The 2011 Ennies have been announced. Who are the runners to pay attention too? There are 8 entries for Green Ronin, 11 for Cubicle 7, 10 for Paizo Publishing, 4 for Pelgrane Press, 8 for Wizards of the Coast, 6 for Posthuman Studios, 3 for Gaming Paper, 5 for Arc Dream Publishing, 6 for Catalyst […]
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Jump into the D&D Encounters video
The D&D team have had a long form ad for Encounters up on YouTube for just under a week. It’s worth a watch just for the curiosity factor. This video is an interesting marketing angle. It’s too long to be an ad. It doesn’t deep dive into Encounters enough to be educational. I think it’s […]
Dragons Dogma trailer
In the spirit of “It’s not an RPG – its a non-linear fantasy adventure” comes Dragons Dogma from Capcom. To be fair to Capcom, this is a fighting game, it’s a romp across an open world and pulls on the MT Framework engine. That’s the beast behind the lighting effects and graphics of Resident Evil […]
Does your RPG suffer from female armour syndrome?
I nearly opened this blog post with “I wonder what the figures are…” that would have been a bad start. Let’s return to figure issues later. I wonder what the stats are; the percentage of male gamers who play female characters versus the percentage of female gamers who play male characters. Of the male gamers […]
Star Wars: R2-D2 Operation game
Remember playing Operation? It’s one of those games we played as kids. It’s one of those games we mixed alcohol with as adults and found it was twice as fun. It seems Hasbro might be trying to up the game even further. ToyWiz will be doing brisk trade this week after the interwebs noticed they […]
Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?
This blog took part in the Pottermore speculation. It was fun. When the news was finally announced it felt, at first blush, a bit of an anti-climax. JK would let Harry Potter eBooks be sold from the site. She had some extra Potter mythos to share with the world. We might be able to do […]
Curse down due to hardware; not Games Workshop
I don’t have a status update on the legal conflict between Curse and Games Workshop. Last year Games Workshop unleashed lawyers in response to Curse using the name Warhammer Alliance and making use of domain names like warhammeralliance.com. Curse and sites like mmo-champion.com, wowace.com and diablofans.com are currently down. This is not because of legal […]
WizKids brings HeroClix online [pictures]
HeroClix is coming to the online world and the paid beta program opens today. WizKids teamed ip with Icarus Studios to create a game in which players take part in matches and tournaments on a virtual 3D tabletop. The paid beta makes use of HeroClix sets like “Hammer of Thor” and the “Fantastic Four starting […]
War in the North: Beleram
I’ve given War in the North plenty of coverage on Geek Native because it’s a Lord of the Rings game. The one franchise to rule them all. There’s been a common theme; heroes get in big strike, wonderful giant eagle swoops in and saves them. I was wondering whether this was a “call in an […]
Rise of Nightmares trailer
This blogger isn’t all that into horror games… well, except for anything Cthulhu flavoured, or perhaps BioShock and DeadSpace, so, erm, not really into horror games unless they’re touch with the holy goodness of RPGism. One of the reasons I struggle with some horror games is – even though I see it coming – I’ll […]
