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Archives for November 2014

What does Dragonmeet 2014 have install?

November 28, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

This is the first year that Modiphius is running Dragonmeet. This means gamers will be filling hotels in London and that big British names will be making announcements. We know that Modiphius will be talking about their Infinity RPG. This is their biggest launch yet after signing a deal with Corbus Belli to bring the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragonmeet, Ian Livingstone, Infinity, Joe Dever, lone wolf, Modiphius, steve jackson

Official Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer hits YouTube

November 28, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Seen everyone raving about Star Wars: The Force Awakens while many bemoan that it’s only on QuickTime? Not great news for Apple. The official trailer, not one of the clever fakes, is now on YouTube via the Star Wars account. What do you make of the teaser? Has it done enough? Are you an old […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Jedi, sith, star wars, star wars: the force awakens, stormtroopers, teasers, trailers

Black Friday comes to the UK but are there any geek sales?

November 28, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The American tradition of getting the shopping done and big discounts on this Friday has come over to the UK. It’s not the first time British retailers have tried but the 2014 Black Friday sales in the UK are the biggest yet. The question is; are there any geeky deals? If you find any great […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: sales

GAME goes Christmas crazy – Christmas sweaters on offer

November 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What might you expect GAME to do this Christmas? It survived financial disaster and enjoyed a “Raise Dead” spell being cast on it. There’s even a GAME store in my local shopping centre. Did you expect them to line up a range of Christmas game jumpers? There’s a whole collection and seem to be pretty […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: christmas, christmas gift, fashion

Listen to The Dragons of Dorcastle

November 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Dragons of Dorcastle is an Audible exclusive. It’s written by Jack Campbell the author of the excellent military sci-fi series The Lost Fleet. Two Great Guilds control the world of Dematr; the Mechanics and the Mages. The only thing that the two guilds agreed on – the world must not change. Now a Storm […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: audible, dragons, fantasy, Jack Campbell

Gamer conjures Dice Tower from abandoned toy

November 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This “Build and Paint Knight’s Castle” was an unused gift. Gamer Pallandor points out that the maker’s didn’t even have enough faith in their product to see the finished product. The castle on the box looks kinda crap. As it happens; Pallandor had another idea. Could this model become a handy dice tower for a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: craft, dice

Competition: Win The Killing Time

November 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

The Killing Time is a novel set in the universe of the TV series Grimm. Follow Hank Griffin and Nick Burkhardt, two police detectives in Portland, as they are called to track down a missing person. The cops soon discover that a strange creature is stalking the streets, able to dissolve a victim with just […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: competitions, Grimm, monsters

Gamers versus Models for life after the apocalypse

November 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ll admit to have been guilty of pro-gamer apocalypse thoughts. I figured that in the event of surviving an apocalypse that gamers, traditional tabletop roleplayers, would be good to people to associate with. Why? Roleplayers tend to have a wide knowledge of tips, tricks and tactics when it comes to weird situations, survival and travel. A […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, mage company, stats

Player Piano Indiegogos for great geeky piano music

November 25, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Player Piano is responsible for one of my favourite YouTube creations of the year. They covered the Akira theme so well. Now they’ve given us a Tetris cover and asked for Indiegogo support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8p5yo47JQ [Back this Campaign] This is a flexible funding so Player Piano don’t need to hit their target of $60,000 to cash […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Indiegogo, player piano, tetris

The cosplay highlights: NEKOCON 2014

November 24, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Can you find yourself in this video? Beat Down Boogie maintain their busy video schedule. Nekocon has produced another crop of individual cosplay – and credit to the fans who push the bar up every year – but some great group cosplay ideas too. Santa meets Attack on Titan? You can peak at more pictures […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: beat down boogie, cosplay

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