I pull no punches when I talk about my absolute hatred of the 3rd book in the Hunger Games trilogy “Mockingjay.” It’s abysmal on it’s own and even worse when compared to the fantastic Hunger Games and Catching Fire books. So for the first time ever I’m praying they drastically change the 3rd book’s plot when moving it from page to screen.
The movie is still a few months away but we’re already excited about seeing it. The trailers are doing a damn fine job of making it look like a seriously good time. Until the movie hits theaters however we’ll just have to make due with these Hunger Games wallpapers.
Just click the images to get at the full size, then save accordingly!
BTW, we have a ton Perpetually Geeky wallpapers just waiting to be downloaded over at our Facebook page. You should totally visit us and give us a “like!”
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I’m a child of the arcades. I cut my teeth on Mr. Do, Centipede, Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat… you know the drill. There was nothing like heading to Aladdin’s Castle, saddling up to a cabinet, dropping in a token an taking a firm grip of the controls. Tangible, honest to god joysticks and buttons. I love games nowadays, and have embraced touchscreen gaming fully. But still, it’s hard to fondly remember the way it used to be. Enter the Atari Arcade controller powered by Duo.
You may remember Duo as the add on peripheral called Yoomi that is also used in conjunction with the iPad. Discovery Bay Games went back to the idea of physical additions to the iPad to push the device in a new direction once again, this time turning your iPad into a little mini arcade machine.
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We’ve been pretty lazy when it comes to keeping up with this post where we recap what we’ve put out there during the week. I feel it’s high time we get back to that. There’s some great stuff going on behind the scenes as well as what you see here, with more to come next week!
On Monday, I told you why I think the new indie PC game Dustforce is pretty great.
On Tuesday, we had a rare double shot of posts with a new Weekly Wallpaper and Ryan’s Unstoppable Gorg review.
On Wednesday, a new episode of our podcast exploded onto the digital airwaves.
On Thursday, Bryan thinks it’s time someone taught you Tichu.
On Saturday, Dan posted up a gallery of some D&D maps that might interest you.
For our random old post this week I’m pointing back to Dan’s review of the D&D Red Box.
There’s not much left of the weekend but enjoy your Sunday night and we’ll see you this week! If you catch this post in time you might still be able to enter our Magic:TG card contest on our Facebook page.
This is a first for me, and I think as a product for WotC, at least in 4th edition. They’ve been releasing dungeon tile sets to help people build their own layouts with various themes (see our Witchlight Fens gallery here) and then the pre-made adventures typically come with some large foldout maps as well.
Today though we’re taking a look at a pack of those large 21X30 inch foldout maps, 3 double-sided layouts in all. Some of them are totally new, others have long been out of print. If you’ve been looking for a broken down cathedral/cemetery or other haunts to place your characters, you may want to give this one a look. As usual they’re crazy detailed, can be fit into any campaign, and you get 3 sheets (6 maps total).
Sorry for the glare, was tough to get such a large shot at once, and I don’t have any plastic to flatten them out right this second. Enjoy the gallery.
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It’s been a while since I hunkered down with a good “traditional,” card game. Outside of losing a few games of Euchre during the summer, I haven’t sat and played Crazy Eights or Rummi for quite some time, so I was looking forward to getting into the game Tichu, from Rio Grande Games.
After some quick Wikipedia research, I find out the game looks like a variant of two Chinese card games: Choi Dai Di, which is Hong Kong slang that means “Step On the Little Guy,” (nice!); and Da Lao Er, Mandarin slang for, and I’m not making this up…”Big Penis.” With a lineage like that, this game should be big fun.
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