Steam Wars Holiday Special 3

Time once again to fire up the boilers, focus your quantum awareness and charge that storm foil to ignite the holiday lighting! It’s the Day of Life, and everyone’s celebrating! As long as the Hegemonic Crux forces don’t shut down the bars, that is.

The Crimson Empire's new sky dreadnoughts cannot be stopped by the arsenal of the Free Realms. A new, untested strike fighter has been rushed to the front lines, and a young band of pilots must quickly train for a one-way mission to bring down the steel in the sky. The fate of the world rests in the hands of the STRIKE LEADER.

Steam up a bowl of popcorn, pop a tape in the VCR, and focus your quantum awareness on the season! Yes, it's the Steam Wars Holiday Special, featuring a host of your favorite stars gathered together to celebrate the wonders of crass commercialism Life Day the holiday spirit!

This Halloween, the Peebos will rewrite the rules on what scares you the most... well, okay, what annoys you the most. When they start acting a little TOO friendly for those "Trick or Treat quarters," you know it's time for them (and Peebri) to GET OUT... of the lab and stay out of trouble.

With the sentient forests of Jade-Realm having named Brianna as their Arch-Druid, the other mystical nations are edgy over her exponentially growing power and influence. Brianna goes to meet with their council to assuage their fears, but her easily offended subordinates act like they might end up taking the council hostage!

With the sentient forests of Jade-Realm having named Brianna as their Arch-Druid, the other mystical nations are edgy over her exponentially growing power and influence. Brianna goes to meet with their council to assuage their fears, but her easily offended subordinates end up taking the council hostage... and A select group of Jade-Realm mages meet with Brianna, who is now the Arch-Druid of a vast stretch of Jade's sentient forests. They believe her "magitech" skills, creating tech-based forms from magical resources, will be the key to defending Jade from future Umbral invasions. But many on Jade are downright unfriendly to anything tech-related...and Peebri catches one of them is spying!

The 14 essays in Game on, Hollywood! take on several points of game and film intersection. They look at storylines, aesthetics, mechanics, and production. The book is about adaptation (video game to film, film to video game), but it is even more about narrative. The essays draw attention to the ways and possibilities of telling a story. They consider differences and similarities across modes of storytelling (showing, telling, interacting), explore the consequences of time, place and ideology, and propose critical approaches to the vastness of narrative in the age of multimedia storytelling. The video games and film texts discussed include The Warriors (1979 film; 2005 video game), GoldenEye (1995 film), GoldenEye 007 (1997 and 2011 video games), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000-2004, television show), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003 video game), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003 video game; 2010 film), the Star Wars franchise empire (1977 on), Afro Samurai (2009 video game), and Disney's Epic Mickey (2010 video game).

The Free Realms are crumbling under the Crimson Empire's mighty sky dreadnoughts. A small band of Free pilots have gathered for a desperate mission, but their bravery and skill is not enough. They must use an untested, secretly developed fighter to strike back against these terrifying ironclads, or be crushed forever by tyranny.