This infographic is actually helpful — wait, surprise? It lets us know who owns Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hobbit, DC, Sherlock Holmes (movies), Bond (UK), Spider-man (cos he’s differnt), Jason Bourne, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Avatar, Star Trek, Transformers, and oh… wait… what about The Terminator series?
A Tank Girl: Carioca review
When I flipped open Tank Girl: Carioca I did not immediately get the Tank Girl vibe. The art is by Mike McMahon – of plenty of 2000AD and some Doctor Who Classics Omnibus editions. Perhaps I got a mixed signal from the 2000AD style, perhaps it just took me a while to get into the […]
Will Kickstarter bring us Elite: Dangerous?
[Pledge your Support] There’s no video. There are no screen shots. You need to scroll down the page before this Kickstarter pitch even hints at what it is trying to do. They are asking for one and a quarter million pounds. And yet; this Kickstarter might succeed. Frontier Developments is looking to develop the next […]
Halo 4 glyph lights up London
One of the largest and brightest man-made objects ever to fly over London did so last night. The object in question, some 50 feet in diameter and over three tons in weight, was the “Halo 4” Glyph. There’s no doubt Halo 4 is launching with quite a bang. Meanwhile, Master Chief was out on Tower […]
Chariot trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbFMbEVKMG0 [Support this Campaign] Chariot could be a movie about seven strangers who wake up and find themselves on a plane. A U.S. government evacuation program gone horribly wrong or something else entirely? They have got a website here and a pretty good cast; Anthony Montgomery (Star Trek: Enterprise), Sharon Taylor (Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville) and […]
Ultimate Avengers mural
End of the Line is an agency that produces quality, large scale murals, to support everything from movies to independent art events. They’ve just put the finishing touches on an Ultimate Avengers wall that had been hidden by a corporate hospitality tent that sprang up in London for the Olympics. The design is based on […]
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome actually launches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj50xJhWdcM You might remember back in 2010 (yes, that long ago) when SyFy first started flirting with Blood and Chrome as a Battlestar Galactica spinoff. It flipped between being a TV series, an online only series and then being dropped all together. Now the “original” two hour pilot is being chopped up into ten 7 […]
Wizards of the Coast sued over trading card patent
We’re used to seeing tech companies suing tech companies in the States. It’s a strange system worth billions of dollars. A company called Wildcat Intellectual Property Holdings filed a case against Nintendo, Sony, EA, Konami, Zynga and Wizards of the Coast last year in a patent battle. The name ‘Intellectual Property Holdings’ suggests that Wildcat […]
Wonderful DC Women portraits
Deviant artist Kit from Japan has a fantatic collection of DC Women (heroes and villains) looking superb. These posters almost remind me of war posters with their pastel tones and lines but they also seem fun and friendly too. Which is your favourite? Via So Geek Chic.
An interview with Paul Elliott of 43AD
Paul Elliott of Zozer Games is responsible for a number of Traveller products like Outpost Mars, the Vietnam roleplaying game GRUNT and more recently 43AD. At the start of the month, Geek Native posted a look inside the game to reveal Roman soldiers, the grim life of the native Britons, druids and ancient horrors. Paul […]
