I really hope Heroes of Neverwinter is a great big D&D success on Facebook. I hope it improves Atari’s fortunes and rescues Wizards from the uncertainty of the future. I think Heroes of Neverwinter will be most successful if it goes mainstream on Facebook – and it could. However, I think Heroes of Neverwinter’s first […]
Archives for October 2011
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games ‘Shadows of the Vashta Nerada’ up for a BIMA Award
The BIMAs are UK awards that celebrate digital and interactive work. They really mean advertising but geeks will be pleased to know there’s a games section. So, what are the candidates for the best British games of the year? With the advertising and marketing filter on the BIMAs should suggest; Doctor Who: The Adventure Games […]
Felicia Day’s Dragon Age Redemption trailer
It’s perhaps not right to say “they’re making a Dragon Age web series”. It feels more like Felicia Day is making the series. SHe’s a co-writer, co-producer and headline star. In fact, it was via Felicia Day’s Google+ stream that I was first made aware of this trailer. That was a few days ago. Minutes […]
Money off: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness
White Wolf have a special deal on DriveThru RPG for Monte Cook’s World of Darkness book. This link puts the book in your basket! beware at the discount. I guess they don’t want to share the discounted price with people outside the mailing list… so, um, time will tell of what they make of Geek […]
Xbox TV in the UK
Yesterday Microsoft gave us some news about the “a new era in television”. The Xbox will be getting another dashboard revamp and we’ll be getting an on demand TV service. Don Mattrick, president of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, said in a press release; Combining the world’s leading TV and entertainment providers with the power […]
The 600 sticks stick bomb
Have you made a stick bomb before? It’s physics being cool. You can build a rain reaction stick bomb where it circles around corners – but how far can you take it? Seen below is “experiment 42”. This represent some 600 sticks all nicely stacked together. Update! Found this. More = bettah!
Mi-Fi: 3’s Mobile Wi-Fi
This is a review of the latest Mi-Fi, aka mobile Wi-Fi, from 3. It’s an Huawei E568 device. If you’ve not heard of Huawei before, don’t worry, they’re a significant brand in this space. In fact, my 3G dongle I have from work is branded in the colours of a mobile network but my laptop […]
What you need to know: “Let’s talk iPhone”
Today, Apple hosted an event called “Let’s talk iPhone”. OMG! The iPhone 5 is coming! Wait, wait… I’m sure the iPhone 5 is coming but today’s announcement was about the iPhone 4S. Actually, today’s announcement was an easy introduction to Tim Cook – the new Apple CEO. He didn’t even get to introduce the iPhone […]
Samsung Central Station Wireless Monitor: Unboxing goes horribly wrong
What’s your view on unboxing videos? Some people wish they would crawl off to the plane of Lawful Evil and die. Other people point out there’s a huge difference between unboxing videos which really just show a product coming out of a box and those unboxing videos that go a step further and show the […]
A first play of The One Ring
Michael McCabe, Mike, reached out to Geek Native through his influential web of contacts with an offer we could not refuse. The deal? He was about to play the brand new The One Ring RPG and was prepared to give us his gameplay impressions. Thanks Mike! Last week, a friend and fellow roleplayer received his […]
