The latest trailer for Sony and Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: the Gathering Tactics game keeps the focus on black mana. I’ve mixed feelings about this trailer. Does it suggest a quality game to you or does it feel a bit basic? I think it’s so hard to tell because Magic: the Gathering Tactics is […]
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Rift trailer is impressive
Trion have released a HD trailer of their forthcoming Rift game. It’s a MMORPG but has nothing to do with Palladium Books‘ Rifts RPG. Except. Well. There are rifts – I think the video explains it all. You get to pick sides in Rift. Play as either a Guardian or a technomagical Defiant. Rift uses […]
One Earth: Syfy and Trion in first TVMMO
Syfy and Trion will be working together to produce a collaborative TV show and MMO. Syfy, as you’d expect, are doing the TV show and Trion are doing the MMO. What’s interesting about this is how the two will converge into one. The project currently has the code name “One Earth” and it seems fitting. […]
PayPal smacks down World of Warcraft cheats
I’ve not met a single World of Warcraft die-hard friend who appreciates gold sellers and buyers. However, gold selling has been a constant ever since the game kicked off. This week PayPal has started to do something about it. The eBay owned money mover has started to shutdown accounts belonging to some of the biggest […]
Nintendo Gamecube three times more popular than Xbox 360 in Japan
You might have heard that the Xbox isn’t very popular in Japan. It’s true. There’s lots of reasons why this is the case – it’s the console from America, the games don’t always suit the Japanese market and the PlayStation 2 is so incredibly strong there. The Nintendo DS is even stronger. A recent survey […]
Games Workshop revenue down by £2.5m; selling less but squeezing more
We knew this was coming because Games Workshop did the publicly listed responsible thing of issuing a post-Christmas warning and today, with the figures out, we can see the £2.5m drop in revenue. Revenue for the last year stands at £60m, that’s down from about £62.5m the year before. As expected pre-tax profits are down […]
New Pathfinder RPG Hardcover coming August: Ultimate Combat
Paizo are aiming for August as a release date for their new hardcover supplement for Pathfinder. Ultimate Combat is, well, what you suspect it is. There are three new Pathfinder RPG classes; gunslinger, samurai and ninja. The samurai is an unstoppable warrior with a code of honour. The gunslinger makes use of the new grit […]
Battlefield Press’s Double Spiral War to use the 12°
Battlefield Press, the company responsible for the Open Anime RPG system and Gaslight, has struck a deal with Rouge Games to make use of 12° rule system. 12° was created by Richard Iorio II and James Maliszewski, aka Rouge Games, and is used in games like Colonial Gothic, Thousand Suns and Shadow, Sword & Spell. […]
LittleBigPlanet 2 in real life
Something to distract you this lunch time. This isn’t about Sack Boy escaping Little Big Planet to invade our life and jump on our cows. No. This is about Little Big Planet being made real and manifest by the talented team at Escapist Magazine. It’s never wise to check out YouTube comments. This is one […]
Are Wizards of the Coast about to announce D&D 5e?
Update: A year after this post was written, Wizards of the Coast announced D&D 5e. It will be, in part, crowd sourced. There’s some speculation out there in interwebyland that Wizards of the Coast are working on the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Speculation kicked off with Bill Slavicsek‘s Ampersand article called Icy […]
