tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46462458001095925592012-01-29T21:47:41.494ZA web site about all things with Geeks as their primary ingredient; films, books, comics, games, gadgets and t-shirts.Mark Slatteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00327299904659462079noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646245800109592559.post-88162131506703483012009-08-17T23:48:00.007+01:002009-08-19T23:48:29.058+01:00

The Sprite Stitch blog has some very cool images of a Nintendo themed room:With Donkey Kong shelving and a NES Controller coffee table this place is Super Sweet. But much like the Star Wars themed cinema and that Star Trek flat it's the sort of Geek fantasy that is fine to dream of but would feel wrong for anyone over the age of thirteen.Buy Nintendo @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.comBuy gadgets from

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I've been thinking about Fallout 3 LARP again after a friend sent me a Google translated webpage with more images and some commentary:As in all good things, God is in the details and I particularly like the use of computers and the other tech items. Hopefully the laptops actually have a version of the password hacking that features in the game. The most annoying thing in LARP for me is the

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Now like the Brotherhood armour the other week, this is FRAKIN EXCELLENT!I would give my hind repulsors to have the time and the skill to make something like this. I've made plenty of fancy dress outfits and my own leather armour for LARP but this will likely always be a pipe dream.Buy Iron Man @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com | Forbidden Planet

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Monday night is now Geek Night for British TV as the Beeb's new Tomorrows World for the You Tube era show Bang Goes the Theory attempts to steal the faithful from the veteran that is FIVE's The Gadget Show.Review | BBC1 | Mondays 19:30-20:00Bang Goes the Theory is the new kid on the TV block. At a lean 30-minutes it slips in before the old veteran with an episode in-hand and a half-an-hour

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Preview | Due: 2010 | DisneyGood things always come from Comic Con and Tron Legacy is a VERY good thing.Tron was the film from the early 80's that even though CGI was in its infancy, with a little florescent paint and a lot of vision, made you believe in an artificially created world. One that wouldn't be surpassed until the Matrix upgrade it 17-years later.Here Legacy takes all the CGI leaps and

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.Take the red pill. Get the blue screen. That possibly explains my laptops erratic behaviour; recreational drug use.I suspect that if the real Martix wasn't made on Macs this would be eerily similar to the first draft of the script.The SFX and production are excellent on this, considering it is only a comedy short, as well as the script and

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This weeks follow suggestions:@williamshatner - Needs NO introduction!@Microsoft_Xbox - News and updates from the Xbox 360 team.@RockstarGames - New and upadtes from Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto.This week @maycontaingeeks:#StarTrek DS9 - The Alternate = 2Gs for condescending father figures, Odo the Fun Slime special effects and a suspiciously Dax.#StarTrek DS9 - Armageddon Game =

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyPreview | Price: £34.99 | Due: 22/09/09 | Xbox 360 | Bungie/MicrosoftI'm a big fan of Halo 3 now even though I wasn't interested at all at first. I've never been a big fan of FPS games, as I prefer story over shooting, so my first experience was playing four-screen multiplayer on a friends version during our regular Tuesday

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San Diego Comic-Con kicks off today. SDCC is one of THE biggest events in the Geek calendar, along with Gen Con and E3 Expo.Don't let the Comic part of the title, now that we Geeks rule the entertainment world SDCC is were all the big film and TV people go to pimp their new wares.Don't take my word for it though, let Kevin Clerks' Smith tell you about five his coolest encounters at SDCC: Part 1

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Tom Endo write about the need for game merchandise in The Escapist:If you've been a gamer long enough chances are you've stumbled upon or been tempted to purchase some sort of gaming related merchandise. Maybe it was the Halo cat helmet or a Solid Snake statue. We've all been there; I've spent the last six-couple of months stalking Fallout 3 Bobbleheads on eBay and who hasn't wanted one of those

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Preview | $18 | Sizes: XS-3XL | ThreadlessWOW! Now this isn't my usual kind of Tee, it's too bold and reminds me of those cheesy fantasy posters Athena sold in the '80s, but look at the detail! It's like the opening credits of the Twilight Zone. Probably more suited to feminine host but still, WOW!

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That "one small step" landed 40-years ago today. Start the count-down now: 40-years to Mars!

