Archive for January, 2010

Replenish at the Mana Bar

January 28th, 2010 – 9:05 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Events,Games

Fans of gaming, booze, and general socialites will soon have a place to gather when ‘Mana Bar’ opens up this year in Brisbane, Australia. Currently in the last stages of setup in Brisbane’s night life strip The Valley, The Mana Bar will serve as a great place to meet up. Owned and operated by gamers [...]

Review: Darksiders

January 27th, 2010 – 6:52 pm Posted by: Zach

Developer – Vigil Games Publisher – THQ Available on – Xbox 360, PS3 Reviewed on – Xbox 360 Darksiders is the product of every 90s gamers fantasy, being thrown quite literally into the apocalypse. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been remade for the current generation and overall it’s a good experience. Darksiders [...]

Canned Geek Podcast – Episode 34: What is a cassette?

January 16th, 2010 – 5:41 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Pod/Vodcasts

The Canned Geek Podcast is a monthly geek-culture podcast featuring Will Owen and Kyle Evans from Canned Geek and Myself. Three Melbourne geeks sit around talking about two films from 2009 you should probably go see (Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and It Might Get Loud), the surprising news that the Spiderman movie franchise [...]

Upcoming Event: Brisbane & Melbourne Supanova Pop Culture Expo 2010

January 12th, 2010 – 8:18 pm Posted by: Jamwa
Filed as: Events

The guest line-up and dates for this years Supanova expo for Brisbane & Melbourne were recently announced, and this year there are a couple of pretty big names in the world of geekdom appearing, most notably Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Spike himself James Marsters and legendary fantasy artist Boris Vallejo. BRISBANE April 9-11, RNA Showgrounds [...]

Game Connect Asia Pacific 09

January 10th, 2010 – 10:22 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Events,Games

Game Connect Asia Pacific is an annual conference and networking event for the Asia Pacific games industry, hosted by the Game Developer’s Association of Australia. This years GCAP was held at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne from the 6th – 8th of December and quite an entertaining event.

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

January 8th, 2010 – 1:35 pm Posted by: Kyle

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a film based on the book by Roald Dahl and while I don’t recall too many specifics of the book, I do recall it being clever, amusing and one of my favourite books for a time. I’m uncertain just how faithful an adaptation this film is, but it does still conjure [...]