In Tunisia there is a small city called Tataouine – although you can spell it in many ways. It sports fortified granaries used by the local Berbers and looks like something from a fantastic film set. As it happens George Lucas used the area of Ksar Oueled Soltane for The Phantom Menance. It’s certainly not […]
Archives for July 2011
Munchkin Axe Cop trailer video
You read the title right. There is a Munchkin Axe Cop mashup coming. There is a trailer video for it. How’s this for a concept? There are monsters. Lots of them. Axe Cop has an axe. He cuts the heads off these monsters. I know. It’s a challenge to get your head around. It may […]
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine trailer
Got a video update for THQ’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine game. This is a 3rd persion shooter from Relic using Games Workshop’s popular franchise. We’ve got Orks, Chaos as the Space Marines. They all seem to have soft, Southern English accents – which seems odd to me! Disclaimer; this blogger is Scottish, geography dictates that […]
Stormtroopers now legal: Courts defeat Lucas
Back in the day Andrew Ainsworth was the prop designer who made the original Stormtrooper outfits. This did not make him a rich man. He got £20 per helmet and £385 per suit of armour. In 2009 Ainsworth was confronted by a lawsuit from Lucasfilm– who are very good with their Jedi lawyers – who […]
18 fantastic Comic-Con cosplayers who were Born This Way
This is a lip-dub of Lady Gaga’s infamous Born this Way. I imagine there are about a million of these videos on YouTube already. This one, however, is special. It’s great. I love it. This video shows what good sports geeks are. We’re up for a laugh. We’ll play along (well; when we’re not being […]
A real life Wall-E
This is a bit of fantastic engineering skill and geek credit. DJ Sures has made use of the EZ-Builder Robot Control Software and the EZ-B Robot Controller to turn a toy Wall-E into a real Wall-E. The video is well worth a watch. A demo at the start and with a build towards the end. […]
Rocking teaser clip for Star Wars: The Old Republic
EA have released a new advert for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s a set of clips, 30 seconds of The Old Republic goodness, that seem to fly by at light speed. There’s no doubting the success of The Old Republic and Knights franchise. Just taking a gander at Play.com’s matches for Old Republic reveal […]
The Legend of Korra trailer
I enjoyed the first book of the Avatar series and haven’t seen any more yet. Never got around to the movie simply due to being busy and all the negative reviews telling me it wasn’t worth the drama of trying to find some time for it. The show has clearly moved on. It looks like […]
The Avengers Assembled panorma
As suspected – the character posters that Marvel has been releasing for the forthcoming Avengers movie fit together. The result is a super long panorama. Whereas panoramas aren’t the best shape for most computer screens it is hard to deny how cool this one looks. The final piece was the Hulk; who really had to […]
Batman: Hush Unwrapped Deluxe Edition review with art
At the end of the month a special edition of Batman: Hush becomes available. This is an impressive publication of one of the great Batman stories. Written by Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween) and drawn by Jim Lee in his stunning pencil work, Batman: Hush has to battle with an unknown enemy who seems […]
