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Archives for January 2013

How does Gandalf solve his problems?

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Via the eagle-eyed Nicole Wakelin at Nerd Approved. Created by Emil Johansson of the Lord of the Rings Project.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Gandalf, lord of the rings, the hobbit

Wizards without Coats: Hand Gestures

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Clubs are effective agains wizards.   The startWizards without Coats Next >  Next time you cast a spell to warm your cocoa, could you please… NOT USE HAND GESTURES! Today, Geek Native launches a new series: Wizards without Coats. Remind you of any RPG companies? Can’t think who. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Fans of […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

Interface Zero 2.0: Full Metal Cyberpunk kickstarter

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[Back this Campaign] Interface Zero 2.0 launched with lots of buzz. We’re a day or so into the Kickstarter campaign and the $10,000 goal has already been met. Gun Metal Games and David Jarvis have raised $16,200 with 240 backers and more than 40 days to go. They’ve two backers at the $350+ mark too. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chronicle City, Cyberpunk, Gun Metal Games, Interface Zero 2.0, kickstarters, savage worlds, Stan!

New X-Men, except woman

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a new X-Men series, in a way. The new X-Men will actually focus on some female characters and will be the third X-Men title out of Marvel Now. Who features? Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Rachel Gray, Rogue, Storm and in the main role there will be Jubilee. Writer Brian Wood told American press; “I feel […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Kitty Pryde, marvel, psylocke, Storm, X-Men

Land of the (Undead) Lost spooks players with zombie dinosaurs

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These miniatures were sculpted by a special encounter in a Pathfinder RPG. The GM’s wife was the creative talent, using Super Sculpey over a wire and aluminum foil armature to build the bodies from scratch. Via Reddit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dinosaurs, models, pathfinder, zombies

Administrators take down HMV.com

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

HMV was one of the few places to buy anime in-store in the UK. Fopp was another; but was owned by HMV. HMV.com was also one of the few places British shoppers could buy anime online. HMV called in the Administrators, had its shares supsended and stopped taking vouchers and gift cards. It’s still possible […]

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: hmv, legal, sales

New Ghost in the Shell announced: Ghost in the Shell Arise

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s going to be a new anime of Ghost in the Shell. They’ve redesigned the super popular Motoko somewhat too as this image shows. What else do we know? Not much! Details are up at Cinema Today.jp which Google translate takes a good stab at. Production IG are involved, work starts this year and the […]

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: anime, ghost in the shell, Ghost in the Shell Arise, Production I.G

Is the $50K Dwimmermount RPG Megadungeon doomed?

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kickstarter projects for RPGs and gamers are still going strong. They’re still a great way to bring products to the market and to fans that would have never been able to make it otherwise. However, as time ticks on we’re now looking for some of the older projects to start to deliver and it’s a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Autarch, James Maliszewski, kickstarters, labyrinth lord

Shadow of the Colossus hard drive case

January 16, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This fine looking chap is a 500 GB external hard drive. It’s modelled on the title challenge in Shadow of the Colossus. Shadow of the Colossus is a action-adventure game for the PS2 back in 2005/2006 when they was moved over to the PS3 for 2011. The game had you track down and fight many […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: casemod

Rebuild EN World (Kickstarter makes an exception)

January 15, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Popular gaming forum EN World has had a tough 2012. The site towers above many others in the RPG fan space and represents an aspirational success for Geek Native – but it was also an aspiration for hackers. In December last year the site was infected by malware. Kickstarter doesn’t deal with web build projects […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: en world, kickstarters

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