The War Doctor and the Sisterhood of Karn The secrets around John Hurt’s character in Doctor Who are peeling away. If your location allows this link takes you to The Night of the Doctor a mini episode of Doctor Who that appeared on the BBC’s iPlayer today. Alternatively, there’s this official YouTube SPOILERS The Eighth […]
Archives for November 2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor hits iPlayer
The BBC has just tweeted a surprise early showing of The Night of the Doctor. Surprise! The 50th starts NOW! The Night Of The Doctor on iPlayer in less than an hour. Speak to no one till you've see it! RUN! — Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) November 14, 2013 There are rumours of a Paul […]
Black Butler live action trailer
I’m not sure what I made of the anime Black Butler series. I started to watch it but then it was overtaken by others. Even though the butler, Sebastian Michaelis, is one Hell of a butler and he helps his lord out of all sorts of situations I suspect I’m not entirely the target audience. […]
Disney release Maleficent trailer
This is the story of Sleeping Beauty as told from the point of view of the evil Maleficent. In this case we’ve Angelina Jolie looking superb as the witch in question. The movie, due out next year, will also feature Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi as King Kinloch, Juno Temple as Thistlewit and Elle Fanning as […]
Competition: Win 4 historic Michael Crichton novels
Did you know that Michael Crichton once wrote a series of crime novels under a different name. He was an honours student at Harvard Medical at the time and used the name “John Lange” for his suspense novels. Hard Case Crime have started to bring these books back into print and publish them under the […]
Wizards without Coats: Recycle
There are warning signs and then warning signs < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Please Recycle after encounters. It’s important to be green. This is especially true if you’re an orc or a goblin. The rest of us will just have to recycle the best we can. Why not drop your useless and no […]
Against the wizards: A review of Marada the She-Wolf
I hadn’t read any of Marada the She-Wolf when it ran in Epic Illustrated. I suspect I was way too young but having said that I had heard of the character and knew it was a Chris Claremont (The Uncanny X-Men, Captain Britain) project. Although there are some clichés in here – or, perhaps, scenes […]
The death of the $200,000 funded game controller ICP2 Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller/ The iControlPad 2 collected nearly $210,000 from over 2,000 backers. The most popular tier cost $75 and attracted nearly 1,000 people who wanted a boxed edition ICP2 that would connect to the mobile device. The pitch was simple: a device that acted as a console controller for your smartphone. Funding ended in October 2012 […]
Teach your Kids to Game Week: Kids and Gaming
Geek Native’s third expert guest post for DriveThru RPG’s Teach Your Kids to Game Week comes from MJ Alishah of Aetheric Dreams. MJ Alishah is the author Nights of the Crusades an RPG which blends history with modern and ancient horror. The pictures in this post come from Aetheric Dream’s The City of 10 Rings. […]
Doctor Who: BBC releases “An Adventure in Space and Time” pictures
The BBC have shared more pictures from the Doctor Who creation biopic An Adventure in Space and Time. It’ll feature David Bradley as William Hartnell, the actor who played the first doctor. Written by Mark Gatiss, An Adventure in Space and Time follows Hartnell as he struggles his way through the first few years of […]
