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Archives for January 2012

How time travel could actually work

January 21, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you want to build your own Tardis, your own time machine, then this is the how-to video for you. Good luck when it comes to collecting the power from all those stars.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: science

Sega find a new business stream – urinal game consoles

January 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Did you imagine Sega would return to the hardware business and start building consoles again? Okay. Perhaps you did… for the sake of argument let’s say you did. Did you imagine Sega would start to build $2,000 urinals though? And build games into them? Actually, I’m not sure we want to know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YprsmfrdDew

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Japanese genius, sega

Pretty Cure New Stage movie trailer

January 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no shortage of Pretty Cure movies. Wikipedia counts 9 TV to movie creations and 4 All Star movies. Not bad for the Toei Animation which first aired in 2004.

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: anime, trailers

Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit LEGO teasers

January 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

LEGO have some Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit sets coming in the summer of 2012. The microsite to monitor if you’re an addict is LordOfTheRings.lego.com but I imagine the action end of the news will appear on the LEGO store.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: lego, lord of the rings, the hobbit

Wizards of the Coast brings back AD&D

January 19, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast will republished Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The company will produce premium versions of the original AD&D rulebooks, with original art and content but with new cover designs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, wizards of the coast

GAME hacked as passwords were stored in plain text

January 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Update: GAME denies hacking. More hacking worries for gamers. This time Softpedia is reporting that struggling but defiant British retailer GAME has been hacked. The initial reports suggest that usernames, email addresses and password info have been exposed after hackers made use of a shell injection technique. It’s not clear whether credit card details have […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Final Fantasy XIII-2, game, hacking

Hugely popular Doctor Who blog, Blogtor Who, is for sale

January 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blogtor Who is a very popular Doctor Who blog. It was set up by Cameron McEwan in 2008, had well over 4.5 million impressions last year and enjoys more than 15,000 Twitter followers. Cameron has run the blog, by himself, and without monetisation in mind. Geek bloggers will certainly be aware that Blogtor Who is […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: blogging, doctor who

Blood, gore and very short skirts: Lollipop Chainsaw

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A cheerleader with a giant pink chainsaw battles against a horde of zombies? This is your know-about-this-stuff quickly introduction to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Star Trek Catan is coming

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Settlers of Catan are bolding expanding where no settler has dared expand to before. There will be a Star Trek Catan game from Klaus Teuber and Kosmos. Settlers of Catan in space. We’re expecting the game to be, basically, Settlers of Catan but with Star Trek terminology used on top.

Filed Under: Games, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, Catan, Settlers of Catan, star trek

Who fights who? The Avengers Vs X-Men match ups

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Marvel announced a series of Avengers Vs X-Men titles. There’s a webpage up over at Marvel.com/AvX that’s worth checking out if you’re a fan. I want to know who will fight whom. After all – are they realling going to put Iron Man up against Magneto? It looks like Marvel have been scattering exclusives of […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: beast, black widow, daredevil, hulk, iron man, Magneto, psylocke, spider-man, spider-woman, Storm, The Avengers, the thing, Thor, X-Men

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