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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.

We also keep you plugged into the digital scene, covering highlights from the worlds of PC blockbusters and the latest releases for Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation. But whether you roll dice or mash buttons, our heart lies with the tabletop. Power up and dive in.

Hasbro slips into the red despite growth in Magic: the Gathering

April 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Hasbro have posted their financial results for the first quarter of 2012. There are some mixed signals but the overall performance of the company is down. To blame? Girls and bad games. The company has four product categories. Here they are along with their 2012 Q1 performance and percentage change. Boys made $302.8m in net […]

Filed Under: Games, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: hasbro, magic the gathering, star wars, Transformers, wizards of the coast

Heroes of Ruin or exclusive Assassin’s Creed III edition in the UK?

April 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s imagine you were wondering where you can get the exclusive Assassin’s Creed III edition in the UK but yo couldn’t find it anywhere. Or let’s imagine you wanted Heroes of Ruin instead – it’s an RPG from Square Enix, the Final Fantasy people, due out for the 3DS in June. You might be surprised […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: assassin's creed III, game, Square Enix, Xbox 360

Why your old RPG books could be releasing volatile chemicals

April 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video answers the question; “Why do old books smell?”. There are a number of reasons but a key part is due to chemical reactions. It’s a bad idea, for example, to store a piece of newspaper in a book as the acidic paper from the newspaper will damage the book over time. At about […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: science

Chronicle City takes a Radical Approach

April 23, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Radical Approach has announced that they’ll be entering into a distribution deal with Chronicle City. Chronicle City is Angus Abranson’s new vehicle, post Cubicle 7, and has already signed some interesting names including Wicked World Games’ Cold & Dark, Dungeonslayers and Firehawk Games. Radical Approach, also based in the UK, is known for fantasy RPG […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Angus Abranson, Chronicle City

Bethesda’s Dishonored

April 22, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This trailer has been out for a couple of days now and this post is just to make sure you’ve seen it. Okay, this post would also like to debate the spelling; Dishonored or Dishonoured – but is willing to set aside all those minor concerns because the game looks epic. This is a story […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: assassin's creed, Bethesda, Dishonored, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Gary Dupuis and the Purple Duck demoness interview

April 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gary Dupuis is a Canadian artist who has worked with a range of RPG publishers. His credits include Steve Jackson Games, Goodman Games, Headless Hydra Games and Purple Duck Games. Gary’s kindly agreed to do a quick email around his latest commission for Purple Duck Games – a demoness. Purple Duck Games have also kindly […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: monsters, pictures

Fan service, ahoy! Lollipop Chainsaw cheerleader has two sisters

April 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Warner are really pushing the Lollipop Chainsaw game. It’s due out on July 15th for Xbox and PlayStation. It’s been making geek news left, right and centre. For example, professional cosplayer Jessica Nigri managed to get herself banned from Pax East after she changed out of her Juliet costume and into something /pink/. Lollipop Chainsaw […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: PlayStation 3, trailers, Xbox 360, zombies

Teasing Cold & Dark: the free to download Lost Redemption

April 19, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last month Geek Native was lucky enough to have an exclusive look at Cold & Dark; an RPG from Wicked World Games. At the time I speculated whether the game might touch on the Mass Effect style. Lost Redemption seems to suggest so. It’s also been noted that Cold & Dark promises to be a […]

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cold & Dark, free to download, mass effect, Wicked World Games

Achieved with CryEngine 3

April 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Cry development portal team have released a preview of what their engine can do. This is a games engine – not a game itself, but the behind the scenes power. What the demo shows is an engine that makes it as easy as possible for publishers to concentrate on the story and action while […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: teasers

Video game planets challenge

April 15, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video was created by Tim Hijlkema (#FB) and has already shot past quarter of a million views in just a day. How many computer games can you recognise from their planets? I got, oh, just shy of ten. Some are easy; I got Portal and Assassin’s Creed with ease. Halo too. The question is […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: assassin's creed, halo, portal

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