David Braben, one of the brains behind Elite, that game that has dominated my psyche for the last 30 years, has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at crowd-funding Elite IV, the long-awaited sequel to Elite that has been bugging people since Frontier First Encounters turned out to be so dire. Not only that, but it apparently is going to be a proper sequel - same style of gameplay and everything - to Elite. Not Frontier. Dodgy physics and all. This is bigger than the Star Wars thing, ... Read More

It's been a while, I know. Of all things that put me back in front of the blog-o-board, it's been the recent acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney. So why so quiet on the blog front, Hughesy? Busy times. So many things happening, none of them good. I may go into them on another post, but not yet. Not until the stories have reached a conclusion. Anyway. Disney Wars. It's a big thing in the entertainment world. Lucas has done a lot for filmmaking, giving us Lucasarts, THX, ... Read More

I feel vilified in my beliefs that film critics are knobs. I've been a fan of Edgar Rice-Burroughs' John Carter Of Mars series for a good few years now (even since finding them on the Gutenberg Library) and was quite excited by the imminent release of the film. I was thinking about going to see it and thought I'd have a look at the reviews on Wikipedia to see what the film-critic elite had to say about it. In summary, most of them said something along the lines of the ... Read More

Happy Star Wars Day to everyone.

Found this on the Oolite forums. Check it out. I demand it to be so. http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/