Shooters can be curious beasts. Any game that pours you directly into the perspective of someone holding a gun empowers you to make choices, even if it’s just the choice of which weapon to pick up to fill one of your two precious slots in Halo. The more choices the player is called upon to… Continue reading Game Review: Deus Ex
Author: BlueInkAlchemist
And Loki Wept
We needed to see more of that smirk. I’ve now seen Thor twice. And while I stand by my assessment that it’s an enjoyable if simplistic fantasy romp, I’d be lying if I didn’t hold the likes of Captain America, X-Men: First Class and Spider-Man 2 as higher in the Marvel movie line-up. The Avengers… Continue reading And Loki Wept
Trek Through Trek: The Next Generation
It’s coming up on two years since I last wrote in-depth about a Star Trek series. And it was even longer between our last discussion, on The Animated Series, and the return of Star Trek in the late 80s. I was 8 when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered, and sitting down with my parents… Continue reading Trek Through Trek: The Next Generation
Flash Fiction: Burn
Because Chuck wanted a brand new monster… I don’t remember much beyond the tank. Floating in some odd solution, tubes hanging out of me, the mask on my face giving me air. I don’t know how I got out, or why I was there in the first place. The first thing I remember is running… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Burn
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Hannibal Rising
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/hannibal_rising.mp3] October has arrived. It’s a month that brings a change of seasons, a decrease in termperatures, post-season baseball and a plethora of colors. Oh, and I think there’s some holiday at the end of it. In honor of a time where folks fly their freak flags, culminating in a celebration of sugary or other… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Hannibal Rising
Dark Heresy Dossiers: Introduction
I’m planning on attending MEPACon Fall 2011, and while I’ll be doing demos of both Maschine Zeit and Amaranthine, I’ve been interested in starting a new ongoing campaign. In light of Honor and Blood’s potential return during the convention and my interest in a long-running Legend of the Five Rings game that will also be… Continue reading Dark Heresy Dossiers: Introduction
Anthology of Interest
A few of them exist here in draft form, and I’m keeping others under wraps for now. But the fact is I’ve written six short stories mixing old folk tales and myths with relatively modern genres. While I dive headlong into to the rewrite of the novel currently entitled Citizen in the Wilds, I want… Continue reading Anthology of Interest
Book Review: Catching Fire
Follow-up to my review of Suzanne Collins’ first book in the Hunger Games trilogy. They say the second chapter of a trilogy is its darkest. The stakes are heightened, the danger deepened, families torn apart and friends forced to make deadly and dire choices. For examples of this, look to The Empire Strikes Back, The… Continue reading Book Review: Catching Fire
Okay. Now what?
No Flash Fiction this week, as Chuck Wendig is busy putting us through our paces in a monthly worldbuilding exercise. I love building new worlds – I even plan on teaching a class about it – but I find myself wondering about the foundations we build those worlds upon, because I’m at a point where… Continue reading Okay. Now what?
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Centurion
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/centurion.mp3] The movie version of 300 has definitely made an impression. It’s given us a ton of Internet memes, helped shape all sorts of workout regimens and pushed Gerard Butler towards being the stereotypical big scowly action star. But it also had the subtle benefit of introducing the world to Michael Fassbender. In between his… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Centurion
