Tuesday is Doomsday!

TUESDAY IS DOOMSDAY

Supervillain Doomsday who I know from playing Injustice: Gods Among Us, is expected to start getting a regular appearance once a week every Tuesday starting from Tuesday 28th February 2017. 

So those of you who watch my Injustice: Gods Among Us gameplay videos that I do will know that I have been getting into practice using Doomsday in single one vs one fight matches. I have fought as Doomsday and played against Doomsday, and those of you will know that he if a very good supervillain to play as. He possess skills and fighting techniques which are only available to him. Particularly the green shield he can activate which protects him from harm for a few seconds, it makes it harder for the opponent to hit him when he's got his shield up. He also has quick crushing moves which do a lot of damage and eat up a lot of your opponents life which is good in terms of practicality. 

He also has some interesting combo's available to him. I am still trying to get my head round how to to do them all, but there's one which of great value to me. Simply press square, square, triangle on your PS4 controller. I'm not familiar with the X-Box controls so I don't know what it is on that. 

You may also notice on my Mortal Kombat videos, I use Jason every Saturday. Some characters get specified a certain day where I know I can go "It's Saturday, so it's Jason day" and my viewers can pick up this pattern and look forward to it and think "Oh, Jason's going to be making an appearance today". It engages people in my videos and it's just little things like that, that make me decide on what I want to do and go about how I play my videos. With fighting games, you don't really develop any progression in terms of story, the progression element resides in picking up skills and keep playing the game and keep getting better at it. That's hopefully what I set out achieve and the audiences pick up on. 

COMING SOON : High Tech House of Horrors

COMING SOON

WELCOME TO PARADISE - HIGH TECH HOUSE OF HORRORS

OUT IN MARCH 2017

Have you ever wondered why your toaster maybe trying to kill you? or why your washing machine is on the blink? why the cleaners are so keen to take you to the cleaners? All these and more are answered in High Tech House of Horrors.

Why do this story? - I have always liked the idea of a house that is technology based and could possibly turn against you and try to kill you. It's a very strong science fiction idea. With aggressive cookers and homicidal Hoovers. Very similar to what the idea behind Paradise Towers was but a little bit different in the sense that this is an actual house that is the threat and it's not set in a block of flats. It's a holiday resort gone wrong, which has closed down due to the disappearance of a missing person, and the doctor gets caught up in the mystery of it all when Pip goes missing. 

  

What to expect? - What to expect from this? Well, technology which is trying to kill people for the purpose of which you'll have t find out later.

Who is writing the script? - I'm working with Christian Evans on this one. It's my idea which I have talked him into helping me write with me. But he's a good sport and is a new writer and has lots of lovely fresh ideas, and he's passionate about science which is an enormous help to me. 

When is the story likely to be released? - At the end of March, I hope. 

How long is it? - One episode long. 

COMING SOON : The Sixth Doctor Adventures

COMING SOON

DOCTOR WHO : THE SIXTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES IN 2017

Coming this year, two new adventures with the sixth doctor. The sixth doctor was absent from last year's run of stories. So I thought my viewers couldn't go with the absence of his coat any longer.

THE PARADOX PLANET is a regeneration story, or as I call it, the basic twin dilemma story. The reason I call it that, is because The Twin Dilemma started off the Sixth Doctor's era on television, and so with this being a story where in it, the doctor has just recently regenerated, I call it the twin dilemma story. I also wanted to follow Paradox's or something to do with the danger of the fabric of space time. That was my reasoning behind coming up with the basics of the story. 

THE AUTONAUTS I wanted to do that one again, simply because I watch it back thinking that there are so many things which I know I can do better. The sound for a start, basically when I was editing that story the first time around back in 2013, I had problem with storage space on my computer, so I had to delete a lot of things and by the end one of those things was the original soundtrack. So lots of sound effects and soundtracks for episode three were lost, and the story isn't much good and can be done so much better, and it also opens up an opportunity to use that beautiful new blue suit Colin that we got in the thirteen doctors collectors set.

The Sixth Doctor stories, will be released in the Spring on 2017.

Mortal Kombat XL : Kenshi Variations

KENSHI

Play and fight as Kenshi in these three fantastic costumes, and here's how to unlock them.

Normal Kenshi - Unlocked at the beginning of the game.

