I’m pretty sure you could use these inside as part of an encounter when a touch by an air swimmer equals trouble. You might even be able to get away with dressing up the air swimmer and still having it light enough to fly.
The cosplay highlights of 2011
Photographer Omaru is also a videographer. In other words; he does photos and videos at the same time. That’s given him the chance to together a video montage of some of his favourite cosplays from 2011.
Namco Bandai teams up Insert Coin for SoulCalibur V
Today Namco Bandai announced that InsertCoin Clothing have won the rights to produce an exclusive SoulCalibur V design. Pirate King Cervantes De Leon will get his own t-shirt.
16-bit satire, spoilers and giggles with the Battlestar Galactica RPG
The busy folks at College Humour have once again made teh effort to reach out to geek culture and woo us. This time they pay homage to the classic format of a good 16-bit RPG by wrapping in and poking some fun at Battlestar Galactica.
Interview with Brian Wood of Awesome Dice
Brian Wood runs Awesome Dice shop and accompanying blog. Selling die online is surprisingly competitive and there’s a far greater range of options than even some experienced roleplayers might imagine. When Brian dropped Geek Native a note about a rather clever WordPress dice roller I thought it might be wise to get a walkthrough from the man himself.
Pingu does The Thing
When I write that Pingu does The Thing – I mean that he remakes John Carpenter’s The Thing. I’m sure Pingu can do many things. Pingu, of course, is an animated putty penguin. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic, important but rather gory horror encounter. In fact, The Thing’s gore only sometimes creeps into […]
Wipeout with recreated with Quantum Levitation
If you need a quick introduction to quantum levitation then this link has a pretty funky video. We get to see objects zooming around. We learn that we’re not really using magnets either.
As cool as that introductory video is – it doesn’t come close to the geekgasim of recreating the insanely fast paced racing game Wipeout by using quantum levitation. The vapour trails are just too perfect.
TechRadar launches TechRadarDeals for, um, deals!
The latest twist is TechRadarDeals which looks to tap into the discount culture that grew to dangerous size in 2011. We’re promised lots of 50% and more discounts from the site but only one at a time. In fact, there’s even a count down timer for how long the deal is valid for.
The deadly cute of art of Christopher Uminga
Do check out the website of Christopher Uminga as he draws some fantasticly cute and dangerous comic book heroes and villians. He also takes commission. A sample of his work recently surfaced on Buzzfeed, which I’ll repost some of below, so I imagine he’ll be very busy with new requests. You’ll see from the sample […]
Sexy Star Wars cosplay?
There’s no shortage of Star Wars heavy Tumblrs on the web and certainly no shortage of Star Wars inspired photographs. However, Fashionably Geek recently posted a picture of a sexy Star Wars cosplay – with the catch that the model was dressed up as an Twi’lek (the ones with the brain tentacles) – which started […]
