“When Gandalf is vanquished, the text is ‘He fell beyond time and memory’. We puzzled about how you put that on film.” – director John Boorman on his proposed adaptation The Beatles wanted to do a Lord of the Rings movie and John Boorman was the director who was going to wrestle with it. In […]
Archives for September 2012
A look at the Prismatic Art Collection for gamers
Back in April Geek Native looked at attempts to raise funds for the Prismatic Art Collection. The goal of the collection was two-fold; firstly to produce art of heroes of all colours and secondly to make this art available via the Creative Commons license so authors and gamers could use it to make their own […]
Free eBooks and 50% off games at Dream Pod 9
It’s a good time to go check out Dream Pod 9’s online store as they are offering up to 50% off a range of books from their classic titles. The sale includes; Heavy Gear RPG and Tactical Jovian Chronicles RPG and Lightning Strike Gear Krieg RPG and Tactical Rules Tribe 8 RPG CORE Command d20 […]
A review of Spartacus: Morituri
Spartacus: Morituri is a novel that is not just set in the world created by Starz but involves Spartacus and the other gladiators. It is set after Spartacus becomes the Champion of Capua and while Crixus is wounded. In summary; Morituri is everything you would expect from the Spartacus franchise; violence, sex, politics and human […]
How David Bowie magically moved crystals in the Labyrinth
This video first appeared on YouTube in early 2010 and this blogger’s resident Labyrinth expert is fairly certain the feature is an extra from the DVD. It’s doing the rounds again, surprising a whole new generation of geeks, and has featured on The Mary Sue and Adam A. Donaldson put it up on Nerd Bastards […]
Bombur steals the limelight in latest Hobbit poster
New Line have released the latest teaser for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. It features just the dwarves. The poster Thorin Oakenshield looking typically grim and broody in the middle of the group – but, really, it’s poor Bombur who seems to hog all the attention with a mouthful of food. We need to get […]
Bioshock Monopoly
Remember the Skyrim Monopoly? It was pretty awesome. Now Dorkly have dug up Biopoly, aka, Bioshock Monpoly. Would you kindly give me £500?
Competition: Win the season 2 Spartacus: Vengeance boxset!
Fan of Spartacus: Blood and Sand series? Followed Gods of the Arena? If you could do with a boxset of season two of Spartacus: Vengeance then Geek Native has some good news for you. You can win a boxset of Spartacus: Vengeance s2 right here. You have to defeat five enemies in order to win! […]
League of Adventure: Dreaming Spires
Dreaming Spires is the first adventure module for Triple Ace Games’ League of Adventure series. It is written by Sarah Newton, known for Mindjammer and work on Achtung! Cthulhu, and uses the Ubiquity system. The League of Adventure is an RPG from the UK based publisher which puts players in late Victorian Age setting with […]
What’s in the Injustice Gods Among Us collector’s edition?
Imagine the makers of the brutal beat ‘em up Mortal Kombat got into making computer games around superheroes. That’s exactly what’s going on with Injustice: Gods Among Us. This is a fighting game set in the DC Universe that’ll unleash itself on the Wii U, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in April next year. The […]
