Kotaku:
Hollywood scribe Kyle Ward, writer of the big screen version of Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2, was penciled in to ink the movie version of Uncharted. Was. According to movie site Latino Review, Ward has been pulled off the flick (Read More)
/Film:
You might remember back in June that Sony hired a screenwriter, Kyle Ward, to develop a film based on the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Our friends at LatinoReview are now reporting that Kyle’s deal fell apa (Read More)
Google Alerts - h. p. lovecraft:
Parodied authors include: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (a Sherlock parody), Arthur Machen H. Rider Haggard, H. P. Lovecraft, Fergus Hume, Jules Verne & H.G. Wells. The cover is a parody of Virgil Finlay's work (here 'Virgin Filigre (Read More)
Google Alerts - h. p. lovecraft:
“Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman. 'A Study in Eme (Read More)
Dark Roasted Blend:
"QUANTUM SHOT" #48Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi AbramsSometimes ex libris is more valuable than the book containing it Ex libris, meaning ‘from the library of’, or ‘from the books of’ is a Latin expression attached to (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Science:
Would we have had Alien, Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine if it weren't for a certain bearded Victorian?Darwin, Evolution and the Movies is a one-off festival of film and live comedy to celebrate the 150th anniversary (Read More)
Google Alerts - h. p. lovecraft:
It took the paper shortages of World War II to knock them down, and they were finished off by television in the '50s, but they left us a legacy of heroes that include Conan and Tarzan, cult favorite H.P. Lovecraft, and provid (Read More)
Geekdad:
Image by Frank FrazettaYou know that unicorn & dragon original you picked up at the fantasy convention? Don’t throw it away, it might be worth a million bucks some day.Grand Master Frank Frazetta’s cover painting for the Lanc (Read More)
Digg / videos:
O'Brien attracted negative attention from Alley through a barrage of fat jokes he cracked at her expense -- all of which he replayed during Wednesday’s show. Alley hit back at O’Brien on her Twitter page earlier this week. (Read More)
Google Alerts - h. p. lovecraft:
H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard were penpals. MHI is Lovecraftian horror as written by Conan's scribe, with a touch of Bram Stoker thrown in. Vampires really are the in thing in modern fantasy! What I really liked about M (Read More)
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By Crom! (Or should that be "buy" Crom?) Frank Frazetta's original cover painting for the Lancer paperback edition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror sold this week to a private collector for a reported $1 million, acc (Read More)
SFGate: Tim Goodman:
Is Conan O'Brien ready for his third act? There's a scenario - one that might seem far-fetched now, but strange, fear-based decisions are made in the television industry all the time, so give it a few days - whereby televisio (Read More)
"dark fantasy" - Google News:
Age of Conan expansion due before JulyGameSpotHowever, the Norwegian developer has struggled to maintain interest in its dark fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and that fact is ...and more ». (Read More)
SF Signal:
Fiction and fantasy book covers can be as awe-inspiring as the stories they are trying to sell. We asked this week's panelists:Q: Which are the most memorable book covers in science fiction and fantasy? (You can name up to (Read More)
Google Alerts - h. p. lovecraft:
1000 Comics You Must Read
While Kull's world was not as developed as Conan's Hyborian Age milieu, Kull's Thurian Age world was older and showed some early influence of HP Lovecraft ... (Read More)
SFGate: Top Sports Stories:
Move over, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien: The St. Mary's Gaels have staked their claim as the kings of late night. In a game that began at 11:07 p.m. Monday and ended at 12:56 a.m. Tuesday, St. Mary's made the San Diego S (Read More)
Kotaku:
Terrifying statistic incoming. According to research performed by the NPD Group, 14% of American homes have an online game subscription. Not 14% of homes connected to the internet. 14% of homes. That figure covers any and all (Read More)