Misc

Tabletop Tuesday: Mongols and Superheroes and Starships? Oh my!

Welcome to the very first edition of Tabletop Tuesday!  This humble corner of Gonna Geek will cover news highlights from the wide world of analog gaming every week.  In addition to covering all the latest news and gossip for board, card, miniatures and roleplaying games I’ll also be discussing some of the terminology commonly used…

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Space Wangs

I’ll admit – I laughed pretty hard when I heard about the “creative” image recently discovered in the large NASA database. If Superbad taught us anything, it’s that every kid has spent endless hours at some point in their life drawing countless male genitalia. These children must grow up eventually, perhaps even into high-level scientists…

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The Next Exciting Episode of Robotech

In 1985, Robotech was first brought to the US by Harmony Gold.  The series blended animation from 3 different Japanese series – Super Dimension Fortess Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada.  This amalgamation created a series which captivated American audiences and helped usher in the huge surge in anime’s popularity during…

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The Walking Dead Will End In Blood

If you’ve been watching The Walking Dead this season you’re bound to be aware that everything has been leading up to tonight’s episode.  Tonight Rick and the prison crew will be forced to confront the Governor and his Woodbury crew.  Fans have to realize that this confrontation will not end well.  This is a fact…

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March Madness comes to Woodbury!

(courtesy of signandtrade.com) With the season finale(s) for The Walking Dead coming up, let’s take a look at how things can play out in the Team Prison vs Team Woodbury throw-down show-down; I only wish I had the fore-thought to make it like a NCAA bracket (Rick would be a one seed, a faceless Woodbury…

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Exclusive First Look: Will Andrea put down The Governor??

Courtesy of  TV GUIDE After weeks of watching The Walking Dead‘s Andrea sleep with the enemy, it looks like she’s (finally!) come to her senses — and TVGuide.com has the exclusive first look! The Walking Dead Postmortem: Is Andrea destined to die? Sunday’s episode (9/8c, AMC) will see The Governor (David Morrisey) hunting down a dissenter who…

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Actress Laurie Holden received death threats from fan

This from ComicBook.Com (3/8/2013): In this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly, there’s a nice long article about Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead. In the article, Norman Reedus talks about what happened after Andrea shot Daryl on the show. Even though Andrea only clipped Daryl in the side of the head with a bullet,…

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The Force Is Strong With Star Trek

The folks over at WizKids know a good thing when they see it.  According to StarTrek.com, they will be adapting their popular Star Trek HeroClix Tactics line of miniatures into a new game called “Star Trek Attack Wing”.  Licensing the “FlightPath Maneuver System” from Fantasy Flight Games, this game looks to be a solid copy…

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WizKids & 4K Media Announce Yu-Gi-Oh Tabletop Games

WizKids has announced that they are teaming up with 4K Media to produce a series of games using their HeroClix miniatures and Quarriors dice-building systems.  The first set will be a clix game with approximately 50 miniatures divided into a 2 player starter set and booster expansion packs.  Anyone familiar with WizKids previous clix games…

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Fantasy Flight’s First Big Box Expansion for Android: Netrunner

The fine folks over at Fantasy Flight Games made my day yesterday with the announcement of their first big box expansion for Android: Netrunner.  Dubbed “Creation & Control“, this boxed set introduces a whole slew of new cards for the Shaper faction of runners and the Haas-Bioroid corporation.   Android: Netrunner is part of Fantasy…

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