I’ve helped myself to one or two of the new Barratt monster sweets over the last few weeks. Or has it been months? I think there are four different ones in total. Here’s my collection. Have I missed any? One note of caution. I can’t claim to have any photography skills at the best of […]
Archives for October 2010
RuneQuest II’s Vikings RPG preview
Mongoose have published a complete setting and backgrond book for RuneQuest II called Vikings. The game looks at viking myths but also influenced by historical truths. Here’s a quote from the free preview. Hunting Another unusual aspect of Viking culture is their approach to hunting. Although respected as a valued skill, hunting is not entertainment […]
Awesome True Grit trailer
Fan of the Coen Brothers? If you enjoyed Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski or No Country for Old Men then you are. True Grit is their 2010 project. It’s a grim Western that stars Jeff Bridges as Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn. That’s the character John Wayne played in the 1969 […]
Watch before it’s YouTube Yanked: English Dub Iron Man anime
The Madhouse production of an anime version of Iron Man has been long teased. We’ve seen snippets and trailers. Now we’ve got the whole first episode, in two parts, available on YouTube. You’ve got to figure that these two vids will be yanked under YouTube’s Claim Your Content policy fairly quickly. So? Watch them now […]
Song: Twin Suns of Tatooine
It’s been too long since we’ve seen a good Star Wars stop motion. Step forward the Twin Suns of Tatooine as a funky stop motion video for a soothing Star Wars song. Everything I know I’ve learnt from the Twin Suns of Tatooine. Our songsmith is Jeremy Messersmith who should now sit back and enjoy […]
Pi Necklace – accurate to 100th decimal place
I like the look of this and I like the 100% geek factor in this necklace. This works for me because we know people will comment on the necklace. They’ll ask questions like “Are those numbers?” “They’re Pi!” “What do they mean?” “Pi!”. And so on! Until you end up sounding like Weebl and Bob. […]
New Dirk Gently’s Holistic Dectective Agency series coming
The BBC will be showing a new Dirk Gently Holistic Dectective Agency series. It’ll show on BBC Four. Fans of Fisfits, Vexed and Merlin will be interested to know that Howard Overman, who writes for all three, is responsible for the adaptation of the famous Douglas Adams’ novel. Dirk Gently will be played by Stephen […]
Hasbro brings NERF guns to Splinter Cell: Conviction
When I’m not being my geeky self here on Geek Native I get to my geeky self in a digital marketing company. Sometimes I get to hear about pretty cool digital marketing campaigns. This is such an example; Hasbro has teamed up with Xbox 360 to run an in-game treasure hunt across Splinter Cell: Conviction, […]
Paizo’s 13 real world Venture-Captain coordinators
Paizo Publishing has appointed 13 people as points of contact for coordinating Pathfinder Society events. These regional coordinators will be known as Venture-Captains and have the task of overseeing specific locations, local organisers and helping out with the Pathfinder Society. The Pathfinder Society is the organised play arm for the Pathfinder RPG. Hyrum Savage, Marketing […]
Project Space Planes
Samsung really want to convince the world that their SD cards are worth paying attention too. In particular, they want to show you how indestructible they are. They’ve previous form here on Geek Native as this video that features a shark attack shows. The current plan is to make use of a weather balloon to […]
