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Welcome to Geek Native's command centre for all things gaming. This is your primary hub for the latest news, reviews, and discoveries from the vibrant worlds of tabletop gaming. We delve deep into immersive tabletop roleplaying games, strategise over the latest board games, and shuffle up for compelling card games. Our passion is for the analogue experience, the roll of the dice, and the community around the table.

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Live the lowlife: Save big on Acheron Games’ Brancalonia RPG double feature

June 10, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Explore Brancalonia, a brawly 5E Spaghetti Fantasy world of Knaves, rogues, and folklore monsters with two massive, DRM-free Bundle of Holding collections.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brancalonia, bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons

The World of Two Moons returns as classic ElfQuest roleplaying game goes to retail

June 10, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The classic 1984 ElfQuest roleplaying game returns to store shelves this July in a completely restored, error-free 40th anniversary deluxe box set from Chaosium.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, elfquest, Rick Meints

Pinnacle caps Deadlands 30th anniversary tickets as community rallies for hospitalized art director

June 9, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pinnacle Entertainment Group limits Deadlands 30th anniversary tickets to 100 as the tabletop community rallies to fund a double transplant for art director Aaron Acevedo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aaron Acevedo, deadlands, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds

Paizo announces restructuring and layoffs following Diamond Comics distributor deadlock

June 9, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Following a devastating multi-million pound loss tied to Diamond Comics warehouse litigation, Pathfinder publisher Paizo announces redundancies and scales back official Organised Play.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Diamond Comic Distributors, Jim Butler, jobs, Paizo Publishing

Games Workshop breaks 38-year silence by revealing the Emperor’s true state in Warhammer 40k 11th edition

June 8, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Games Workshop shatters a 38-year narrative veil in Warhammer 40k 11th edition, altering the dark satirical legacy established by John Blanche.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, Space Marines, wargames, warhammer 40k

Valiant Adventures superhero roleplaying game lands on DriveThruComics

June 8, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The core rulebook for Valiant Adventures brings Bloodshot and X-O Manowar to the Mutants and Masterminds engine. Check out the launch details.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrucomics, Green Ronin Publishing, Mutants & Masterminds, Steve Kenson, superheroes, valiant

Routinely Itemised: RPG #363 & #364

June 6, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Catch up on two weeks of tabletop news: UK Games Expo growth, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new TTRPG, WotC’s D&D Beyond council, Neon Odyssey’s record Kickstarter, and June’s Publisher Spotlight.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dark Conspiracy, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, stillfleet, wizards of the coast

The tabletop AI tax: Why policing machine learning is costing indies their livelihood

June 5, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Live from the UK Games Expo 2026, industry leaders break down the devastating timeline and financial costs of policing generative AI allegations in independent tabletop publishing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, uk games expo

White-collar grimdark: Mörk Org makes its retail debut

June 3, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beyond Cataclysm Books brings corporate despair to the tabletop with Mörk Org, an agile office culture parody game compatible with Mörk Borg that made its retail debut at the UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Johan Nohr, mork borg, uk games expo

All aboard the Bigfoot Bus: How Parable Games is bringing Fortean horror to SHIVER this summer

June 3, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From Fortean magazine pastiches to high-profile praise from Paizo design staff, here is the full post-show breakdown on British indie RPG SHIVER: Cryptids.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragonmeet, Jason Bulmahn, parable games, shiver, uk games expo

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