[Show me the way] Don’t ever suffer the horror of watching your comic book collection flop to the side and then slide down the shelf into a puddle of superheroic pages. With these Yoda book ends you’ll be able to keep your big hardback roleplaying game tomes together in some sort of alphabetical order rather […]
5 examples of death by paperwork
Geek Native isn’t normally concerned with the dark arts of HR. Normally if there is talk about Human Resources then it’ll probably be for an inventory management RTS. Not this time. This time a marketing stunt by a secure document storage company has caught my eye. I don’t imagine gamers need to use such facilities […]
Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill included in Star Wars IX cast
J.J. Abrams has announced the cast list for the next episode of Star Wars. The official release lists confirms the return of Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, and Billie Lourd. Also, for Episode IX, Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant will be joined […]
Geeky art collection – 5 mystery prints
Right now pop-culture and music retailer Zavvi have a ‘very time limited’ offer on in which you get 5 mystery prints for £9.99. I didn’t even know Zavvi sold prints. I was inspired to take a look. The mystery print deal seems to be capped at a retail value of £25 so the chances of […]
Treat yourself to a Chewbacca planter
Want to add a little more green and life to your geek den? A plant or two help freshen up the air? Yeah? Do it in Star Wars style with this Chewbacca air plant holder. [I want it!] This wee pot is designed for small air plants. What are those? They’re native to parts of […]
Genre Police: Taking Up Space?
Okay….this is gonna be a difficult one. It’s gonna really be a column about how we can’t do a column that turns into a column. We’re going to look at how we look at science fiction, how historically it has evolved and how that isnt’ helpful to us. We might even learn something about games […]
Dinosaurs dominate 2018’s best selling Pops
The Hut Group’s Pop In A Box site specialises in selling geeky pop vinyls and they sell lots of them. There’s two deals on right now; 10% off Funko items for subscribers and everyone else can get 2 Pop! Vinyl’s for £18.99. With all that Pop expertise who else is better placed to reveal which […]
Pew-pew-pew! TIE Fighter lamp
[I need this!] You can’t buy this TIE Fighter poseable lamp yet but you can pre-order it from Merchoid. The magic date is somewhere in July. As you’d expect this is officially licensed Star Wars merch and will set you back about 50 squids. Merchoid does free worldwide shipping. Tempted?
Star Wars: A New Hope – Live Orchestra tickets go on sale 11 months early
We’re just finishing January but we might also need to start planning our December 2018 events! Live promoter Senbla has announced a live concert tour of Star Wars: A New Hope. Fans will be able to watch the film while a live orchestra provides the musical score. If you’ve never enjoyed a movie in this […]
Genre Police: Alienating half my readership by choosing High Fantasy!
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at the one of the two Big Dogs of Fantasy […]