Hobbit Tales is a storytelling card game due out early 2014 from Sophisticated Games and Cubicle 7. The game has been designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, the creators of The One Ring RPG and the Tolkien-themed strategy game War of the Ring. In the game players take turns being Narrator and make-up a […]
Archives for December 2013
“Geek” is word of the year
Heard that “Selfie” was word of the year? It certainly is if you ask the poll run by the Oxford Dictionaries. As it happens Collins Dictionary also has a word of the year contest and although it also had its fair share of new social-lingo; they didn’t win. Geek won Word of the Year in […]
The One gaming table to RULE them all
How’s this for a dining room set? Not something you’d find in either Argos or John Lewis, I’d imagine. Scratch that. How’s this for a table for a little D&D or Pathfinder on? Perhaps it’s more suited to a bit of dice rolling at MERP or the current LoTR RPG franchise – Cubicle 7’s The […]
Kill la Kill: Clever Ryuko Matoi Senketsu cosplay
This is a clever bit of cosplay from Aussie star Happy Haha and photographed by the talented Beethy. It’s clever because it captures the Senketsu armour form of Kill la Kill’s Ryuko Matoi without strictly following each and exact element of the infamous costume. This is a cosplay that’s had the cops called out to […]
Silence in the Library: All female sci-fi and fantasy project Kickstarts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/103879051/athenas-daughters-women-in-science-fiction-and-fan/ [Back the Campaign] The Athena’s Daughters anthology went to Kickstarter asking for $8,500. They’ve nearly a month on the clock and have raised nearly $15,000. The campaign is for an all female sci-fi and fantasy collection. The stories are written by women, the illustrations are by women and so is the editing. The concept […]
Winter is here: Neverwinter does Winter Festival
Free to play Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG Neverwinter will do winter. An in-game special event has Faerun celebrate Simril, the festival of the winter solstice and the longest night of the year. Major Vario Cephied of the Twilight Tor has opened his doors to adventurers in search of a winter escape. The festival area includes […]
National pride: A review of Saltire
Diamonsteel Comics introduce Saltire as Scotland’s first superhero and given the red headed, beardy chap with big boots and blue skin it seems pretty clear to me which nation he represents. Like many national pride issues; Saltire looks backwards in history and to about 125 AD when the Roman Empire had control of much of […]
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar trailer
We’re expecting Interstellar to be out towards the end of 2014 and for the marketing to remind us that this sci-fi is from the writer of Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. I wonder if they’ll mention Christopher Nolan and Superman? The trailer doesn’t give much away but Intersteller will follow adventurers from Earth who […]
You to can be a hammer ninja
Hammer nunchaku? Yes, they’re real — perhaps not as either weapons or for DIY fans but as art. Austin artist and Etsy seller Nimer Aleck has these for sale. Yes, you can buy these. In many ways it’s a shame you couldn’t have gotten your hands on these last week. It would have made the […]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies cosplay
Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith’s remake of the Jane Austen classic is everywhere these days. There’s even a graphic novel and an interactive book app. Now there’s also cosplay. The costume was created by a semi-profession costume designer. She’s also the woman wearing it. The jaw is made from latex […]