This is the standard model variant of Kenshi's look and the most iconic out of all three that are available on console. There's also a gold colour scheme which is open to players as an alternative option. I do like the gold on this one I might say. In terms of variation - Balanced is the best.

Tournament Kenshi - Unlocked by completing a Klassic Tower as Kenshi.

This is Kenshi as he looked in the past, right at the beginning of the story in Chapter One - Johnny Cage. So he looks a lot younger than what he did look before but is still blind for his sins. To unlock this costume you need to complete a klassic tower with Kenshi. 

Ronin Kenshi - Available in Samurai pack

That mouth mask looks cool amongst anything else to do with this outfit. How cool does this look? probably the coolest of all three skins I have seen. To unlock Samurai Kenshi you need to buy the pack with him, Kitana and Shinnok in it and then you'll have another option to play with as Kenshi.

That's it for this post, Kenshi only has three skins, so not much else to show you. There is an Elder Gods skinned Kenshi for the Mobile game. But this is just a post strictly about how to unlock the skins that are available on the console version of the game. With different elaborate and exuberant alternative colour schemes to go with them, all three of Kenshi's costumes speak volumes about his character's look. Normal Kenshi with the gold colours is probably my favourite. And always pick Balanced. Balanced is the best. 

COMING SOON: New Things for Doctor Who in 2017

SPRING 2017

Doctor Who is coming back on to our screens on Saturday 15th April 2017. And in April 2017, Doctor Who Action Figure Adventures will be returning to my channel for a new run of variety of new stories featuring all of the twelve doctors.

MARCH

Doctor Who : The Audio Adventures - Series Three

Twelve new episodes of the Doctor travelling in time with his companion Perry Phillipa "Pip".

APRIL

The Gift of Axos - Third Doctor: ??/04?17

A local radio station spots an alien spaceship coming into orbit with Earth, UNIT is called in to investigate. Upon visiting the spaceship, the doctor, the brigadier and Dr James Munro discover and come into contact with strange gold people called the Axons, who claim to have come in peace and as a token of their good will they offer earth a gift in the form of a mineral known as axonite. As time goes by, the doctor soon learns that the truth of axonite and what it could mean for the future of the world. And what's his old enemy The Master got to do with it?

The Man Who Gambled with Time - Fourth Doctor: ??/04/17

Time is a delicate thing, but what happens if you start tampering with it. An accident causes one Man to split himself into many different versions of himself throughout the course of time. He intends to build a time machine so that he can go back in time to the moment before it happened and prevent his fate. But being the time lord, the doctor knows of the devastating catastrophes of what would happen if that were to happen. Can he stop it or has time run out?

The Paradox Planet - Sixth Doctor: ??/04/17

After his regeneration, from their previous adventure, the Doctor starts behaving very erratically. He goes into the wardrobe looking for a new outfit and finds a glaring, mismatched, brightly coloured coat to which he immediately takes a liking to. 

On the planet of Romulous, which focuses on power from the watch tower, an outburst of time energy is unleashed causing the planet to go into a every going link of paradoxes. A parasite known as Grimulo feeds off paradox energy and plans on retaining the energy for himself. When the doctor arrives he has already gone through a great deal of trouble to get to Romulous. Grimulo will stop at nothing to stop the doctor interfering. Even if it means, death. 

MAY

Galiax - Fourth Doctor: ??/05/17

Galiax, galatic murderer and criminal has escaped security prison and is planning on exacting his revenge. Galiax being a shape shifting alien, can take the form of anything and anyone. The Doctor and Sani are on their way to Carvellous, a planet on the outer worlds of the galaxy when they are trapped in a time bubble by Galiax, who then decided to take the doctors place so that he can absorb and steal the energy of Carvellous and take his revenge. Will he be successful? 

The Autonauts - Sixth Doctor: ??/05/17

The Doctor and Kerry arrive on a desert planet which is reaching an echonomical drift, a sand storm is approaching. On a silo station underground, an all important invention is about to be presented but what dangers lurk around for The Doctor this time, and what is the mystery behind, The Autonauts.

All Summer releases to be revealed later.

COMING SOON: New Things for Doctor Who

SPRING 2017

Doctor Who is coming back on to our screens on Saturday 15th April 2017. And in April 2017, Doctor Who Action Figure Adventures will be returning to my channel for a new run of variety of new stories featuring all of the twelve doctors.

