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Switch 2: How many workers hours does it cost in your country?

June 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today is the Nintendo Switch 2-Day sale as the console is now available. Checking Amazon UK, I can see it’s the #1 Best Seller in “Plug & Play Games Consoles” and costs £395.99.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: infographics, nintendo, stats, switch

Beyond subtitles: The world’s most dubbed movies and TV shows

March 26, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I will be awkward about this as Kapwing’s pitch is that “TV viewers are choosing dubs over subtitles” and I’m not sure I agree.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: infographics, stats

Generic lizard monster saves people from the ice again

January 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The lizard monster visual shows how thick ice needs to be to support various weights.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Godzilla, infographics

Dead or alive: On average fantasy authors earn the most from movie adaptations

September 2, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Word Finder X is not like Dragon Ball Z at all. One is about super-powered fights, and the other is about Scrabble-puzzled writes. Go there to cheat at games like Words with Friends or Wordfeud.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: infographics, J. R. R. Tolkien, stats

These are the tallest buildings in geekdom

November 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Published last month, Buildworld looked into geekdom with books, computer games, and films and, from their research, could find no taller building than the International Space Elevator.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: infographics, stats

It’s not just you: Fantasy books are getting longer

September 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve wondered whether it’s a trick of your own increasingly wise perception or whether fantasy adventure novels are getting longer, then, well, it’s not just you.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fantasy, infographics, stats

National Video Game Day: The inexplicable top ten video game film adaptations

September 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thankfully, an email from hardware-bods Crucial is in my inbox calling out their research into video game film adaptations. That’ll do!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: crucial, infographics, resident evil

A Pokemon analysis of 75,000 fans

August 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Which is your favourite Pokemon? This blogger hasn’t kept up with the long-running series and still has a few of the classic little monsters he rates highly.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: infographics, pokemon, stats

Spoilers and infographics: Time travel in movies

July 18, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Which plot holes or challenging paradoxes do you see the most often? Here are some that Geek Native suggests are common in time travel movies.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: back to the future, infographics, men in black, Planet of the Apes, terminator, time travel

The Star Wars collectable market shot through $250m in fan purchases in recent years

April 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The insanely rare Darth Vader signature mask and helmet from Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, sold for $1,125,000.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: collectibles, darth vader, disney, infographics, r2-d2, star wars, stats, Warner Bros

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