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Star Wars VII, What’s it Going to Be?

by storiesbywilliams on November 6, 2012 in Movies, News, Sci-Fi and tagged Star Wars, Star Wars prequels, Return of the Jedi, darth vader, george lucas, lucasarts, anakin skywalker, jedi, rebel alliance, the thrawn trilogy, timothy zhan, star wars: knights of the old republic, star wars: the old republic, boba fett, sith wars, admiral ackbar, the death star, the emperor, princess leia, KOTOR, the clone wars, grand admiral thrawn, the old republic, disney, hayden kristensen, jedi master c'boath, senator organa solo, great galactic war, great hyperspace war, ligthsaber fights, the new republic, the core worlds, AMOG

The news that Disney has purchased LucasArts for a cool 4 billion has certainly been making the rounds of late! Even more interesting is the release that they will be releasing the sequel trilogy sometime in 2015. This news has once again fueled a great deal of speculation as to what direction the new movies […]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer

by storiesbywilliams on October 30, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged 300, KOTOR, lucasarts, matrix, new star wars trilogy, Star Wars, star wars: the old republic

As far as the gaming world is concerned, this trailer is old news! But, it’s news to me, and I thought it was pretty darned cool. Not sure how I missed it, since during 2010 I felt I was pretty up on all the news surrounding SWTOR, the third installment in the Knights Of The […]

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Coming soon: Video game reviews!

by storiesbywilliams on May 26, 2012 in Reviews, Video games and tagged avp 2010, brood war, call of duty 4: modern warfare, halo, Halo 2, halo 3, KOTOR, KOTOR 2, modern warfare 2, modern warfare 3, oblivion, sid meiers alpha centauri, Star Wars, star wars: force unleashed, star wats kotor, starcraft, starcraft II: wings of liberty, the elder scrolls, the elder scrolls iv: oblivion, the sith lords, video game reviews, wing commander, wing commander 2, wing commander 3, wing commander privateer

A short while ago, I did a review on my top ten favorite nostalgic games. I might have mentioned somewhere in there that this was an intro to a new segment I was thinking of getting into: video game reviews! Well, I’ve decided to take the plunge. In the next few weeks and months, I’d […]

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Cool Ships (volume VIII)

by storiesbywilliams on May 17, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged 2000 dune miniseries, alliance escort carrier, arrakeen, arrakis, battle of bilbringi, battle of installation 05, battleship yamato, battlestar flight pod, Battlestar Galactica, boomer, caprica, cardassian union, centurions, cloaking device, corellian, corellian freighter, Covenant, cylon heavy raider, cylon raider, darth malak, darth revan, david lynchs dune, disruptors, dominion war, Dune, flight pod, FTL, gamilons, general martok, grand admiral thrawn, halcyon-class cruiser, han solo, imperium, interdictor-class cruiser, jedi order, klingon empire, kobol, KOTOR, mechas, milennium falcon, negh'var class cruiser, ornithopter, paul muad'ib, photon torpedoes, protoculture, quasar fire-class cruiser, robotech, scattered, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sharon valerii, space ships, star destroyer, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars: knights of the old republic, starbuck, the farm, the great war, the leviathan, thrawn trilogy, truce at bakura, usnc in amber clad, valkyrie, vf-1 veritech, vladivostok-class missile frigate, yt-2400 freighter

Battleship Yamato: A couple times now I’ve given praise to ship designs that went beyond the usual airplane/ seafaring paradigm. But what can you say about a spaceship which is a carbon copy of a old sea battleship? I don’t know, gutsy maybe? That its paying homage to the original? That’s all I can really […]

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Top 10 Most Nostalgic SF Games

by storiesbywilliams on May 13, 2012 in Reviews, Video games and tagged brotherhood of nod, command and conquer, Covenant, descent freespace, Doom, flood, forerunners, freespace 2, GDI, Halo 2, KOTOR, lightsabers, protoss, sid meiers alpha centauri, sid meiers civilization, sid meiers civilization series, space marines, Star Wars, star wars kotor, star wars video games, starcraft, tiberium, wing commander II, wing commander privateer, wing commander series, x-wing, zerg

Hey all. The other day, a revolutionary idea came to me. What with all the other sci-fi stuff I cover, why haven’t I made any mention of sci-fi videogames? Not sure, really, seems kinda obvious now that I think about it. God knows I love talking about the stuff that inspired me, and I’m not […]

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Cool Ships (volume VI)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Battlestar Galactica, boba fett, cloaking device, corellia, corellian freighter, cortana, Covenant, cylon raider, cylons, dominion war, event horizon, firefly, flood, forerunner installation 04, forerunners, gravity drive, halo, homeworld, homeworld war, jedi order, Kharak, klingon bird of prey, klingon empire, KOTOR, Kushan fleet, lewis and clarke rescue ship, lightsaber, millennium falcon, mothership, pillar of autumn, reaver ship, reavers, revan and malak, romulan empire, shinzon, sith wars, slave I, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek nemesis, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars kotor, taris, the ebon hawk, the scimitar

Back yet again with a sixth installment in the Cool Ships series. Like last time, I took this opportunity to tackle some overlooked examples, and some new ones as well. In addition… You know what? Screw the introductions and final thoughts, let’s just get into this! Bird of Prey: There’s nothing like a classic, and […]

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