February 9, 2012 – Brimstone Angels by Erin M. Evans is not your typical fantasy novel. There's jealousy, unbidden powers, forbidden lust — and not a magic Macguffin in sight. More »

February 3, 2012 – In early January, President Obama announced a new strategic direction for the U.S. military, slowing defense budget growth and shifting the military's focus to new threats. More »

January 27, 2012 – Howard Andrew Jones' Plague of Shadows is a solid entry in the "what happens to adventurers in their twilight years?" sub-genre of fantasy. The elf Elyana used to wander the world with her doughty companions, slaying evil wizards and malicious dragons. More »

January 17, 2012 – The last decade of global conflict has seen the dawning of the age of the robot plane. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been around for decades, but today they're ubiquitous war machines with unmatched endurance and lethal combat capabilities. More »

(Io9.com ) January 13, 2012 – Magic: the Gathering's latest expansion, Dark Ascension, takes place in a world completely taken over by creatures of the night. Vampires are eating humans, werewolves' power is waxing full and bright, and the dead just won't seem to stay that way. Check out a gallery of amazing new Magic: [Kotaku]

January 13, 2012 – Magic: the Gathering's latest expansion, Dark Ascension, takes place in a world completely taken over by creatures of the night. Vampires are eating humans, werewolves' power is waxing full and bright, and the dead just won't seem to stay that way. Check out a gallery of amazing new Magic: More »

January 11, 2012 – Yesterday, roleplaying game publisher Wizards of the Coast announced the development of a new edition of D&D. This revision comes less than four years after the release of the last edition of the stalwart RPG. More »

September 21, 2011 – Magic has always dabbled in horror, what with all the zombies and demons on black cards, but the game's designers have crafted a true homage to classic Universal and Hammer horror movies with their newest expansion, Innistrad. More »

September 16, 2011 – In the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine video game, you're the best of the best, a genetically modified supersoldier wearing incredible armor and wielding incredible weapons. More »

September 9, 2011 – At the core of the 9/11 Truther movement is the idea that the government staged the attacks to drum up support for a war. So much Truther evidence is laughable that it's easy to dismiss the idea, but there exists a chilling reminder that the U.S. More »

September 5, 2011 – Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is an iPhone-based RPG set in World War I. When it comes out later this year, you can help these doughty British soldiers stave off insanity and defend the world from horrors beyond time and space. Developer Red Wasp Design hasn't set a firm release date yet (they... More »

August 31, 2011 – If you spend your life studying insects of the order hymenoptera, which includes wasps, bees and ants, you're going to get stung a few times. Justin Schmidt, entomologist at the University of Arizona, never intentionally set out to get stung by as many different species as possible, but... More »

August 18, 2011 – Far West: a world of dust and legends; of gunslingers and martial arts masters; of Imperial power and frontier wisdom. Blending the spaghetti western with the tropes of Chinese wuxia and a dash of steampunk, the shared world of Far West will include short story collections, a web series and a pen... More »

August 12, 2011 – Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Joe Nickell has spent 40 years doing fieldwork and research, digging for the truth behind bizarre phenomena like weeping statues and haunted houses. More »

July 22, 2011 – Lasers have become common since their invention in the 1960s. We use them every day to read optical media like DVDs, to see if our shelves are level, measure distances, or just to point at things. More »

July 21, 2011 – There are hundreds of mysterious cryptids in the world, a mythical menagerie of barely-glimpsed monsters, lost species, and terrifying legends. But let's face it: More »

July 7, 2011 – A bizarre creature terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, leering at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of a major bridge over the Ohio River. More »

June 30, 2011 – What is the Loch Ness Monster? No one knows, but that hasn't stopped legions of armchair cryptozoologists from formulating one theory after another on the subject of the world's most famous lake creature. More »

June 22, 2011 – With Conquest of Nerath, Wizards of the Coast conjures another successful board game, this one with an entirely different game engine than their prior dungeon adventure efforts. More »

June 16, 2011 – How do you wrap a cohesive plot around Godzilla? IDW proves your best bet is to not even try – just let the monsters trash the world and see how the humans cope with the carnage. More »