A little late with this news but the winners of the 2012 Origin Awards are out. We see a good mix of winners with 18XX and Gamma World being added to the Hall of Fame. Two companies won two awards. Care to guess which? One was Wizards of the Coast – winning for Best Collectable […]
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E3: The Dark Eye: Demonicon
The Dark Eye is a popular German tabletop RPG. It was created by Ulirch Kiesow and published by Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH and Droemer Knaur Verlag. However, publishing transfered to Fantasy Productions (FanPro) after Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH suffered bankruptcy in 1997 and after Knaur backed out of the project. The license again […]
Traveller 5 will Kickstart
Traveller 5 has, at the time of this post, a full 27 days to go to collect its goal of $24,000 on Kickstarter. No surprises here – but Traveller 5 will become another runaway RPG success on the crowdsourcing platform. As I write this introduction, the game has 305 backers and is fast approaching $41,000 […]
Cyberpunk tabletop RPG to become computer game
The Polish games company behind the very popular The Witcher computer RPG announced yesterday that it would be making a new computer game based on the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG from Mike Pondsmith. Pondsmith founded R. Talsorian Games in 1985 and published Cyberpunk 2013 in 1988. Cyberpunk 2020 came in 1990 and Cyberpunk V3 was published […]
The UK Games Expo 2012 Award Winners
The gaming convention UK Games Expo came again to Birmingham this year, running over the the weekend of the 25th to 27th of May. Hosted at the Clarendon the event covers miniature games, card games, board games and RPGs with news, a large trade fair, tournaments and championships. In addition it’s a chance to meet […]
The DnD Next playtest collections
Wizards of the Coast have reached an important stage in the production of the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. The project, known as DnD Next, is being widely playtested by registered gamers across the world. There are some restrictions as to what these tabletop roleplayers can say – don’t expect to see many posts […]
It will happen: The Doom That Came To Atlantic City
The last time Geek Native reported on a Kickstarter that featured tentacles and girls – it was to report that the crowd funding king had cancelled Tentacle Bento. Why? The hentai was too strong. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the icon for The Doom That Came to Atlantic City. Ah […]
Turn to Cthulhu and help fight cancer [good causes]
In 2011 we saw the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu and we have to go all the way back to 2004 to catch up with the release of the 6th edition of the rules. The good news is that the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu is in the works and Paul Fricker […]
The awesome dice infographic
Over on Awesome Dice you’ll find a remarkable post and infographic. Yeah; it’s about dice… but it’s a deep dive on the history of dice, going back to 3100 BCE, to the Egyptian era that surfaced the first d12 and up to modern day. I was impressed. I asked Brian Wood of Awesome Dice to […]
Kickstarter cancels funding for anime tentacle game Tentacle Bento
Tentacle Bento raised more than $30,000 in half the time set aside for a $13,000 request total. The project was set up by Soda Pop, the copany behind Super Dungeon Explore and Relic Knights. The concern? Kickstarter hasn’t said publicly but the implication is the funding site wasn’t happy with a game based around hentai […]
