Guys, Star Wars Uncut is now available online for your streaming pleasure! What’s Star Wars Uncut, you say? It’s Star Wars: A New Hope, cut up into 473 15-second chunks and remade by fans all over the world. It even won an Emmy! Below is the full movie as posted on Vimeo. But there were [...]
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How could I resist sharing this. Is it bad that I thought of the Weird Al Star Wars version before remembering the classic song?
Minecraft Bink Skin
By maryvarn on January 17th, 2012Posted In: NPC Blog,Random Geekiness,Video Games
As promised, here’s the Bink Minecraft skin! You can grab the image file here. Did you miss the Chloe one? Check out the screencaps of her, or just grab her image file here. Above is a zoomed in picture of what the skin looks like as I’m editing it. It’s a lot of trial and [...]
Happy Blizzcon! Or if that’s not your thing…Happy Lovely October Weekend!
By maryvarn on October 21st, 2011Posted In: NPC Blog,Random Geekiness,Video Games,World of Warcraft
Blizzcon 2011 is upon us. Will it be more exciting than last year? Will there be fun drunken meetups? Will cosplayers level their skill or were they capped long ago? Will Murkablo pets run amok in Azeroth? Will Blizzard announce their new Facebook venture, WoWville? Perhaps by the time you’re reading this you already know the [...]
Guest Art for Luci Phurr’s Imps
By maryvarn on October 3rd, 2011Posted In: NPC Blog,NPC News,Random Geekiness
Happy October everyone! I’d like to draw your attention here. I did guest art for this week’s strips of Luci Phurr’s Imps, an adorably demonic comic that comes out every week day. As you can see by the title, I’m guest #4 – if you go back through the archives a bit you may discover [...]
Game Designer Compares Diablo III to Farmville
By maryvarn on September 29th, 2011Posted In: NPC Blog,Random Geekiness,Video Games
You know what? I haven’t been posting in the blog here enough. I think because I have a grandiose idea of what a blog post here on the site should be, and I also wrongly assume that everyone sees everything I post on Twitter or Google+ or Facebook. And by the way, if you’re wondering [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic Out Dec 20. Will You Be Playing?
By maryvarn on September 25th, 2011Posted In: NPC Blog,Polls,Random Geekiness,Video Games
Bioware recently announced a launch date for Star Wars: The Old Republic, its highly anticipated MMO. Dec 20 for North America, Dec 22 for Europe. Looks like launch dates elsewhere remain in the dark. So what do you think? Are you jumping in? Wait and see? Sworn off of MMO’s? I’m a wait-and-see gal myself. [...]
I just discovered these lovely animated shorts set to recordings of people talking about their missed 9/11 victims and other cool Americans. I embedded a couple below. More great ones on their site.
There’s Something Different About this Tiny Tower Screen Cap…
By maryvarn on July 14th, 2011Posted In: iPhone,NPC Blog,Random Geekiness,Video Games
Hey, there’s a blue bitizen who looks familiar! Tiny Tower is one of those games I’m not really sure I can recommend despite the fact that I’m obsessed with it. It’s an adorable and addictive free iOS game. But there’s not much to it. You build a tower composed of stores and residencies. Bitizens move [...]
Gamer Demographics and Mary’s E3 To-Watch List
By maryvarn on June 9th, 2011Posted In: NPC Blog,Random Geekiness,Video Games
Gamer Demographics If you read NPC, you probably already know that more adults and females play video games than is generally thought by mainstream society. But it’s always nice to have the facts to back that up. The Entertainment Software Association recently published a beautifully designed pdf of a demographic study of gamers and the [...]
