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Is this… what… a sexy robot calendar?

July 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t stumble across this every day. Andrei Feheregyhazi is thinking about 2018 already, in fact, he’s already working on a calendar for it. He calls it ‘sexy’ robots and has a Kickstarter campaign to collect your money. I’ll let you deside whether you’re saying ‘Cwor! Look at the nuts on him!’ after the video! […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: calendars, kickstarters, robots

Fighting Fantasy Legends launches

July 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tucked away in the English down of Lymm, in Cheshire, there’s a small team of veteran digital designers called Nomad Games. They’ve got their hands on the Fighting Fantasy license! Here’s what Steve Jackson had to say about that! We are proud to have been working with Nomad on Fighting Fantasy Legends. Throughout the development […]

Filed Under: Mobile, PC Tagged With: Fighting Fantasy, Ian Livingstone, Steam, steve jackson

Competition: Win a Game of Thrones pop-up mask

July 26, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How do you think Cersei Lannister would react if you had a Lannister lion’s head mounted on your wall? Or what would it be like to have an awesome dire wolf mask on as you toured Winterfell? What about becoming a White Walker? Geek Native has four pop-up books from Steve Wintercroft, the author and […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: competitions, dragons, game of thrones, masks

Should American Kickstarter projects support international shipping?

July 26, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Some RPG publishers are talking about a thorny issue again – supporting international backers on Kickstarter projects. It’s an expensive challenge and some are asking whether it makes any sense to accept international backers at all. The catalyst for the latest round of discussions is artist Bambi Wendt’s $70,700 “A Field Guide to: Dragons, Wyrms, […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dragons, kickstarters

Fantasy city map generator

July 26, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Show me this!] Here’s a great little tool if you want an instant fantasy city map made for your RPG. The free website will let you create a small town, large town, small city or large city. Hovering over the map lets you see the name given to a particular quarter – like docks, or […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: maps

A first look at at Queen Amanitore the Nubian leader in Civilization VI

July 25, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The official Civilization blog has revealed details about the leader of the Nubian faction. She is a Kandake (queen) called Amanitore. In real life, she was one of the great builders in the region between the Nile and Atabara. In fact, in the game, Nubia gets unique looking pyramids.  This warrior queen also gets unique […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: previews

Doomfist cosplay!

July 24, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Doomfist is an Overwatch character. I’m sure the Overwatch experts can tell us all about this character skills but as far as I understand of the backstory he’s a Nigerian heir to a prosthetic-technology company. He goes from goes from loosing an arm to becoming one hell of a badass! This incredible snap was shared […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay

The biggest titles at DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July sale

July 24, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Every year the online power house that is DriveThruRPG does a Christmas in July sale. Right now the site’s search engine has 37,874 items in the sale and most are at the 25% off. The landing page lists the hottest titles, those games people are snapping up, and we have Dresiden Files Accelerated leading the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, Misfit Studios, Modiphius Entertainment, sales

This guy has sold 1,000s of chainmail bikinis

July 24, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bill McCall of Utopia Armoury has turned his childhood hobby of working with chainmail into a job. Incredibly, when he was just 17 he built his own shop at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and dived feet first into chainmail commerce. You don’t need to travel all the way to Pennsylvania to buy Bill or Utopia […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: armour, Etsy, larp

The Doctor Who 2017 Christmas special trailer lands

July 23, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Look at those TARDIS. We’ve Peter Capaldi as 12 and David Bradley back doing his glourious work as 1. Long-time writer Mark Gatiss makes an appearance and, nice to see, the return of a certain companion. Are you looking forward to it? Or have you had enough of Who for a lifetime or thirteen?

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: christmas, david bradley, doctor who, first doctor, peter capaldi, trailers, Twelfth Doctor

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