While Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris and it's companion Pasanius are on a death oath and counted as dead already, orks appear in one of the planets under their command and sargeant Learchus will lead the defense and erradication of the greenskins.

With this simple premise, Defenders of Ultramar makes for a plain read. Not wanting to have any amazing plot, nor interesting twists, it is just a visual narration of space marines versus orks,  very iconic, displaying a lot of unit types, and typical quotes from the rulebooks. That said, it is quite nicely drawn and painted, and it manages to plug itself into existing lore (at least the one existing in the books).

Not a bad comic if you like Warhammer 40k universe, I got mine second hand and I don't regret it :)

Alien versus Predator: War, tells the story of how Machiko Noguchi, a skilled human female who helped a Predator fighting Aliens in the past, becomes a member of a Predator clan, being taught their rules, behaviours and above all, honor and pride system.

The predators have captured an Alien queen to infect planets and then hunt the aliens, but the planet also contains humans and Machiko will have to choose.

Quite good comic, instead of the crappy movies this comic contains a lot more lore, hindsights on how Predators behave, hints at why there might be Aliens in some planets…

Definetly recommended if you enjoy AvP series.

8th battle fought, won this time by Tio Luiso.

Battle log recorded and written as usual, but beware because there are huge spoilers inside. We opened another pack and things have changed again…

When I backed Shadowrun Returns at Kickstarter nearing a year ago I did it based on pure faith. SR was a game I read about when I was young but never had the chance to play. I now have the third edition book + companion so at least I can read and learn specific rules, but in general I love the aesthetics of this futuristic fantasy world and was curious about how the computer videogame might result.

Well, the first screens and "alpha gameplay" footage is here, and I can't be happier.

In the video we see conversation options, skill points assignment, combat and exploration modes (the first turn-based, the second realtime). It also has the "old school CRPGs" isometric view, but with hi-res graphics and what looks to be a simple but powerful user interface.

And best of all, the level editor is going to come with the PC version!

I love how the whole game is being done: open and transparent communication with backers, frequent updates, early screenshots and even videos, and no desire to get greedy; As they already have quite some money, even non-backers will get a nice RPG that will feature near-endless hours of fun due to the editor.

In 2011 I found some "mouth proof" from an ex Games Workshop sculptor about Warcraft being originally a computer version of Warhammer Fantasy.

This week, reading the Retro Gamer Magazine issue 111, I would more proof, this time from the other side.

Starting at page 86, there is an interview with Patrick Wyatt about the making of the first Warcraft videogame. Patrick was an ex-Blizzard designer and coder, so we're not talking about gossip but words from one of the game creators.

As the text fragment is in english no translation is needed, so read it for yourselves:

So that more or less settles the "legend" as confirmed. To what extent influenced or why the license was not used we will probably never know, but at least it is not fake.