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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 1684).

Picture this… Vampire: The Masquerade LARP group adopts highway

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a highway in northern Virginia and it’s been adopted by a Vampire: The Masquerade LARP club. I think this is pretty cool though I’m not sure it follows the Masquerade very closely!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: larp, Vampire: The Masquerade

Win a copy of The Wyld Hunt

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In November Geek Native carried the news of Angus Abranson’s Chronicle City finding a sister publisher in Delta14. Delta14 will specialise in sci-fi, fantasy and RPG cross-overs. Peter Cakebread, author of the RPGs Clockwork & Chivalry and Airship Pirates, is on board with the project but the first author to publish with Delta14 is Gobion […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Angus Abranson, Chronicle City, competitions, delta14, Gobion Rowlands, Gunnar Roxen

Fan-made Robotech live action trailer

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There is no Robotech live action, that I’m aware of, but this juicy fan-made trailer shows you clearly what it might look like. There are certainly plenty of Robotech anime movies. Mankind uses technology claimed from a crashed alien starship to design mecha, transformable mechs, to help fight off not one – but three – […]

Filed Under: Anime, Movies, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fan movie, Palladium Books, Robotech, teasers, trailers

e20 RPG Kickstarter failure results in complaint to Texas State Attorney General

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Gary M. Sarli’s Game Design: “e20 System Evolved” Roleplaying Game successfully closed with $14,605 (asking $10,000) in March 2010. One backer pledged $1,500 and 27 others pledged $200 each out of a total of 148 backers. Kickstarter has been vitally important to the RPG landscape in recently months and there have been many successes. However, […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, legal

Link’s Triumph in animation

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shamoozal.com & GoNintendo.com have animated Link, from the Legend of Zelda, and his first ever boss fight. The animation is part of series 2 of “Read Only Memory”. In the YouTube comments we can see that some folk complained about Link’s hair – saying it should be darker, as it was in the original games, […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, Legend of Zelda, link, monsters, zelda

Short film: Catzilla

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Created by the Polish studio Platige Image, who worked on The Witcher 2 intro, Catzilla is designed to showcase their technical talent while not being boring. It succeeds. How would you describe the music, though? Ready to watch another? Click this teleport link and the site will pick a video at random.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: animation, Godzilla, sci-fi, short film

Short film: E.T.A.

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A fantastic animation, winning Best Animation Award at BreakPoint 2008 as well as best New Talent at the Aarhus Filmfestival in Denmark on the same year. Modelled and animated by Søren Andersen & Michael la-Cour, directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen and with music by Rasmus Kudahl Kaae Munch, E.T.A. is about Marvin. Marvin has a […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: aliens, animation, sci-fi, short film

Short film: Tempo

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Directed by Seth Worley, Tempo is a short film that shows the clever filmmaking and visual effects of redgiant.com. Scientists develop a device that can either slow down or speed up time/momentum for objects. Sort of. Discover another video by using this random teleport link.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: red giant, short film

Short film: The Sphere

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

By Nicholas Militello and with more information at the site The Sphere Movie this short film was made with a budget of about $13k. The team used a Canon DSLRs, a MacBook Pro and lots of experience. Militello did about 85% of the film’s VFX himself. In the not too distant future, Earth is occupied […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: sci-fi, short film

Doctor Who: 10 theories about Clara Oswald

January 2, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 83 Comments

This post discusses Clara Oswald. We think she’ll be the 11th Doctor’s next companion. There are no spoilers in this post, not unless you’ve not yet watched Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen, but there is lots of speculation. Some Clara Oswin Oswald factoids for you; On Clara’s gravestone her birth date is 23 […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: clara oswald, clara oswin, doctor who, Eleventh Doctor, first doctor, fourth doctor, Jenna Coleman, k-9, matt smith, Neil Gaiman, Ninth Doctor, Oswin Oswald, Second Doctor, steven moffat, Tenth Doctor, The Snowmen

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