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Microsoft has built a dungeon crawler out of Minecraft: Minecraft Dungeons

June 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Up to four players can go adventuring together in Minecraft Dungeons. Why? To save the village. This feels like a D&D dungeon crawl in the truest sense though there's no official word as to whether the quest begins in a tavern.

Impressive time-lapse shows a whole Minecraft city come to life

May 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The action starts with a castle, soon grows to a port town and then the harbour expands into the sea.

Minecraft meets Ingress: Minecraft Earth

May 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Minecraft Earth walking down a sidewalk might be a walk through a diamond mine and a visit to the park might be race through skirmishing skeletons.

10 urban myths of gaming [infographic]

September 8, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What computer game myths do you know? Are any of them believable? In fairness to the team at Liberty Games, who put this piece together, the Luigi’s Mansion myth is believable and it’s the sort of secret twist that’s in keeping with the company even if not the game franchise.…

Building the Minecraft Cake

July 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This is a damn fine looking cake. It’s the result of a request from a 9 year old brother. You can see below how it was built with chocolate brownies for the square layer, then smoothed over with chocolate butter cream and then given a marzipan layer.…

60 year old book Leia battles screen Princess Leia

April 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of March we discovered that Suvudu would run another Cage Match of science and fantasy. On one side we had book versions of characters and on the other screen versions of characters.…

3 impressive Minecraft cakes

February 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Gamer parents often mean gamer kids. What does it mean to have gamer kids? Increasingly it means Minecraft birthday cakes! This trio of Minecraft cake blocks should help inspire a new wave of baking this year.…

The Creeper in the TARDIS

January 1, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Made as a birthday cake by CuriAUSSIEty Cakes this Minecraft Creeper in the TARDIS cake feels appropraite for sharing at New Year too. I’m not sure how the Creeper got in the TARDIS but the tasty blend of geekdom in cake format can hardly go wrong.…

Music video: Ores

October 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Katy Perry has a single called Roar. Ores is a spoof. It’s a Minecraft spoof of said song. These guys are certainly more successful than my first Minecraft adventure in which I wandered off, got lost and only survived the night by clinging to the top of a mountain as to stay out of the way of the beasts below.…

Geeky sumi-es

October 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A sumi-e (or sumie) is a Japanese art form; an ink wash painting. Ink wash paintings were developed in China during the Tang Dynasty and it was the 8th century poet Wang Wei who was first credited for adding colour to existing ‘literati paintings’.…

Microsoft has built a dungeon crawler out of Minecraft: Minecraft Dungeons

Impressive time-lapse shows a whole Minecraft city come to life

Minecraft meets Ingress: Minecraft Earth

10 urban myths of gaming [infographic]

Building the Minecraft Cake

60 year old book Leia battles screen Princess Leia

3 impressive Minecraft cakes

The Creeper in the TARDIS

Music video: Ores

Geeky sumi-es

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