Many gamers have told this blogger that CD Projekt’s The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was the best cRPG of last year. The catch? It was only out for the PC. It’ll be a year after the PC release but in April of 2012 The Witcher 2 will make an appearance on the Xbox 360. […]
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Female Shepard in her very own Mass Effect 3 trailer
Is it a big deal that the Shepard who stars in this Mass Effect 3 trailer is the female version? If you’re not familiar with Mass Effect 3 then you can play either a male or female version of the main character but not tinker with her race like you can in many fantasy RPGs. […]
Wizards of the Coast launch Kaijudo
Kaijudo is a new Duel Masters franchise from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast, of course, being Hasbro’s brand not just for Dungeons and Dragons but for trading card games too. Kaijudo is described as a multimedia franchise. This means expect computer games, toys as well as the trading card game […]
A War of Words: Quarrel Review
If you have ever enjoyed either Risk or Scrabble, and you own an Xbox 360, this is for you. Denki’s Quarrel has finally completed its epic journey and is at last available on Xbox Live Arcade. At it’s most basic Quarrel is a fusion of Risk and Scrabble. Two to four player compete to win […]
Wizards duel in the Great Battle of Skyrim
This Machinima orchestrion from Tyrannicon makes use of the modding tools available for Skyrim. Watch two wizards use armies to battle one another. We’re talking 500 Dragur, 200 skeletons and a skeletal dragon against 500 Dwarven Warriors. Okay, the blurb says Dwarven Warriors but I think they’re just humans in dwarf armour. This more than […]
Steve Jackson Games release five classic GURPS Conan titles in PDF
The original GURPS Conan titles were published for GURPS Third Edition and have not been available for nearly 20 years. Today, Steve Jackson Games re-release GURPS Classic: Conan Beyond Thunder River, GURPS Classic: Conan – Moon of Blood, GURPS Classic: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast, GURPS Classic: Conan the Wyrmslayer and GURPS […]
Free to Download: Words of the Wise
Cubicle 7 are giving away the adventure Words of the Wise. This is a The One Ring adventure that they ran during GenCon 2011. In the game the heroes will have to deliver a message to King Thranduil for Radagast the Brown. Sound simple? Maybe but the adventurers will have make they way through the […]
The Angus Abranson interview: A look inside Chronicle City
Angus Abranson is very well known within RPG circles and is associated with games like The One Ring, Doctor Who and The Laundry Files. Along with Dave Allsop he co-founded Cubicle 7 in 2003, secured backing from Rebellion in 2009 and took it fulltime. The surprise came in November 2011 when Angus announced he was […]
Unholy Wine
The pictures below are from a conceptual design project from Daniel Brokstad. This is Poessession – The Unholy Wine Collection. There are three bottles in the set; Evil Demon – Bloody Shiraz, Haunting Host – Spoory Cabernet and Old Witch – Cursed Pinot Noir. I recommend checking out Daniel’s site for the full experience. The […]
Privateer Press introduces the Iron Kingdoms RPG
Privateer Press is well known for Warmachine and Hordes. These are both fantasy war games. They also have the Iron Kingdom RPG. Iron Kingdom is not new. In fact, it won the 2004 Weird GameWyrd Game Awards as a wyrd winner for The Most Atmospheric RPG or Supplement. However, this video from Privateer Press was […]
