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All or Nothing: A review of Ecko Endgame

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ecko Endgame is the final of the three Ecko novels from Danie Ware. Geek Native’s previously looked at the first book Ecko Rising and the second Ecko Burning and now, in the third, we discover whether our cyberpunk assassin is mad, trapped in the Matrix, fallen through a dimensional rift or caught in some hypotonic […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Cyberpunk, danie ware, fantasy, reviews

Generate your Simpsons memes with the Frinkiac

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’ll have seen one or two Simpsons memes on the internet, right? Homer vanishing into a bush. A d’oh or two. Frinkiac has collected 3 million screencaps from recorded episodes of the show. This is both a search engine and a meme generator. Want to find the episode when Bart sang “Beans, beans, the musical […]

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: humour, memes

Exclusive: Vessels design sketch – Dark Souls meets Inception

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vessels is the latest comic book project from Dave Cook. Cook’s already proven he can deliver by Kickstarting the post-apocalyptic Bust but now he’s promising a Dark Souls meets Inception inspired fantasy. You can find details of the new project on the Kickstarter campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bust/vessels-issue-1 [Back this Campaign] Geek Native has an exclusive copy […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dave cook, fantasy, kickstarters

Amazon’s Echo can now play Spotify

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

You can now walk into a room, say “Alexa play Spotify” and Amazon’s internet of things offering to the smart home will obey your instruction. Okay, you need to be in the US and need to have a Spotify Premium account. Alexa’s new integration supports Spotify Connect so you can transfer and control the listening […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: amazon

Transformer Valentine’s Day cards

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

We’ve already been lucky enough to look at some of James Stowe’s Star Wars Valentine’s Day cards. This is another Valentine’s Day set but deals with robots in disguise instead. Stowe is behind the Sidekick Quests webcomic and if you fancy owning some of his art you should check out the Sidekick Quests store. In […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: James Stowe, Transformers, valentine's day

Short film: The Last Man

February 4, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A solider wakes up when his stasis pod runs out of power and discovers he’s missed the war. Gavin Rothery’s short film, 20 minutes long, is expertly told and presented. There isn’t a whole load of dialogue as Richard Glover’s sergeant Jacab Stanton is left to explore what’s left of the city after the war. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: apocalyptic, short film

Dragon Ball Z’s Bulma cosplay

February 3, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I didn’t think it would be possible to do a good Bulma cosplay. I thought you’d wind up with a woman in white t-shirt and cyan wig. Hardly cosplay. I was wrong. Cosplayer Stephanie Murphy has done a fantastic job with this costume and the pose. This really does remind me of Bulma. The photographer […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, dragon ball, dragon ball z

Star Wars Valentine’s Day cards

February 3, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

James Stowe is a freelance illustrator who’s named might appear on some of your horror RPGs. Back in 2010 he wanted to make something for his son and his kingergarten class so he came up with this great set of Peanuts inspired Star Wars Valentines. The result? These are cute and funny postcards for any […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: James Stowe, Jedi, star wars, valentine's day

Jay Gunn’s Surface Tension gets ready to break

February 3, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jay Gunn’s Surface Tension was picked as one of the best mini-series in 2015 by Comic Book Resources. Now Titan Comics has picked up the creator-owned collection and it’s easy to see why the title caused a stir. The 192-paged softcover will be on sale from February 10th. That’s a date where 99% of humanity […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: previews, titan comics, trailers

Do you want more dark and gritty sci-fi on TV?

February 2, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Are you watching any sci-fi shows on TV these days? Perhaps the new Star Trek series has you curious? Mid-way through last year, Geek Native had a copy of Jack Campbell’s Jag in Space: A Just Determination to giveaway and ran a quick poll to find a winner. To enter the competition readers simply had […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: sci-fi, stats

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