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Shadowrun public chat this Saturday, September 19

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

“We’ll be holding a Shadowrun public chat this Saturday, September 19th, at 10 AM PDT (Seattle time), which is 12 PM CDT (Developer time). It’ll be your chance to fire questions at the new developer! Learn how it is that the guy who wrote Battlerun is now in charge of the line! Find out what […]

Eclipse Phase PDF & Hardcopy Pre-Order is now available!

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Eclipse Phase isn’t technically Shadowrun, but it’s produced by Posthuman Studios, which is headed up by long time Shadowrun Developer Rob Boyle and Shadowrun writer Brian Cross.  It’s a fantastic game, and I strongly urge you all to check it out! — Bull The Eclipse Phase core book PDF is now available! You may also […]

Big Dog “drone” from Boston Dynamics: Submachine Gun Not Included

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Good news, the Doberman is on its way to us. Tell your rigger to put one on the wishlist. There’s not much in the way of potential applications or future plans given on the site (link below the vid), but we’re sure you’ll come up with some of your own. Watch the Big Dog do […]

Domestic Terror Group ‘ELF’ Suspected in Washington Fires

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

WOODINVILLE, Wash. —  Four large homes are burning at a “Street of Dreams” model home development north of Woodinville, and the Snohomish County District Seven Chief Rick Eastman told KING-TV that a sign saying ELF was left at the scene. ELF or Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for other arsons, including one at the University […]

Trolls on Mars?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Could it be? Are there Martians? Is it a rock? What’s next… A troll skeleton? British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside. Fox News

NAN Rising?

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It appears the Native American Nations may be starting to form, starting with the Sioux Nation. A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the US, some of them more than 150 years old. Lakota […]

Wow

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

I had no idea, but Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had lost his voice early last year. Well, he regained it 3 days ago when he discovered that he could talk in rhyme! I mean it! Anybody want a peanut? As regular readers of my blog know, I lost my voice about 18 months ago. […]

Earthdawn Fans May Enjoy This One

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Nine buildings have been excavated at Stonehenge! Nine Neolithic-era buildings have been excavated in the Stonehenge world heritage site, according to a report in the journal British Archaeology. The buildings all had plaster floors and timber frames, and most had a central hearth. Two, including a house possibly inhabited by a community chief or priest, […]

Surgery in Zero-G

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

A team of 5 doctors performed a cyst removal operation on a man in an Airbus 300 airplane Wednesday. The conditions under which they operated where ‘near zero-gravity’. The surgery went “exactly as we had expected,” Martin told reporters near Merignac airport, outside Bordeaux. “All the data we collected allow us to think that operating […]

MMORPG ‘Second Life’ Hacked

Monday, September 11th, 2006

It was recently reported that Second Life’s website was hacked into and that it’s user database was stolen. The breach in security was discovered last Wednesday, September 6th, 2006. You can read more here.