The American tradition of getting the shopping done and big discounts on this Friday has come over to the UK. It’s not the first time British retailers have tried but the 2014 Black Friday sales in the UK are the biggest yet. The question is; are there any geeky deals? If you find any great […]
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GAME goes Christmas crazy – Christmas sweaters on offer
What might you expect GAME to do this Christmas? It survived financial disaster and enjoyed a “Raise Dead” spell being cast on it. There’s even a GAME store in my local shopping centre. Did you expect them to line up a range of Christmas game jumpers? There’s a whole collection and seem to be pretty […]
Listen to The Dragons of Dorcastle
The Dragons of Dorcastle is an Audible exclusive. It’s written by Jack Campbell the author of the excellent military sci-fi series The Lost Fleet. Two Great Guilds control the world of Dematr; the Mechanics and the Mages. The only thing that the two guilds agreed on – the world must not change. Now a Storm […]
Gamer conjures Dice Tower from abandoned toy
This “Build and Paint Knight’s Castle” was an unused gift. Gamer Pallandor points out that the maker’s didn’t even have enough faith in their product to see the finished product. The castle on the box looks kinda crap. As it happens; Pallandor had another idea. Could this model become a handy dice tower for a […]
Competition: Win The Killing Time
The Killing Time is a novel set in the universe of the TV series Grimm. Follow Hank Griffin and Nick Burkhardt, two police detectives in Portland, as they are called to track down a missing person. The cops soon discover that a strange creature is stalking the streets, able to dissolve a victim with just […]
Gamers versus Models for life after the apocalypse
I’ll admit to have been guilty of pro-gamer apocalypse thoughts. I figured that in the event of surviving an apocalypse that gamers, traditional tabletop roleplayers, would be good to people to associate with. Why? Roleplayers tend to have a wide knowledge of tips, tricks and tactics when it comes to weird situations, survival and travel. A […]
Player Piano Indiegogos for great geeky piano music
Player Piano is responsible for one of my favourite YouTube creations of the year. They covered the Akira theme so well. Now they’ve given us a Tetris cover and asked for Indiegogo support. [Back this Campaign] This is a flexible funding so Player Piano don’t need to hit their target of $60,000 to cash in. […]
The cosplay highlights: NEKOCON 2014
Can you find yourself in this video? Beat Down Boogie maintain their busy video schedule. Nekocon has produced another crop of individual cosplay – and credit to the fans who push the bar up every year – but some great group cosplay ideas too. Santa meets Attack on Titan? You can peak at more pictures […]
Create your own monster mythos with Silent Legions
Silent Legions is a sandbox RPG from Kevin Crawford that offers GMs with the toolkit they need to create their own Lovecraftian style alien gods. At the time of writing it is nearly 300% funded. You can check out more on Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] Silent Legions will offer tools for creating black sorcery and […]
The ultimate history of card games [infographic]
This infographic suggests that card games can be traced back to China and between 618 AD to 907 AD. Baccarat appears around about the 1400s as an early gambling game and we don’t get Solitaire or Patience until about the 1700s in Europe. Rummy and Gin Rummy are American inventions as is the Joker card […]
