Halo Waypoint is designed to be a central hub for all your Halo activities on the Xbox and Xbox Live. This dashboard addition is there for Halo experts and fans. It’s a good way to make the expensive franchise and fantastic game even more sticky; it’ll be built in to your daily Xbox experience. We’ve […]
Archives for October 2009
Leo Burnett is the devil
Leo Burnett is an advertising agency named after their founder Leo Burnett. Burnett, once named in the 100 most influential people in the 20th century by Time magazine, was the advertising guru who invented such powerful icons as Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury Doughboy and the Jolly Green Giant. Leo Burnett was years ahead of this […]
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #10 Darth Vader
If you’ve not yet used a Vader mask for Halloween or for a prank then this upcoming Halloween gives you the chance to catch up. Cliche? No! Classic? Yes! There’s no doubt in my mind… Darth Vader makes it into the 12 Masks of Halloween! Can’t wait until the next mask appearing? Try a […]
Star Wars: Peter Serafinowicz in the Mos Eisley re-edit
Peter Serafinowicz was the voice of Darth Maul. He’s appeared in Shaun of the Dead (long live Simon Pegg!), Spaced and even Black Books. Talk about geek cred! What we have here, via SciFiAssasin, is the famous Star Wars Mos Eisley scene with a re-edit of the audio via Mr Serafinowicz. It’s not safe for […]
Bayonetta looks cool
We’re going to have to wait until 2010 until Bayonetta‘s out (unless you’re in Japan) but it looks cooler and cooler with each teaser. The cosplay wonders were good, the screenshots better and now we can sample the ad campaign in Japan. The mighty Kotaku are rumouring that Japanese fan mag Famitsu will award Bayonetta […]
DnD 4e played on Microsoft’s Surface. The future today.
Folks – this is why there is a Geek Native. This is awesome. The Surfacescapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University could become gods among geeks if they’re able to push on and complete this project. What we have here is a proof of concept; a DnD 4e game (I could […]
DJ Hero ad
Got to admit – the ad for DJ is pretty cool. It’s just a problem that annoying jocks all like to think of themselves as DJ material. Geeks have to battle hard to keep the DJ title acceptable!
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #9 Marcus from Gears of War
The computer game masks are doing well this year. The 9th entry in the 12 Masks of Halloween is Marcus from Gears of War. The beauty of the gamer mask is that it’s an injoke. Does Marcus look spooky enough to work as a generic Halloween mask? Maybe not! People might wonder what you’re up […]
Phones4u ad pokes fun at LARPers, rips off Boxwars?
A recent TV ad from Phones4U suggests that people who dress up in homemade armour and whack each other with cardboard axes wouldn’t have enough friends to enjoy the popular tariffs. Does it? Kind of. The two combatants certainly aren’t traditional LARPers and resemble box carts more than anything else. Comments on one YouTube upload […]
Burning cities – fire guards
These fireplace guards from BBM are nothing short of ace. While keeping your kitten or toddler out of the fireplace… why not sit back and watch the city burn?
