Buy from TeeFury here. Gosh. Golly. Alien chomp bitey! TeeFury really are going out with their new ShoeFury program. You wait months for a pair of geeky shoes and then a small march of them come along at once. “Alien Rage” is designed by Orlando Arocena who hadn’t been active on the site before and […]
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Andrew Girdwood has been hard at work writing Geek Stuff, Comics, and Tabletop & RPGs articles for you.
Diamond Gem Awards winners announced
The Gem Awards are run by Diamond Comic Distributors in the States, working with comic book speciality retailers and recognised across the industry. It’s not just comic book retailers that are in the running – the Gem Awards looks at toy manufacturers and game makers. 2014 Diamond Gem Award Suppliers of the Year 2014 Comic […]
Roll20’s gaming report shows Dungeons & Dragons boom
Last October The Orr Group, makers of Roll20, released a report which sparked plenty of healthy conversation. It said that Pathfinder was the single most popular RPG in the system but when you added up the editions that the D&D collective came top. At the time Pathfinder was represented in 27% of games and 44% […]
Deal alert: More than 75% off The One Ring RPG bundle!
Geek Native’s reviewers have been enjoying Cubicle 7’s The One Ring RPG series. Ed’s review of Rivendell is just the latest in a series of positive coverage. So why as it taken me so long to spot this cracking deal? This bundle has “NYNG” in the title, I translate that as “New Year, New Game” […]
Competition: Reckoners bundle!
The second book in Mistborn author Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series, Firefight, is published today. This giveaway is a chance to win Firefight in hardcover and the first book in the series, Steelheart, in paperback. Reckoners is a new twist on superheroes. In Steelheart we’ve a world tens years after the event known as “Calamity”. When […]
Retractable whiteboard for tabletop melee battles
Some gamers use blackboard tablets, plastic covered maps, tiles and other clever adaptations in order to have re-usable surfaces they can draw on and move minis around on. What about an actual whiteboard? Buy at Uncommon Goods. The whiteboard is made from plastic, paper and tyvek and rolls up. The screen is 9.5″ in length […]
New Year, New Game: Diving into the “mega module” Rise of the Drow
It’s a new year so perhaps it is time to refresh your game library? DriveThruRPG always helps with this by launching a big, 15% off, sale at the start of the month. There are over 200 RPGs in “New Year, New Game” sale and so plenty to pick from. With a huge 15% off which […]
Become a wizard? Runes: The Forgotten Path
They’re small and indie and I hadn’t heard of Stormborn Studio before or their project Runes: The Forgotten Path. A few seconds into the video and I was reminded of an old computer RPG from JoWood Productions called Arx Fatalis. In Arx you’re a spellcaster and you used your mouse to draw runes on the […]
On the Spot: Video game music
Tune in for Halo, Skyrim, Final Fantasy 7, BioShock and Chrono Cross. This video is done to support Player Piano’s Indiegogo campaign (backer link) and follows on from their “on the spot” jammin’ to Nintendo themes. It works like this: Tom plays clips of music to talented composer and pianist Sonya Belousova. Sonya then tries […]
Nerdgasm! Wait… she’s a girl
Buy from TeeTurtle. TeeTurtle do like their cute t-shirt designs. They do a lot of pocket animals and always manage to make them kawaii. I rather like this design though. Mega Man’s reaction to finding out that Metroid’s Samus Aran is a woman.
