Ingress is Google’s alternative reality game. Two sides, the green Enlightened and the blue Resistance, battle it out for control of portals. I’ve written about why I feel Google is messing up the Resistance’s story, turning them into hypocrites but I and millions of others still love the game. For the last year the level […]
Google’s Ingress April Fools joke – Pac-man take over
Google’s put their April Fools joke live for their mobile alternative reality game live. Ingress players have their cursor turned into Pac-man and portals are now ghosts. This shouldn’t muck up gameplay too much but it’s certainly going to confuse players who forget what day it is. In Ingress there are two sides who complete […]
6 gifs only Ingress players will understand
Have you succumbed to the lure of Google’s location based alternative reality game Ingress? There are two factions in a struggle against one another; The Enlightened (green) who believe the newly discovered “exotic matter” should be free and that the world can be a better place and The Resistance (blue) who oppose those ideals and […]
Google’s Ingress ARG partners with Schuh
Google’s alternative reality game announced today a deal with shoe retailer, Schuh, that turns their stores into portals in the game. On Google+ the Niantic Project wrote; MI20, a secret British Intelligence Agency, uncovered a series of XM Powerspots across the UK. It is unknown if the Agency still exists, but it seems that part […]
12 spooky transformations: Google helps Halloweenify D&D’s Monster Manual
Plenty of tabletop gamers use Google+. There’s the Roleplaying Games community and others as well as site pages like +Geek Native too. One of my favourite features of Google+ is Auto Awesome. Recent reviews of graphic novels or art books make use of Auto Awesome’s ability to turn photographs into videos. You can see an […]
Google’s Halloween costume stats; 30% Frozen, 40% comic book and 10% game
Which Halloween costumes are most popular right now? Google knows. It’s shared the top 10 for this month and Frozen dominates with Elsa and Olaf in positions #1 and #2. What happened to Black Widow’s face? Google’s post is actually a case study into some clever search marketing that Buy Costumes did. The retailer predicted […]
Game of Thrones corporate takeover
What would the House Sigils look like if some of today’s most memorable brands where Houses in a game of Thrones? This is an issue a contest from DesignCrowd set out to explore. I’ve some of my favourites on show below but there’s plenty more on DesignCrowd’s site. This competition pops on my radar just […]
6 ways to be a social Geek Native
Thanks for visiting the blog. There’s a growing community here and it’s great that you’ve stopped on by. If dropping the RSS Feed into a Google Reader alternative like Feedly is not your favoured way of staying in touch here are some suggestions. #1: Watch on Twitter by following @GeekNative. There’s limited chat from this […]
Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi in at #87 on Google UK’s top 100 2013 searches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MhJZpSyZ94 Google, as you expect, keeps a close eye on what people are searching for. This year Google UK has released a video summary of the trends of 2013 that features a clip from The Day of the Doctor. In their interactive report it is revealed that the actor who’ll play the next generation of […]
Tour the Abandoned Kingdom of the Dwarves: Erebor
Google has a site called Chrome Experiments which showcases what is possible with creative code. The goal is to demonstrate open web tech like Canvas, WebGL and WebRTC. The latest such showcase is a project done in conjunction with The Hobbit film. It is the Abandoned Kingdom of the Dwarves: Erebor. Swipe your way through […]
