It’s a round-up of mini anime reviews, notes on where you can buy the discs or watch the streams and an one line summary as to whether the series is recommended or not. What could this mean? It means it is Irregular Reconnaissance. You’re welcome to join in. If you’ve been watching an anime series […]
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Wizard of the Coast CEO resigns; replaced by Microsoft salesman
Greg Leeds resigned from his role as the CEO of Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast yesterday. He was thanked by John Frascotti the President of Hasbro Brands for his time at the company. Frascotti said; We are incredibly thankful to Greg for the tremendous contributions he has made to Hasbro, especially during his time leading […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #23
Here in the Irregular Reconnaissance column we share a quick round-up of recently watched anime titles. Old anime, new anime, bad anime or good anime; you’ll find them here – which will give you the best chance of avoiding the duds! Watched anything noteworthy yourself? Use the comment box below to share your own mini-reviews […]
Award winning orc cosplay
Steven K Smith makes props and cosplay at a professional level. This orc won the US Regional Championship at C2E2. Impressed? You can pop over to this Etsy store and browse sensibly priced cosplay props.
Dare you face this LEGO centaur knight?
This impressive work of art, made from LEGO, is the work of Nobu_Tary. The more unusual pieces you can see, the curves and slopes, are LEGO bricks from Constraction and Bionicle. It’s well worth checking out Nobu Tary’s Flickr stream for very many more excellent builds. Via Brothers Brick.
The art of character generation
This really happened to Christian Palmer-Smith. He spent hours on character gen and did end up with an Inquisitor with lipgloss!
Surreal: Humanity Has Declined
I wasn’t long into Humanity Has Declined before I realised this might be the anime equivalent is coming back from the dentist after an antithetic and where the world is a strange place. In the first few episodes we have fairies, featherless and headless intelligent chickens and paradogs created in response to time paradoxes. The […]
Catch up with WonderCon and this cosplay music video
Sneaky Zebrea went to WonderCon 2016 and put together one of their tightly shot cosplay videos. There’s a strange sweet spot for these cosplay videos. You need to see enough quality cosplay, matched with a catchy tune but it’s very easy to add too much and make the video repetitive. Sneaky Zebra are good at […]
Unknown Armies is a Kickstarter hit
A new edition of the modern occult RPG has been raking in the funds on Kickstarter. Atlas Games asked for $40,000 to fund Unknown Armies 3 and at the time of posting the project has 27 days to go, over 1,300 backers and more than $130,000 in pledges. You can watch the campaign here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlasgames/unknown-armies-third-edition-roleplaying-game […]
Behold this incredible Iron Man Xenomorph
This impressive Iron Man meets Alien Xenomorph is the work of Samkwok Workshop. It’s based on the Mark 43 Iron Man and, of course, Alien. (Via Geek Tyrant.)
