Reddit user /u/KingTofu shared this picture of his friends at DragonCon. It turns out that discovering the monster is just a man in a mask isn’t always a good discovery for the Scooby Gang. Thumbs up for the cosplay and a gold star for the expertly timed jump!
Archives for September 2013
GM Inspiration: Aztec mummy
Need to terrorise your players with an undead horror they’ll recognise … and yet have it be worryingly different? Geek Native does like to share RPG ideas so let me try and address the challenge. What about an Aztec mummy? Whether your game world has an Egypt or Mexico (style country) or not it may […]
Wooden cephalopod riding beast
We’ve featured this impressive steampunk elephant on Geek Native already. Can the company that created the wooden mecha repeat the trick? The short answer is yes – they certainly can. Created for Les Machines de l’le de Nantes is this impressive wooden cephalopod. Squid. Cthulhuspawn. Okay, the elephant walks but I bet this monster creation […]
Laura “Lightning” Jansen wins Dragon Cosplay Summit 2013
I think this is a good idea. If you’ve got a game like Dragon’s Prophet to promote then run a big cosplay event. That’s what Infernum did. During Gamescon in Cologne this year, an event with some 300,000 visitors, they held a cosplay summit competition for the MMORPG. The winner? Laura ‘Lightning’ Jansen; taking 37.8% […]
Steampunk in space? The Kromore 2145 RPG Kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] Raex Games has taken to Kickstarter to try and fun a 300+ colour hardback RPG. Kromore promises to take Victorian steampunk and evolve it to a space era epic. The promise is this; each back gets $20 or more worth of an exclusive play test within 30 days of the end of […]
Sponsored video: War is your business as a Killzone Mercenary
Expanding the Killzone series is Sony’s new Killzone Mercenary. In the PS Vita game you play as the former UCA soldier Arran Danner who has become a merc. This means your skills are up for auciton and sold to either the ISA or Helghast.
10 little known facts about Marvel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzXqrChQ6A Comic book expert? The All Time 10s series turns its attention to Marvel in this video. Prepare yourself for 10 unlikely facts about Marvel. Zombies? Zombies? That one surprises me the most. If they had been successful – how much would it have been worth.
Posters: Minimalist Star Wars designs
Steve Squall is an artist from Louisville, KY. He’s a fan of post-Modernism and Cubism as well as Star Wars. His designs for minimalist posters are striking. Fans can catch more of his work at Deviant Art.
Sound of the Sky: LEGO Takemikazuchi
Sound of the Sky is an anime from A-1 Pictures and Aniplex that follows a young woman called Kanata Sorami who joins the military platroon in the town of Seize. It’s a post-apocalyptic war fought after humanity’s tech levels have regressed from sci-fi to early 20th century standards. This clever LEGO design shows one of […]
Retro arcade installation
New Media Labs wanted retro style game arcades for wall displays. The following was produced by Kraftisan in South Africa in response to the brief. More pictures at Behance.