Category Archives: Vampires

Eichners body is exhumed in Reimswaldau cemetery. Continue reading →

In the land of Skyrim, it turns out, youre never more than a hundred feet from a vampire. Continue reading →

Today, in front of a live audience of ESO players and fans at the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas and on Twitch, ZeniMax Online Studios took the wraps off their 2020 plans for the award-winning online RPG The Elder Scrolls Online. Continue reading →

The funny thing about Canadians is that we like to think that we're more cultured than we probably are. Keeping things positive for a second, to live in the Great White North is to spend all of your disposable income walking the magical sands of Long Beach in Tofino by day, and stuffing one's face with goma eggplant and tuna tataki at Kuma at night. Or to lounge by the lake in Ontario's Muskokas sippingRoyal DeMaria Meritage Icewine while a mixtape featuring the best of Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and the Tragically Hip plays on the brushed chrome Beonsound 2 stereo system Continue reading →

At the game awards in December, The Elder Scrolls Online debuted a teaser trailer putting a pin in last year's adventures in Elsweyr and teasing this year's new excursion to Skyrim. Today Bethesda is showing off more of what to expect when we return to the Nord homeland. The snow and ice will have an extra bite, it turns out, because Western Skyrim has a vampire problem. Continue reading →

The stylish new adaptation of Bram Stokers 1897 Gothic novel has gripped television viewers, but the story it wants to tell about God is left tantalisingly underexplored A surprising amount of the critical response to the new BBC adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula, written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, has focused on the counts sexuality. This is the least controversial aspect of their treatment. The homoeroticism is there in Stoker and, even if it werent, Draculas physical domination of other men and his cheerful lack of a sexual identity, in the strictly modern sense, are entirely appropriate to a fifteenth-century aristocrat and warlord. Continue reading →

"Vampire on the Orient Express" by Shane Carrow (Amazon Kindle, 135 pages, available through Amazon.com) I usually review books distributed by established publishers, in hardback or paperback format. But while attending a professional writers' conference over the summer, I learned that more and more books are being published without an established publisher. Continue reading →

Clare: There's this really great early Xena: Warrior Princess episode that ends with Joxer's modern incarnation pitching Xena to the show's actual producer. Continue reading →

Prop styling by Miako Katoh For someone whos been a fixture on some of the biggest shows on TV for the better part of the last two decades, Ian Somerhalder has a relatively simple sense of style. Because life is so insane and I'm just a dude, he says, he mostly sticks to jeans and a T-shirt Continue reading →

"We want you to feel like a vampire in everything that you're doing," says Hardsuit Labs' narrative lead, Brian Mitsoda. He admits, "[The first Bloodlines felt] kind of more like an FPS where you occasionally drink blood for fuel." This time, he says, "The violence of the vampire is more reflected in how you approach combat." (Image credit: Future) This feature first appeared in Official PlayStation Magazine. Continue reading →