Robotslayer is both an illustrated childrens’ book and iOS app. What’s the target age group for the book and how old would kid need to be before being trusted on the app? I think age 6 or 7 is probably the key age where the kids can start to really identify with the characters and […]
Archives for November 2013
Short film: Lil Guardian Pyro
One for Team Fortress 2 fans. Also one for any fans of quirky stories and good animation. This is a winning entry to Valve’s annual animated film competition. Brent Kennedy was director and animation, along with August Loolam as assistant director and animation with a host more in support; Harry Callaghan, Hasan Abdullah, Martin Ellis […]
Ghostbusters with machine guns: Seal Team 666 – Age of Blood
The first book in the series is just called Seal Team 666 and with Seal Team 666: Age of Blood author Weston Ochse has extended the story. The first book introduced some new SEALs to Team 666 – the US’s special squad that’s deployed against supernatural threats in a particularly high stakes battle. Age of […]
Wizards without Coats: Random
You know when you know! < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Oh, let me guess, random encounter? Hey, GM! Are you a fan of random encounter tables? How do you handle them? Do you have a random encounter table for each type of location? Do you apply situational modifiers? Coincidence checks? Are your random encounter […]
Tea versus evil: A review of the Discworld board game The Witches
The Witches is the second of Martin Wallace’s Discworld board games. It follows Ankh Morpork. In Ankh Morpork I found myself dropping friends in heaps of trouble for fun and to win the game. In The Witches I found that you were often better off helping each other out – particularly when it came […]
How to Train Your Dragon 2 Poster
DreamWorks are teasing us with more goodies for How to Train Your Dragon 2. I don’t think the movie will follow the books. This isn’t Hiccup with the Vikings – but Hiccup and Toothless, five years later, exploring the world. America Ferrera is back as Astrid and Game of Thrones’ Kit Harrington enters as a […]
Soft, cuddly and deadly alien plushies for Christmas
How is the Christmas shopping going? Got some geeky friends who you suspect will find something interesting for you and therefore you’ll need to to find something interesting for them? Why not have them attacked by friendly and deadly alien mutant monster making machines? Chestbuster Alien Plush More pictures? A site for geeky shopping? Let […]
Strange monsters haunt the subway
It was nearly two years ago that Geek Native shared this: Do not travel on the subway. Now it’s happened again.. … and the monster is known. This is Krampus. He’s a Christmas devil and one time subject of the RPG Christmas blog carnival hosted by Nevermet Press. In this case he’s been snapped on […]
Don’t miss the deleted scene from The Day of the Doctor
The BBC have released a deleted scene from The Day of the Doctor. We find the War Doctor stuck with 10 and 11 as they debate what’s cool and what’s shoe. Some people think the War Doctor reflects “Classic Who” in that he doesn’t put up with many of the antics that the new Doctors […]
Too cute Defense of the Ancients 2 plush
Are you a fan of Defense of the Ancients? This a MOBA mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It’s based on the Aeon of Strife map for Starcraft and pits two teams; the Sentinel and the Scourge against one another. The second DotA was an official game; put together by Valve and released in […]
