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Big Heckin’ Four-Day Prime Day: Board games deal megathread

July 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In 2025, our scramble to find the best discounts and deals on board games won’t be squeezed into one day, as we’ll have four whole days to explore.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, board games, prime day, sales, shopping

Superhero Week: The migration allegory

July 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To conclude 2025’s Superhero Week, I’m writing a set of reflections on one of the reasons I like the genre.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: superhero week, superheroes, Superman

Germany’s top fantasy RPG, The Dark Eye, features in new bundle

July 6, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a revised bundle, last seen in 2023, which means it may not be seen again until 2027.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, the dark eye, Ulisses Spiele

Superhero Week: Marvel introduces a new Captain America for a post-9/11 world

July 6, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new series, Captain America #1, explores this freshly updated continuity. It introduces readers to a young man named David Colton, whose life path is deliberately presented as a mirror to Steve Rogers’.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Captain America, marvel, superhero week, superheroes

Audio EXP Podcast: #293 – Important Deals

July 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week, we cover the significant comic and roleplaying game industry news as Diamond’s collapse impacts publishers like Dynamite and Green Ronin. Learn how you can help and what it means for gamers.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: audio exp, geek native, podcasts

Superhero Week: Dynamite’s $1M crisis

July 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Superhero Week here on Geek Native is intended to be a celebration of superheroes, but there’s a crisis we need to tackle.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Diamond Comic Distributors, Dynamite Entertainment, gail simone, superhero week, the boys

Help Dynamite Entertainment survive: Your excuse to buy Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck comics!

July 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In total, there are 50 comics on offer. You can read more about the comic and game warehouses’ hostage situation with the debtors and the court on Geek Native as well.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: bundles, Diamond Comic Distributors, Dynamite Entertainment, humble

Routinely Itemised: RPG #316

July 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week’s TTRPG news summary covers Diamond’s shocking seizure of games, the 2025 ENnie nominees, Gary Con badge sales, and “new” DC roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, dolmenwood, Dungeons & Dragons, ENnies, gary con, routinely itemised, schwalb entertainment, Shadow of the Demon Lord

Big Heckin’ Four-Day Prime Day: Anyone but Amazon!

July 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ll continue to update this post as the first two weeks of July unfold, so check back to see what else we’ve discovered.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Battlefield Press, prime day, shopping

Horrified tabletop publishers fight for their stock as bankrupt Diamond liquidates

July 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The now-bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors is arguing that because publishers did not file a specific piece of legal paperwork, their ownership rights are now void.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Diamond Comic Distributors, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, Jim Butler, LionWing Publishing, paizo, roll for combat

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