APRIL

The Gift of Axos - Third Doctor: ??/04?17

The Man Who Gambled with Time - Fourth Doctor: ??/04/17

The Paradox Planet - Sixth Doctor: ??/04/17

MAY

Galiax - Fourth Doctor: ??/05/17

The Autonauts - Sixth Doctor: ??/05/17

Nick Strudwick

It is with sadness and deep remorse that I write this post about my friend and colleague Nick Strudwick.

Nick was known best known for directing plays at the Abbey Theatre where I work in St Albans for the Company of Ten to which I am currently a member of. He directed plays such as "Eclipsed", "My Boy Jack" and "The Master Builder" to name a few of the many shows he put on as part of the company.

I got to know Nick proper on Eclipsed. But the odd thing is, I could sware I knew him before then as I have met him on many occasions prior to this. But when you work with someone for a considerable number of months on say a play, for example, you really do get to know them a little. You come to rehearsals and watch them work three - four times a week, so get to know a bit about them and get to see how they work. Nick was a very talented and very human director, he would work with all of his actors solidly and really get them to tap into the pure heart of their character to help them give, the best performance possible. One of the things he liked to do was 'hot seating' and just sit his cast members down in a circle and get them to talk about their characters, and by doing that, I think this helped the cast identify themselves with the character that they were playing.

He was a loving, kind, gentle man with a wonderful sense of humour and was always very generous with his time. I don't just mean just with rehearsal time, but with all of it, and with everyone he worked with cast and crew.

I haven't known him for very long, a year and a half I should think. And there are other people who know him better than I do and to whom he was a great friend to.

After Eclipsed I would bump into Nick occasionally and have a chat with him about upcoming projects or related work he's doing and stuff like that. When Rope came about I was one of the first people he asked to help work on it which I felt very humble in him actually wanting me to help him. Having read the play in advance to this offer, It seemed to me a great challenge, there was a great story in it, and there was a lot of opportunity to make it another cracker and if anyone could achieve that it would Nick himself.

He made a very promising start with the production, however, he was taken ill and had to leave the rehearsals and eventually he finally passed away today.

I'm very saddened by this news, as I'm sure are all of the people he knew and worked with over the years. He had many dear friends and my thoughts are with his family during this terrible time.

It is hard to believe that he will not be with us anymore, and a great shame that he would not see "Rope" completed. But we are doing what we can in the very few rehearsals we have left to focus and concentrate and put on the best show possible in his memory.

But the people you love, Ronald Montgomery said "The People you love become ghosts inside you. And like this, you keep them alive".

Rest peacefully Nick.

COMING SOON : THE HERO OF SONTAR

COMING SOON

DOCTOR WHO THE AUDIO ADVENTURES SERIES THREE

THE HERO OF SONTAR

Episode: 1/12

Written By: Daniel Bury and Jamie Harrison

Directed By: Daniel Bury

Monster/Enemy: The Sontarans

Transmission Date: 25th February 2017

Channel: DANBURY Productions

Synopsis: The Doctor knows of the great Kraagh and what he has done for the Sontaran Empire. But he never thought he would meet him face to face. The Doctor and Pip are confronted with a problem where they have to stop at a pit stop planet of Dedmos in outer worlds of the galaxy, there a battle is going on between the refugees and the sixteenth Sontaran war squad, lead by the acclaimed Hero of Sontar Commander Kraagh. Kraagh is plotting something that could mean death and disaster to lots of innocent people, and the Doctor must stop him before its too late.

Rope - Opens 24th February 2017

RoPE

A PLAY BY PATRICK HAMILTON

"I have done murder. I have committed murder. I have committed passionless, motiveless, faultless, and clueless murder. Bloodless and noiseless murder." - Wyndham Brandon.

For the mere sake of adventures, danger, and the "fun of the thing" Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Kentley. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell.  It's a murder mystery in the context of you know who did it and why they did it, but will they get caught?

Rope first produced and published in 1929, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948 and remains to this day one of the classics of the thriller genre.

Cast: 6 male, 2 female.

