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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.

Sega find a new business stream – urinal game consoles

January 20, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Did you imagine Sega would return to the hardware business and start building consoles again? Okay. Perhaps you did… for the sake of argument let’s say you did. Did you imagine Sega would start to build $2,000 urinals though? And build games into them? Actually, I’m not sure we want to know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YprsmfrdDew

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Japanese genius, sega

Wizards of the Coast brings back AD&D

January 19, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast will republished Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The company will produce premium versions of the original AD&D rulebooks, with original art and content but with new cover designs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, wizards of the coast

GAME hacked as passwords were stored in plain text

January 16, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Update: GAME denies hacking. More hacking worries for gamers. This time Softpedia is reporting that struggling but defiant British retailer GAME has been hacked. The initial reports suggest that usernames, email addresses and password info have been exposed after hackers made use of a shell injection technique. It’s not clear whether credit card details have […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Final Fantasy XIII-2, game, hacking

Blood, gore and very short skirts: Lollipop Chainsaw

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A cheerleader with a giant pink chainsaw battles against a horde of zombies? This is your know-about-this-stuff quickly introduction to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game.

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

Star Trek Catan is coming

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Settlers of Catan are bolding expanding where no settler has dared expand to before. There will be a Star Trek Catan game from Klaus Teuber and Kosmos. Settlers of Catan in space. We’re expecting the game to be, basically, Settlers of Catan but with Star Trek terminology used on top.

Filed Under: Games, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, Catan, Settlers of Catan, star trek

Last chance to win Tera beta pass

January 12, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a teaser video from the TERA MMO RPG. What strikes me straight away is the quality of the graphics. MMOs tend to be much simplier than local games simply because they need to be. MMOs have to cope with much larger worlds and the processing demands of thousands of simultaneous players. TERA is […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: mmo, mmorpg, tera, trailers

RPG publishers react to D&D Next

January 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

On Monday, Wizards of the Coast announced that D&D 5e project is live. The Hasbro owned company promised that the fanbase would be involved in product development. The news was covered by the likes of Forbes and the New York Times and the media pointed out just how divisive Dungeons and Dragons 4e had been. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 6d6 Fireball, Adamant Entertainment, Chris Tregenza, D&D Next, Dungeons & Dragons, hasbro, James Desborough, wizards of the coast

WotC to announce Dungeons and Dragons 5

January 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Liz Schuh directs the publishing and licensing rights for Dungeons & Dragons is quoted by the New York Times today; We want to take that idea of the players crafting that experience to the next level and say: ‘Help us craft the rules. Help us craft how this game is played.’ The article seems to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Skyrim Monopoly

January 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: BioShock, board game, hasbro, mass effect, monopoly, Skyrim

Are Air Swimmers any good for LARPs?

January 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

I’m pretty sure you could use these inside as part of an encounter when a touch by an air swimmer equals trouble. You might even be able to get away with dressing up the air swimmer and still having it light enough to fly.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: larp, monsters, toys

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