This is what happens when a geeky pet owner transforms the dreaded cone of shame. Do you think the dog prefers the style?
Archives for March 2014
Aliens and giant robots invade London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9rf9GmYpM Londoners are a hardy lot and quite hard to fool – but Pepsi Max managed a few successes with this bus stop campaign. As you wait for the bus it looks like there’s just a window on the side but it’s actually a camera and screen. Pepsi’s ad agencies then threw in animations like […]
Blasted Martian Skies: A Review of Rocket Age and Blood Red Mars
Rocket Age embraces the science fiction of a century past and the radio dramas of the 30s, the likes of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and John Carter, blended with the pulp action heroics of characters like Doc Savage or Allan Quatermain. Heroes of the new colonial frontier, varied personalities seek to hunt, explorer, unearth and […]
High Rises, Low Morals: A Review of Venture City Stories
The real superheroes of the City have corporate sponsorship… or at least those heroes who have sanctioned powers and the legal teams behind them to cover for claims of massive structural and collateral damage. Superpowers appear to be a natural phenomenon, a potential in the whole of humanity, activated in a lucky few – or […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #7
You’re a roleplayer with a healthy interest in anime. Or you’re an anime fan tempted by roleplaying. In either scenario there’s a wide range of anime titles to pick from. It’s a challenge. In the anime slice of Irregular Reconnaissance a gaming anime fan walks through his most recent watching. It’s a catch-up. It’s a […]
Short film: PostHuman [NSFW]
This is the PostHuman film. Directed by Cole Drumb and produced by Jennifer Wai-Yin Luk it features the voice of Tricia Helfer as Kali. The near future is full of espionage, assassins and out of control fringe science. The animation shows a hacker and his dog as they help a mysterious woman free the remaining […]
Sharp: X-23 cosplay and bio
This cosplay of X-23 is by KOCosplay. The costume appeared at both Katsucon 19 and NYCC last year and was built by hand with a little help from for the leather features. There’s a few different photographers to credit here; Eurobeat Kasumi, Gerardo J. Flores and Knightmare6. X-23, aka Laura Kinney, is – as the […]
The Dark Crystal in cake form
Created by the Little Cherry Cake Company is this almost perfect Dark Crystal cake. Little Cherry Cakes notes a love for all things 80s, horror, gaming, skulls and classic films like the Goonies in their Facebook page. Good taste, my cakey friends. Good taste. This cake has everything from the Dark Crystal itself to Gelflings, […]
Get to know Crone – a tabletop roleplaying card game full of witches
[Back this Campaign] You are a Crone, a wizened old witch of great power and fearsome reputation. Your magic will shake the very foundations of the earth. When Crone launched in open beta Geek Native described it as “female friendly”. I think that was right at the time. The RPG clearly puts female characters at […]
Attack on Titan mashup with Super Smash Bros
I don’t think you even need to know the hugely popular Attack on Titan opening sequence to enjoy this. It’ll come across as a high octane Super Smash Bros trailer. That said; I think it helps to know Super Smash Bros otherwise you might wonder what all these characters are going. I’ll call it “Attack […]
