Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Awesome Lavratt gets Droidified, Immortals and digital manga


IMMORTALS

November 11th

Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Written by: Charles Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides
Cast: Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Isabel Lucas, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz, with John Hurt and Mickey Rourke
Produced by: Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton, Ryan Kavanaugh





An evil King tears through Greece on a bloody rampage in search of the invincible Bow of Epirus. With the Bow, he could depose the gods of Olympus and rule the world. One villager, a stone mason, setting out to avenge his mother's death, dares to stop him.

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Awesome Lavratt is now available as an app on the Android platform. It's already available for iPhone/iPad. Next stop: Blackberry.

If you have an android smart phone, give it a read and give me some love - by way of a starred review.

Defending the Future IV: No Man's Land is off to the presses. Check out the updated Dark Quest Books' Defending the Future page to see all the authors, their chapter icons and other books in the series. Cover art by Mike McPhail.




I was cut down by the coughing crud Monday or I would have posted this then, if only to say Manga Monday in the title. ;)

NEC BIGLOBE, through its Sugoi Books, launched its digital library of more than 100 manga books translated into English on the Android platform. Here are a few of the titles now available:

-Cat Eyed Girl (c)Kazuo Umezu/ SHOGAKUKAN CREATIVE
-Joan (c)Yoshikazu Yasuhiko/ JAPAN BROADCAST PUBLISHING Co., Ltd
-COMBINATION (c)Sei Leeza/ SHOGAKUKAN CREATIVE
-Psychic File Ogata Katsumi (c)Mayuri Yamamoto/ Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha

You can purchases digital books for Android here. BIGLOBE plans to add apps to Sugoi Books for iPhone/iPad, Symbian and Blackberry.

Sugoi Books offers select titles free of charge until April 28, 2011 (JST). See details on Sugoi Books app.



3 comments:

Budd said...

Immortals looks interesting.

Scott Niven said...

Looking forward to Sugoi Books being ported to iPhone! Let me know when that happens!

Scott

Ann Wilkes said...

@ Budd - I thought so.
@ Scott - Tell you what. If I get a heads up from them, I'll give you one here. ;)