This video is for fans of “Warehouse 13″ and please be aware it contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the end of season 3 (the finale that recently aired in the US). If you’re a fan of Myka and H. G. Wells and their ongoing love story (okay so it’s subtext, we all know it’s real!), you’re going to say words you never thought you would say after watching this video. Those words are “I totally agree with Hitler”. Hope the lesbian geek in you enjoys this, I know I did and yeah.. I totally agree with Hitler.

We’ve had a bit more use on Facebook the last couple of weeks, so we’ve decided to ramp things up over there. If you’re on facebook and you haven’t liked us yet, you can of course do so: Lesbian Gamers Facebook page. Whereas the website (that’s the thing you’re on at the moment) will remain the hub of relevant gaming news and of course our wonderful forum, the Facebook page is more of an engagement space, well it is a social networking site after all, so let’s be social! We won’t be posting a multitude of crap and filling your facebook pages, we hate when other facebook pages do that, but we will be having fun hopefully, so if you haven’t liked us yet.. get on over and do it you cheeky devil.. go on.

Oh we also added one of those facebook widgety things to the side of the main site.

According to the rather lovely Heather Peace, she plays cop Sam Murray in UK TV series “Lip Service”, series 2 of the show is in the can. There’s still no official release date, though rumors suggest it will air 2012. Peace stated “Officially wrapped on series 2 of Lip Service….. It’s all in the can!! X”. Who else can’t wait to see what becomes of Frankie, Cat, Sam and of course Tess and her hot electrician? Aussie TV viewers, “Lip Service” season 1 is presently airing on Foxtel channel Showcase.

Via Twitter and TVGuruAU.

Previous Lip Service series 2 coverage here at Lesbian Geek.
Lip Service gets second season – Now we can relax!
Help Lip Service get a second season.

If you’re not up to date with “Warehouse 13″ and you don’t want to know who’s gay, avert your eyes. Right, sadly it isn’t Myka or H.G, even though most of us love their chemistry. The new gay character in “Warehouse 13″ is Agent Steve Jinks (played by Aaron Ashmore). So why report on this when it’s not a lesbian? Simple, “Warehouse 13″ is a sci-fi series and this doesn’t happen very often in that genre (though “Caprica” and “Battlestar Galactica” went some way). The thing I loved about the introduction of this story is that there was no story, it was said, accepted and things moved on. Claudia’s response on hearing the news couldn’t have been more perfect and Ashmore’s cool yet dorky demeanor superb, there was no fruity ‘oh he’s obviously gay’, there was no ‘let’s throw in this stereotypical gay thing so the audience gets it’. We can all wish for that Helena Wells and Myka Bering reunion, where they realize they’re made for each other, but chances are that’s not going to happen, but at least “Warehouse 13″ went there and in a nonchalant manner. For those who missed the Myka Bering and Helena Wells goodness, I’ve popped a youtube clip in for you (nice clip by user “nowhere897x”).

We lesbian geek types do love a little Apple love, so intrepid reporter Jayde (no not THAT Jade, but an awesome intrepid reporter none the less) has taken the time to check out this years World Wide Developers Conference, paying particular interest to the all important Apple Keynote. So if you’re an Apple fan, you probably want to check this out.

WWDC 2011 Apple Keynote – A Lesbian Geek Guide

This year at the world wide developers conference 2011 Apple rocked the stage as their keynote showed us their up and coming releases.

So what will we be getting, when and how much will it set us back? These are the main questions we want answers to.

OS X Lion
Lion is Apple’s new addition for Mac OS X but will it roar like a lion or just cough up
fur-balls like a pussy. With a staggering 250 new features lets have a look at the top 10 key features.

Multi touch gestures
With Apple incorporating multi touch track pads in all their latest notebooks this really is a cool feature. Although there are some multi touch gestures already in Snow leopard they always seemed temperamental and some a bit unnatural. With this new feature promising to be fluid and effortless as you just swipe through your photos in iPhoto and pinch to zoom. It also makes web browsing a treat as you no longer have to bother with scroll bars, you simply have to push through the web pages.

Full Screen Applications
Most of Apple’s applications will now have the full screen control in the upper right of the application window and you can run more than one application in full screen mode without ever having to leave full screen mode, just swipe gesture to get back to the desktop and then swipe back to your full screen application.

