We’re just finishing January but we might also need to start planning our December 2018 events! Live promoter Senbla has announced a live concert tour of Star Wars: A New Hope. Fans will be able to watch the film while a live orchestra provides the musical score. If you’ve never enjoyed a movie in this […]
Genre Police: Alienating half my readership by choosing High Fantasy!
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at the one of the two Big Dogs of Fantasy […]
This Sarlacc pillow is something else!
[I want this!] Fancy feeding the kids to a space monster? This Sarlacc has been designed for kids. The centre ring is about 13″ in diameter and the whole thing comes in at about 36″ in diameter. Etsy retailer BedHogShop uses the phrase ‘newborn pillow lounger’ to describe the beast. This newborn pillow lounger can […]
The 10 most popular pictures on Geek Native
Geek Native’s Pinterest profile is used to share images from the blog grouped by themes. It’s a handy way to check out content if you don’t have time to sort through all the posts. The largest board, at the time of writing, is Fantasy Finds with over 1,750 pins followed by Sci-Fi flare with over […]
12 Masks of Halloween: #2 Supreme Leader Snoke
Looking forward to The Last Jedi? We can expect to see a lot more from the Supreme Leader of the First Order. I think it’s safe to see we’ll see the evil baldy often at Halloween too! This Supreme Leader Snoke mask is available from Costume Supercenter. What’s going on here? Each Halloween Geek Native […]
Star Wars: Legion – Miniatures skirmish game
Fantasy Flight Games have big news in the form of Star Wars: Legion an infantry miniatures game. X-Wing has become a hugely popular space fight game, with dogfights, build strategy and collecting. It’s easy to see why the goal of Legion is to bring that to the skirmish tabletop. However, unlike X-Wing, Legion’s miniatures are […]
Star Wars: RPG 30th Anniversary Edition announced
Fantasy Flight Games have an anniversary edition for the Star Wars RPG. The Star Wars Sourcebook is also being brought back – but both books will be limited editions. They’ll come in a stylized slipcase. The original game was first printed by West End Games back in 1987. At the time the trilogy had finished […]
Wait? Wut? Sexy C-3PO body paint?
We’ve featured Kay Pike before with her incredible Deadpool. I think it’s because of her that the term ‘cospaint’ is gaining traction along with ‘cosplay’. It’s wrong on so many levels to say ‘sexy’ and ‘C-3PO’ in the same sentence. Kay is performing art here and some incredible art at that! Mind you, cospaint involves […]
Will this $1,000,000 Dollar R2-D2 find a home?
How much would you pay for an R2-D2 off the set of Star Wars? Is it an investment in movie history? A money maker for 20 years time? This R2-D2 is available on the bidding site Invaluable for $1,000,000. It’s made from original compenents taken from the sets of Star Wars IV, V, VI, I […]
MyGeekBox Father’s Day sale
It turns out the Father’s Day is a good date to look for geeky goodies. The traditional Father’s Day actually dates back to the Middle Ages and isn’t a commercial invention. That Father’s Day, though, should be celebrated on the 19th of March. Oops. Missed it. The more common date, as found in the US […]
