Perhaps you weren’t tempted by these cute and cuddly aliens as Christmas presents for your geeky friends. Not hardcore enough for you. Not different. Too soft. If that’s the case why not check out Afterlight Sculpture on Etsy. They’ve an interesting range of lights. That’s right. You can get this Alien Facehugger switchplate cover. We’re […]
Archives for December 2013
Discover what was posted on the blog during December 2013. This collection covers topics in Geek Stuff, Anime, and Tabletop & RPGs.
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Space Dandy trailer
Well. This is colourful. This is Shinichiro Watanabe’s latest project. He’s the talent behind Cowboy Bebop and, if you ask me, he takes what Bebop hinted at and goes to town with it in Space Dandy. Even the name, allowing for translation, is bold. There’s a host of talent involved too; Akira’s creator Katsuhiro Otomo […]
RPG Ideas: Weird fashion helmets
This is a real helmet. It’s part of a display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Arms and Armory Collection. A 16th century knight in what is now Germany wore this once. Here’s what the museum site has to say; This helmet is remarkable for the three-dimensional figure of a rooster’s head in the center […]
3 new pictures of Smaug – The Hobbit finally shows us dragon
We’ve been teased with bits of Smaug in various Hobbit trailers but now we get to see him. There’s a catch. He’s turned up in an unexpected place – New Zealand. In particular, in the skies of New Zealand painted onto the side of an Air New Zealand plane. The plane is 54 metres long […]
Competition: Win a copy of Grimm – Aunt Marie’s Book of Lore
Are you a fan of Grimm? Fancy an in-show item? A book full of artwork that’ll impress. A book full of myths and legend that’ll help you work out which supernatural animal creature might be caught up in which mystery in your town? Aunt Marie’s book of Lore is one for collectors. It oozes RPG […]
Samus Aran of Metroid is Tinker Bell
When mighty hero of Metroid took their armour off and was revealed to be the smoking hot Samus Aran a fandom was born. The zero suit is infamous. Imagine, then, if that helmet came off and Tinker Bell was the hero. A double surprise. A mashup of the Nevernever. This is the work of Sir […]
Short film: Song of the Knight
Really pleased with your new +3 magic sword? I wonder if that’s easy. It has a personality. Does that come into play often? What if this was a famous singing sword… would that have any drawbacks? Steven Ray explores these issues in a short animation made at the Ringling College of Art and Design. Time […]
Stunning Final Fantasy XIII cosplay
I can’t say Vanille was my favourite character in Final Fantasy XIII. I can say that I tried to feed her to the baddies a few times. That said; this set of Final Fantasy XIII pictures from Nephilim Cosplay are very good and I think Vanille stands out as exceptional. Do you agree? The three […]
A look inside: Sertorius
We’re lucky to be able to present a look inside Bedrock Games’ forthcoming Sertorius RPG. This content is from the unfinished book and so may change but the following is a generous quota of artwork from the game plus a hunk of the book’s opening text. RPGs often don’t publish according to schedule but if […]
