Bit of a surprise this one. XCOM is back but not as we know it. It was widely assumed that the good folks at Irrational Games – who were behind the original titles in the series – were hard at work at making a new installment but this edition is being made by 2K Marin, the team behind Bioshock 2.
When it comes to comic books, crossovers are old news – but we’ve never seen one as equally cute and terrifying as this…
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Aliens! If Hollywood is to be believed, the US Airforce is the only hope we’ll have against a full-on extra-terrestrial invasion, although in recent years the evidence (well..Independence Day…) shows that they’d be ably backed up by Her Majesty’s forces. Well, not any more baby.
Today saw the MoD shut down that most vital area of national defence-UFO investigations! According to a spokesman for the RAF:
“There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources.”
After a half-decade in which bug-eyed space beasts have resolutely refused to appear in the skies over London, the ministry will instead focus its budget on more oil rich/important issues like blowing up most of the middle east, presumable handing over space defence to the Green Lantern Corps.
We don’t fuck around in Britain when it coms to aliens.
RAF pilots have tried to BLAST UFOs out of the sky under a top secret Government directive, it was claimed last night.
Nick Pope — who worked on the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk for three years — revealed the rules of engagement for the first time.
He claimed RAF pilots had fired at UFOs on several occasions — but failed to bring them down.
He added: “We know of cases where the order has been given to shoot down — with little effect to the UFO.”
We’ll get the blighters next time.
LINK (The Sun)
Remember a few years ago when you got sent a link to a video that made you, our obviously nerdy and awesome audience scream with joy? You know the one…Batman, Joker, Alien, Predator. Yeah, how ace was that! Well, joy of joys – someone has thrown enough money at its brilliant creator Sandy Collora for him to make a full movie.
Entitled Hunter Prey – it’s a war film set on an alien world, filmed for very little, but from the above picture – looking awesome. IO9 spoke to the man himself…
The film centers around a crew of special forces commandos who must recapture an alien prisoner that has escaped after the military transport ship carrying it crashes on a desolate and hostile planet. There are subtle political and environmental overtones that I certainly don’t hit anyone over the head with at all, but that will hopefully make you think about things like war, politics and current events, by presenting them in situations cinematically from a uniquely different perspective.
Thank god for a sci fi film that isn’t a comic book rip off, sequel or remake. can’t wait to see this.
LINK (IO9)