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The first look at Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor and his new companion Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillan.Maryann Johanson writes:Looks like David Tennant’s 10th Doctor geek chic has been exchanged for... what? Nerd chic?I concur. Smith is dressed like a geography teacher from the '70s but with Doc Martins added. A hidden punk element or couldn't BBC costumes find some brown brogues in his size? And

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Slobberblood write in his blog:Ok, it’s almost impossible, I’m trying to be the 15th Doctor, yes I know, don’t say it...I’m trying to RPG The Doctor in the wasteland, using tons of mods I have access to upgrading my character to a high level, only picking skills that the Doctor would have.A great idea, I've always characterised the choices my Fallout character have made, but I have to agree with

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Movie Line have come up with an novel way of filtering the plethora of celebs you can follow on Twitter; A Twitter Tournament of Champions! Let the battle commence!This weeks follow suggestions:@NathanFillion - Actor and star of Firefly/Serenity.@serafinowicz - Actor, comedian and voice of Darth Maul.@scottmcloud - Writer, artist and guru of sequential art.This week @maycontaingeeks:#StarTrek TNG

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Something for the weekend:Enjoy this Star Wars themed word search over the weekend.Buy Star Wars @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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EW.com gives us a first look at Black Widow in Iron Man 2:Scarlett Johansson a Black WidowThe original Black WidowI can't argue with the choice of the sexy Miss Johansson to play the spy/hero/femme-fatal but that hair looks a little odd. I hope it's not a sign of the franchise sliding into the artificial look that a lot of the lesser superhero films have adopted.Did anyone thing Reed's gray sides

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Please watch this video message about a very serious disease with could affect any of us with little warning;Via BoingBoingBuy Duke Nukem @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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May Contains Geeks has joined the Twitterverse! I'll be posting mini-reviews of my daily Geek intake as well as site updates and general Tweet foolishness.You can follow me @maycontaingeeks.If you are new to Twitter and want some help deciding who to follow to maximise your Geek related Tweets, Geek Dad has a handy guide to 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter.Plus, as it is #FollowFriday

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First came the Brotherhood of Steel Armour, now this:Some 300 über-Geeks staged a Fallout themed LARP event at a disused military base in Russia last month.Now I'm a B.I.G. Fallout 3 fan and do go fancy dress camping LARPing on occasion but camping in the Wastelands? That, my little cap collectors, would be a little too depressing...Buy Fallout 3 @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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Downloadable Content is one of the best features of the Next Gen consoles1. This is especially true on my platform of choice the Xbox 360, with new content released daily, although PS3 is slowly catching up.EA have announced two FREE DLCs for their recent and knockout game FIGHT NIGHT Round 4. The first will be a standard content style update featuring: a new gym, sliders, equipment and a Pizza

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So the credit crunch has finally encroached on that last bastion of Geek safety: the virtual world.Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch.One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank. So now that the real world of financial insecurity is causing virtual theft and runs

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Preview | Price: $15 | Sizes: XS-3X | ThreadlessI know I posted a zombie Tee last week but how can I pass this up?The clever thing about Threadless's TypeTees t-shirts is that by limiting the design and just focusing on the humorous slogans they create a very clean and bold Tee.ZOWYFYBs is a good example of that; a simple Geek joke in a perfect blood-on-the-wall font. Something that wouldn't have

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Review | FREE | Writer: Warren Ellis | Artist: Paul Duffield | Avatar PressLike the poster says, a group of twenty-somethings with psychic-powers living in a flooded London and looking after their fellow survivors; both from the elements and other rival communities.Post-apocalyptic Britain, psychic powers, steampunk, swearing, shagging and violence. Everything you expect from the forward-thinking

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John Scalzi (author of The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies and Old Man's War) celebrates the 4th of July (a couple of days early) with an explosive sci-fi movie list: This Saturday, it's July 4, when America celebrates its independence from Britain by blowing things up real good. Nothing says "We, as a nation, aspire to be a beacon of democracy and equal rights" like a truly boom-tastic explosion.

