Hawaii have issued a press release to announce that Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer and a certain Jonny Depp will be filming Pirates of the Caribbean 4 there. I guess it is big news for Hawaii. The news comes from Governor Linda Lingle. She’s had meetings with Bob Iger, who holds both CEO and Chairman position at […]
Archives for January 2010
Phone sheep
I’ve often suspected people are rather sheep like when it comes to buying mobile phones. What’s popular? What did you buy? I’ll have that too. It’s a side effect of tech becoming fashion. Over at This Blog Rules we have an altogether different type of phone sheep. Old fashioned phones, these ones, with twisty cords […]
Games Workshop pleases the bankers
We were expecting good news from Games Workshop and, today, we get it with their official statement. The company has more than doubled its profits. They’ve gone from £3m in profit previous two quarters to £7.9m in the last two. Successful license deals are partially to credit here. Money from royalties rose from £0.5m to […]
War of Legends launch video
Geek Native is lucky enough to have scored a sneak peak at the War of Legends opening video. War of Legends is the latest and rather exciting strategy game from Jagex. If the name Jagex doesn’t immediately ring bells then the name RuneScape surely will – Jagex created that. We’ve already got some War of […]
A ninja unboxing of the Nexus One
Google’s got the cash to splash on a bit of viral marketing. Viral marketing is always tricky. You can’t force something to be viral. You have to do your best to produce something catchy and then hope the enough of the rest of the web agrees. How well do you think they’ve done here? By […]
Avatar letting Ubisoft down? Rethink needed
The film Avatar is doing exceptionally well. It picked up some Golden Globes last night and now people are even talking about it as an Oscar contender – and it’s still a sci-fi game. The problem may be with the Avatar computer game. The one created by Ubisoft. The one that cost the French games […]
Tobey Maguire to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?
The internet is awash with speculation today that former Spider-man actor Tobey Maguire has signed to play Bilbo Baggins. British tabloid The Sun broke the news. They say that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson have been after him for months as both saw him as perfect for the role. The paper, which doesn’t like […]
Star in Supernatural series five – win the Lucifer is Coming game
UK TV channel Living TV not only has the exclusive rights to air series 5 of the show it is launching a game to promote it. Guilty secret: I quite like Supernatural. I’m sure it was the tagline “making scary sexy” that caught my attention although they’ve kinda let that go; haven’t they? I’m miles […]
Final Fantasy: Fortress – the game that didn’t make it
Previously on Geek Native I’ve covered the speculation that Square Enix would consider letting a Western development house have a crack at Final Fantasy. Now; according to info a blog at Livedoor has turned up that’s already been and gone. Although there’s nothing stopping Square Enix from trying again, indeed, they seem keen. From what […]
Transparent wall technology to save lives
This could be filed in the “is it a send up?” folder but you’ve got to give credit to New Scientist; they explain the concept clearly. Bonus points for mentioning super powers too. Video and projection technology deployed to let drivers see “through” walls and therefore be aware of any potential trouble around the corner.
