The Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion, the first premium one, Menance of the Underdark is out in June. As the release date gets closer the PR company teases us with more and more art from the free to play MMO. The most recent set of art returns, once again, to Eveningstar. This time we’ve two […]
Archives for May 2012
Run Boy Run – a music video that speaks to the gamer soul
Every now and then I like to share a video that seems to conjure up a bit of gamer ambience. Woodkid’s Run Boy Run is such a video. I’m not show how to describe it – except dark. Colourwise, it’s a very dark video. I suppose it could be a hobbit leading the ents towards […]
Illegal dinosaur sold for over $1 million
This sounds like the start of a roleplaying scenario. The nearly complete remains of a Tyannosaurus bataar (closely related to Tyannosaurus rex) has been sold for over $1m. The sale, though, was despite a judge in Dallas ordering the auction hose not to sell the skeleton. The 80 million year old creature is believed to […]
Indiegogo project teases Skyrim to Mass Effect bridge
You may well remember To Lydia with Love when it appeared on Geek Native. This blog was an also run. Not a single comment – so many people had seen it before. However, creator @Nedopak did give us a retweet. And so… the radar tingles, Indiegogo lights flash, and we notice the promise of two […]
Turn to Cthulhu and help fight cancer [good causes]
In 2011 we saw the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu and we have to go all the way back to 2004 to catch up with the release of the 6th edition of the rules. The good news is that the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu is in the works and Paul Fricker […]
Win Manga loot at MCM Expo
May 25 to 27th at the Excel in London is MCM Expo aka Comic Con London. This is the largest pop culture festival in the UK with cosplay, a games expo and a whole comic village. Noel Clark will be there, stars from Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time and Grimm along with C-3PO star […]
The awesome dice infographic
Over on Awesome Dice you’ll find a remarkable post and infographic. Yeah; it’s about dice… but it’s a deep dive on the history of dice, going back to 3100 BCE, to the Egyptian era that surfaced the first d12 and up to modern day. I was impressed. I asked Brian Wood of Awesome Dice to […]
CW trailers “Arrow”
One of the new crop of TV shows approved recently is Arrow. The Stateside station CW is looking to adapt and bring DC’s Green Arrow to a wide audience. There are some changes. For a start, it’s just “Arrow” and for a second, this Oliver Queen is a none-powered hero who manages to survive living […]
Druids in Dungeons & Dragons Online
This video is part of a series from Warner – who look after the MOO Dungeons & Dragons Online game. On the 25th June the Menance of the Underdark expansion is released and with it comes… Druids. It turns out that druids have been a hugely popular request from players. Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) […]
Dead Shadows trailer
Dead Shadows is a film out of France by John Hallon. It follows Chris, who lost is parents 11 years ago on the day Halley’s Comet, could be seen from Earth. Now there’s a new comet passing overhead and while most of Paris want to party to mark the occassion – others are rightly worried. […]
