lipstick lesbian. My knowledge of DC Comics characters is not as good as that of Marvel Comics characters. This is partially due to the utterly confounding continuity problems that were later magically “resolved” (retconned) in Crisis on Infinite Earths. It’s still confusing, though. Also, I identified more […]

4 color rebellion spotlights one of my favourite comic book artists of the 1990s, Joe Madureira. After his successful stint on X-Men (I think he also did Uncanny X-Men), Joe started his own comic book, Battle Chasers. Unfortunately, the sporadic release schedule frustrated me. Battle Chasers showed promise. Although the art was up to Madureira’s […]

According to always_black, The Escapist online games magazine will have a presence in Second Life. The writers and staff are meeting at the _blacklibrary in-game to discuss with the always_black people, and everyone else is invited, too.
Date/Time: Saturday, 4th March @ 19:00 GMT
Place: _blacklibrary
I haven’t logged in to Second Life since I checked out the […]

New continent (Cantha) with three nations. Two factions: Luxon and Kurzick; choice of faction affects storyline. Two new Professions: Assassin and Ritualist. Faction wars. New Guild Halls. Practice areas. Change Second Profession to Ritualist or Assassin.

That is definitely the Rogue-ishness that Guild Wars has been missing. I will definitely have to create an Assassin Primary. […]

This question has been puzzling me for a while, but I didn’t think anyone else considered this issue worthy of debate or thought. Dave Thomas, posting about Jesper Juul’s new book, Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds, holds that it is “videogame” and not “video game”. Europeans commonly use “videogame” and the […]

Not video games!
Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds by Jesper Juul
Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution by Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
I’ll end up buying these books […]

According to Play Magazine, Guild Wars will see introduction of a new Profession with the expansion, due out next year. Those who love stealthy, sneaky types, rejoice, for the Assassin is on her way!
From The Guild Hall:
Gaile Gray (Guild Wars Community Relations), commenting on the picture in the article and confirming the new Assassin Profession:
Yep, […]

This week’s The Escapist covers the huge influence that table-top gaming has had on video games. I usually don’t read The Escapist ‘cover-to-cover’ as it were. Sometimes I see one or two articles I’m interested in, and click on through. Usually, I just read the headlines. However this week I may just have to find […]