Mission Control
Combining dashboard, expose and spaces all working together and accessed by a three finger swipe up gesture. This feature – if your anything like me – will be the most useful, giving you an overall view of everything that is going on. It helps you organise your applications and documents into different spaces with ease and to be able to see the over all view of the desktop at the same time and don’t forget your widgets.

Mac App Store
No big whoop on this one, but the mac app store comes built in and ready to go with OS X Lion. Application updates will be delta updates so it will be quicker to download which is good if you don’t have a fast internet connection.

Launch pad
A quick gesture gets you into launch pad where you can see all your applications on your mac no matter where they are installed and you can organise your apps into iOS 4 looking containers which you can of course custom label. All new installed apps will populate automatically to the launch pad.

Resume
Pretty self explanatory, but resume gets you back to your work environment as you left it so you can get to back into your work quicker, not too sure if that’s a good thing or not but non the less still a very nifty little feature. No more having to arrange your windows again or setting up your spaces again just RESUME.

Auto Save
As I’m writing this I am constantly having to press cmd + s which = pain in my cute ass.
well no more as auto save takes away that burden and trauma when something goes wrong and you realised you have lost your work cause you didn’t save! So now at the title bar of a pages document there will be a drop down arrow with the option to lock the document, duplicate or revert to last opened.

Versions
Tied in with the auto save feature versions is constantly saving your work as your doing it with all the changes your making to it, all of these are saved as versions of a document you can also take a manual snap shot. If you’re thinking this is gonna take up a lot of disk space like I was, well don’t get the prozac out just yet as this feature is very efficient at using space, as only the differences between them are saved not the whole document. All these versions can be accessed through the drop down in the title bar under the option browse all version. When sharing a document only the current version is shared so they wont get all the previous stuff, happy days!

Air Drop
A peer to peer (Wi-Fi based network) file sharing feature. It’s easy to use as it is auto discoverable and setup with a nice graphical user interface which can be found in finder under air drop. Documents have to be confirmed at both ends by sender and recipient so no receiving pictures of strangers asses, unless you’re into that sort of thing, in which case all documents are fully encrypted during transfer.

Mail
Not only will mail be more beautiful than Angelina Jolie’s breasts resting in two golden chalices, it also packs some really great new features such as the search functionality where you can create unlimited search filters called tokens to let you narrow it down to a single email. No more colour coded replies as this is replaced by conversation view individual sections, in one message view, containing all original clips and attachments.

So there you have it 10 top features briefly outlined for your general pleasure.

When is it out: Sometime in July unless you’re a developer. Apple’s website has a cool notify me service if you’re an eager beaver.

Where: Mac OS X Lion will only be available to download from the App Store.

How much: UK £20.99 U.S $29.99 Aus $31.99

How Big: Around 4 Gig in size

TTFN
Jayde Draeger

For no other reason than it’s Friday and we thought this was filled with awesome. This video is a fan-made mashup of The Legend of Zelda and 80′s teen film, like The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Anyway who can resist a hot girl in a rainbow tee with a guitar? Not us!!

In this charming critically-acclaimed tale of first love, Link (Jon Tomlinson), an eternal optimist and adventurer, seeks to capture the heart of Zelda, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student (Zane Bauer). He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But the high school’s over-possessive, megalomaniacal Principal Ganondorf (Dominic Moschitti) doesn’t approve and it’s going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

Perfectly capturing the essence of what it means to be a teenager in the 80s, Nick Murphy, Mike Sadorf, and Dom Moschitti reimagine one of the most celebrated video game franchises of all time with the heart, charm, and wit that only they could. It’s the legend of high school. It’s the legend of love. It’s The Legend of Zelda.

Via nickfromflc’s YouTube Channel

You know we’re always on the lookout for any gaming or geek grrly goodness and today we spotted this rather sweet female Boba Fett by deviant artist chewyli. The artist says “I saw this female boba fett on this blog and thought: I can give it my own twist. So here’s a speedpaint of Boobie fett (I apologize for that). Tried the original helmet first, but somehow that design just doesn’t fit on women. So I changed it up a bit, smoothed the lines and made it look more like the ancient version of mandalorian armor (nerd alert). In general what I find disturbs me in some female versions of Boba fett I’ve seen is that the female part is too emphasized and the bad-ass part of Boba Fett isn’t. He/She should look like ready to kill while being a (wo)man of few words”. Boobie Fett aside we thought this was awesome and worth highlighting here at Lesbian Geek.

