Computer Gaming World was apparantly the first magainze devoted entirely to computer games, starting way back in 1981.
CGW Museum is a great site for info on the mag but more importantly you can download fully searchable PDF copies of the first 100 issues of the magazine. This is a great resource for information on old [...]
Librivox have recently released the Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 001.
Librivox if you don’t already know is a site that publishes recordings of volunteers reading material from the public domain. This includes a great many classic works of fiction and is fast building into a great source of free audiobooks and short audio readings. The [...]
Baen books are well known on the internet for giving away free ebooks of their printed releases in order to gain new sales of the printed versions. You can find a selection of their books in the Baen Free Library.
However they have also for some time inserted CDs into some new releases containing many more [...]
Deer Tick - War Elephant
Ok so its country, well alt-country to be more specific but I can’t help liking it. The fella is about twenty one and sings like he has been smoking whisky soaked cigars for about twenty of those years.
Its not all country, there are some obvious indie stylings in there but [...]
In their Discovering Sherlock Holmes project, Stanford University have been rereleasing electronic versions of Sherlock Holmes stories as originally printed in The Strand Magazine including all illustrations.
Currently 12 short stories and 4 novels are available out of the complete canon and I believe there are plans to release more.
There are also 3 Dickens novels available [...]
BrokenSea Audio produces some of the best amateur audio drama you can download. Check out the remake of ‘Planet of the Apes’ or ‘Logans Run’ for a bit of old school SciFi fun.
They are planning on a new Doctor Who series next year which could be interesting assuming they can cast the parts well.
We are [...]
..Zelda Phantom Hourglass.
Heres the Zero Punctuation review.
Check out this fellas other reviews, they usually get a chuckle or two.
HelixSF is a another place to get an online fix of short fiction. I’ve been reading a few of the stories here and its certainly worth a read.
Those of you who read short fiction and particularly short science/speculative fiction will know that print based publications have been on the decline for many years. I see [...]
Kart Rider is an online multiplayer Kart Racing game in the style of….well all Kart racing games since Mario Kart. To say it has borrowed a few ideas from the little Italian plumber is an understatement but given how much fun those games are thats not a bad thing. I’m sure most people know the [...]
I’ve been playing with Daz Studio for a few weeks now and it really is fun if you want to try your hand at 3D art without having to learn to model which quite frankly is insanely difficult. I am determined to teach myself Maya or 3D Studio Max but this is a little bit [...]