Mindjammer Press, co-founded by author Sarah Newton, has struck a deal with Chronicle City to print the new RPG Monsters & Magic. The deal very firmly rides the Old School Renaissance. The “OSR” is a nostalgia for the old style of RPGs, with a tighter focus on heroic dungeon adventures, quick character creation and game […]
This is a Batmobile you’ve not seen before
This isn’t just a Batmobile you’ve not seen before. This is a Batmonster Truck. A machine of power if not, perhaps, grace. Is grace really necessary for crushing pesky cars, though? Via Geekologie.
The Hobbit’s Bag End as a bonsai tree
This bonsai is all types of impressive. It’s very clearly a micro version of Bag End, home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and based on Tolkien’s original words. “A large hill (The Hill) lay to the north, and under its southern slopes Bilbo’s father Bungo built the luxurious smial Bag End above the lane of […]
This LEGO cake is full of bricky surprises
This awesome LEGO cake is simply the best. I shudder to think it was surfaced, nearly a year ago, by Cakewrecks a blog that specialises in finding awful cakes.
ASUS signs magazine deal with lekiosk
I’m a big user of Comixology on my Nexus 7; especially after the popular comic app made the tweaks necessary to perfect the platform for Google’s popular 7″ tablet. lekiosk is a bit like Comixology except rather than comic books it works with big magazines from the likes of the BBC, Conde Naste and Dennis […]
First screen shots from Space Hulk
Late last year Full Controll announced a deal with Games Workshop to produce both computer and mobile versions of a Space Hulk game. At the time it sounded very interesting as it offered cross-platform support. In other words, you could use your PC to play with friends on their iPads. Today we have the first […]
Lovecraft Actually
Riffing off the British romcom Love Actually comes the deviant art of Dr Faustas. This is Lovecraft Actually.
It’s real: a taser sword
How many times have you heard a GM tell a player they couldn’t have such’n’such a weapon because it wasn’t realistic? I suspect a taser sword might fall into that category; even for some near future sci-fi games. After all, how would you persuade the taser to release its energy down the sword evenly and […]
Team Unicorn and “For the Win”
This is Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget, meets Mad Max, meets barbarian bikini chic and with a dose of cosplay con thrown in for good measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NarbqFTrXbE Yup! Lots of famous geeks in here; Grant Imahara (Mythbusters), Ashley Holliday (Hollywood Heights), Aisha Tyler (Archer,24) and even the mighty “Weird Al” Yankovic. The video was directed […]
Real life Batman hands suspect over to police
In Bradford, United Kingdom, a man dressed as Batman handed over a suspect to Police at the Trafalgar House Station. The suspect was charged with dealing in stolen goods and on other fraud offences. A Police spokesman said; “The person who brought the man in was dressed in a full Batman outfit. His identity remains […]
