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Contributor: Andrew Girdwood

Continuing the archive of independent Andrew Girdwood reporting (Archive Page 476).

Training like a superhero: Rugby site makes workout suggestions

May 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geeks can and do, look good. More importantly, it’s about health, not appearance, and health doesn’t happen by magic. We do have to work at it, and lots of geeks do.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: health

Black and Scottish: New Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa tells the BBC he once felt like the only black person in the world

May 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa has just been confirmed by the BBC as the next Doctor in Doctor Who. He’s already won Scottish BAFTA awards and is nominated for this year’s Best Male Performance in a comedy program.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: bbc, doctor who, jodie whittaker, Russell T Davies

Bad news burning

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Patrick Cheng is an artist and animator based in Chicago. They make a good point. [Via Instagram] Ha! We’ve been burning you witches ALL WEEK! Cheng draws @Cattrigger.Comics on Instagram, as well as the portfolio @CatTrigger.Official. There’s the official account as CatTrigger is also an Itch game-maker of visual novels and other low-cost games and […]

Filed Under: Comics

Xbox has been entered into The Scottish Register of Tartans

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The design was created by Gordon Nicolson, that’s the company behind the National Football team’s tartan.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: xbox

The Sustainable Gaming Forum launches Lunar Echos art & print fund

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games include the titular Lunar Echos, Babel, the Floria and Lost Eons. If all goes well; David Blandy’s Lunar Echos will upgrade to recycled paper and perhaps even hardcover.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, itchfunding

Audio EXP: #147 – The tabletop RPG trademark

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What happens when a new tabletop games publisher lands several movie franchise deals at once? Are we ready for a $17m-funded new virtual tabletop? It’s the Audio EXP podcast.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: audio exp, geek native, podcasts

The Heart of Fire faces a tricky conversion from D&D 4e to 5e

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original approach to the dungeon was specially designed with 4e in mind, and each room was its own self-contained encounter. D&D 5e has a very different style.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Darklight Interactive, dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Geeky content still rules: JustWatch’s April streaming charts

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Meanwhile, it seems to mixed fortunes of the latest Fantastic Beasts hasn’t hurt the previous movies in the series with both returning to the top 10 in the UK.

Filed Under: TV

The world below: Made in Abyss second season trailer

May 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sentai Filmworks anime based on Akihito Tsukushi’s Made in Abyss is setting a second series, and a slight rejig of the crew.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: trailers

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #151

May 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly RPG news wrap-up from Geek Native and other tabletop hobby blogs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, one more multiverse, routinely itemised, rpg research, wizards of the coast

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