This Princess Leia Organa is from the animated Star Wars series. Here we can find her, alongside Salacious Crumb, as Jabba’s slave. That’s right, it’s the famous metal bikini Princess Leia. The statue is made by Gentle Giant and thefore sold by the humoursly named Giant Busts in the UK. Giant tell us that “This […]
Archives for January 2011
Advanced Fighting Fantasy and Out of the Pit re-released
Arion Games have teamed up with Cubicle 7 to bring us that old stalwart of introductory RPGs – Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Advanced Fighting Fantasy was the roleplaying game that evolved from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone‘s famous solo adventure Fighting Fantasy series of books. The new version of Advanced Fighting Fantasy is due out in […]
Star Wars Bookends: The Mos Eisely Cantina in your home
These bookends are awesome. Then again, at nearly $500 from Amazon, you’d hope they’d be mega awesome. If you fancy one and you’re in the UK then Giant Busts (what a name!) is the ony supplier. The cost? Currently, £225. They’re sold by a vendor called Gentle Giant and rather frustratingly their site seems to […]
Virgin Media customers to miss out on Game of Thrones
Update: In the UK Now TV offer contract free access to Game of Thrones. Sky are launching Sky Atlantic, a new channel, and sinking quite a bit of their famous advertising budget into it. Sky Atlantic will be the home of the HBO produced content that Sky’s splashed the cash to purchase. Trailers for the […]
In the Dark: Wil Wheaton movie by Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker has a host of comic book awards; loads of Esiner (best writer for Captain America, Daredevil, Criminal, etc), a few Harvey Awards (Best Writer), Prism and others. Brubaker has teamed up with Wil Wheaton to give In the Dark. It’s a movie. Um. It has Will Wheaton in it. The “Basement Gang, Inc” […]
Blackbeard’s actual sword+2 found
Ah, okay, Blackbeard’s actual sword may not have been a +2 magic sword. However, over at Time over 6,000 people have Facebook liked the news of the discovery and that suggests to me that Edward Teach’s sword has some power. Edward Teach – better known as Blackbeard – was one of the first pirates to […]
Keep Anime Alive
Run by the Anime Defense Project, Keep Anime Alive is trying to sustain the industry by proving that fans will buy anime rather than only download illegal copies. The two masterminds attempting to pull this off are Colin Harvie and Chris Perry. They should be thanked and we should accept it’s early days for these […]
Kinect controlled robot – the first Kinect controlled model?
This video is frightfully impressive. This is all the work of a hobbyist and V-Sido software, which, if you want, you can get here. As you watch this video think about the robot’s balance. It simply isn’t falling over despite leaning quite some distances in some of the Kinect-powered poses. It’s impressive stuff. This particular […]
Ian Livingstone cashes in again as RockYou buys Playdemic
RockYou, the social gaming company made famous and successful by Facebook, has bought the Manchester based Playdemic. The future looks good for Playdemic. They purchase means they’ll have heavy targets to meet and probably a change of working but this acts as one heck of a “save point” for the company. In addition, RockYou are […]
Steampunk USB stick
There comes a time when you need to draw attention to yourself and your geek cred at the start of any business meeting. The laptop has fired up. The projector is on and you’ve engaged in the F8 battle to ensure the contents of the laptop screen is successfully being shown on the projector’s screen […]
