Neil Gaiman has a special place in the hearts and minds of many geeks. It’s perhaps not that much of a surprise to discover he’s been invited to speak at the Googleplex for the great search engine’s engineers. It’s all on YouTube. If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan and have over an hour spare then […]
Archives for January 2010
Dark Matter speculates with Audhum
Dark Matter Studios have branched out from their respected Epic RPG to produce Audhum. The Audhum RPG, written by Chris Organ, is set in a land that’s just at the dawn of its own Iron Age. The game focuses on the tribes and early city states of humans as they grow, explore and struggle against […]
Tasty skull cake looks tasty
Today’s discovery of a tasty looking skull cake comes to Geek Native via the fine ad agency copywriters bloggers of Badder Homes & Gardens. I think a good test of guests is to offer them skull cake. “Cool” means they can stay. “Eeew!” means they get shown the door.
Alien dragon hidden in Iron Man 2 Easter Egg
Fin Fang Foom is an alien from the world of Kakaranthara (aka Maklu IV). He, and fellow alien dragons, set out to find worlds to conquer and landed in ancient China. Unlike his colleagues, Foom entered a state of hibernation. The suggestion is that these dragon-like aliens are responsible for much of the Chinese dragon […]
Brink’s detailed character generation options
As a gamer with a traditional background – I started on pen’n’paper RPGs before consoles could touch the genre, er, before consoles – I’m a sucker for a solid character generation / customisation. This video from Bethesda (Fallout) show cases the character customisation in the forthcoming game Brink. You can tell it’s a feature they’re […]
The Wild Hunt – LARP gets sexy, nasty
Mazes and Monsters the first movie I watched which featured gaming in it. The anti-table top film pretty much confirmed my believe in the awesomeness of the hobby. In Mazes and Monsters the victim character lost the ability to tell the game from reality. In Wild Hunt it looks like the victims have no choice […]
Cool posters for gamers
The Geek Native inbox picked up a press release from a site called Causally Hardcore about a whole bunch of gamer posters they’ve designed. I think they’re worthy of some attention! I especially like the zombie ones.
UFOSpotter84, a UFO sighting in the UK and… Celebrity Big Brother?
Here’s a bit of a mystery. Is there a connection between a YouTube upload called UFO sighting UK, a Twitter account run by UFOspotter84 and the latest Celebrity Big Brother. The YouTube video and the Twitter account are clearly connected. The user who uploaded the UFO video is called UFOSpotter and the Twitter account may […]
New Lord of the Rings RPG on the way: The One Ring
Hot off the success of The Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space Roleplaying Game – which was the highest ranked RPG according to Diamond in December – Cubicle 7 have another simply breathtaking license. Is Lord of the Ring the Holy Grail of fantasy RPGs? Sure; it’s been done before but it seems certain […]
Helping Haiti Bundle – gamers to the rescue
DriveThruRPG have an absolutely magic – no brainer – deal on the go. The gamer community have been awesome and put together a bundle that contains hundreds over products and worth over $1,000.00 in recommend retail value. In fact, it’s worth nearly $1,500. It’s yours for a tiny donation of a mere $20. The $20 […]
