Posted by Notcot on Mar 7, 2011 in
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In the future, Earth’s appetite for resources has become a major motivator for deep space exploration. Immense, privately-owned and operated mining ships called “planetcrackers” orbit planets and use sophisticated equipment to carve out entire city-sized chunks of rock, and reduce them to component elements and raw ore.
Communications with one of these planetcrackers, the USG Nishimura, have ceased while the ship is engaged in deep space mining operations.
The company’s top engineer, Isaac Clarke, is sent to discover the problem and fix it. Once onboard the vessel, Clarke discovers that a terrifying alien presence has taken over the ship, and has horribly killed the crew. Weaponless and terrified, this lone engineer is burdened with much more than simple survival – he holds the fate of all mankind in his hands.
- Dismemberment: This game’s core mechanic is the strategic dismemberment of alien appendages. In true survival horror fashion, you must conserve ammo – in true Hollywood horror fashion, it’s all about seeing bone fragments and arterial spray fly across the room. Enemies in the game are resilient. The conventional wisdom that a headshot will stop an alien is thrown out in Dead Space.
- Setting and Atmosphere: Dead Space is an immersive, interactive horror movie experience. An emergent, panic-inducing audio system, an innovative Minority Report-style HUD, and a nuanced, scary pace that will sink you into the game experience.
- Unique Weaponry: Stasis Gun is used to slow charging aliens and to help solve puzzles. The Gravity Gun and unique projectile-based weaponry are mining tools – your ability to upgrade weapons increases as you progress through the game.
- Zero Gravity: Survive and destroy the aliens in Zero G environments. Manipulate gravity with Havok physics to solve puzzles and fight enemies.
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Tags: Dead, space, Xbox
Posted by Notcot on Mar 6, 2011 in
Steampunk Tags: Bioshock, Edition, rapture, Xbox, xbox 360
Posted by Notcot on Mar 5, 2011 in
Steampunk Tags: Clockwork, Fiction, science
Posted by Notcot on Mar 4, 2011 in
Steampunk 
At the start of the Civil War, a Russian mining company commissions a great machine to pave the way from Seattle to Alaska and speed up the gold rush that is beating a path to the frozen north. Inventor Leviticus Blue creates the machine, but on its first test run it malfunctions, decimating Seattle’s banking district.
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Tags: Boneshaker, Books, Essential
Posted by Notcot on Mar 2, 2011 in
Steampunk 
Ernst’s world is one of endless admirers, including foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Hailed as a marvel of late nineteenth-century automation, he is the crowning achievement of his master, Karl Gruber. A world-famous builder of automated clocks, Gruber has reached the pinnacle of his art in Ernst—a man constructed entirely of clockwork. Educated and raised in the Gruber household to be a gentle, caring soul, Ernst begins to discover a profound love for his master’s daughter, Giselle. Just as their relationship becomes intimate, however, tragedy strikes and the family falls apart. Ernst’s serene and happy existence is shattered and changed forever. Abandoned, knowing no other life but the one he has led, Ernst allows himself to wind down in a kind of suicide. Over one hundred years later, he awakens in a strange new land, the world he’s known long gone. Along with his mentor and guide, a well-meaning if slightly unstable homeless man, Ernst attempts to piece together the events that brought him to his new home—and to let go of the century-old tragedy that still haunts him.
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Posted by Notcot on Mar 2, 2011 in
Steampunk Tags: Bioshock, oblivion, pack, Xbox, xbox 360
Posted by Notcot on Mar 2, 2011 in
Steampunk 
Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, Steampunk Tales contains first-run, original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue 8 contains 8 stories, most running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for an unbelievable price. In this issue:
1. Letters Between Young Ladies Of Fashionable Society, And The Alarming Events That Unfold Within — Part Four By Jillian Venters
2. A Visit from Dorian the Anarchist, part 1 by Arkwright
3. The Trials of Professor Sinister; Extracts from the Traveling Diary of Matalaine Morningside, Part 4 by Larry C. Kay
4. The Watchmaker’s Apprentice, Part 2 by Justin Porter
5. Calliope by Tonia Brown
6. Some Unforeseen Event, chapter 2 by Cindy MacLeod
7. Tales from a Millwall Tattoo Parlour, part 2 by Austin WIlliams
8. Mask of Tezcatlipoca, Part 5 by G. D. Falksen
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Posted by Notcot on Mar 1, 2011 in
Steampunk 
Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, Steampunk Tales contains first-run, original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue #5 contains 8 stories, most running between 4,300 to 11,000 words, for an unbelievable price.
1. Cold Boiler Blues by Tonia Brown
2. Facets and Fantasy, Part One? by Donald E. Tiers
3. Letters Between Young Ladies Of Fashionable Society, And The Alarming Events That Unfold Within — Part The Third by Jillian Venters
4. The Mask of Tezcatlipoca, Part Three by G. D. Falksen
5. Sideways, Part II: The Vanishing Man, And The Iron Gholem Of The West by Andrew Singleton
6. The Steam Elephant by Steven R. Southard
7. Still Waters, Part One by Arkwright
8. The Weed on the Floss by Eli Effinger-Weintraub
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