Riyahd Cassiem is a freelance concept artist who teaches at 3D World Magazine. His art ranges from stoic sci-fi to scary fantasy. Great model sculpts? Sure. He does those too! There are a few places to check out his work online. He’s generous on Facebook, shares often to DeviantArt and publishes themed bundles to Behance.
Articles by Andrew Girdwood
Recently, Andrew Girdwood has been covering topics like Art, Tabletop & RPGs, and Geek Stuff for Geek Native.
Glorantha’s Khan of Khans conquers Kickstarter
The nature of the beast means there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Kickstarter’ but Khan of Khans is complete, just waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to finish before going to the printers, it has more than 300% of target in funds and is being managed by Chaosium. Check out the campaign page here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/khan-of-khans-family-game […]
Would you donate to charity via a videogame?
Research by the Charities Aid Foundation suggests 58% of computer gamers would be interested in donating to charity while they’re playing. This includes in-game purchases. As many gamers, 59%, said they’d be more likely to pay to remove ads if some of that cost went to charities. The research was done in conjunction with Gamestatix […]
Alexa, should I take Audible’s free trial?
Audible is an audio book company owned by Amazon. I’ve been stalking it for a while as a few author friends always seem to be so happy when they’ve a new credit to spend on a book there. Audible’s business model is neither purely a retailer like Amazon nor a subscription model like Spotify. It’s […]
Good Omens comes to TV
Amazon has greenlit the comedic apocalyptic series Good Omens based on Neil Gaiman’s and Terry Prachett’s book. Good Omens will only be available through Amazon Prime Video for most of the world. In the UK the BBC will broadcast the series after the premiere on Prime Video. The show will be set in 2018 when […]
Gorgeous handmade Milanese armour
This gorgeous Milanese armour is the work of Gutfran Workshop. It took nearly 3 months to craft and the result is a safe and durable set. Milanese armour is known for its renaissance style, in part, due to Flippo Negroli. Some consider him to be the best armour of all time. Gutfran’s design is far […]
Short film: The Lord Inquisitor
This film by Erasmus Brosdau is a labour of Warhammer 40K love. A few seconds into the short and you’ll see why its impressive. What we have is the first 8 minutes of a larger film called “The Lord Inquisitor”. Frankly, I think that Inquisitor is a bit of a sadist. This isn’t the first […]
Trying to use the loo at a LARP
Meanwhile at a LARP convention This clip was posted by Imgur user Chrisini. It seems to come from a larger video but the origin wasn’t shared. Do you know? If you’ve been to a large LARP before, the sort of thing that results in a bunch of gamers being locked away in a field, with […]
The Digital Games Studio from Wizards
Wizards of the Coast have been shuffling their deck. Chris Cocks, President of the company since last year, talked about some of these changes on the Magic: The Gathering community site. There are three main points he pulls out; The Digital Games Studio will focus on re-imagining digital version of WoTC games and includes the […]
This Dark Souls cosplay is fall down good!
This is the work of cosplayer Yeliz who is fast approaching 7,000 fans on Facebook. Yeah, Dark Souls fans – you’re right. This is Artorias. Impressively, Yeliz made this entire costume herself. The prop sword, however, comes from Destroyer Props who look very talented too. Via Sean Fallon at Fashionably Geek.
