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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review

    This game sucks. That's pretty much my opinion on the subject in a nutshell. It's not even that it does anything particularly wrong, though it does quite a bit wrong, it's that it is painfully...

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Altered Carbon review

    As a huge fan of Richard K. Morgan, I've been told I should have started with Altered Carbon and moved onto his other works but I actually am reading his Takeshi Kovacs series toward the end. As...

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Call of Duty: Black Ops review

    I've mentioned how much I love Call of Duty before but it is a love and hate relationship. I've avoided much of the hype aversion the game gets because I avoid what the series is arguably for in...

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Broken Angels review

    Broken Angels is the second novel of the Takeshi Kovacs series. Whereas Altered Carbon was a future noir detective story in the future, Broken Angels is a war picture. Even the decades change with...

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Hitman (2016): Episode Three: Marrakesh review

    Hitman (2016) is my pick for the Game of the Year. This is a pretty high praise given the game has only released three out of its seven episodes. Nevertheless, each of the three settings have been...

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Zootopia review

    I've got to say, of all the fiction Disney has translated into other films (Hamlet for the Lion King, various fairy tales, and so on), I never expected them to make Eddie Murphy and Another Nick...

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Esoterrorism is now available on audiobbook!

I'm pleased to announce the ESOTERRORISM audiobook, narrated by Jeffrey Kafer, is now available for purchase from Audible.com. It was the first book I ever wrote, containing everything as well as the...

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The Wheel of Osheim review

     And so the adventures of Prince Jalan come to an end.    The Red Queen's War had a big set of shoes to fill following the events of The Broken Empire Trilogy. The trilogy of Prince Jorg Ancreth's...

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Just Cause 3 review

    Just Cause 2 was one of the most fun games I've played on the Xbox 360. It was a reign of delicious chaos, destruction, and madness across a fictional dictatorship where everyone was a complete...

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Splinter Cell (novel) review

    The Splinter Cell series by Ubisoft has about as much to do with Tom Clancy as I have to do with the proliferation of grimdark fiction. Which is to say, not much other than my name on a few works....

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What We Do in the Shadows review

    I love vampires but, God almighty, it's getting hard to do anything new with them. It occurs to me the thing I'd love to do most is a vampire novel but I can't think of what I could bring to the...

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Ten tips for writing a vampire novel

    I love vampires but, God almighty, it's getting hard to do anything new with them. It occurs to me the thing I'd love to do most is a vampire novel but for years I couldn't think of what I could...

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Splinter Cell: Double Agent review

    I really shouldn't be doing a review of this as Double Agent is almost certainly a game way-way too old for the majority of my reviewers. It was also one of the less regarded entries into the...

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Splinter Cell: Barracuda review

    Splinter Cell: Barracuda is the sequel to the Splinter Cell novel by Raymond Benson. Both are, more or less, prequels to the original game but serve as independent adventures in their own right....

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The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine review

    And so the saga of Geralt of Rivia comes to an end. As successful as the Witcher saga is, I'm of the mind we probably haven't seen the last video game starring either the eponymous witcher or his...

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The Lost Boys (1987) review

    The Lost Boys remains one of my favorite 80s movies, which is notable for the fact it was my first vampire movie and also a movie which is a triumph of style over substance (while still having...

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The Bound Folio review

    Rob J. Hayes was my introduction to grimdark fiction. Well, actually, no, it was George R.R. Martin but saying, "He's the guy I first read that I realized was grimdark fiction after I read the...

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July 2016 update on my writing

Hey folks,I wanted to give you a heads up on the progress of what's going on in the wonderful world of my imagination, writing, and business sense. New ProjectsI have another book series in the works...

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Interview with Matthew Dawkins, Onyx Path Publishing writer

Hello, my fellow creatures of the night!This will come as no shock to people visiting my blog and seeing the hundreds of vampire, werewolves, and zombie media reviews but I am a big horror fan. A large...

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Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption review

    Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption is an old game but it's still a reasonably fun one seventeen years after its release and I thought I'd share my opinion on it. It's basically a 3d combination of...

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