Those lucky, blogger loving, scamps at Entertainment Week have got their hands on the first official pictures of one Mr Martin Freeman all dressed up as Bilbo Baggins. There is no official permission to share this Hobbit photograph but I can sense that both their editorial team and their legal department really want small, grass […]
Archives for June 2011
Curse down due to hardware; not Games Workshop
I don’t have a status update on the legal conflict between Curse and Games Workshop. Last year Games Workshop unleashed lawyers in response to Curse using the name Warhammer Alliance and making use of domain names like warhammeralliance.com. Curse and sites like mmo-champion.com, wowace.com and diablofans.com are currently down. This is not because of legal […]
DIY wooden dinosaurs with remote controls!
Remember those wooden dinosaurs you would build yourself fom plywood? You’d end up with skeletal structures but that was okay because you had been building skeleton dinosaurs all along! Could those wooden skeleton dinosaurs be any better? Imagine if they had motors and could be remote controlled. That’s right; you could have your home built […]
WizKids brings HeroClix online [pictures]
HeroClix is coming to the online world and the paid beta program opens today. WizKids teamed ip with Icarus Studios to create a game in which players take part in matches and tournaments on a virtual 3D tabletop. The paid beta makes use of HeroClix sets like “Hammer of Thor” and the “Fantastic Four starting […]
Nokia N9 – a quick summary
The Nokia N9 looks nice and I suspect it’ll appeal most to brave IT geeks who want to be different. The N9 runs on MeeGo. Nokia are currently rushing to get their WP7 handsets out to market. This is the first pure touch screen phone, according to Nokia, who point out there are no front-facing […]
Pottermore.com is a real life treasure hunt – hidden wands
The Times UK has been sent a memo by mistake that suggests (paywall) Pottermore.com is an online-offline game mashup. It’s a treasure hunt. We’ve seen these before; the website gives out clues to real life locations and may act as a community and scoreboard too. It’s thought that the preizes include magic Harry Potter wands […]
War in the North: Beleram
I’ve given War in the North plenty of coverage on Geek Native because it’s a Lord of the Rings game. The one franchise to rule them all. There’s been a common theme; heroes get in big strike, wonderful giant eagle swoops in and saves them. I was wondering whether this was a “call in an […]
Rise of Nightmares trailer
This blogger isn’t all that into horror games… well, except for anything Cthulhu flavoured, or perhaps BioShock and DeadSpace, so, erm, not really into horror games unless they’re touch with the holy goodness of RPGism. One of the reasons I struggle with some horror games is – even though I see it coming – I’ll […]
Mister Who interview
Mister Who is an ex-gang member turned karmic vigilante. It’s also a rich multimedia project involving comic books, music and even animation. The Mister Who team is involved in school workshops in the UK as part of a community outreach to youngsters. Geek Native has been lucky enough to score an interview with the creative […]
Pulp: A comedy movie about comics
Pulp is a British comedy being directed by Adam Hanmy, Shaun Magher, written by Bode Ode O’Toole and produced by Phil Bland, Matt Hubbard and Adam Hamdy. It features Jay Sutherland as Tony, Gavin Molloy as Rick and Simon Burbage as Keith. Okay, so I’m struggling to place all those names but there’s some money […]
