Foam Fighters is a love story set around a LARP group. Mark gets dragged into his first ever LARP where he meets Gwen. The problem? Gwen’s with a rival faction. Foam Fighters have a blog for fans which lets us keep up to date with the production. This is pretty fun because they’re doing this […]
Archives for August 2012
Doctor Who posters appear online early
There are minor spoilers for the spoiler shy here. The names of the first couple of season 7 episodes are already known. They’re not a secret. We kick off with Asylum of the Daleks and after that we’ll see Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three and The Angels Take […]
The Sony Xperia announcements
Sony are having a busy day with a number of announcements. Here’s a run through of some of the headline grabbers. Sony are launching a new range of Xperia smartphones and bringing tablets into the range too. The James Bond Skyfall movie wil feature one of the new phones, the Xperia T which Sony is […]
What we know so far: Joss Whedon’s TV S.H.I.E.L.D. series
Joss Whedon, Avengers director, will be running a S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. We knew Marvel had a TV series in the works and this is it. Joss’s brother, Jed, will be co-writer and his wife, Maurissa Tancharoen, as the other showrunner. Cynthia Littleton, of Variety, tweeted from a briefing to explain that Jed and Maurissa will […]
Free to Download: Nine Worlds
Right now, the RPG from Stories You Play, Nine Worlds is free to download. It’s usually around $19/£12.50. Here’s the descriptive chapter from the game; In this game, players take on the role of Archons, the human agents of the Demiurge who shape the universe according to their whim and will. Archons are mortal humans […]
Freaky: skull photographs to scare your players
These photos are real and not manipulated. They show something natural and normal – the exfoliation of teeth. This is something we all understand; children lose their teeth and the new tooth pushes up from beneath. However, what we don’t think about very much in the process of storing the new tooth underneath the old […]
Zelda Gamers’ Guide [infographic]
Need to catch up on some quick and tweet worthy Zelda stats? This infographic from Copypress might help!
Doctor Who: Pond Life, part 3
After Rory and Amy got married it was pretty clear that Amy would not become Amy Williams. She kept her surname. In this episode of Pond Life Rory gets called Mr Pond. It’s a new, Whovian, way of doing things. That said; I suspect this episode will simply be known as Ood on the loo. […]
Lovecraft horror RPG tremulus slaughters goals
[Pledge here] Tremulus (actually, I think the branding demands lower case t – tremulus) has a storytelling RPG Kickstarter project. We’ve seen some large projects in recent days but tremulus is at the other end of the evolutionary scale – asking for only $5,000. The result? At the time of posting, tremulus has slaughtered its […]
The Peturbed Dragon: EN World’s Morrus launches web series
Russell Morrissey, known to many as Morrus from EN World, has launched a web series. It’s called The Petrubed Dragon, we’re a few episodes in and so far we’ve commentary (with a twist) on some gamer sterotypes. The second episode features a “my GM wouldn’t…” visiting player. We all know those. The twist? In The […]
