Okay, it was pretend centaur cosplay… but still, cool response from da law.
What does one life matter? Torment: Tides of Numenera kickstarts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ [Back this Campaign] Planescape: Torment was awesome. The buzz when “Numenera: Torment” was announced was very loud indeed. Today the inevitable has happened the team up Brian Fargo and Monte Cook has launched on Kickstarter. The game is called Torment: Tides of Numenera and it’s asking for $900,000. $900,000 is a lot. While I […]
10 reasons to support International #TableTopDay
Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry have nominated March 30th to be International Tabletop Day and are asking gamers to support it. Not sure? Here’s 10 reasons why it’s a good idea. 1. You’ll be supporting local businesses This is a great chance for local businesses to attract gaming geeks into the store. This a chance […]
Princess Bride and Jack the Giant Slayer mashup
What a clever idea. You see the Princess Bride. You hear trailer clips from Jack the Giant Slayer. The fact that they fit so well is, in part, thanks to André the Giant being so awesome in Princess Bride. This piece of video stitching was done by Lance Ford who put together the The Hobbit […]
Regulators clear Activision Blizzard over any Nuketown 2025 wrong doing
UK regulators have found that Activision Blizzard did nothing wrong in how they advertised and later handled the pre-order bonus of the Nuketown 2025 bonus map for Call of Duty: Black Ops II for the Xbox. The authorities received official complaints about the advertising which argued that the map had been withdrawn too soon after […]
Adorably evil Weeping Angel poppet
Lani, a true Doctor Who fan, has created this marvelous Weeping Angel poppet. I think poppet is a cross between plushy and puppet. The process is shared on Crafter.org and wasn’t as easy as it first looked. Lani wrote; I thought, “Hey Lani, this should be a piece of cake!!!…I mean, it is just one […]
Cthulhu Strikes Back
Like the design? At the time this blog post went live this Cthulhu versus the Deathstar design is a contender at Qwertee. You need to vote for it before it would see print. The designer is Simon Butlerart who more usually works on video game art, design and illustration services.
SEAL Team 666 review
While reading Seal Team 666 I twice described the book as “US SEALs battle demons”. The first time I did so the reaction was; “sounds awful”. The second time the response was; “my kind of book!”. Now I’m using the phrase again in this review. It fits. SEAL Team 666 is the story of an […]
UK trailer for Iron Man 3 is impressive
The UK trailer for Iron Man 3 gives a good idea of what the film will be like. We knew it would be a 70s style political thriller hiding in the skin of a superhero movie (at least according to Marvel) and that’s what this trailer seems to show. Hence the politics, the drama and […]
The new Monsters & Magic RPG fuels the Old School Renaissance fire
Mindjammer Press, co-founded by author Sarah Newton, has struck a deal with Chronicle City to print the new RPG Monsters & Magic. The deal very firmly rides the Old School Renaissance. The “OSR” is a nostalgia for the old style of RPGs, with a tighter focus on heroic dungeon adventures, quick character creation and game […]
