Author: Angela Quinton

Angela Quinton is a writer, designer and web developer from Canada. She's also a colossal werewolf nerd who wrote her first werewolf story on her mom's typewriter at age 11. When not writing code or geeking out over werewolf stuff, Angela runs trails, spots trains, and throws rocks at the Pacific Ocean. She lives near Vancouver, Canada, with their lovely and tolerant wife, three feline malcontents and an increasingly terrible dachshund.

Yoshihisa Hashimoto Talks About Werewolf Sonic

The latest issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine has an interview with Yoshihisa Hashimoto, lead designer of Sonic Unleashed. Hashimoto confirms the presence of a “Were-Sonic” mode, which offers gamers a slower but more physical method of playing through the levels. From the interview:

[Were-Sonic is] a slightly slower and yet more agile beast. Where Sonic dodges past obstacles, Were-Sonic manhandles them out of the way and can toss enemies around like nobody’s business.

You can read the full interview in Official Nintendo Magazine issue 29, which went on sale last Friday. If I can find scans of the whole article, I’ll post ’em here.

Apr. 15th 2008

The Complete Underworld

Blogcritics Magazine writer Richard Marcus has posted a review of The Complete Underworld, a graphic novel collection that illustrates and expands upon the setting, story and characters of the Underworld films. There’s also a prequel story (today’s the day for Underworld prequels, isn’t it?) called Red In Tooth And Claw, which Marcus says is “quite a good, inspired, piece of story telling that manages to recreate the world of the vampires and werewolves in another environment.”

The Complete Underworld is published by IDW Publishing, the same company that’s releasing Ben Templesmith’s new werewolf series Welcome to Hoxford, which Werewolf News mentioned earlier this week.

Apr. 12th 2008

Fangoria Reports on Underworld Prequel

Fangoria has a report about Rise of the Lycans, the latest installment in the Underworld film franchise.

Producer Richard Wright says that despite a budget lower than those of its predecessors, Rise of the Lycans will be “even more ambitious than the second,” and Tatopoulos Studios technician Guy Himber adds, “We’re not as makeup-heavy on this show as on the previous ones. It’s really all about the werewolves.”

Rise of the Lycans finished shooting in March and is currently in post-production. A release date has not been announced. Take your time with those werewolf effects, guys.

Apr. 12th 2008

Sonic Unleashed: Teaser Trailer

Gametrailers.com has just posted a teaser trailer for Sonic Unleashed. I think we can consider the werewolf rumours confirmed.

Apr. 8th 2008

Sharp Teeth – A Werewolf Novel in Verse Form

Author Toby Barlow is creating quite a stir with his first novel, a werewolf story called Sharp Teeth. Written as a way to pass the time during a year-long stay in a Chicago hotel, Sharp Teeth combines free verse imagery with humour, sorrow and violence in what critics are calling a “gut-wrenching, sexy debut, a horror thriller in verse.” (more…)

Apr. 8th 2008

Ben Templesmith to Create Comic Series About Werewolves

IESB.net and the Horror Fiction News Network are both reporting that Australian artist Ben Templesmith has signed an exclusive deal with IDW Publishing, and among his forthcoming projects is Welcome to Hoxford, a new comic book series about werewolves. (more…)

Apr. 6th 2008

Sonic Unleashed Officially Announced – with Werewolf Sonic?

A week or two after screenshots of the forthcoming Sonic the Hedgehog game were leaked to the web, Sega finally quit issuing cease-and-desist orders and announced that they are indeed making a new Sonic game called Sonic Unleashed, due out for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii before Christmas 2008. (more…)

Apr. 3rd 2008

19th Century Lycanthrope Research Case

This isn’t exactly news, considering it’s from last year, but it’s worth sharing because it’s quite impressive, and because this has been a slow week for news. (more…)

Apr. 3rd 2008

Wanted – “Real” Werewolf Special Effects

Den Of Geek has just posted an article about the possible resurgence of “real-tech” effects in horror films, and more specifically, in werewolf films. (more…)

Mar. 30th 2008

Werewolf Speed-Painting Video

While browsing a back issue of Smashing Magazine, I came across a YouTube video of illustrator Chris Scalf painting a rather awesome werewolf. He recorded his Photoshop / Intuos tablet wizardy in accelerated time-lapse for our viewing pleasure. (more…)

Mar. 29th 2008