Yesterday the question was asked is EA stealing Games Workshop tank design?. It was a fair question to ask because the Games Workshop designed Baneblade looked an awful lot like a tank that later appeared in EA’s free-to-play Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. The catch? The tank was never used by EA. GameSpot managed to […]
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Mantic opens pre-orders for the Veer-Myn with picture teasers
Mantic Games are taking pre-orders for the Veer-Myn armies. The Veer-Myn (pronounced vermin) are a Warpath race. They are the descendants of rats from cargo ships, mutating over time, that eventually became the Veer-Myn and started to explore other planets or other people’s ships.
D101 Games launch The Company
The Company, written by Rik Kershaw-Moore, is a new RPG from D101 Games. It’s available in PDF for $15, $40 Hardcover and $30 Softcover. The game uses the OpenQuest rules system, which is designed for modern day settings and therefore modern day combat. The Company is an elite Private Military Service Provider with global capabilities. […]
EA caught stealing Games Workshop tank designs?
You know how protective Games Workshop are of their ideas, models and designs? In the past they’ve blocked fan made movies that could have had a strong positive effect on their sales and they’ve even blocked retailers trying to sell their models from the ‘wrong’ use of pictures. Let’s just say Games Workshop are very […]
Fus Ro Dah your xBox as Skyrim gets Kinect
Feels like an April Fools – but isn’t. Bethesda have announced Kinect support for Skyrim. This means you’ll be able to voice equip your hero, voice command your ally and voice save or load. Also; you’ll be able to voice shout your shouts. The stuff of legend.
The Future of D&D panel at PAX East #dndnext
Lead Rules Editor Jeremy Crawford and D&D Senior Manager Mike Mearls held a “Future of D&D panel” at PAX East. They start by pointing out how much video gaming as grown since D&D was born and how some players now enter the roleplaying world these days via the digital front. Within seconds, however, they talk […]
Sneak Peek: Next SLA Industries book art
There’s very big news from Nightfall Games and SLA Industries this week with a film looking possible. Nightfall have paired up with Romark to explore TV options as well as comic books. On the back of the news, SLA Industries co-creators Dave Allsop and Jared Earle where at the largest roleplaying convention in Scotland – […]
First Crystal Conquest trailer
Square Enix’s mystery RPG is no longer a mystery. At the start of the month we discovered that CC didn’t stand for Crystal Chronicles. It stood for Crystal Conquest. The new “RPG” turns out to be a browser based, side scrolling, action game. One interesting feature about Crystal Conquest is that is that all action […]
SLA Industries movie on the way? Rights for TV series and film change hands
The 20-year-old SLA Industries from Nightfall games has sold the rights to a TV series and movie production to Romark Entertainment. Romark Entertainment is a full-service production company that specialises in turning high-level IP into films, television, video game and comic books. They have deals in place with Arcana Comics and Bit Fu Studios. In […]
Encounter idea: the puzzle table
This is a real life “secret table”. Artist Kagen Schaefer took four years to complete this commission but when you see the demo you’ll understand why. The concept may appeal to GMs looking for encounter ideas beyond looking into treasure chests. It strikes me that a diplomats desk could well have something like this and […]
