The first way the Iconia A1 impressed me was with the battery life. The Android tablet had a sliver of power in it when I wrestled it out of its wrapper and out of its box. I was in a busy hotel bar, totally unable to get near a power point, but that sliver of […]
Short film: From the Future with Love
Imagine a Robocop-like future where the police have become privatised. You’ll have well equipped officers prowling the streets looking to protect their insurance paying clients. It might be sold a bit like car insurance and breakdown cover; with ads telling you how quickly the police can get to you. In director K-Michel Parandi’s vision you’ll […]
How to serve scary drinks during your horror RPG – the ice scream
The Death Star ice cubes are a popular discovery on Geek Native. They ideal for drinks with any Star Wars game or while watching the movie. That’s great… unless you’re watching horror or playing a Cthulhu RPG. If you’re playing a horror game then is there a way you can add some spook factor to […]
Fantastic Doctor Who companions poster
This image from Morgane Parisi, a French freelancer living in Greece, charts all of the Doctor’s companions from 1963 to 2013. I think Parisi has done a great job but she humbly concedes she missed off character’s like Rose’s father, Stormageddon, Nefertiti and John Ridell as well as a few from 11. I’m sure they […]
An X-Wing Fighter is the largest LEGO ever built
The unveiling a life sized X-Wing Fighter in New York this week made the news and drew huge crowds. Joe Meno, editor-in-chief of BrickJournal was lucky enough to get a secret and personal tour ahead of the big day. His write up appears on Brothers Brick. The model uses more than 5 million bricks, was […]
Curiosity – what the grand winner saw
Here’s an update from the Curiosity has finished post which shared what all the players at the last minute saw. Now we can see what the grand winner saw. This Edinburgh gamer didn’t win – but a gamer down the road did; congratulatuions to Bryan Henderson. Bryan now becomes god. That is to say Bryan […]
A look inside Sojourner’s Quest, is it an AD&D retro-clone?
Sojourner’s Quest is an RPG by Randall C Ellis. The 168-paged PDF, illustrated by Agnieszka Miroslaw-Kalinowska, is on sale at DriveThru RPG for $4.95. The game, along with the free to download character sheets, was the first upload to Sojourner Games’ home in the electronic retailer and has been followed by Module SQ1: Wynold Forest, […]
Dice Bag! A competition inspired by Zoidberg, Cthulhu and a Beholder
At the start of the month I stumbled across a beholder! Did it kill me? Nope! The collection of eye tyrant dice bags, inspired by the familiar D&D horror, won me over with their quirky charm and usefulness. I want to rummage around in the mouth of a beast before every dramatic dice roll. You […]
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness review
You can preview Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness here in an earlier post on Geek Native. Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness was overseen by the Star Trek movie writer Roberto Orci, was written by Mike Johnson and illustrated by David Messina. It began life as a four part comic book series in the run up […]
Curiosity Cube finished. What was inside 22Can’s game?
Late last year, Geek Native and other blogs took an interest in a little mobile game called Curiosity and its cubes. It was free to play and was simple; bash cubes to slowly unveil another layer of cubes. The layers of cubes seemed to be nearly endless but we all knew that was not the […]
