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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.

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Level Up Your Pride: The LGBTQ+ RPG bundle is here!

June 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Headlining the collection is Evil Hat Productions’ award-winning and popular TTRPG, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, alongside Possum Creek Games’ charming Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

Be entraced by The Witcher IV’s hyper detailed world in this Unreal Engine 5.6 demo

June 3, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Today Epic Games offered us a first look at the world of The Witcher IV whilst showing off some incredible new features coming to Unreal Engine 5, during its annual State of Unreal event.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: cd projekt red, unreal engine

A single-player D&D video game is currently in development

June 2, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

The word’s out that Stig Asmussen, director of God of War III and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order, is currently working on a single-player video game set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons in partnership with publisher Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Archetype Entertainment, d&d, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Pay versus Play: Women in TTRPGs

June 2, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The panel’s guests consisted of Dr Rachel of Science and Sorcery, Chelsea, the co-owner of publisher The Wanderer’s Tome, Aida from Euphoria and Jess Jewel of the production company 12 Sided Studio.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Flabbergasted!, the wanderer's tome, uk games expo

Thirty Years of Hell: From Doom’s Shareware Shockwave to the Medieval Fury of The Dark Ages

June 2, 2025 by Sergio Salvador 1 Comment

The oppressive atmosphere, the flickering lights, the distant guttural growls of Imps , the revolutionary graphics… – it was immediately arresting.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: doom

Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: Lovecraft County

June 2, 2025 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Amazing Adventures is a d20 game of modern adventure that uses familiar old school rules but keeps the roll high version of later editions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, horror, lovecraft, world building

Genre Police: Mechanical Shutdown

June 2, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

The response floored me. ‘That’s not how this works, right? We failed the roll, so the information is locked off’. I was totally baffled.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, horror, rpg tips

Wrastlevania: The craziest game 9th Level have ever made

June 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ultra Dracula is immune to all weapons, and the only way to defeat the monster is to pin him three times.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, backerkit, Castlevania, chris o'neill, Metroid, uk games expo

UK Games Expo Awards: Monte Cook Games and Free League Publishing win Best Roleplaying in new format

June 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The UK Games Expo was the biggest yet, with 42,000 people attending the multi-hall event in the NEC. There were also changes to the UK Games Expo Awards this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awards, doomsong, Free League Publishing, mantic games, Monte Cook Games, The One Ring, uk games expo

Anarchy 54 debuts “House of Cards” at UK Games Expo

June 1, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This weekend at UK Games Expo, Pocket Fox Games and Anarchy 54 shared Stand 4-702. That address, by the way, Hall 4 and stand 702, speaks to the sheer size of the Expo!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, uk games expo

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