Gale Force Nine have a license deal with Fox to produce a Firefly board game. The game will have players as captains of their own Firefly-class transport ships looking for work. Desperate for work players will have to take on any job, so long as it pays and deal with dodgy employers, Alliance patrols and […]
A fully functional steampunk typewriter arm guard
This is a real device. You can order one yourself from Brute Force Studios. They’re very popular and as a result there can be a 12 week wait before shipping. The keyboard has a number of features and supports a number of systems. — 3-in-1 multimedia wireless keyboard (Keyboard, TouchPad, Laser Pointer) — Control your […]
Female predator model is so good it’s confused for cosplay
This image was surfaced by the Bestof Cosplay tumblr and the same image is used elsewhere and labelled as cosplay too. It’s certainly very good – but is it cosplay? Is it too good? Have there been any female Predators in the movies? Could this photo actually be from a set? Or could this even […]
Dude, street art turns Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D
This impressive piece of street art was probably done entirely in chalk. It looks like London too. If you look into the sewer you’ll be able to the see the Oxford Street sign stuck in the green “waters”. There must be some skill in being able to get the angles right to suggest 3D and […]
Should gamers pay extra for professional cartography?
Charles White is the co-founder and director of marketing at Fabled Environments. Fabled Environments is an Ennie Award nominated cartography studio with a speciality in modern floor plans and diagrams for RPGs. As we find in this interview with Charles, cyberpunk is about as far into the future as Fabled Environments will go. That’s an […]
The Red Five X-wing Starfighter from LEGO
This is an impressive update to an already impressive LEGO classic. The Red Five X-wing Starfighter has 1,558 pieces and costs about £170/$200. The model includes an R2-D2 atromech droid, wings that open and close as well as a redesigned cockpit. It measures over 26cm high, 52 cm long and 46cm wide. It comes with […]
Weighted Companion Cube stainless steel dice
Are these the ultimate dice for a gamer? Made layer by layer in a 3D printer and then fired to fuse metal particles into solid steel these Companion Cube die measure 9/16″ across. Look heavy? They’re hollow so aren’t as heavy as they might look. You can buy these dice from Niquegeek at Etsy, for […]
Is it real? The Minecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNkD2M_rQlg Have you ever played a game so much that you thought it was real?” Welcome to the Minecraft. This short animation from Hernán Bruna is superb. It’s a tribute and a mashup to two geek favourites; Minecraft and the Matrix. It’s a good pairing as the video makes very clear; the two are similar […]
Otaku and the Holy Alliance of Gamers
Otaku is normally the Japanese term given to people with obsessive interests; often anime, but not always. As it turns out there’s also a French fasion brand called OTAKU and it was for this Otaku that Flordia based Pale Horse, aka Chris Parks, adapted his “Holy Luchadore” series into a set of t-shirts. It’s called […]
RPG Ideas… nearly impossible buildings
These photographs are the work of Jim Kazanjian. You can even buy limited edition prints of the clever work at 23 Sandy. He’s inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and its not hard to see the M.C. Escher influence either. I’m recommending these “nearly impossible” buildings as RPG ideas because it’ll unsettle players in lovely ways. Some […]
