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Archives for September 2013

Oops! The Scooby Gang versus a man in a mask

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Reddit user /u/KingTofu shared this picture of his friends at DragonCon. It turns out that discovering the monster is just a man in a mask isn’t always a good discovery for the Scooby Gang. Thumbs up for the cosplay and a gold star for the expertly timed jump!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, darth vader, humour, Scooby-Doo

GM Inspiration: Aztec mummy

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Need to terrorise your players with an undead horror they’ll recognise … and yet have it be worryingly different? Geek Native does like to share RPG ideas so let me try and address the challenge. What about an Aztec mummy? Whether your game world has an Egypt or Mexico (style country) or not it may […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: monsters, rpg ideas

Wooden cephalopod riding beast

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve featured this impressive steampunk elephant on Geek Native already. Can the company that created the wooden mecha repeat the trick? The short answer is yes – they certainly can. Created for Les Machines de l’le de Nantes is this impressive wooden cephalopod. Squid. Cthulhuspawn. Okay, the elephant walks but I bet this monster creation […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: mecha, monsters

Laura “Lightning” Jansen wins Dragon Cosplay Summit 2013

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I think this is a good idea. If you’ve got a game like Dragon’s Prophet to promote then run a big cosplay event. That’s what Infernum did. During Gamescon in Cologne this year, an event with some 300,000 visitors, they held a cosplay summit competition for the MMORPG. The winner? Laura ‘Lightning’ Jansen; taking 37.8% […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: cosplay

Steampunk in space? The Kromore 2145 RPG Kickstarter

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

[Back this Campaign] Raex Games has taken to Kickstarter to try and fun a 300+ colour hardback RPG. Kromore promises to take Victorian steampunk and evolve it to a space era epic. The promise is this; each back gets $20 or more worth of an exclusive play test within 30 days of the end of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi, steampunk

Sponsored video: War is your business as a Killzone Mercenary

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Expanding the Killzone series is Sony’s new Killzone Mercenary. In the PS Vita game you play as the former UCA soldier Arran Danner who has become a merc. This means your skills are up for auciton and sold to either the ISA or Helghast.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: ads

10 little known facts about Marvel

September 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzXqrChQ6A Comic book expert? The All Time 10s series turns its attention to Marvel in this video. Prepare yourself for 10 unlikely facts about Marvel. Zombies? Zombies? That one surprises me the most. If they had been successful – how much would it have been worth.

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: marvel, spider-man, the hulk

Posters: Minimalist Star Wars designs

September 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steve Squall is an artist from Louisville, KY. He’s a fan of post-Modernism and Cubism as well as Star Wars. His designs for minimalist posters are striking. Fans can catch more of his work at Deviant Art.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: darth vader, Jedi, posters, star wars, stormtroopers

Sound of the Sky: LEGO Takemikazuchi

September 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sound of the Sky is an anime from A-1 Pictures and Aniplex that follows a young woman called Kanata Sorami who joins the military platroon in the town of Seize. It’s a post-apocalyptic war fought after humanity’s tech levels have regressed from sci-fi to early 20th century standards. This clever LEGO design shows one of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: lego

Retro arcade installation

September 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New Media Labs wanted retro style game arcades for wall displays. The following was produced by Kraftisan in South Africa in response to the brief. More pictures at Behance.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: household, Space Invaders

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