Cubicle 7 has managed the London RPG gamer convention Dragonmeet for the last two years. It is the capital’s largest one-day roleplaying, CCG, miniatures and boardgame event. Today the company announced the Chris Birch of Modiphius and the Music entrepreneur Jonathan Rowlands will take over management for the next event and relaunch the convention for […]
Archives for May 2014
A cake story of How to Train Your Dragon
This impressive cake is a gold medal winner at Cake International. You can see why. We’ve Toothless and Hiccup on top and then the cast and crew of How to Train Your Dragon arranged around the cake. Each of the figures are detailed and the dragons are especially good. I may have dragon bias. The […]
They say it couldn’t be done – Tetris on the Launchpad
The Launchpad is an instrument designed to let you trigger samples and control instruments. You can even link them together if you’re hardcore enough. Is it possible to play the Tetris theme on the Launchpad though? YouTuber SoNevable thinks it is.
Competition: $50 of Redbubble shopping
Geek Native often features geeky designs of Redbubble t-shirts along with the occassional print, pillow or hoodie. I even reviewed the service back in February when I tried to ship pure evil to the UK. It can be frustrating checking out all the lovely designs if the money faeries won’t let you buy anything though. […]
Short film: Factory Farmed (by Godzilla’s Gareth Edwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qJ-Hc__6E You just need to hit up Geek Native’s Short Film collection and you’ll get access to a host of geek friendly sci-fi, fantasy and horror short films. Now and then there’s a short film that comes along that makes me think “Wait… I know that name.” In this case the film maker, the writer […]
Unreal Engine 4: Temple of Time
This is a geeky cred project. A few months ago Michael Eurek was challenged by a friend to take a classic game and use modern technology to recreate the game world environment. The result is Temple of Time. Eurek uses Unreal Engine 4 to revuild The Temple of Time from The Legend of Zelda. What […]
Vampire meets Cthulhu as Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed woos Kickstarter
Dead Eyed Shade Games offer up a multimedia story for Orbis Aerden: Reign of the Accursed for their Kicktarter pitch video. They’re open about their influences; this is a mixture of World of Darkness with Cthulhu and some Game of Thrones style political truths thrown in for good measure. [Back this Campaign] The Kickstarter has […]
Fantasy art gallery from Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator operating out of California and working for games like Fantasy Flight Games, Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Tor Books and Penguin Books. She’s been a nominee for the likes of Best Professional Art in the Hugo Awards and Best Artist in the World Fantasy Awards. You can check […]
Herbie goes steampunk
Do you remember the film Herbie Goes Bananas? It was the story of a little VW Beetle that seems to have a mind of its own. Roleplayers might worry about which dark force has taken control of the machine… but as this was a family Disney film there was no such dark twist. In this […]
Steve Jackson Games and AEG partner up on Munchkin Loot Letter
AEG’s Love Letter is one of risk, deduction and luck. It’s proven to be very popular. In Love Letter you’re attempting to woo the princess of Tempest who has locked herself in the palace. Not only do you have to get your love letter to the princess – you have to stop your rivals from […]
