Cloud-based gaming service OnLive went live today across the UK. If you’ve missed the fairly quiet build-up to this, OnLive is a subscription based video games service which runs through basically any screen you have connected to the internet from your Android device up to your HDTV. Basically, it is another way to play the […]
Archives for September 2011
Rittenhouse secures Game of Thrones trading card license
Rittenhouse Archives announced via their Facebook page that they’d secured the rights to the new Amazing Spider-Man movie, True Blood and Game of Thrones. The company makes trading cards and already has an impressive license list with the likes of Marvel, Star Trek, Warehouse 13, Spartacus: Blood and Sands and even James Bond. Rittenhouse has […]
Building the R2D2 Nerf gun
Here’s a site to watch – GirlyGamer.com.au. Why? Imagine not just a girly gamer – but a blogger who can design her own Star Wars inspired Nerf gun. Isn’t it a work of art. If you want to build your own then follow these simple detailed steps!.
Does the Final Fantasy XIII-2 trailer do anything for you?
I’m sure there are many gamers really played that Square Enix are giving us a chance to return to Final Fantasy XIII and the game. There are some of us scratching our heads, though. Was the game really that good? Did one or two roleplayers give up, bored of farming the grasslands for XP, before […]
EverQuest – City of Bronze
City of Bronze is the latest video peek from Sony for EverQuest. Are you still playing EverQuest? Many people are still fully engaged. A glance at the video, I think, really dates it. The City of Bronze is a logical and ordered city but what do you make of the graphics? One of the reasons […]
Dark Souls – complete prologue
We’ve already been able to share the first two Dark Souls prologues. In some ways, despite being cinematic stories, they were nothing more than teasers. It’s prologues three and four that really move the Dark Souls story on. In fact, prologue four is the daddy of them all and represents, almost, the complete tale. It’s […]
Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend review
I approached Robert Ross’s Marty Feldman biography with a degree of apprehension. Just to be clear, I approach any biography with apprehension. If I like the subject of the book then the biography risks shattering my perceptions and that’s a concern. In this case I was not all that aware of whom Marty Feldman was. […]
USB coat hanger … charges stuff
At a glance the idea of a USB coat hanger seems like a joke. An extension of all the crazy things we’ve seen adapted into USB devices of some sort or another. I had a USB missile launcher on my desk for a while. However, this USB coat hanger is actually an entry into the […]
It’s a frappe
Listen to Admiral Ackbar. He knows a thing or two about avoiding trouble. We’ve already seen It’s a frap as a barista. There’s also It’s a crap which needs to be seen to be understood. Now we’re back. Now we’re with frappe. Are both spellings valid? via 9gag.
Sexy pirate RPG covers for Talk Like a Pirate Day
You will have noticed that today is Talk LIke a Pirate Day. Sites are doing pirate things all over the web. All over the web pirate things are going on. Oh, wait, ahem… What will Geek Native do? Some clever, academic, geeky pirate essay? No. This blog will instead offer up a bunch of pirate […]
