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Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition review

Halo 2 reviewHalo 3 review    I have a confession to make: I have never played Halo until recently. Being as I review video games for a living (okay, for fun), this is a bit like being a fantasy...

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Halo 2 Anniversary Edition review

Halo: Combat Evolved reviewHalo 3 review    Halo month continues with my review of the second of the series. I never owned an Xbox and didn't join the Silver Age of Gaming until my wife bought me an...

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AGENT G and SECRETS OF SUPERVILLAINY approved for publication

AGENT G: INFILTRATOR and SECRETS OF SUPERVILLAINY have been tentatively accepted for publication by Amber Cove. I was pretty sure there was no real doubt on either but it never hurts to receive...

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Halo 3 review

Halo: Combat Evolved reviewHalo 2 review    Halo month continues with my experiencing the third of the Halo series on the Master Chief Collection, which is a steal at 30 bucks right now. Halo 3 isn't...

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Halo 3: ODST review

    Halo 3: ODST is one of my favorite types of video games. Specifically, it's a game which takes an already popular and successful video game like Halo 3 and then simply makes more content for it...

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ESOTERRORISM's audiobook will be narrated by Jeffrey Kafer!

 And for those interested in knowing, Jeffrey Kafer will be doing the audiobook read for ESOTERRORISM as produced by Audible. Jeffrey did an awesome job for my Supervillainy Saga books and I look...

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The cover sketch for THE SECRETS OF SUPERVILLAINY

Awesome cover sketch by Raffaele Marinetti for THE SECRETS OF SUPERVILLAINY, the third book in the Supervillainy Saga starring Gary Karkofsky a.ka. Merciless: the Supervillain without Mercy. Here, we...

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Halo: Reach review

    Having gone through the original Halo trilogy, we've gotten to enjoy a huge amount of Bungie's output and I'm pleased to say they knocked it out of the park. I wasn't a big fan of Halo: ODST,...

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Halo: The Fall of Reach

    I have a confession to make, I actually read The Fall of the Reach a decade before I ever picked up a Halo game. I really enjoyed the setting, themes, characters, and world-building which took what...

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Exclusive Interview with Stephen Kozeniewski!

Hey folks,We have a really great treat you for you this week with an interview from one of my favorite "one and done" authors in Stephen Kozeniewski. Stephen is a Pennyslvania author who has written...

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Halo 4 review

    The passing of the torch from Bungie to 343 Industries was something which changed the nature of the Halo games as well as called in serious questions as to what would be the future of the...

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Halo: Glasslands review

    Halo remains one of my favorite sci-fi franchises. The setting is a book, comic, and video game series featuring military characters doing battle with an alien theocracy known as the Covenant. The...

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Halo: Nightfall review

    The good folk at Microsoft have tried numerous times to create a Halo movie but their attempts have been a decidedly mixed bag. For example, their original attempt with director Neil Blomkamp fell...

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"Every Street in Urban Fantasy is all the Same (Except Yours)"

I'm pleased to say Ragnarok Publications has a growing collection of short articles talking about writing in the fantasy and science-fiction market by a bunch of my fellow authors. These articles don't...

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Mech: Age of Steel Kickstarter has begun!

I'm a huge fan of mecha as my earlier article on the subject (available here) tells you but I don't have much of an opportunity to write about it as the market is decidedly niche. People generally want...

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The Magicians (TV show): Season One review

    The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a fantasy novel which is one of the few forms of unauthorized spin-off which I approve of. Not quite parody but written with a clear intent to examine themes of the...

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Halo: Last Light review

    Halo: Last Light is a novel set in the Halo universe which follows the adventures of Master Chief, Cortana, and a variety of military heroes as they struggle to defend humanity from the villainous...

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SNAFU: Hunters review

    Military-science fiction is never going to die. Why? Because everyone likes risk and there's nothing higher-stakes than combat. It's also inherently fun to imagine conflict against cyborgs,...

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Tom Clancy's Division video by Extra Credit

    This isn't my video but I have to say it reflects a lot of my views. It's always a crapshoot looking for artistic merit in video games, not because the artistic talent and vision isn't there but...

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Halo 5: Guardians review

Warning - this will contain some spoilers for Halo 5: Guardians.    Halo Month at the United Federation of Charles comes to an extend not with a bang but a whimper. How do I put this in a way which...

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