When did you first encounter a stormtrooper? For me it was watching A New Hope, the first Star Wars film and episode IV. Other people – younger folk – might first have seen a stormtrooper on TV as part of the Clone Wars cartoon or perhaps even with one of the prequel movies. It’s only […]
Archives for June 2015
Green Ronin’s Blue Rose makes a colourful return
It’s a little strange to think that Green Ronin’s Blue Rose is 10 years old – but it is. The game dates back to the days where publishers wanted to do something different with the Open Game License after a slew of d20 products and Green Ronin had found success with Mutants & Masterminds. Now […]
What stirs in the Titansgrave: Ashes of Valkana (Part 2)
You’ll benefit from reading Part 1 or just skimming Geek Native’s Titansgrave coverage before digging into this post. Why? We’re looking at Wil Wheaton GMing the second part of his Titansgrave: Ashes of Valkana scenario in this post. There’s a scene in this episode in which Wil, as the GM, apparently breaks a golden rule […]
Short film: Elegy
One girl in a battle against the elements. She clutches a strange coin as she approaches a mysterious door. It’s not clear until the last minute whether she’ll make it through and what the price might be for the attempt. Elegy is a film from SVAD Productions, a creative agency in Tennessee, and stars Rachel […]
Everything To Me is out of this world
This is the official music video for Calvin Cardioid’s “Everything to Me”. It’s featured here on Geek Native for the sci-fi animation care of Phillipp Feigenbutz. The animation uses markerless motion capture from iPi Soft. Pretty neat stuff.
Stories from ghosts: A review of The House of War and Witness
The House of War and Witness from Gollancz is written by a trilogy; Linda Carey, Louise Carey and M.R. Carey. It’s a historic ghost story of sorts. There are two types of ghost stories; horrors and those with a twist. The House of War and Witness is in the latter camp. That’s not to say […]
Competition: Win RWBY volume 1 on DVD
RWBY (“Ruby”) is the creation of Mony Oum and the YouTube channel Rooster Teeth. These are the same people behind the Red vs Blue series. The first episode was put online back in 2013 and has now been seen by millions of people. You can watch it for free below. There’s a whole empire around […]
Board to Death with the Street Kings?
Street Kings is another board game project on Kickstarter. Like every board game to launch in the last gaggle of months it faces the uphill challenge of getting noticed and raising funds. It looks like a good game. Curious? You can check it out in more detail on the campaign page or read the summary […]
5 ways to end the world without being boring about it
I’m a big fan of post-apocalyptic RPG settings and as a result I must have ended the world in two dozen ways already. There are some common ways of bringing about the apocalypse and some of them are a touch cliché. Let’s just say you wanted to try something different to challenge your group of […]
Spaceships and warriors from John Liberto
John Liberto has worked as a concept artist at 343 Industries and is currently at Oculus VR. Think Halo and you’ll be spot on but he’s also contributed to Battlefield, Gears of War and Unreal Tournament games. His impressive CV extends to movies such as Alien vs Predator and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of […]
