All I know about weapons I’ve learnt from roleplaying games; either as a player or as a GM. The pictures below show modern bullets cut in half. You can see the powder and contents of each round. It’s easy to see why some are better at punching through armour than others and why some specialise […]
Short film: OVO
OVO is a short film from We Were Monkeys. It was directed by Mihai Wilson who also wrote and did the art direction and visual effects, leading a team behind this project. OVO is visually stunning but you may have to pause to work out what’s going on. The official synopsis is of a crew […]
A Game of Clones
Do you know the House mottoes in Game of Thrones? “Winter is Coming” is the famous warning of House Stark, the guardians of the north. What if you took these House mottos and introduced them to the Star Wars universe. What then? What would you get? You’d get a Game of Clones and it would […]
Boiling Point’s Shogun Warrior collection
Boiling Point has an impressive collection of geek culture posters up for sale in their store. Inspired by Japanese geekdom, the Shogun Warrior Collection has Godzilla, Mazinga, Gaiking, Dragun and Raydeen. Each poster is 16″ by 24″.
Pacific Realm: Minecraft does Pacific Rim
What if you could recreate one of the impressive Pacific Rim trailers in Minecraft? As it happens Steelehouse Digital have the skillset necessary for such a feat of geeky mashup glory. Pacific Realm is a homage to Guillermo del Toro’s mech vs monsters summer movie. I’m looking forward to it.
Board gamers to find love
Dating giant Match.com has discovered board games. An announcement on the site reads; Board games are back in a big way The Match events team has partnered with seven board game companies, including; Bananagrams, Buffalo Games, Endless Games, Blue Orange Games, Spontuneous Games, Wiggity Bang Games and Marbles the Brain Store to create the Stir […]
2 minutes of The World’s End in new trailer
Five friends stumble they way into becoming mankind’s only hope for survival as a pub crawl goes horribly wrong.
Wizards without Coats: Just kill us already!
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Is it hot enough for Pokemon ice cream?
If I look out the window I can see, against all the odds, the sun is still shining. It’s a little warm, perhaps warm enough for ice cream – but is it hot enough for Pokemon ice cream? Via /r/Pokemon.
The LEGO Movie trailer
I wonder how long they spent on the name of the movie. I think they could have called it anything they want but that we’d all just call it the LEGO movie instead. The time, instead, must have gone on the script. Okay so it’s a Muppets like “save us from the baddie with jokes” […]
