Many of you Sci-Fi citizens, like me, get frustrated that we’re not living the life that constantly floats around in our imaginations. Watching or reading good or even bad Sci-Fi can be torture sometimes. I do not live on Coruscant or Naboo. I don’t have a Minority Report style computer interface nor can I jack into a Gibson flavoured Matrix. In fact, here where I am, perched upon the shores of the angry North Atlantic, I’m about to get pounded by an old school Hurricane named Bill and will most likely be living the powerless life for a few days. It’ll be candles and tuna fish for this guy for a bit I think.

I’ve actually played the “Aliens vs. Predator” games from the ’90s, and found them to be pretty darn good. Okay, pretty darn friggin’ excellent. The latest “Aliens vs. Predator” game is on its way to the next-gen console, and if the original games are any indication, we’re in for a balls-to-the-walls action gaming title with plenty of atmosphere and more than a little heart-pounding thrills. Like the previous games, you’ll get to choose your species of choice. So what will it be? Human, alien, or Predator?

Collider got themselves some snaps of a freaking huge and cool 14 foot tall  powersuit from the E3 game convention in LA. This beast is from the “Avatar” game and it’s safe to say I think it’ll also be featured prominently in the movie. Making movie props must be an incredibly satisfying profession. They give you tons of money and you get to make reality out of the figments of your Sci-Fi imagination. What these craftsman can do is alot more art than we all give them credit for. Thanks to Collider for the shots.

Wait just a second while I pull my eyeballs back from the center of my cerebral cortex. I have just seen the best game trailer of all time. “Star Wars: The Old Republic” is an upcoming massively multi-player game from the great Bioware. This game will be a replacement for the disasterous Galaxies, a game I played for completely unreasonable periods of time, especially considering how bad it was. I was a Wookiee though and I grew greatly attached to the big furry fella.

Let’s face it, games based on Hollywood movies have always been iffy at best. When they’re based on a summer event film, the chances of finding a good one in the bunch are pretty slim. Every now and then you stumble across one worth playing. For instance, I thought the first “Riddick” game was very well done, although the less said about all those games based on Marvel’s recent comic book movies, the better.

The funny thing about the “Transformers” game is, um, how do you tell it apart from the movie? After all, aren’t they both using pretty much the same CG images? So aside from the humans, aren’t the game and the movie pretty much the same thing? Anyways. I’ve actually played the first “Transformers” game, and although thought it was mildly interesting, never played it a second time. It was okay, but not exactly addictive, even though I was a major fan of the movie. They are, of course, tying the sequel to a new game, so check out some screenshots of it below.

Science fiction is coming to the MMO gamesphere in a big way this year. At odds will be Bioware’s likely great replacement for Star Wars Galaxies, Knights of the Old Republic and the Star Trek MMO. Craig Zinkievich from Cryptic Studios sat down with MSNBC for an interview, detailing how our wagon train in space will work out for us. Included is lots of new video of avatars, starships in battle and ablaze and plenty of spiffy starscapes, some with Borg! Thanks Io9.

Games that accompany movie releases have a mixed history. Most uncontrollably suck. There are exceptions, such as the Riddick game, where a game company can fire together something good in the shorter development cycle. Games worth playing usually take more than a couple of years to make.

In what is probably a viral video to promote the next episode of Half Life, a terrified science guy dons some cool heads up display tech and runs for the hills while being hunted by evil government guys. Overshadowing all is the imminent entry into our world of cross dimensional aliens bent on a dark mischief we can only imagine.

Mr. Diesel is pretty wise to keep pushing his Riddick and Pitch Black franchises. He had something very special in the first movie of the series. I will eagerly return to another effort if Vin and Company go back to the roots of that original story.