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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 1692).

More Qualcomm, less GLaDOS in latest Pacific Rim trailer

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest Pacific Rim trailer comes to us via the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, and the chip maker Qualcomm. Guillermo del Toro, the director, turned up on stage for the tech comnpany to talk shop and show off what processing power can achieve these days. We’ve also been told that although you’ll hear the actual […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: glados, Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim, trailers

The lost art of Star Wars Taxidermy

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s wrong to hunt Bantha. Lovely animals. However, there was once a time when hunters would stalk the sands in search for the beasts. Those “prizes” are still around today in the form of taxidermy and often found with Wampa and Tauntaun. Here’s how you could display these heirlooms. Via Tauntr.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: star wars, wampa

New Year, New Game: Mutants & Masterminds Hero’s Handbook

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Want to try a new RPG this year? Gamers trying new games is good for the industry. If you like what you sample perhaps you’ll go on to support publishers and please your friends by buying some supplements. It can be expensive buying and testing new RPGs though and so, each year, DriveThru RPG holds […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, green ronin, Mutants & Masterminds, sales, Steve Kenson, superheroes

Beat zombie hordes and win Resident Evil prizes

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last month Geek Native looked at Resident Evil: Nemesis and Reisdent Evil: Code Veronica. These are two classic Resident Evil novels by S.D. Perry that have recently been re-printed (zombies never die). Here’s your chance to win a copy of each of them; two books for one competition. To enter you have to follow the […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, resident evil, zombies

New Year, New Game: Cold & Dark

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s how to make a good gaming start to the year – try a new RPG. One of the most significant sales of the year is on at DriveThru RPG today and runs up until the 14th. The “New Year, New Game” sale is designed to encourage gamers to try something new. There are over […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cold & Dark, drivethrurpg, horror, sales, sci-fi, Wicked World Games

Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’s Neonomicon banned from library

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Neonomicon, published by Avatar Press in 2010, was the first ever winner in the “Graphic Novel” category at the Bram Stoker Awards. The graphic novel has now been banned from one American library after a complaint from a parent. Their 14 year old daughter had managed to use an adult library card to get access […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Alan moore, Avatar Press, legal, occult

Zombie shoes

January 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yours from Amazon for $40.00 and 3 sanity points. Grab from Amazon for only $40.00 and 4 sanity points. The heels cost more in terms of sanity points because heels are a scary thing. They’re hard to walk in and probably bad for your feet. If you’re going to wear zombie heels then they’ll take […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fashion, zombies

Batman chess set

January 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a chess set for the dedicated fan – ideally, a Batman and chess fan. Sold by Noble Collection for $795.00 the set uses 50 LED lights, around the Gotham City cityscape underneath the surface. Figures include Batman, Robin, commissioner Gordon, Batgirl, The Joker, Catwoman and Riddler. The board itself measures 20 inches in […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: batman, chess

New Year, New Game: Corporation

January 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

It’s a new year so perhaps it is time to try a new RPG? One of the biggest sales at DriveThru RPG is designed to encourage you to do just that – to start a new game. The sale, New Year, New Game offers up to 40% on a whole range of core rules. Geek […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brutal games, corporation, drivethrurpg, sales, sci-fi

Giant map of roleplaying games

January 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This poster from Inkwell Ideas is a large map of roleplaying games. The RPG poster comes complete with a small set of monster stickers. The idea is to use to stickers to mark the games you’ve played and, therefore, your progress through the RPG dungeon. The games are divided by genre, so you pick an […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Inkwell Ideas, maps, rpgs

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