This is pretty slick. I can’t imagine the origami skill required to fold this – it looks very impressive. Look at the Nazgul’s hands; they even have fingers! There’s even a cloak. Combine the excellent origami with the simple idea of picking matt black paper and I think the effect is really impressive. In fact, […]
Airship Pirates: The RPG based on music
Cubicle 7 have a host of great licenses and partnerships. Titles include Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who and gamer favourites like SLA Industries and Victoriana. With partners Cakebread & Walton they’re putting together an RPG called Airship Pirates. Airship Pirates is based on the work by Abney Park. Now, normally when you here a […]
Emergency broadcast in Middle-earth
Hungary tested its emergency broadcast system this week by warning of severe and dangerous storms. In order to avoid worrying people by mentioning actual places in Hungary, the emergency system used names from The Lord of the Rings. According to the test catastrophic weather hit Rivendell, Helm’s Deep and Gondor as well as other Middle-earth […]
Games Workshop’s rollercoaster ride
At the start of the year Geek Native blogged Games Workshop’s £2.5m dip. This was a surprise because the company had seemed to turn their finances around. The news also took a somewhat bizarre twist when Mark Wells, Games Workshop CEO, seemed to suggest that problems over Christmas were due to rookie staff. In order […]
LoTR War in the North: Combat trailer
This video from Snowblind is all about the combat in the Lord of the Rings action RPG “War in the North”. The concept for the trailer / documentary is pretty simple. The Snowblind team argue that in the Lord of the Rings book combat was pretty brutal. The War in the North is supposed to […]
Murmurs of Middle Earth music
Geek Native has featured some of Pogo’s music before. There’s the Skynet Symphonic and less geeky but just as cool Upular based on Up. This Lord of the Rings musical treatment is one of my favourite so far. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjSwSF7t0I How would you rate it? Better or worse than Upular? Or do you […]
The Lord of the Rings: Black Numenorean trailer, council cut
Warner Bros and Snowblind Studios have opened the doors to The Council of the North as an community for Lord of the Rings fans. There are perks for joining up. Council memembers get “unparalleled special access” (their words) to video game information, insight from the dev team, Q&As, unique screenshots and concept art. Key members […]
Games Workshop signs 6 year deal with Warner for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Good news for battling British war games dealer Games Workshop. They’ve managed to secure an impressive six-year extension to their Lord of the Rings deal with Warner Bros. The result? Games Workshop can continue to make tabletop games based on “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”. This is a global deal. Needless to […]
Alternative Lord of the Rings: Where Gimli destroys the ring
“I kill Gandalf” famous words from Igor in John Kovalic’s Dork Tower. That’s certainly an alternative Lord of the Rings. Kovalic’s also renowned for the comic strip where a giant eagle is used to fly over the volcano so that the ring can be dropped from above. The question is – are there other possible […]
McKellen to Balrog: You Shall Not Bounce
The god that is Ian McKellen finds himself reanacting the famous “You Shall not pass!” scene from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring during the Q&A session at the Savannah Film Festival. He had to do it without knowing what the Balrog would look like. Pretty cool huh? I wonder how many hit […]
