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Archives for June 2012

Interview with Jim Zub, lead writer for the Pathfinder comics

June 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jim Zub is a writer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked for Capcom, Hasbro, Namco-Bandai and others. Jim’s the lead writer on the new Pathfinder comics and has agreed to do a Q&A interview with Geek Native. Geek Native quoted Jim along with the first art teasers from the series. He said; […]

Filed Under: Comics, Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Erik Mona, hasbro, Jim Zub, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha trailer

June 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The second movie for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha now has a chunky trailer. This Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha movie follows the 2010 movie which reold the first TV series in a parallel history. The second movie continues new the mythos.

Filed Under: Anime, Movies Tagged With: anime, trailers

6 cats enjoying their own personal TARDIS

June 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It isn’t widely known but not only can cats teleport (under your feet, just when you look away) but they can time travel to. Now and then a lucky photographer is able to snap a picture of a cat enjoying their own personal TARDIS. Here are six examples of time lord cats. Doctor Cat Source: […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cats, doctor who, tardis

Crochet Dice

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has featured plenty of intersting dice in the past. Check out this impressive collection of custom dice from Dice Creator, this skull dice thrower, this felt lined castle dice tray or even this history of dice infographic. Time for something new? What about crochet dice? Not sure they’re evenly balanced but they’d be […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

Minecraft Movie: Diamonds Are Forever

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve played some Minecraft so recognise some of the features the movie is hinting at. However, YouTuber “NewPraefetRider” has wracked up the Likes by spotting all the likely mods featured in the movie. These include “gravity affects all blocks mod”, “ride a ghast mod”, “a gunmod that features a diamond shotgun”, “MCEdit for the Portalblocks” and “Ultra gore mod…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: humour, Minecraft

Interview with RPG designer James Desborough

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 11 Comments

James Desborough runs Postmortem Studios and is a self-employed games designer. This month Desborough finds himself in a whirlwind of attention when a petition against him urged Mongoose Publishing to drop his work. That petition used to be available here but now redirects here and has transformed into a petition to Steve Jackson Games to […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: James Desborough, kickstarters, Mongoose Publishing, Steve Jackson Games

CD shard dragon

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine a dragon that reflected light so well that it looked like it was created out of a metallic rainbow. Imagine also that this wasn’t a CGI render but an actual, real, statue created from a wire mesh and over 130 carefully carved CDs. Over a Reddit the creator of the dragon admits they’ve thought […]

Filed Under: Art, Geek Stuff Tagged With: dragons

The Great Indie RPG Giveaway 2012

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Roleplayers Chronicle are running a great giveaway competition. The great Indie RPG Giveaway of 2012 is a chance to win one of five huge bundles of RPG loot. The competition is designed to promote indie publishers of RPG titles. To enter and try to win one of the free bundles gamers are asked to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Atlas Games, competitions, DramaScape, Expeditious Retreat Press, goodman games, Kenzer & Company, raging swan press, third eye games

Starry Night by dominoes

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video is impressive in a number of ways. It’s impressive because it’s a large and complex build that cumulates in what’s clearly Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. It’s also impressive because the build goes wrong – more than once – and yet FlippyCat picks up the pieces, fixes the mess and starts again.

Filed Under: Art, Geek Stuff

Know Your Vampire Hunter

June 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The vampires get a lot of attention. In fact, just yesterday this blog reviewed a book about World War I fighter pilot vampires. But what about the vampire hunters? After all, vampire hunters come in many different shapes and sizes and are awfully prone to being vampires themselves. This handy chart, in chronological order, covers […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Castlevania, infographics

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