Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene, has made a documentary on the phenomenon of the final frontier, its global legion of fans and his complex relationship with a visionary father. Trek Nation makes its international debut at this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON, and here Rod speaks exclusively to SFX about …
Read More »Game of the month, April 2012
Winner: Fez Read the Fez review. The best puzzle games have the ability to make the player feel inversely smart and stupid. Fez takes this further than any game we’ve ever played, giving us the feeling of being both cackling genius and babbling idiot within minutes of each other. It’s …
Read More »BLOGBUSTERS A Doctor Who Companion Piece
Hello everyone, welcome to Blogbusters, in which this week a group of our bloggers have crossed oceans of time to answer the one question that burns in the hearts of all Doctor Who fans. Well, the one question that burns there now that the last burning question – “Is the …
Read More »BLOG Press Release Or Spoiler?
(opens in new tab) On Tuesday 20 of March I had no idea when or how Rory and Amy were leaving Doctor Who . I’d heard rumours of them departing at some point and I really didn’t want to know more than that. On Tuesday 20 of March I had …
Read More »Michael Cobley: Humanitys Fire Author Interview
(opens in new tab) What would mankind do if humanity’s first alien contact involved a devastating strike against Earth? It’s a scenario imagined by Brit space opera Michael Cobley in his Humanity’s Fire trilogy, which last year concluded with the publication of The Ascendant Stars . The trilogy has been …
Read More »Avengers And The Marvel Movies: Marvel Boss Speaks
Yesterday SFX was at a select video-conference with Marvel Movies boss Kevin Feige, the creative driving force between the shared universe of it superheroes that has enabled Avengers Assemble to happen. Jayne Nelson was there for SFX , and here’s how the conversation went… (opens in new tab) At what …
Read More »Being Human Series Four: The Shopping List
Click on the links to buy clothes, posters and props from Being Human series five! Episode one: Regus’s Luke Cage t-shirt is available to buy from Forbidden Planet . (opens in new tab) Episode three: Regus’s poster of a tattooed Bettie Page can be bought from Amazon (opens in new …
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Read More »The Science of Mega Man
The newer Mega Man games have kind of gone off the deep end when it comes to preserving the series’ roots as a science-fiction story, but the original games feature some really cool concepts that actually have their roots in reality. Unfortunately, we won’t be discussing whether or not we’ll …
Read More »Being Human: How To Make A Werewolf
First up, Rob Mayor of Millennium FX, the prosthetics specialists who’ve made a menagerie of monsters for Doctor Who… SFX: The werewolf transformations don’t take all that long on screen, but there must be much more work that goes into them. How long does the job take you? Because they …
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