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Archives for January 2012

Axe’s Anarchy Girls comic book ad campaign

January 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s going to be an ad campaign where taking part could get you added to the graphic novel. The novel itself will be drawn as the campaign involves. The crowd, the Axe fans, get to tell the story.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: ads, Comics

Games Workshop calls attack lawyers off Paulson Games

January 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Paulson Games and Games Workshop have agreed on the range of products Paulson Games is permitted to sell without violating Games Workshop’s claimed rights in its Warhammer 40,000 characters and have agreed to terminate the litigation between them.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, legal

Glue some gears on it and call it steampunk

January 8, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steampunk is cool. There’s an episode of Castle that’s heavy with Steampunk. Just as we have the rise of the aspirational geek so do we have to cope with aspirational steampunks.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: castle, steampunk

Games Workshop scores a critical hit as profits boom

January 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a tough economy out there. Just this morning this blogger read about another familiar high street name going into administration. Then it was time to find out about Games Workshop. The company’s trading statement said; “As a niche business, we, in general terms, neither benefit nor suffer from macroeconomic factors as our current results […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, money, warhammer

Magic: The Gathering mobile app will come to Android

January 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast have announced an iOS application for Magic: The Gathering. The good news is that they’ve also said an Android app is in production.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, ios, magic the gathering, wizards of the coast

Zombie Lydia shadows me around Skyrim

January 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Glitch hunting can be fun. Here’s one I recorded in Skyrim. Having lost one follower, Stenvar, to vampires I was alarmed when his replacement and my first Housecarl, Lydia, flew past me and off the side of the hill after failing to get out of the way of a giant and his club. Good news! […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: humour, Skyrim, Xbox 360

The cosplay highlights of 2011

January 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Photographer Omaru is also a videographer. In other words; he does photos and videos at the same time. That’s given him the chance to together a video montage of some of his favourite cosplays from 2011.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: anime, cosplay, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Namco Bandai teams up Insert Coin for SoulCalibur V

January 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today Namco Bandai announced that InsertCoin Clothing have won the rights to produce an exclusive SoulCalibur V design. Pirate King Cervantes De Leon will get his own t-shirt.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: assassin's creed, fashion, Namco Bandai, t-shirts

Cumberbatch and Doctor Who star join Star Trek 2

January 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s easy to say; “Wait – Benedict Cumberbatch never actually appeared in Doctor Who” when you see headlines like Benedict Cumberbatch Lands Villain Role in Star Trek 2 followed by Doctor Who star scores mysterious Star Trek 2 role. Sure, Cumberbatch plays Sherlock in Steven Moffat‘s re-working of the classic detective. Moffat, of course, is […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Benedict Cumberbatch, doctor who, J. J. Abrams, Sherlock, Smaug, star trek

Mass Effect 3 pre-order perks announced

January 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

There will be perks for gamers who pre-order Mass Effect 3. GameStop have said that their exclusive perks are the N7 Valkyrie Assault Rifle and the N7 Defender Armour.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: ea, Mass Effect 3, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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