Oculus: The New Face of Horror [FILM EDITORIAL]
Although it makes it’s big screen debut in 2014, I discovered the world of the deadly mirror through Mike Flanagan’s short film, Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan, when he submitted it to our sister filmmaking site, MicroFilmmaker Magazine, in 2006. A 30 minute film created in a single room with a single actor for $2,000 swept you into a mystical embrace of powerful storytelling and seriously thrilling scares. The short film got a 9.5 from the critic that saw it, while…
Robert Ludlum’s: The Janson Option [BOOK REVIEW]
In the newest chapter in this surprisingly gothic saga, former assassin, Paul Janson, and his sniper protégé, Jessica Kincaid, are presented with a plea to help one of their enemies from the past when his noble-blood wife is kidnapped. Against their better judgment, they take the case and head back to war torn Africa to deal with Somali pirates, knowing that there are games afoot that they can’t even begin to process…
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! 2: Kharé, Cityport of Traps [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
For those of you new to the brilliant iOS re-imagining of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Sorcery! from Steve Jackson, you’re in for a treat. For the briefest of recaps, you are a magical warrior who has been entrusted with finding a stolen mystical crown and defeating an evil sorcerer in the process. In the first game, you survived the surrounding Shamutanti Hills and found your way to the gates of Kharé: Cityport of Traps!
SolForge [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
SolForge is an amazing digital card collecting game springing from the collaboration of StoneBlade Entertainment–formerly Gary Games, the creators of the Ascension Deck Building Game–and Richard Garfield–the original designer of Magic the Gathering (MtG) –that was funded in 2012 through an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign…
Lition (featuring PRODUKT) – Braille Korp [MUSIC VIDEO]
We had the opportunity of meeting Braille Korp through our interview of him earlier this year and really enjoyed his music. As such, we wanted to share the song, Lition, which he and Brian Mills created, for your viewing pleasure!
White Fire [BOOK REVIEW]
When Corrie Swanson–the Gothic protégé of the enigmatic FBI Agent, A.X.L. Pendergast–decides to dig into the mystery of a strange set of bodies dating back to the 1800’s in a high priced ski community in Colorado, things get tangled as soon as she steps into town. A victim of small town politics in a town filled with billionaire developers and sharks, Corrie discovers that trying to delve into this town’s past may turn up more skeletons than the ones she’s looking for…
DarkestGoth New Artist Spotlight: Branwen [ARTICLE]
We’ve been very impressed with Germany’s flame-haired siren, Branwen, and wanted to let you find out a little about this new featured model and artist in her own words!
Sorcery! 2’s Devious Minds: Cut-Throat Creativity [INTERVIEW]
Those of you who’ve been reading DGM for awhile doubtless read my review of Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! by Inkle Studios. Well, Inkle’s Jon Ingold and Joseph Humfrey kindly agreed to sit down with us and tell us a bit about Sorcery! 2: Kharé, the Cityport of Traps, what fans can expect, what they’ve learned through this process, and, also, how fans can start creating their very own multimedia adventures through their free Inklewriter toolkit…
Dancing on Graves with Preston & Child, Pt. 3 [INTERVIEW]
Last month, we continued our interview with the haunting visionaries of Agent Pendergast and his blood-curdling mysteries, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. As the launch of their new book, White Fire, is right around the corner on the 12th, we conclude our interview with them on how they work together and what things we can expect…!
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Shamutanti Hills [VIDEO GAME REVIEW]
It’s rare when you play an iOS game and find that all you want to do is gush over it! When the only thing more fun than playing the game is waxing eloquent about its charms and nuances to friends, family members, coworkers, and complete strangers at Starbucks! But for our readers who are fantasy role players, Sorcery! might just be the one to do that for you! It definitely has…