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One of the stories in this collection was written by Andrew Girdwood on 4th August 2018 and was described as "It's especially good to read that this HAL 9000 can be updated over the air so can be taught new skills and improved as time goes on. However, you have to step up to the HAL 9000 with the command console if you want to get a fully fledged Alexa built in.". It also was tagged with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Paizo hope their new Starfinder beginner Box will introduce more gamers to their sci-fi RPG

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Starfinder Beginner Box

Paizo Publishing announced Starfinder in May 2016 and the sci-fi RPG has earned a pretty solid core of fans since then. One possible wriggle is the fact the game barely saw any birthdays before the company also announced Pathfinder 2nd edition and some fans worry that happened too soon. The Starfinder Beginner Box isn’t designed […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, starfinder

Captain Jean-Luc Picard returns to Star Trek

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

UPDATE: Patrick Stewart is pack in Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek but it may not be Discovery. Deadline and others suggest it is a new Star Trek title. More details as and when they occur. The original article continues below. Sir Patrick Stewart, as rumoured heavily in recent weeks, is returning to Star Trek. This is […]

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: netflix, Patrick Stewart, star trek, star trek: discovery

White Wolf announces official Vampire makeup collection

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Official Malkavian lipstick

Is this the first time a tabletop games publisher has had an official set of makeup? I can only imagine that some of the gamers who tend to be unwelcome and unrequested gatekeepers, unwilling to accept that women are equally likely as men to be into roleplaying, will be rolling their eyes at this news. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fashion, makeup, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires, white wolf

Onyx Path Publishing to publish Chicago by Night a Vampire 5e supplement

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

World of Darkness

White Wolf is publishing World of Darkness products again and Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition launched at Gen Con this week. But what of the company that kept the franchise alive for the last few years? Onyx Path has established itself through a series of very successful Kickstarters and quality products that fans appreciated. There’s […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: onyx path publishing, Vampire: The Masquerade, white wolf, world of darkness

One purchase away from happiness: Fight Club – The Home Game

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The newly forged Mondo Games continues to tease and tempt up with good looking board games. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 is a success and Jurassic Park: The Chaos Gene is coming. The growing publisher is also bringing us a Fight Club game that’s due September this year. Fight Club: The Home Game is […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fight Club, mondo, mondo games

Zavvi secure limited edition Black Panther and Ant-man and the Wasp coins

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you have a collectable coin display for Marvel heroes and you’re in the UK then Zavvi has some news. The retailer, who is increasingly pushing into geek culture, has managed to land an exclusive with Marvel. There are only 1,000 Black Panther coins being made and only 1,000 Ant-Man and the Wasp coins being […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ant-man, black panther, coins, marvel, zavvi

15 minutes of jaw-dropping cosplay from SDCC 2018

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Comic Cons are how cosplay made it from the East to the West and so a premier league convention like San Diego Comic Con we might expect to see some of the very best cosplay. Website Mineralblu took their cameras to SDCC 2018 and put together this incredible footage. Hats off. There’s a bucket load […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: comic con, cosplay

Half a million (and counting) raised to build a take-home HAL 9000

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

File this under; what could go wrong? The Master Replica Group want to build you a HAL 9000 that can communicate with your wifi and refuse to open the pod bay doors. They only needed US$80,000 to make this happen with a month left on an Indieigogo campaign they’ve raised more than $400,000 and are […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, kickstarters, replica

Discover the winners of the ENnies 2018 RPG Awards

August 4, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gen Con hosted the ENnies last night and there’s a host of winners to announce. EN World shared the news this morning, along with a hat tip to the hosts Andy Hopp, Stacy Dellorfano, BJ Hensley, Mark Morrison and Amanda Valentine. Congratulations to everyone who took home a prize. It’s worth popping back to Geek […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, blades in the dark, Bully Pulpit Games, burning games, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Darker Hue Studios, Evil Hat, Gaming Paper, green ronin, grim & perilous studios, lamentations of the flame princess, Modiphius Entertainment, paizo, Son of Oak Game Studio, star trek, third eye games, wizards of the coast, Zadmar Games

Download The Witcher tabletop RPG today

August 3, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cody and Lisa Pondsmith are the listed authors of The Witcher RPG from R. Talsorian Games. It’s the official tabletop game of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher computer game. It is one of the big-name releases from this year’s Gen Con. Set in the middle of the 3rd Nilfgaardian War the White Wolf, Geralt of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cd projekt red, drivethrurpg, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

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