Berin Kinsman, aka UncleBear, has shuttered the RolePlayMedia Network. The site was a community for RPG bloggers, pocasters, YouTube hosts and their audience. The goal of the network was to be more than an aggregator of feeds – to be a community. The network was powered by Ning and while neither this blogger nor this […]
Archives for May 2011
Torchwood Miracle Day Trailer – for UK
As it happens the trailer for Starz’ Torchwood series starter “Miracle Day” as been out for a while. It’s just that all the video clips from the once-BBC owned Doctor Who spin-off were geo-tarded so that no one outside the US (or at least, no one inside the UK) could view it. I have a […]
Free to Download: Footprints
Footprints is a comic from Joey Esposito and Jonathan Moore. In it we get to follow Bigfoot as a noir style private eye; investigating a strange message from Yeti. The comic is one of the next generation of publications. You can read the first issue for free below and then if you like what you […]
Dr Who: Day of the Moon done in Lego
Did you enjoy Doctor Who’s Day of the Moon? Was it too confusing? Was it anti-American? Who is River Song? Would you be able to re-construct the prison scene using Lego and minifigs? Master Lego builder Legoagogo is able to answer that last question with a yes. Here’s a very clever couple of Lego scenes […]
Mobile Review: Samsung Galaxy Ace
When I was a boy countless books, films and television shows depicted the 21st century as being full of technological innovations such as flying cars and robot servants. So far these haven’t come to pass (to any significant degree anyway) but that’s not to say technology hasn’t been advancing in the right direction. Computers have […]
Dragon Age RPG: Set 2 opens for pre-order
The tabletop version of Dragon Age has expanded to a second set and publishers, Green Ronin, are now taking pre-orders. The first set as been well recieved by gamers and primarily deals with characters between experience levels 1 and 5. In other words; those Dragon Age heroes who are just starting out. The second set […]
Is Slave Leia real?
The first of these two pictures were surfaced by the native geeks of Reddit. There were three things the community liked about the picture; the sexy slave Leia, Boba Fett and the fact these were pretty much duct tape costumes. As is common the cries of “faked!” and “shopped!” soon started to rise to the […]
Joey Esposito interview: Footprints
Joey Esposito is a respected name in the comic world. He’s currently the Comics Editor at IGN Entertainment and has a past that features positions such as Comics Editor at CraveOline and contributor to the likes of Broken Frontier. Esposito also has a history in internet marketing, working out strategies to promote products and services […]
Anthrobots: Steampunk insects built from bullets
Some geeky creations are so great that they count as art. Step up artist Tom Hardwidge and the anthrobots. You can’t buy these via an ecommerce system yet but you can email Tom and discuss a commission. Clicking on any of these will open a larger image. There are, of course, more on Tom’s site […]
