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[28 Nov 2008 | 4 Comments | 446 views]

The Children of Húrin Deluxe Limited Edition
The nice people at tolkien.co.uk, the official J.R.R. Tolkien Bookstore have just relaunched their site, and to celebrate they’ve given us a truly awesome competition prize to giveaway.
We have a limited deluxe edition of The Children of Húrin to giveaway (worth £350.00)!
Here’s what you get in the limited
Deluxe Edition of The Children of Húrin:

It contains nine colour plates.
It’s hand-bound in full goat-skin with marbled endpapers and raised spine ribs, and the pages are edged in gold!
It’s housed in a matching leather tray case …

Misc, Sci-fi, TV News »

[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 94 views]

After David Tennant made his announcement in October that he was leaving Doctor Who, there’s obviously been an awful lot of speculation over who will be the 11th Who… However, actor Phillip Rhys while being interviewed on E24 about the new series Survivors, mentions the other people starring in the drama, and makes this very interesting slip of the tongue…

Paterson Joseph the new Doctor Who?
Is it me, or is that the look of a man thinking, “oops, i really should have said that!” Maybe its nothing. Maybe its something. I …

Misc »

[13 Aug 2008 | 2 Comments | 528 views]

To celebrate the launch of the new Star Wars : Clone Wars theatrical release (August 15th), Lucasfilm have gone a bit ‘old skool’ and created a Wormseque Clones V Droids web game. Pretty good fun and worth a look, if your looking to kill some time (and some droids) in your lunch hour at work.
www.clonesvdroids.com

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[4 Aug 2008 | No Comment | 178 views]

The accident happened shortly before midnight on Sunday in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.  Freeman’s car left the road and “began to flip several times” before landing in a ditch. “They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle.” When one person tried to take a photo with a mobile phone, Freeman joked, “no freebies, no freebies.”
71yrs old… in a very nasty car wreck… and still making jokes.
Mr Freeman sir, you are a legend.
Best wishes, and I really hope you get well soon.
UPDATE: Freeman’s …

Age of Conan, Geeky, MMORPG, Misc, PC Gaming »

[23 Jul 2008 | 2 Comments | 169 views]

It’s been a while in writing, but we’ve finally got round to putting together the review for Age of Conan : Hyborian Adventures… The game that shall forever be know as the game that got us back onto the evil that is Warcraft…
HOW BIG?!
There are a couple of initial shocks with AoC. Firstly, the 30Gb is requires for installation. Secondly, the graphic requirement. I know AoC is a high end game, intended for new pcs with above average graphic cards, but I can say from playing this on both a …

Age of Conan, Misc, PC Gaming »

[9 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 98 views]

Yup… that just about sums up Age of Conan for me… (although, i will admit it is kinda funny :D)
Yes yes, i know… we will finish the review soon!.