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With Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles officially canceled and any hope of a Jericho-style fan resurrection unlikely, it seemed that no joy could now come from the burial of this great show. Until, that was, I read the blackly humorous rant of show creator and producer Josh Friedman:Everyone says having your show cancelled is like a death but I've been dead before and at least when you're

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How. Frakin'. Cool. Is. This?Now I've made and worn my fair share of fancy dress costumes but I would give the seventh son of my seventh son to turn up in this. This suit has to be ranked with the A-list crafters like the guy who made a the Spartan armour a couple of years ago and all the members of the 501st Legion.Buy Fallout 3 @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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Some useful, if basic, hints from Sky Movies on how to create The Perfect Home Cinema. I would have preferred a few more specifics and technical details, viewing distances and room dimensions are the only ones here, considering What Hi-Fi? was involved.Still this reminds me of a dream I posted about a couple of years ago:A while ago I dreamt that I had build a cinema in a shed in my back garden.

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Review | Price: $18 | Sizes: S-2XL | ThreadlessBRAINS!Actually, I love this Tee more than brains. The use of the shirts own colouring as one of the main image colours, as well as its even layout, makes this a subtle Tee. Subtlety is very important for a versatile Tee; one that can be worn both with your geek mates and out-and-about town without fear of scaring off the norms.Of course the killer

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Preview | On: BBC1 06/07 9pm | BBCI know. I know. Torch-meh!Like every other Whovian, while I genuinely enjoy the new generation of family oriented Doctor Who, I miss the darker edge of some of the older episodes. Who can forget Peter Davison hacking Adric's gold badge in to the heart of the Cyber Leader.So when the BBC announced they would creating a spin-off series targeting an adult audience

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Preview/Demo | Price: 800 MSPs | Xbox Live / Wizards of the CoastTap this!I was never one of the Magic crowd. Sure I tried the game with every other geek when it was first released; I bought a couple of decks and boosters but was put off my the exponential increasing complexity of the rules and the sheer number of cards. But the final nail in my M:TG coffin was the killer decks that the

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Preview | Price: $14.99/17.99 | Think GeekEEE-EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE!Simple but morbidly pleasing. A nice addition would have been a silhouette of an arm and knife that could be seen while you are in the shower. Of course I assuming this could be manufactured easily and wouldn't tip the fear factor past the point were you would cease to bathe. Smells can kill too!£33 for the set is a little expensive,

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Turn the clock back to 1992, I had left school and begun an apprenticeship as an engineer. This meant I was earning a real wage for the first time. Not that I hadn't been paid before, but the pennies I got as pocket-money or for my part-time market job came and went quickly.Now with more money than I could practically spend1, I could afford something substantial. Something that would bring me

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Preview | Price: $14.95 | Due: Soon | Fantasy Flight Games | 3 GsCute. Not a word you should associate with The Great Old One but sill. A little bag of 30 Cthulhu figs is one of those thing that I have no real use for 1 but still really want. The sign of true geek OCD (Obsessive Collective Disorder).1 Maybe as replacement markers in the Arkham Horror board game?Buy Call of Cthulhu @ Amazon.co.uk|

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Preview | Price: $18 | Size: S-3XL | Threadless | 4 GsSuper-Tramp!Down on their luck heroes DO make cool tees. Who would have thought. IMHO Batman seems to have gotten the roughest deal here, at least everyone else has both their shoes. Plus, I am pretty sure if Dianna did go on the Game, she would be more of a high-end, got her own webpage type of hooker.Nice colours. Nice layout; the lamp-post

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Irony.That is what they call it when one day you say that the first expansion for Fallout 3 is at the bottom of your to get list and the next day you discover there is a 30% discount on that very same title.Each week Microsoft offer a discount to Xbox Live Gold Members, but this is the first that meshes with my game collection. Keep an eye on the official page for future offers.P.S. The official

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Having been to several LARP events, we play traditional fantasy with Curious Pastimes rather than the Civil War re-enactments here, and spent more time in the inn than in character I feel a real camaraderie with Gavin's mates.Now if you excuse me, I feel the need for mead...Buy Bill Bailey @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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Preview | Price: 800 MSPs / $9.99 | Format: Xbox 360 / PC | Due: 23rd June | Fallout 3 | 4 GsWelcome to the Swampland!So far I've not bought any of the DLCs for Fallout 3. Despite now spending over 150 hours walking the Wastes there's still things to do and discover in the basic game and I am determined to deal with those before moving onto the next chapter. The first two DLCs, Operation

