Mark Charan Newton

From Wired magazine:
Dante’s Inferno proves it: Classic literature is a videogame gold mine.
Now that Electronic Arts is finished reimagining Dante Alighieri’s epic poem as an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 adventure through the circles of hell, the development team’s going to need to find inspiration in other classic literary works.
Game|Life would like to humbly suggest [...]

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Life keeps getting in the way of interesting bloggage. But there will be UK paperback cover art forthcoming – just a few little tweaks to finalise, and we’re done. It is hugely different to the other covers, and I can tell it will divide opinion, but that’s all part of the fun, right? Right.
I’ll also [...]

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Cool/very geeky comparison of Arial and Helvetica. I’m totally a Helvetica man – you just need to know is that Arial is a Microsoft rip-off of Helvetica and we’re done with the discussion.
While we’re on the subject of fonts, I’ve always found it interesting how film director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tenembaums), uses a lot [...]

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A time-waster of the top ten literary insults.
Faulkner: “[Hemingway] has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

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Someone told me that my bios are far too minimal, so I’ve updated one with some random crap (including the caravan incident) if you are particularly bored.
Also, watch this space, because I should, within the next month or two, have an shiny new website courtesy of the web guru at Sevenoak Design. It will look [...]

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I do words, but I think pictures do this pub more justice.

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I like cricket. At one point, deep in my youth, I was playing four games a week. I was Malmesbury Cricket Club Under 15s Players’ Player Of the Year (about 13 years ago – to this day, probably the only trophy I’ve ever won). I once opened batting for the district (lord knows why, I always [...]

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It’s comic-tastic for this month’s spending spree.
Ex Machina Volume 1, by Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris.
Daredevil: The Devil, Inside And Out by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark.
The Authority: Relentless by Ellis, Hitch, Nerry & Depuy.
But I’m also reading The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.
Anyone else reading something good?
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I saw this Emergency and Disaster map ages ago. You know how you fantasy fans like your maps; well this one displays all sorts of hazards, plotted on a global scale, for the morbidly curious. From biohazards to earthquakes, it’s actually quite interesting, once you get over the paranoia of how fragile things are.
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Stolen shamelessly from Velcro City, with a nod to Darren for flagging it up for me, check out Twenty Abandoned Cities, Towns and Places.
The Kowloon Walled City was located just outside Hong Kong, China during British rule. A former watchpost to protect the area against pirates, it was occupied by Japan during World War II [...]

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I saw this article linked from Bookninja: is Amazon planning to launch retail stores?
The online retailer received a patent earlier this week for a mini-building design that has sent rumbles throughout the retail world — or, more specifically, on several online financial blogs — of a possible brick-and-mortar business venture by the company.
The patent, number [...]

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When I first set out to write about six years ago, I never had a clue just how much time an actual novel deal would take up. Here’s where I’m at now: I’m currently working on polishing up the final draft of the second Legends of the Red Sun book. (I have a title, by [...]

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