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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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Continuing the archive of independent Games reporting (Archive Page 94).

Enrique Alcatena’s Liquid Steel Comic arrives in English, accompanied by a new TROIKA! RPG setting

May 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Liquid Steel, the comic book series by artist Enrique Alcatena, is being translated into English for the first time.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, gavriel quiroga, Melsonian Arts Council, troika

Echoes of Steel: Dublin Dreams, Clan Wars, and the Evolving Legacy of MechWarrior 5: Clans

May 14, 2025 by Sergio Salvador Leave a Comment

The year was 1995. Dublin, a city steeped in history and a vibrant, sometimes bewildering, new world for a young exchange student like myself, became an unexpected gateway to the far-flung battlefields of the 31st century thanks to the city’s many warm and welcoming bookshops.

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech

Serenissima Obscura reveals minis & lore with more to come at UK Games Expo

May 14, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set in a fantastical 1507 Venice, Serenissima Obscura is designed to be largely system-agnostic, offering stats for 5e and its own universal shorthand system, with additional compatibility for Ars Magica.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Melina Sedo, miniatures, serenissima obscura, uk games expo, Vortex Verlag

Menagerie Shadowdark bundle offers extensive third-party adventures

May 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Menagerie Press has been a prolific supporter of Shadowdark, with publisher William Murakami-Brundage releasing dozens of diverse dungeon crawls over the past two years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, menagerie press, shadowdark, william murakami-brundage

David Fincher has directed an Xbox ad where a rat awakens his human side through gaming

May 10, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Xbox has just dropped a new trailer directed by David Fincher and Romain Chassaing, called Wake Up, that comes with the tagline: “Wake up the human side”.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: xbox

Genre Police: The Big Short

May 10, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

The classic ‘white whale’ of any RPG gamer’s experience is the long-form campaign.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #308

May 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Recent RPG news includes a fundraiser for Rick Hershey’s injured children, Goodman Games clarifying a controversial partnership, new D&D horror subclasses, a UK publisher skipping GenCon over safety, and Canada’s biggest mini maker is closing.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, drink, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, judges guild, kids in the attic, Rick Hershey, routinely itemised, startplaying, three sails studios, wizards of the coast

Alien: Rogue Incursion announces new ‘Part One: Evolved Edition’ announced for PC and consoles

May 9, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Good news for those who love Alien games but don’t have the nerve to play them in VR! Survios and 20th Century Games have made the announcement that a ‘flattened out” version of Alien: Rogue Incursion is going to be made available for PC and consoles as Part One: Evolved Edition.

Filed Under: Games

Unleash epic adventures: Dive into the Against the Darkmaster bundle

May 9, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Against the Darkmaster adapts old-school percentile systems, notably Middle-Earth Role-Playing (MERP). Characters have six Stats, a Kin, Culture, and Vocation, with a level cap of 10.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bundle of holding, bundles, open ended games

The importance of Photo Mode in modern gaming

May 9, 2025 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

We’ve all used the photo mode at some point or another while playing our favorite games.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: baldur's gate III, death stranding, horizon zero dawn

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