Sit back and watch New Shepard, 110,000 LBs of thrust, mach 3.72, 100 KM in height and a perfect landing. The company Blue Origin is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and they’ve just become the first to create a reusable space rocket. The space vehicle (can we call it a spaceship?) is called the New Shepard […]
Archives for November 2015
Short Film: Blood Ties
The details in this animation are amazing. The short film is rather creepy. “Les Liens De Sang”, Blood Ties, picks up with a sinister looking family as the youngest child celebrates her birthday. Will she be able to escape her father? The dark and tense family get together soon spirals into something altogether more surreal […]
The Doctor Who gang
Really do check out Anthony Wallace’s series of Doctor Who illustrations. The image above is a composite he shared on Imgur and the one below a sample. You can see the whole collection over at his
Madness and storytelling with Cthulhu Tales
Following on from the Cubicle 7 and Sophisticated Games co-produced Hobbit Tales, award winning designers Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi have created a storytelling card game inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. The Kickstarter has raised thousands in just a few days. You can see the latest stats at the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461807648/cthulhu-tales-storytelling-card-game-of-the-cthulh [Back this Campaign] […]
Doubles up on gigantic: A review of Shipstar
Shipstar is the follow on to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford’s Bowl of Heaven. Unusually for a sequel, it’s a much better book. The action picks up in the aftermath of Bowl of Heaven and the humans are in deep trouble. They’ve found this gigantic spaceship-thing built around a star and have learn the hard […]
Short film: Strange Alloy
Strange Alloy is a self-produced short film from Loïc Bramoullé. It took two months to make and shows a dinosaur-dragon creature explore the ruins of an abandoned human city. Based on images of Myanmar the film looks wonderful but we’re left wondering how we let things go so terribly wrong. Would you risk a game […]
People who work with computers are three times more likely to blame them for the apocalypse
Will we suffer an end of the world? An apocalypse? If it happens what do you think the cause will be? The Midgard Serpent? A zombie outbreak? The rise of the robots? In May, Geek Native had a copy of Jon Wallace’s excellent and post-apocalyptic Barricade to give away. In the competition we asked two […]
Gaming – while falling from 10,000 feet
This ad for the NVIDIA SHIELD is designed to get your attention. We’ve one brave soul, in his arm chair and a gaming rig set up. I rather like the TV; good quality images. The guy in question is Jeff Provenzano. If you’re curious about the NVIDIA Shield it’s a Android powered gaming console that […]
Dungeons and Dragons gets virtual reality app
Following on from the news that the latest version of Google Hangouts won’t support apps – a blow for all Roll20 and virtual tabletop gamers – there’s better news from Wizards of the Coast and partners AltspaceVR. AltspaceVR provides virtual reality apps for devices like the Oculus, HTC Vive, Leap Motion and Microsoft Kinect. Their […]
Snowpiercer TV series optioned
There is a third Snowpiercer comic coming and Geek Native’s already shared a sneak preview. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, we might get a TV series. Tomorrow Studios has optioned the rights, based on the 2013 Chris Evans film, to a TV series. Josh Friedman will write the script. Previously, Friedman has worked on […]
