It may feel early to be talking about advent calendars and Christmas but if you want to get one of these limited editions you need to know about them now. Every year Geek Native seems the most collectable or geeky advent calendars sell out. Zavvi’s new range is going to go especially quickly with only […]
Comic strip: Adjust
Have you become a grump? This comic strip from Lunar Baboon is a clever reminder. Sometimes it is better to put down baggage, switch off those parts of the brain which might over analyse, and just let yourself enjoy life.
Studio Ghibli to Skyrim: Hand-drawn illustrations of iconic geeky architecture
We’re all used to amazing special effects now and computer-generated awesomeness on the big and small screens. That doesn’t stop the pen and paper approach having a unique magic of its very own. A marketing campaign by Angies List, a site that wants you to get in contact with architects, is using the magic of […]
Yoda bookends force your books to the light side of the shelf
[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 […]