I think what interests me the most about this play is how two young people can commit such a terrible crime and feel like they can get away with it. It's not like a murder mystery where someone has been murdered and the murderer and their reasons for doing what they did is revealed at the end, you know who did it and why they did it and the threat of exposure could come at any point, it's interesting to watch characters reaction to that and it will be interesting to see how the audience react to it as well. The chase is on!

The main thing I love about doing a play is the rehearsal time because that's 80% of the whole process, the cast really get to delve into their characters and discussing things over, that's when things start to come off the page and as soon as you've set it, it all becomes a lot easier. 

It's a joy to come to rehearsals and watch the cast work their magic because all of them come from different backgrounds, have got their own experiences and have particular set of skills which they bring to the play. 

I'm thrilled to be working on Rope, so please, come and see this fantastic play!

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW: http://www.abbeytheatre.org.uk/whats-on/rope/ 

Doctor Who : Tenth Doctor in Tuxedo from Voyage of the Damned - Forbidden Planet Exclusive

Hey there everyone.

So I was quite surprised and pleased to see that this arrived in the post yesterday. I had pre-orderd it at the end of January when it came up on Forbidden Planet's website, and it arrived yesterday and when I opened it I thought "Oh right, it's this" because it was almost like I had forgotten I ordered it. It was quite weird but still, my reaction to this was overall very pleased. This is a figure I have wanted for a very long time. 

The tenth doctor in tuxedo is a collector figure from Forbidden Planet and underground toys. Which is basically an action figure of the tenth doctor in his black tuxedo suit from Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel, The Lazarus Experiment and The Voyage of the Damned. 

He looks very sleek and cool. Almost like James Bond. This variation I'm not sure if the body copies or borrows from the eleventh doctor figure for the bow tie. It looks like a new sculpt but it could be borrowed from another figure. Standard tenth doctor body, with one noticeable difference and that is articulation in the arms is different. Ball jointed so you can position the Tenth doctors hands in any position, which is great. 

The likeness to David Tennant is excellent. It looks like him, the hair I think is a new sculpt, it's not like the end of time head with sticky out hair, the sculpt of the hair looks different.  

This is a variation I have wanted for ages. The Tenth Doctor is definitely the doctor to have the most toy variants of his costume made for him. Better late than never that we get this. Truely it is a nice variant and stands out as part of the collection.  

BATMAN : Series 2 - The return of Scarecrow

"And at the end of fear... Oblivion!"

Scarecrow.

I am pleased to announce the return of BATMAN after a long wait. It was delayed off to this year from last year. Rest assured that the long awaited second series will be out sometime in 2017. 

And what better way to announce the new series than to say that Scarecrow will be in one of the episodes. "The Terror of Gotham City" where Scarecrow is up to his old tricks. He's working for the mob, by intoxicating the whole of Gotham city with fear gas he's created. Batman is forced to confront his greatest fears to try and defeat Scarecrow and the mafia bosses he's working for. 

COMING SOON : The Return of Eggheads

A new series of Eggheads starts recording this weekend, with a new series of twelve new episodes to begin in March 2017.

What to expect?
More shows for a start. The last two series there were only eight episodes per series, now with popular demand I'm now doing more episodes which of course means the series will last longer and run for a few more weeks.

That being said, it's the same format as before where it's not anything like the real eggheads set up that you see on television. It's basically me playing the eggheads app on my phone but simulating the possible outcomes of six well known celeberities working together as a team to try and beat the eggheads for charity. Just as I do for The Chase and neither seires is made for a profitable purpose and all rights go to the BBC.

Got some interesting teams of people to form teams to take on the eggheads and I'm treating the series in two blocks, six for one set and six for the other set. Both sets will be uploaded in different times of the year. Like I did for The Chase series six. Some episodes will be out in March, and then the other six will be shown later in the year making up twelve all together. I just think that works better than having tweleve episodes in one go.

So filming for the new series starts soon and you can expect an update post about the first episode later this month.

This MONTH From DANBURY Productions : FEBRUARY 2017

Have a look at some of the things on the way this month from my channel.

• MORTAL KOMBAT XL: GAME PLAY VIDEOS

Daily Gameplay videos of myself playing the game. Including: Single fight battles, tower challenges, online player vs player battles, Invasion Boss fights, faction challenges, and character backgrounds.

• BATMAN: RETURN TO ARKHAM

Bits and pieces of walkthrough style gameplay of myself playing Batman Arkham games.

