This year’s Gen Con Indy has smashed previous attendance records. Compared to last year visitor numbers where up by 20%. Some 120,000 people went through the turnstile and nearly 37,000 were their for the “best four days in gaming”. Gameplay was up too. Organisers report that ticketed game sales were up 26% to over 250,000 […]
Archives for August 2011
Mass Effect cosplay: Samara
There was no shortage of very impressive cosplay at GenCon this year. In fact, GenCon must surely be an established cosplay brand by now. Mass Effect is both a popular CRPG and a hard game to cosplay. Step forward to this Samara cosplayer who does so very well. That’s pretty impressive Shepard cosplay armour behind […]
The Hobbit: All the dwarves
This picture is the first to have all the dwarves from The Hobbit. They look rather impressive together. Ready for the roll call? Jed Brophy as Nori, Dean O’Gorman as Fili, Mark Hadlow as Dori, James Nesbitt as Bofur, Peter Hambleton as Gloin, Graham McTavish as Dwalin, Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield (center), Ken Stott […]
Dragon Age coming to Google+
As expected Google+ is launching games. This will be a rollout over time – so the games icon will appear in Google+ in the next few weeks. When it does it’ll be up beside your Circles logo. Angry Birds may be a headline game but the initial set of games includes Dragon Age Legends, City […]
Cheeky Wheatley Puppet
Wheatley is one of the stars of Portal 2. He’s cheeky. He has a strange charisma. He’s a round robot with a glowing blue eye – well, eye-like thing. Furin Cosplay took a large lump of florist foam and made a fantastic Wheatley puppet. You can read about it all in a fantastic blog post […]
The Toilet Monster
Some monsters are especially scary because they’re good at getting you while you’re vulnerable. Imagine, then, that you might pay actual money in order to lure one into your home and into your smallest room. Yes; I’m speaking of the dreaded loo demon, the toilet monster, the crapper creature, the bog boggin! This dangerous menace […]
Emergency Defibrillator
My initial reaction was to laugh at this. What was yours? I’m asking because I’m pretty sure there’s a percentage of people who wouldn’t laugh. They’d worry. They’d scold. They’d point out how dangerous this is. They’d be right too. Well, unless this photo was staged briefly just for our amusement and then the defibrillator […]
Margaret Weis Productions secures Marvel RPG license; 16 books coming
At GenCon Margaret Weis Productions announced they had secured the license to create the Marvel Heroes roleplaying game. There will be 16 books, the first launching in February with a strategy designed to map along with Marvel’s large crossover events. Cam Banks, creative director at MWP, said; “After the initial February release, we will have […]
Gordon’s alive! The Complete Flash Gordon Library
This is a big deal for vintage Flash Gordon fans. Comic strip historian Pete Maresca is on board with Titan Books for The Complete Flash Gordon Library. Titan Books are stepping up to publish, in restored full-colour, every strip from every story. The hardcover series will come out in volumes and I’ve noticed Amazon already […]
How to create an original Stormtrooper helmet
In July Geek Native covered Andrew Ainsworth’s victory over Lucasfilm in the Stormtrooper Wars. The battle was over use of the famous Stormtrooper armour – created years ago. If the courts decided they were works of art the Lucasfilm could still protect their image and use. Lucasfilm lost. The famous Stormtrooper helmet is not a […]
