The Northwest Pinball and Gameroom show this weekend was an amazingly good time. We retro-gamed our brains out and were lucky enough to get interviews with Steve “The King of Kong” Wiebe and Walter Day, the founder of Twin Galaxies among other things. You’ll be able to hear all about it on this week’s podcast but the short version is that if you weren’t there you really missed out.
It’s been a busy day and we’re heading in to a busy week so let’s get right to the Monday news
Anime
- Bioware and FUNimation are teaming up to make a feature length anime set in the world of Dragon Age. Production of the Dragon Age anime movie is slated to begin in May 2010, with a home video release in 2011. This is the first title in FUNimation’s “slate of major anime movies” to be developed through FUNimation’s Original Entertainment team.
- The image to the right (which you can click to embiggen) appeared on the official Japanese website of the Warner Brothers production company. Anime News Network is reporting that this is a “special project” that will tie into the live-action Supernatural television series. Details are sketchy but whatever it is the project will be launching in Japan next year.
Art
- The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) has announced this year’s Chesley Award nominations. The Chesley Awards were established in 1985 as ASFA’s peer awards to recognize individual works and achievements during a given year. This year’s nominees include;
Best Cover Illustration: Hardback Books- Dragon’s Ring, by Bob Eggleton
- A Magic of Nightfall, by Todd Lockwood
- Drood, by John Picacio
- Magic Mirror, by Omar Rayyan
- Visions of Never, by Robh Ruppel
- Green, by Dan Dos Santos
- Valley of Shadows, by Matt Stewart
- Prospero Lost, by Sam Weber
Best Cover Illustration: Paperback Books
- The Mysterious Mr. Spine’s Flight, by Scott Altmann
- Blutnacht die Orc, by Volkan Baga
- Boneshaker, by Jon Foster
- Stalking the Dragon, by David Palumbo
- World’s End, by John Picacio
- Hunting Ground, by Dan Dos Santos
- Young Flandry, by Dave Seeley
Best Cover Illustration: Magazines
- Cemetery Dance 62, by Les Edwards
- Analog, 10/09, by Bob Eggleton
- F&SF, by Dave Hardy
- Clarkesworld 38, by Kazuhiko Nakamura
- Heavy Metal, 11/09, by
- Asimov’s, by Jon Picacio
- Interzone, 2/09, by Adam Tredowski
The full list of nominees is up at the ASFA website
Books
- The British Fantasy Society has announced the nominees for the 2010 British Fantasy Awards. the nominees include;
Best Novel- Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
- Futile Flame, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)
- One, Conrad Williams (Virgin)
- The Naming of the Beasts, Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Under the Dome, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Best Novella
- “OLD MAN SCRATCH,” Rio Youers (PS)
- “ROADKILL,” Rob Shearman, from Roadkill/Siren Beat (Twelfth Planet) and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (Big Finish)
- “THE LANGUAGE OF DYING,” Sarah Pinborough (PS)
- “THE WITNESSES ARE GONE,” Joel Lane (PS)
- “VARDOGER,” Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel
- Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
- Freakangels, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar & warrenellis.com)
- Locke and Key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
- The Girly Comic, ed. Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
- Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC)
The full list of nominees is available though SFSignal. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at FantasyCon in September.
MMO
- The E3 trailer for the browser-based Battlestar Galactica MMO has been released into the wild. The game is being developed by Bigpoint and is set in the “new” BSG universe from the SyFy series. The trailer is all computer animation and doesn’t show any actual game-play footage, but it looks cool nonetheless.
Movies
- The first TV spot for the new Predators movie has hit the web. The movie is being produced by Robert Rodriguez and is due out next month according to IMDB.
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