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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 1637).

The Axis of Awesome channel nerd anger with “Rage of Thrones”

March 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Not Safe for Work lyrics. Unless your work is cool. The Axis of Awesome channel righteous nerd rage with this Game of Thrones “tribute” song. I think tribute is the right word. I’ve seen this played life and, I must say, it’s a lot less angry. They must have to practise that or perhaps the […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: game of thrones, George R. R. Martin

A review of Shattered Moon

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shattered Moon is a roleplaying game from Broken Tower and Tim Westhaven. Westhaven is both author and artist on the game, given that the book is 320 pages of colourful art and clever text the project must have been a labour of love. Shattered Moon makes use of the FateStorm VRS. That’s the FateStorm Virtual […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, Broken Tower, horror, reviews

Monica Valentinelli on the difference between the Firefly RPG and the Serenity RPG

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monica Valentinelli is a game designer, writer, and consultant who will have responsibility on Margaret Weis Productions recently announced Firefly RPG line as both a writer and brand manager. Valentinelli has worked on “All Flesh Must Be Eaten”, “Ninja Burger”, “Strange, Dead Love,” and Posthuman’s Studio’s “Rimward” among others. She was the Marketing Director for […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cortex, firefly, firefly rpg, Joss Whedon, Margaret Weis, Margaret Weis Productions, Monica Valentinelli, sci-fi, Steve Jackson Games

The Whispermen and the Clara Oswald mystery

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In an interview with Hollywood.com Steven Moffat has said the Clara Oswald mystery will be wrapped up soon. “You will uncover the mystery of Clara in the next eight episodes,” “All will be made clear. You’ll get your answer.” As Shaunna Murphy of Hollywood this will avoid convoluted mysteries like the death of the Doctor/River […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswald, clara oswin, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman, Mark Gatiss, matt smith, River Song, steven moffat

J. Michael Straczynski partners with the Wachowskis for Sense8

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix continues its clever strategy of creating its own content and has branched out to sci-fi. The company has appointed J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah) with the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy) for a sci-fi series called Sense8. It’ll be a part 10 series described as “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls […]

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: J. Michael Straczynski, netflix, sci-fi

Deaths

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Another instant winner from Arthur Mask. The piece is called “Deaths” and was first published at his Deviant Art gallery.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: monsters

Metal monsters

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These fantastic metal creatures are the work of Metal Morphoses an artist from Greece.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dinosaurs, monsters

The traditional Easter facehugger bunny

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An Easter tradition is now to share this famous facehugger image. Geek Native carefully kept it from last year, waiting 360 days for it to be topical again and new to some… but, as Easter rolls back around, so does this image! Happy Easter. Happy random facehuggers from Easter egg attacks.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: aliens, easter eggs

Raven cosplay

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Rather stylish Raven cosplay. This Raven looks to be the latter form Raven, certainly not White Raven or the Teen Titan. The cosplayer is Gillykins and the photograph is at MegaCon 2013.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, raven

The Kraken plays chess

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There different ways to play chess. If you’re a giant silvered octopus then how’s this for an approach?

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: chess, monsters

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