Boom! That’s the sound of my geek dna exploding in an overdrive of geek charged geekiness. Awesome. Awesome. Do you have a better word for it? Oh. Yeah; that is Neil Gaiman as one of the radio hosts. It’s such an appropriate song for Gollum to be singing. Clever Gollum, clever.
R’lyeh removed from Google Maps; some geek alternatives
It was once possible to find R’lyth, the home and resting place of Cthulhu, on Google Maps and on Google Earth. The video at the end of this post acts as evidence. Today it’s not possible to find R’lyeh on either of those two properties. Aww, shucks, Google. I hope you had good reason for […]
War in the North: Beleram
I’ve given War in the North plenty of coverage on Geek Native because it’s a Lord of the Rings game. The one franchise to rule them all. There’s been a common theme; heroes get in big strike, wonderful giant eagle swoops in and saves them. I was wondering whether this was a “call in an […]
Van Sauron
Just when you think you’ve seen the one mashup that rules them all, another mashup pops up to take your breath away. Step forward to this Lord of the Rings meets high art mashup. Van Gogh’s Starry Night meets Peter Jackson’s Sauron. I call it Van Sauron. Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” Imagine a […]
War in the North – E3’s Lord of the Rings trailer
E3 is shaping up to be a cracker. We can execpt lots of good announcements and a host of teasers. Warner Bros and Snowblind have their “action RPG” for Lord of the Rings nearly ready and so we can predict we’ll get an extended trailer for War in the North. What do we have right […]
Fantastic and slightly creepy origami Nazgul
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 […]
