Chris Balcombe is responsible for creating an awesome dalek. He’s a pciture editor who collects original Doctor Who props that date back to the Jon Pertwee era. We’re talking Doctor Who in the 70s, the third Doctor. He built the dalek below based on the golden daleks that have battled Christopher Eccleston’s ninth Doctor and […]
Archives for May 2012
Today only: Ocarina of Timepiece
Geek Native is prone to featuring Matt Needham (aka Spiritgreen) t-shirt designs. That’s because the artist is wise enough to outreach to blog with heads up of when his designs are going to be featured. You have to be quick these days as many t-shirt retailers only sell a design for a single day. That’s […]
May of the Dead: Lesser Gloom Lich
Stuart Renton, author of the Lords of the Night series, returns to Geek Native for a second contribution to May of the Dead. This is the Lesser Gloom Lich – a horror for your Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e adventures. All throughout May blogs from the gaming world are contributing posts to the carnival. You can […]
Hungry Hungry Hippos – the movie
Have you seen Battleship the movie? It’s actually based of Hasbro’s Battleship game. The good news is that the surge in sales for Battleship game actually helped with the Wizards of the Coast owner’s finances this year. The question – if they can make a movie out of Battleship what other family game could they […]
The Harp Twins take on the Game of Thrones
Last march we found two twins dressed up in Zelda style for a harp duet. Camille and Kennerly seemed to go down well with Geek Native’s readers and gamers from elseblog. Perhaps this is why the Harp Twins have come back for more. This time around Camille and Kennerly are taking on the popular opening […]
A review of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare
This Star Wars guide from Jason Fry, with help from Paul R. Urquhart, is a clever book. It’s aimed firmly at the hardcore Star Wars fans and its success is to hit so many interest points at once. Art and illustration is an important part of this Star Wars guide. At the back of the […]
Building a real life mecha
The video below shows what a small team in a garage can do. This isn’t a DARPA funded project or a big corporation showing off their tech. Nevertheless, this real life mech looks to be remarkable. It looks like some of the key motion control aspects of the build challenge are well and truly solved. […]
Tweet RPG and Sam Richards
Sam Richards is the creator of the Twitter-based RPG experience Tweet RPG. The game, which has a site at tweetrpg.co.uk is approaching 100 players. So far, in Tweet RPG the players have assassinated the evil leader of an invading army, investigated the theft of a time-machine and piloted a giant robot in a intergalactic battle. […]
Could you build a Portal Turret? Yes; here’s one
This is an academic project – the creation of a real life Portal Turret. Watch the video and listen as it even sounds like a Portal Turret. It’s a gun that sweetly asks you to come closer. It’s also a gun that tracks you as you move and shoots you. The good news is that […]
Author Iain Lowson on the release of Resistance for Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein – Resistance is the first RPG supplement for Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein. The supplement contains new (and clarified) rules and mechanics, a six page comic, new NPCs, organisations and Augmentations as well as maps of military installations and whole new scenario along with campaign ideas. The supplement […]
