Uncooked Media have steered the Japanese culture magazine NEO through 100 editions. To celebrate the centenary they’ll be holding a free party. The party kicks off on Saturday the 7th of July at London’s Bloomsbury Lanes. There will be live bands, Japanese food and cosplay. Manga Entertainment are deeply involved, there will be a screening […]
Archives for June 2012
How to join the Warhammer 40,000 RPG beta test
Fantasy Flight games are now asking gamers to sign up for the beta test for their forthcoming Warhammer 40,000 RPG. The game, caleld Only War, has players in the role of Imperial Guardsmen fighting for Adeptus Terra and mankind. Fantasy Flight Games have the Only War: Core Rules Beta available at $20 at DTRPG. The […]
Asssassin’s Creed comes to HeroClix
WizKids and Ubisoft have signed a deal that will bring the French computer game publisher’s smash hit franchise to HeroClix. HeroClix will allow games to have a tabletop experience of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. In fact, WizKids has designed a split feed gravity display for retailers to promote the items. In a […]
Mateusz Ozminski’s Tephra launch poster
Cracked Monocle built the steampunk roleplaying game Tephra to use their Clockwork RPG system. It’s provided as an alternative to the usual Tolkienesque fantasy and was voted best Steampunk RPG by Facebook’s Steampunk Steampunk. That Facebook group has over 200,000 members. Tephra is already out and requires just a single book to use. However, Cracked […]
A review of Plague Town by Dana Fredsti
Dana Fredsti has something of a movie background. She’s worked on Army of Darkness as, I think, a swordsmanship advisor. Her website won me over with a single sentence of humility; Welcome to the website of Dana Fredsti: novelist and screenwriter, B-movie actress (okay, C movie actress), zombie aficionado, exotic and domestic feline advocate, swordfighter, […]
Behind the Scenes: Skyrim Parody
After the very popular To Lydia with Love the creator and actress Kristen Nedopak managed a successful crowd funding drive to fund some more Skyrim Parodies (hinting too at games like Mass Effect). In the last few hours Kristen and Patty Jean Robinson have been tweeting some behind the scene pictures for the parody that […]
Classic and freaky PlayStation ads from Dimitri Daniloff
Dimitri Daniloff works in advertising and photography. He originally started off studying Mathematics and Science but at the tender age of 26 – he was given a camera. That changed his life. Based in Paris, France, Dimitri has worked on some famous marketing campaigns. The photographer recently shared some of his infamous and somewhat surreal […]
The ultimate book covers for evil GMs
Have you seen the original You Know Your GM’s Evil When… list? It’s a classic from GameWyrd I’m glad survived the move to Geek Native. We can now add a new “evil GM” warning sign to gamer awareness. If your GM uses any of these horrible, monster, book covers designed by Lori Layne. Want to […]
Hughes the Force channels Weird Science
Weird Science is a John Hughes (writer and director) film from the 80s. Two friends manage to turn one of their action figures into a smokin’ hot woman played by Kelly LeBrock. It’s a right of passage for the two as they learn from her in ways they hadn’t intended. Roll on a few decades […]
Fantasy Warrior versions of The Avengers
Deviant Artist The Durrrrian responded to a request from his housemate to paint The Avengers in a fantasy setting. He joked it seemed like a good thing to do while bored the class. The following is a sample of his work – I hope he’s bored in class quite a lot this year! Via Geek […]
