Local artist and native of Geek Native’s Edinburgh Ian McQue has a range of fantastic illustrations on show. He’s bot blogged for a while but pop over to
Archives for June 2016
Fighting Fantasy in Spaaaace! Stellar Adventures on Kickstarter
Here’s a straight forward Kickstarter proposition for you. In 2011 Arion Games re-released the Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG and now they’re offering to take it to space with Stellar Adventures. You can follow the campaign progress online. [Back this Campaign] There’s no video pitch. Arion are asking for £3,500 and with 20 days on the […]
Ingress sub-factions could turn politics and plot into gameplay
I’m fond of the augmented reality game Ingress, recently suggested some shard alternatives even though they may well be controversial or dismissible and expressed my concerns about the Resistance plot. I think those Resistance concerns have been validated. Since the original box post more plot politics have been revealed. We now know that Resistance founder, […]
Where can you get the Labyrinth POP figures?
Yup! They look awesome, especially Ludo, and they’ll soon be here – Labyrinth Funko Pop figures! It looks like there’s a first set of four; Sarah and the worm, Hoggle, Ludo and Jareth. I’m not sure why Sir Didymus and Ambrosius aren’t around. Perhaps they’re much harder to turn into POPs? Who else would you […]
Serve your kids a monster for breakfast
[I want one!] Simple but effective! This bread cutter helps turn your breakfast into a cyclops monster. The huge hole in the middle? Perfect for an eggy eyeball of certain doom.
Game art and imagination from Jonas Åkerlund
Jonas Åkerlund has an impressive range of styles. His professional profile keeps a focus on his work, rather than bragging sites, citing freelance and personal work. You can check him out on Deviant Art.
The giant LEGO ball machine
This machine was on show at Japan Brickfest 2016. Built from LEGO it puts on quite a ball run. It’s hard to know what to like the most! The basketball courts? The planets? The giraffes! Just the sheer style and cleverness of the build? Impressive stuff.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #27
As more and more anime makes its way from Japan to the West how do you decide what to watch? With Geek Native’s Irregular Reconnaissance we look to trade mini-reviews for mini-reviews. Seen anything good or bad recently? Let us know in the comments below. Meanwhile, here’s a quick recap with what Geek Native HQ […]
Splashy! It’s a cosplay pool party
Cosplay pool parties seem like an odd thing to catch on. But they have. I guess it’s hard for this blogger, tucked away in deepest darkest Scotland, to imagine. The idea is to do cosplay but in swimsuit form? Beat Down Boogie were at ColossalCon 206 and captured plenty of action at Kalahari Waterpark in […]
Privateer Press makes Warmachine and Hordes MK.III rules available for free
You can grab the new MK.III versions of Warmachine and Hordes from Privateer Press. They’re entirely free PDFs. If you’ve already bought MK.II copies of the rules and want to see what’s changed between them then this thread started by Dybbuk on the Privateer Forums helps sum up the differences.
