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Ready Player One: Geeks more likely to warn against the Oasis

March 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This month Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One hits the cinemas. In it geeks battle to survive and safe the virtual reality known as the Oasis. The book features Acererak and the Tomb of Horrors and lots of 80s geek culture from Japan. Trailers from the film suggest a more American spin […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: ernest cline, ready player one, stats, Steven Spielberg

Loot Crate have an exclusive D&D collectible

March 1, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Loot Crate have an exclusive D&D collectible this month. As is their usual style; they won’t say what it is. You have to sign up and cross your fingers. March’s Loot Crate is using ‘Playback’ as a theme and they’ve got stuff from Back to the Future, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Simpsons as well. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: back to the future, Dungeons & Dragons, loot crate, ready player one, Sonic the Hedgehog, the simpsons, tomb of horrors

Tomb Of Horrors: Inside D&D’s most deadly, divisive and downright famous dungeon

February 27, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It’s 2006. Our party are trapped on a frozen island on a forgotten continent, miles from Faerun. Unable to leave due to a binding spell placed on us by our enemies, we have searched the island for a way out. Finding evidence of ruins beneath us, we start to dig our way in. After the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: advanced dungeons & dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, John Wick, ready player one, Tomb Of Annihilation, tomb of horrors

8 real life retro-game playing Gunters

February 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One the name given to gamers who specialise in 80s arcade games/retro-games are Gunters. The Gunters are searching for the famous Easter Egg that will give who ever finds it control of the Oasis. It’s a bit like the quest for the Holy Grail. We don’t yet have a virtual […]

Filed Under: Online Shows Tagged With: ernest cline, go 8-bit, nes, ready player one, Rob Sedgebeer, sega, snes, Steve McNeil, twitch, wifiwars

Competition: Geek Native sweatshirt

February 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 42 Comments

We’ve a Geek Native sweatshirt to give away to one lucky reader! The black sweatshirt has a word cloud made from Geek Native’s tags (how we describe posts) based on the blog’s content after the rebrand from GameWyrd. The cloud is shaped to look like a wizard’s hat. This is the only branded item of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: competitions, geek native, ready player one, redbubble

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