• ASSASSIN'S CREED: GAMEPLAY VIDEOS

Gameplay videos of myself playing The Ezio Collection. 

• INJUSTICE - GODS AMONG US: GAME PLAY VIDEOS

Daily Gameplay videos of myself playing the game.

More information on these projects to be revealed upon request.

INJUSTICE : GODS AMONG US!

Just a formal announcement to say Injustice: Gods Among Us turned up in the post today. I've been trying it out all day and its and awesome game. Very similar but very different kind of game to Mortal Kombat. But I love it.

Videos start tomorrow, and I can't wait!

Peter Capaldi on leaving Doctor Who

Having learned of the news that Peter Capaldi is stepping down from the role of the doctor in Doctor Who after the 2017 series and Christmas special, I thought I might address this issue.

First of all, I'd like to start off by saying I feel very saddened by this news and shocked that Peter is leaving. When I found out I was reading a post on facebook someone put up that he had announced it on a BBC radio 2 show. And that he said "It's time to move on" Now being the dedicated and loved fan of the show I know Peter is, I honestly thought that the programme would leave before he got fed up with playing the part of the doctor. It was almost like someone had to shake me because I thought it was a bad joke. But it wasn't it was very real. With Trump in the news, every day since he became president this news was just as unwelcoming as updates on what Trump was up to.

Secondly, It's a shame that Peter will never get to play the part under new management. Chibnall takes over very soon, and I would have liked to have seen what ideas and the way things would run under a new showrunner because from what the last two series have shown is that Capaldi's doctor and Moffat's scripts are hit and miss in my book.

Thirdly, I think the whole thing is a bitter shame and feel that Peter's doctor was in more cases than most a missed opportunity. Every time I watch his episodes, I don't need to praise him for giving an outstanding performance because I know he's going to be good. He gets it. He gets the doctor's character and what the doctor is meant to be like, and granted when he started off after taking over from Matt Smith, he wasn't the most popular of doctors, and there are some people who are rejoicing in Capaldi's resignation and thinking "great, new doctor, start fresh!"

I'm very annoyed at the fans or people who say on their social media suggestions of who they think the new doctor should be and granted, everyone is entitled to their opinion and I respect and understand that but for goodness sake Capaldi hasn't even left yet? can we at least enjoy him while we have still got him? because the year will fly by and we'll be asking ourselves "whatever happened to Peter Capaldi?" it's almost as if people can't wait for him to leave or are getting too excited over who they think the new doctor should be and what will he or she be like.

Fans like to come in with their suggestions, and to be fair, some of their suggestions are barmy but quite good suggestions. Most people are saying they want a woman or Sean Pertwee. For me, neither of those would work. One because I'd never want to see a woman play the part unless it was a non-cannon spoof and I don't think Sean Pertwee would ever even consider it, not because I don't think he'd be very good but because he's got a tight schedule anyway filming Gotham and apart me feels that he feels quite insulted by the show in a way.

It's a terrible shame and missed opportunity to have a doctor that good as Peter Capaldi and not give him a decent story. There aren't that many Capaldi stories that I can pick out and go "that's a classic' or "that's a really good one" because when you get stories like "The Husbands of River Song" or "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" what are you going to expect? I think this whole thing is a bit like history repeating itself, we've gone back to the Colin Baker era. Peter Capaldi. He's a good doctor but with shit scripts. It's not Capaldi's fault the show is how it is, it's down to bad scripts, the executive producer, and BBC restrictions.

I'll be pleased to see Moffatt leave because he's like an expired car whose out of date and getting tired. But I was not expecting Capaldi to go with him. If I don't like any of the stories in series ten I am hoping Capaldi's send off in the Christmas special will be a good story for him to go out on and not to be anything like Matt Smith's departure. A story which is all about the regeneration at the end of it. Make a gooden. Make it a proper adventure where the doctor finds himself in mortal peril and the only way to get out of it is to risk it all and if that means sacrificing himself in the process then so be it. I want a story like that. I don't want this big thing like in "Time of the Doctor' which was all about leading up to the regeneration at the end of it. Peter is an excellent doctor who has given so much to the fans, so its only fair he gets the send off he deserves I will be very angry and disappointed if Capaldi's last story is not a decent story.