It’ll come as little surprise to many gamers to discover that Monte Cook’s Numenera Kickstarter (pledge) stormed through its funding goals. At the time of posting the project has nearly $75,000 in backing, 900 backers and 36 days to go. Cook has been sharing more teasers and adding stretch goals. The picture above is from […]
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White Wolf’s owners, CCP Games, raise $20M
The Iceland-based CCP Games, makers of EVE Online and owners of White Wolf publishing, have raised $20M in new funding. Most of the cash, in the form of bonds, come from other Icelandic investors and comes in on top of a previous $20M investment round. It’s unlikely that White Wolf, the World of Darkness, or […]
Cracked Open: Inside Lore of the Gods
Right now, DriveThru RPG has 20% off a select number of RPG downloads – if you know the discount code is TooHot8450. One of RPG goodies that qualify for this 20% is DragonWing Games’ Lore of the Gods. Lore of the Gods is the most expensive download that qualifies for a discount this month. Or, […]
Hero Games and Larry Correia to make The Monster Hunters International RPG
Hero Games have partenered with Larry Correia, author of the Monster Hunters series of urban fantasy novels, to produce a new roleplaying game. Set in the “Monster Hunter International” setting the RPG is currently using the name The Monster Hunter International Employee’s Handbook And Roleplaying Game or MHIEHRPG for short. MHIEHRPG will be a full-colour, […]
DiceyDecor for the fashionable gamer: glass dice lamps
A geeky pillow with its own sleep mode is a start – but what can you do if you want to take household geek fashion up to an even higher level? You want people to know, at a glance, that they’re in the home of a gamer and prepare themselves for educated banter and geeky […]
Numenera: Monte Cook announces his new RPG
Popular RPG game designer Monte Cook has announced his new RPG. Back in April, Cook made gamer headlines when he quit the D&D Next project, blaming differences of opinion with the company, but backig the #DNDNext team. His new project, Numenera, is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign and may suggest Cook prefers to push […]
What are Heroclix Fast Forces and Gravity Feeds?
There are many different HeroClix sets; X-Men, Justice League, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Halo, Street Fighter, Gears of War, Chaos War, Marvel 10th Anniversary, Avengers Movie, Galactic Guardians, etc. However, sometimes you’ll see the phrase “Fast Forces” prepended or appended to a title of the range. You may even see discussion about Gravity […]
Infinite X Studio release Quantum RPG beta as a free download
After a successful Kickstarter project, Joshua Frost’s Infinite X Studio, based in Seattle, has released the Quantum Roleplaying Game beta as a free download. Frost said; “We topped 500 downloads over the soft-launch weekend,” “Now that we’ve crushed the PDF download servers at our host, it’s time for the world to know the Quantum RPG […]
Blood Red Sands promises competitive RPG play
Ralph Mazza, author of the indie RPG Universalis, has teamed with Galileo Games to launch a Kickstarter project. Universalis is now 10 years old and successfully enough to be looking at its fourth print run.
How to score 20% off DriveThru RPG this month
About once a month DriveThruRPG make some of their products available for a 20% discount. The catch? You need to know which products and you need to know the discount code. The discount code is in the picture above. TooHot8450. This only leaves the pesky matter of working out which products quality. Geek Native can […]
