Blade Runner website (Monday 24 April 2000 7.45 hrs NL-time)
Most of you also like Ridley Scott's sf-movie Blade Runner. If you are looking for a great website on this SF classic, go to Bladezone, a great fansite out there. Be sure to check out the deleted scenes section and to watch the behind the scenes-videos. I found myself going around there for hours a couple of weeks ago.

8000 visitors to AliensNL (Monday 24 April 2000 7.40 hrs NL-time)
Yes, yesterday the 8000th visitor entered the AliensNL website. Funny to mention is that visitor came from a Dutch domain and AliensNL is one of the few alien related websites in the Netherlands. From the start in December 1998 the day of record was 28 June 1999 with 237 visitors.

Mission To Mars disappoint-end (Sunday 23 April 2000 12.05 hrs NL-time)
This week I have seen the sf-movie Mission To Mars (Brian de Palma) in cinema. After a enjoyable first 90% of the movie, the latter 10% was really bad. I could not believe mister De Palma making such an awful Disney-like cheap ending to a promising flic. The space and Mars scenes look good and still make me like the first part. Below some new pictures of M2M (thanks go out to the official movie site).

Aliens vs Predator - Gold Edition available (Saturdag 15 April 2000 15.50 hrs NL-time)
Fox Interactive and Rebellion have created an enhanced version of the 1999 computergame Aliens vs Predator. The game is released this week in the US. I am sure the rest of the world will follow in a couple of weeks. Current owners of the original game can order an upgrade version. The game has enhanced graphics (OpenGL), some new weapons and new levels, including a Nostromo level. Down below two pictures from the new game version. Thanks to www.planetavp.com.

New Mission To Mars trailer now available (Sunday 30 January 2000 19.05 hrs NL-time)
At the Apple site a new short trailer from the coming Mission To Mars movie is online. Click here to view the 2.4 MB low-res version of the Quicktime trailer file. Visit also the official site (see below for the URL). Thanks to Dark Horizons for the information.

At last... the AliensNL Guestbook! (Saturday 29 January 2000 0.30 hrs NL-time)
The guestbook has been added. You can enter it by clicking above or down below the page.  Feel free to add your conbribution and comments. Many thanks!

Blade Runner new Special Edition on DVD (Sunday 23 January 2000 12.10 hrs NL-time)
Good news for all fans of Blade Runner, the other great sf artwork of Ridley Scott (Alien). Ridley told Cinescape that he will work on a new special edition of Blade Runner for DVD, containing an extra 8 minutes of unseen footage compared to the already existing special edition version already available on video and DVD. The currently available DVD-version of the "old" special edition version doesn't contain any real interesting extra features and lacks the high quality in sound and visuals DVD can offer. Thanks go out to DVDFile.com for the good news. Down below a picture from the old special edition version, extracted from a dream of Decker.

Alien3 pictures of cutscenes (Sunday 16 January 2000 9.20 hrs NL-time)
Within a couple of weeks AliensNL will show you a collection of pictures taken from the cutscenes from Alien3. The quality won't be great but they are still worth looking at. Remember, there hasn't been an official longer version of Alien3, the cutscenes are extracted from the uncut workprint version before is was finalized for theatrical mastering. Thanks to my collegeau webmasters for their help ;-)

Mission To Mars (Sunday 16 January 2000 9.15 hrs NL-time)
The official site for the Brian de Palma sf-movie Mission To Mars at http://movies.go.com/m2m/ has been extended with some great pictures. Look also at the trailer you can download, it gives you a nice impression of what will come (and what will be a mystery until you will see it in the cinema!). Despite of the Vangelis music in the trailer, the movie seems promissing.

Alien Legacy DVD - secret feature (Saturday 8 January 2000 17.45 hrs NL-time)
In Europe the Alien DVD movies still have to be released. They are expected around March 2000. Somewhere on a DVD-forum on the Internet I found the following information (about a secret on the Alien-DVD) I cannot check but hopefully somebody else can:

"From the main menu highlight “Extra Features” and then press the left arrow key to highlight the left window. Press “Enter” and you will see the production credits for this DVD. Now highlight “Scene Selections” from the main menu and press the right arrow key to highlight the other window. If you press “Enter” now, you will see the flightplans of the Nostromo and extensive crew information. Finally, go to the “Extra Features” submenu and arrow down until you highlight the acid puddle at the bottom of the screen. If you press “Enter” now you will be able to see Kane’s transmission of the alien’s lifecycle. This exciting feature was uncovered by Brian Oreskov."

Alien5 (Saturday 8 January 2000 17.40 hrs NL-time)
Regarding Alien5 I am somewhat confused. Sigourney Weaver has told during a recent interview that as far as she knows, there haven't been any plans for a fifth installment so far. But when it's up to her, she would like to play another movie, taking the set to the original homeworld of the aliens. Even when she's an older, grey-haired woman. To me, this means only that she's interested and keeping the door open. Other (anonymous) sources on the internet speak of plans in development (pre-production) for a fifth movie.
Anyone with concrete information can email me (pesie@worldonline.nl), so AliensNL can spread the word!

Quake III Arena  (Saturday 8 January 2000 17.30 hrs NL-time)
In December the new Quake game has been released: Quake III Arena. It's based on multiplayer gaming, but with some great bots you can play against, you can enjoy yourself also offline. The graphics are really great, especially the red fog, lightning and complex map designs. Visit www.planetquake.com to read and download all about it, before you buy the game. Down below some pictures I made, to show you examples of the graphics (not of the gameplay).

Happy Y2K (Saturday 8 January 2000 17.25 hrs NL-time)
Ofcourse I wish everybody a great Millennium, no real bugs made us start the year Y2K, so hopefully that's a good sign.

ANNA ! (Saturday 8 January 2000 17.15 hrs NL-time)
It has been silent on AliensNL. The good reason for that was the birth of Anna, the daughter of my wife and I. She's born on 27th of November 1999. She's all fit and well, beautiful and gives us many joyfull moments in our life. Here is a picture made one day after Anna was born.  She's got more hair than her father sometimes has!  ;-)

PlanetAvP, AvsP Network (Sunday 7 November 1999 14.00 hrs NL-time)
The Aliens versus Predator game is out now for some months. At the end of the year a special Gamers Edition of the game will be released, with an enhanced (internet)play, extra weapons and new levels, some of them based on the movies.  AvsP hasn't got the open interface as Quake and Unreal have. After playing the game a couple of times, things feel to become repetitive. Perhaps that's the reason for decreasing interest on the internet for the game.

But things seem to change. The Planet AvP site has started recently at www.planetavp.com  and looks really good. Enough news updates and lots of content. Also the AvsP Network will make a restart at short notice, read it on their newspage.

Webaward (Sunday 7 November 1999 13.45 hrs NL-time)
Well, after about 11 months and more than 5,000 visitors AliensNL received it's first webaward. The verdict of the jury: "i've always liked your site, i think it's ace in terms of layout, content and originality." The award can be seen down below (the animated GIF). Many thanks go out to Peta. You can visit her special Alien site via the Links section.

New links to Alien related sites (Sunday 7 November 1999 13.30 hrs NL-time)
Again two new links for Alien related websites: SERSEM's ALIEN Page and CIACHO's alien website. Give them a look and tell them that AliensNL sent 'ya! All links can be found here.