Source… and please do visit to see the artists other works: Chewyli

The Mac App Store is finally live and we’ve been playing around with it for awhile today, so we thought we’d plop down some thoughts whilst it’s all fresh and spangly in our minds. Firstly you need to run an update to find it, so if you’re having trouble, just mouse over the Apple Logo top left corner, scroll down to “Software Update” and when you’re all updated the new Mac App Store icon should be sitting in your dock, probably in the far left side (if your dock is horizontal). Note though you will need to be running the latest OS. Once you’re in, the UI is crazy neat and if you have an iPad, iPod Touch or iPad you’ll recognize the overall look and feel. There’s the usual sections including ““Featured”, “Top Charts”, “Categories”, “Purchases” and “Updates”.

Seeing all your purchases on one page is cool, though things like iWorks, iPhoto etc that you already own, don’t show for some reason. There’s also a distinct lack of an “Uninstall” feature which seems a glaring omission given the relative ease that would offer users.

Overall the new Mac App Store is a hit, it’s simple to use and as usual is streamlined with the Apple look. I would add in however some “Apps” carry quite the hefty price-tag (LEGO Harry Potter is a whopping $60 AUD) and despite the US to AUD parity of the market (at time of writing), Aussies are still being squeezed for as much as an extra 20% for some titles over and above the US price.

Via [GirlyGamer].

Yay! Lip Service got the second season we were all waiting for. The news was announced a couple of weeks ago but we’ve been swanning around like lazy lesbians enjoying the holiday break… oops! Ahh well, better late than never eh? Our call to help save Lip Service has had quite the comments, thanks to everyone who took the time to comment and support the thread and in turn the show. Now we just have to wait and see what happens! Show creator Harriet Braun said she was incredibly happy to be given the opportunity and added she has some “great twists, turns and surprises” up her sleeve for season 2. Bring it lady!

Hello fellow tabletop RPG geeks and Dragon Age fans! Fancy taking your love of the Dragon Age computer / console RPG adventures one step further, then the Dragon Age tabletop roleplaying game might be for you. For those not in the know, tabletop RPG’s are pretty much restricted only by your imagination. For the gay gamer this of course means any character can be gay or lesbian. This was something that was introduced in the Dragon Age videogame, but in a tabletop setting you could take it all the way.

Here’s the official blurb about the Dragon Age tabletop RPG:

Dragon Age RPG setting: It has been hundreds of years since the last Blight ravaged the world of Thedas. Many believe that it can never happen again, that the Dragon Age will pass without the rise of such evil. They are wrong. Beneath the earth the darkspawn stir. A new archdemon has risen and with it a Blight that will scourge the lands and darken the skies. The nations of Thedas need a new generation of heroes, but who will answer the call?

Fantasy roleplaying goes back to its dark and gritty roots with the Dragon Age RPG, the latest game from the company that brought you A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying and Mutants & Masterminds. Based on the highly anticipated Dragon Age: Origins computer game, the Dragon Age RPG brings the excitement of BioWare’s rich fantasy world to the tabletop. Make your own heroes and control your own destiny as a Blight comes to Thedas once again.

Designed by award-winning author Chris Pramas (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Freeport), Dragon Age features an all-new game system that’s both easy to learn and exciting to play.

The boxed set includes:

• A 64-page Player’s Guide with an introduction to tabletop roleplaying, background on Thedas and the nation of Ferelden, a complete guide to character creation, rules for character classes and talents, a primer on magic, and the basic game rules.
• A 64-page Gamemaster’s Guide with an introduction to this key role, advice on the art of game mastering, advanced game rules, and an introductory adventure that plunges the characters right into the world of Dragon Age.
• A beautiful poster map of the nation of Ferelden, the opening setting for the Dragon Age RPG.
• 3 six-sided dice.

The Dragon Age RPG is the perfect portal to tabletop roleplaying. The core system is easy to use and most actions can be resolved with a roll of the dice. Dragon Age also features an innovative stunt system that keeps combat and spellcasting tense and exciting.

So gather your friends, grab some dice, and get ready to enter a world of heroes and villains, of knights and darkspawn, of gods and demons … the world of Dragon Age!

The cool thing here is that the game sort of hearkens back to the original D&D Boxed Sets. There will be four sets in the Dragon Age tabletop roleplaying game with each one covering 5 levels for the classes of player-characters. Like the original D&D Basic set, the first set includes two books: the Player’s Guide and a Game Master’s Guide, a map and 3 six sided dice. Then all you need is a few friends, some pens and paper and your imaginations.