January 18th, 2008

09:26 am

FlamesRising.com will probably be on/off most of today.

We found a few links and tags that need some work. When it does get fixed, we've got tons of new reviews. Stuff like Neil Gaiman’s “Two Plays for Voices”, Dr. Strange, Ironside, Changeling: the Lost, In the Serpents Coils and quite a few more.

I'm working on some new interviews, some new fiction and other fun stuff is in the works.

09:33 pm
Gamer uses virtual training to save lives

Player of America's Army used in-games techniques in a rescue situation.

By Ben Silverman

Think playing video games is little more than a great way to waste time? Then you haven't met Paxton Galvanek. Last November, the twenty-eight year-old helped rescue two victims from an overturned SUV on the shoulder of a North Carolina interstate. As the first one on the scene, Galvanek safely removed both individuals from the smoking vehicle and properly assessed and treated their wounds, which included bruises, scrapes, head trauma and the loss of two fingers.

More at the link above...