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PreviewPrice: $25.65Sizes: S-3XZazzle3 GsUTINNI!Star Wars Jawas and an environmentally friendly message; that's two-Geek points in just one Tee! This simple and clearly laid-out image works very well, but despite the eco-benefits of the organic shirt, they always look thin and miss-shapen to me. Fortunately you can change to a different style. Unfortunately, this can add another $10+ to the

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Preview Writer: Ed Brubaker Artist: Bryan Hitch Released: 01/07/2009 Marvel 4 GsAll true Geeks know the film rule; if you don't see the body then the character is not dead. In comics, even if you see the body no-one stays dead forever.Today Marvel announced that this July's Reborn limited series will feature the return of the first and true Captain America; Steve Rogers. Are we surprised? Not

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from Warren Ellis.comOh yeah! A coloured page from the final issue of Planetary. I have been one of those check-for-the-next-Planetary-issue-every-time-I-visit-the-comic-shop guys for too-many-years.My one question: Page 18, does that mean it’s halfway done?Out in October according to the Wildstorm blog.Buy Warren Ellis @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com| Forbidden Planet

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PreviewPrice: £20.58Sizes: S-XLFair Weather Friends3 GsAny self-respecting wrestling fan should recognise this term. Why? Beacuse Stone Cold said so!A simple and bold design but I can't decide if the image is too large, too bright or both. Plus, should the can be open? The cost is a little high too, I would rarely pay over £15 for a Tee, but I suppose it is because these are limited editions.Buy

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USA Today has a first look at Mickey Rourke as the villain Whiplash in the upcoming Iron Man 2 film:Whiplash in Iron Man 2The classic lookThe cape and ponytail are no great loss and Rourke now has an mean ex-con look with those tattoos and the orange jumpsuit. Fingers crossed, IM2 should be as good as the first.Buy Iron Man @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com| Forbidden Planet

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from Paperkraft.netI'm a B.I.G. Fallout 3 fan and occasional crafter, so this paper bobblehead makes me both Geekily happy and a little sad that I am so rubbish at fine-detail work. They also have designs for the Alien Blaster, Megaton bomb and Laser Pistol.Buy Fallout 3 @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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WTF? Spider-Man the musical? With music by U2?If this wasn't June I would be very suspicious of this announcement.Buy Spider-Man @ Amazon.co.uk| Amazon.com

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PreviewPlatform: Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii, Nintendo DSDue: Fall 2009Official web site: marvelultimatealliance.marvel.com4 GsThe story is a re-working of the Civil War major event from 2006. When a super-related tragedy shakes the nation the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe are forced to take side between Captain America and Iron Man over the new Superhuman Registration Act.I've

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It looks like LEGO are releasing a range of constructable adventure games. There's nothing on the web page yet but here are some scans from the LEGO Club Magazine: from LEGO Club MagazineA cute and clever way of porting younglings from LEGO to the world of Geek gaming? I will need to see more details before deciding, but that customisable dice may be worth the RRP alone.Buy LEGO @ Amazon.co.uk

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Brett Ortler's A Litany of Interesting Things blog contains his letters to the new President of the USA. This one is a strangely agreeable but amusing one about learning about world politics and economics from those family board games that we have all played: Dear President Obama,I know we’re in the throes of an economic downturn, so I’ve been trying to think up some ways I could help contribute

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It's true, we gamers are the Atlanteans of the future!Wikipedia:"The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book. It is thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown"I'm off to go and bury some of my old D&D books in the garden now...

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ReviewWriter: Grant MorrisonArtist: Frank QuitelyDC Comics4 Gs"Batman Reborn" begins here in earnest with a new Batman, a new Robin, a new Batmobile, a new Batcave and a new set of villains. The story literally begins with a bang as the new Dynamic Duo chase down the odious Mr Toad and his henchmen in a flying Batmobile. A sky-high interrogation of Mr Toad leads this New Batman back to his

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May Contain Geeks is my web site about all things with Geeks as their primary ingredient; films, books, comics, games, gadgets and t-shirts.FAQHere are the answers to some of the questions that might be on the tip of your tongue:What is a Geek?Geek - slangnoun1. a person with passion and in depth knowledge of a particular field of interest; specifically in creative arts, entertainment or hobbies

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