A lot of people recommend the Eisenhord Trilogy as a good starting point to get into 40k (from a book perspective), but I take a different tack and would suggest checking out the Ciaphais Cain series of books by Sandy Mitchell, starting with “For the Emperor”. They’re, I think, the only books in the 40k canon that…

Where do you think most of the CGI budget is going? It’s going to be some of Andy Serkis’ toughest work, and may Blind Io forgive him and the creators for inflicting a true representation of Nobby Nobs on the world. *shudders*

No, it doesn’t touch the storyline. It’s just that it makes the settlement management more fun than the storyline, at least for me.

About six months I decided to take another crack at Fallout 4 with a shit ton of mods added in because it’s traditional to mod bethseda games until they break. I added in Sim Settlements thinking it might make the settlements marginally more interesting than they were at launch.

Funny thing, back when the estate tax idea was first being tossed around in the United States one of the biggest drives that led to its institution was the argument that the continual concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few had the ability to disproportionately effect the political discourse of the nation.…

As for the whole why the Republic haven’t crushed the First Order thing and instead let Leia do her resistance gig I suspect it’s simply politics. More specifically I’d assume that after the inefficient bureaucracy, corruption and political deadlock of the old Republic and then the despotic rule of the Galactic Empire…

I bet she finds her mother, an old lady with the last tinges of red still in her hair. And I’d also bet money said person was the one who decided she needed to be hidden because Luke, bless him, would almost certainly have been unable to abandon his own child in the way he effectively was.

The only way I was able to square that particular circle in my head was to make the assumption that at some point in the near past a Wizard/Sorceress had a bit of a moment and decided to create a new card game. But not being content to just print out cards they also made them magic, in the sense that each card knows…

Band of Brothers style series set during the Dominion War, following a group of redshirts through their training, initial deployments, perhaps a siege and then the eventual grinding battle of attrition forcing the Dominion back into Cardassian space.

True, but as you said it would have been impossible to equal the KOTOR games, let alone surpass them in a MMO even if you did have a single storyline. Purely because you would, almost by design, require that story to focus on your character being truly and singularly important to the fate of the Galaxy, The One (TM)…

I dunno, I thought some of the class story lines were rather good at release. Imperial Agent for one. Though that was balanced by some (Jedi Knight) being utterly boring.

By the sounds of it I think this may well be a story focusing on local organised crime fighting back against traditional Italian Mafia families moving in and taking over. Which could be interesting.

I loved Stargate, still do, kinda. But I’m also one of those people who wishes it had been bolder and better towards the end. The entire Ori arc was terrible, and I say that as someone who really enjoyed Ben Browder and Claudia Black’s presence. But despite them the writing for the last three seasons was lazy,…

I too am looking forward to Al Swerengen turning up and upping the quotient of cocksuckers in Westeros.

There can be downsides to authors getting their foundation in creating worlds and stories from DnD though, which is a lack of scale and solidity in the worlds they create. I’ve read multiple books, especially of the self-published variety of late, where armies can be counted in hundreds, not thousands, of soldiers and…

Huh, didn’t think I’d see a Lindybeige video being posted on io9 this afternoon. A pleasant surprise!

See... now my greatest wish in life is a mini-series about Doctor Bashir getting dragged into some sort of spy game by Garrick and somehow managing to survive by emulating the character he plays in the holo-suite.

One of the chief reasons I love playing Warthunder (despite it's many and varied flaws) is that the planes look so amazing! Even just sitting in the hangar a Spitfire looks awesome.

I do quite like how close they're skating the no smoking line with Constantine. Makes me hopeful that if the show finds its feet and carries on past the first season that they may be able to pull off the cancer arc. Otherwise known as the best Constantine arc.

From a practical stand-point the cross-guard on the saber is actually quite clever. After all you have to imagine that a lot of light-saber duels end with someone getting their fingers lopped off when their opponent slides their saber down the blade quickly enough.