You wouldn’t like me when I’m hard up for cash. CCTV footage has captured the brazen – and successful – attempt to rob a bank in New York. The robber, described as a white man in his 20s, wearing a jacket with a fake fur collar added a Hulk mask to his get up. The […]
Archives for January 2012
Last chance to win Tera beta pass
This is a teaser video from the TERA MMO RPG. What strikes me straight away is the quality of the graphics. MMOs tend to be much simplier than local games simply because they need to be. MMOs have to cope with much larger worlds and the processing demands of thousands of simultaneous players. TERA is […]
Project Fiona – the gaming tablet
Project Fiona is one of the standouts from CES. The tablet is designed for gamers – so it doesn’t fit in your bag as easily as other tablets but it games a heck of a lot better!
RPG publishers react to D&D Next
On Monday, Wizards of the Coast announced that D&D 5e project is live. The Hasbro owned company promised that the fanbase would be involved in product development. The news was covered by the likes of Forbes and the New York Times and the media pointed out just how divisive Dungeons and Dragons 4e had been. […]
Dark Water: Cthulhu carpets are scary
Russian designer Kirill Rozhov was commissioned by the Danish company EGE. They make carpets so what was his challenge? Cthulhu carpets! Or rather, for legal reasons; Cthulhu inspried carpets – which is probably why the range is technically refered to as “Chtulhu: Dark Water”. Totally differrent. There’s still evidence of the tentacle madness on EGE’s […]
WotC to announce Dungeons and Dragons 5
Liz Schuh directs the publishing and licensing rights for Dungeons & Dragons is quoted by the New York Times today; We want to take that idea of the players crafting that experience to the next level and say: ‘Help us craft the rules. Help us craft how this game is played.’ The article seems to […]
Skyrim Monopoly
Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]
Electric City, Tom Hank’s animated sci-fi, coming to Yahoo
Electric City is a sci-fi animation by Tom Hanks. It’s about 90 minutes long and the PR for it says it’s full of action and sci-fi adventure. Tom Hanks has been working on it for a while. It’s a future of rubble – expect in the Electric City, which survives beyond the end of the […]
Are Air Swimmers any good for LARPs?
I’m pretty sure you could use these inside as part of an encounter when a touch by an air swimmer equals trouble. You might even be able to get away with dressing up the air swimmer and still having it light enough to fly.
Brisk launches Star Wars game for iOS and Android
The drink brand Brisk has launched a Star Wars game for iPhone and Android. The game is hugely tied into their Facebook profile and grows as people take part. I like the catch. Games have had the ability to unlock content before. This is a game and ad so the community has to unlock content […]
