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booksrportablemagic:

Bioshock The Collection was released last week. With that in mind I wanted to share 2 books: one set before the events of the first game and one that inspired Bioshock Infinite.

Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley is a prequel to the original game. The book explains how Ryan came up with the concept for Rapture, the construction of Rapture, the first experiments with plasmids, and the fall of Rapture. It’s all very well written and an excellent addition to the Bioshock lore.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson was a big inspiration for the creators of Bioshock Infinite. Apparently, Columbia was inspired by the 1893 World’s Columbian Expedition. The book and game share a common theme of wonder and beauty with darkness just beneath the surface. The book is fascinating and I can’t recommend it enough.

unexplained-events:

Night Terrors

Night Terrors is an

augmented reality horror survival game that is being developed for smart phones. The game scans your surroundings and builds an internal map to determine how best to scare you as you wander around in search of a young girl in need of rescue. The game utilizes your flash and camera while you have your headphones plugged in for the audio.

You will walk around your surroundings while coming face to face with various supernatural or creepy things such as ghosts, clowns, spiders, and demons. We don’t know if the game contains jump scares as of yet since it is still seeking funding on indiegogo.

You can help fund it HERE and watch the trailer HERE

raithnait:

amuseoffyre:

amuseoffyre:

amuseoffyre:

Just had a thought for an action hero thing: 30-something woman hero is doing her ass-kicking thing. One day, her boss shows up at her door, and tells her she has to stand down, or there will be consequences. “Honey, it’s not that you’re too old. It’s just the public don’t like to see a woman of your age saving the day. It feels emasculating”.

So woman is stripped of her support team, fellow agents, and is pretty much put on the shelf. She tries to do heroing, but keeps getting cockblocked by younger women or superhero men she used to work alongside.

Just when she’s hitting rock bottom (and sitting in her house wearing pyjamas and eating ice cream), there’s a knock at the door. Judi Dench is standing there, and our heroine assumes it’s a charity collection.

“Oh no, dear,” Dench says, smiling. “We’ve come to recruit you.”

“Recruit me? For what?”

“To do what we do best: save the bloody world.”

And all at once she’s part of a covert ops team made of all the older women who have been retired and who currently are holding the reins of managing the world.

At work, I realised this is the female version of the Expendables. Cast-wise, I see it like this:

  • Maggie Smith – former intelligence handler and coordinator. Currently task manager
  • Judi Dench – ex-spy and covert ops manager within the new foundation. Also, recruiter.
  • Salma Hayek – the South American operative, specialising in undercover work, and being effortless at it. Also one of the smartest of the bunch.
  • Jennifer Ehle – communications. She set up the communication system for the old unit, and now has hacked it so they can keep their ears to the ground. Also a mother of four, and manages to coordinate her life neatly around the job
  • Helen Mirren – former double agent, specialised in the Cold War detail.
  • Gina Torres – Extractions. Also happily married to an agent who has no idea she was once six grades above him.
  • Lucy Liu – Q-ish-equivalent now, formerly a expert undercover field operative. Used to work alongside…
  • Lucy Lawless – the legendary field operative, the Bond of her class. Everyone knew her name, but she still got the job done. Also is happily settled down with Liu’s character, with a Bond-villain style cat called James, because they’re both snarky assholes. (The cat is also neutered. They make many jokes. Bad ones)

And for the villains, we have the women who went the opposite direction.

  • Jane Seymour as the former femme fatale spy, who got so sick of being used for honey trap stings that she went Terminal on them. (it’s funny because she was a Bond girl)
  • Gillian Anderson as the brains of the operation.
  • Catherine Zeta Jones – weapons specialist. Once in the same team as Torres and Liu, but blamed for a weapons problem that wasn’t her fault and forced out. Went a bit… angry about it. Still occasionally meets up with Liu and Lawless for drinks.
  • Celia Imrie – one of Smith and Dench’s first allies, but got frustrated with how they were running things and set up her own operation. Because face it, she would be a marvellous villain.

And our new girl is Mila Kunis, who is being honourably retired from the main unit.

I love this idea, because I love the thought of them having a epic chase with the male lackeys, and Maggie and Judie casually tripping them up, old lady style “oh, I’m sorry dear, I didn’t see you there. Now, don’t run off, you have a mess on your suit…”

If this could happen, I would watch it every day for a week in the cinema…

So how about we also add Stana Katic and Nicole Beharie into this cocktail? Because seriously, ladies, we need you.

I waaaant thiiiiis soooo muuuuuuch!!!