Way back in 2004 GameWyrd published an early review of InSpectres. Memento Mori Theatricks and Jared Sorensen already commanded high reguard from the gaming community back then. That station has risen in the last six years. InSpectres is a PDF and, I think, an example of how the PDF RPG industry has helped the community […]
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Is Dust dust? Moves from AEG to Fantasy Flight Games
Fans of Dust Tactics will be interested in today’s news. AEG approached Fantasy Flight, suggested that they take on Dustic Tactics and a chunk of Dust Games library. Fantasy Flight Games agreed. So, why did AEG do this? Todd C Rowland, Senior Brand Manager at Alderac posted in the forums; First and foremost, our commitment […]
The 2010 Ennies nominations have been announced
The Ennies may well be the most significant of the RPG industry awards. Certainly, everyone who’s made it through to this round should be very happy with themselves and will hopefully see a rise in sales just because they’re a nominee. You’ll see some of the products marked with HM – these are honourable mentions […]
Free to Download: Signs and Portents 82
The Mongoose Publishing team have released the latest edition of their free to download e-zine: Signs and Portents. This month is called “Sex, Dice and Gamer Chicks”. That’s because James Desborough and Jonny Nexus are just about to see their Sex, Dice and Gamer Chicks book hit the shelves. The Mongoose supplied summary is below […]
Doctor Who: Aliens and Creatures review
This is a review of the RPG supplement Doctor Who: Aliens and Creatures. It’s the first supplement that I’m aware of from Cubicle 7 for their prestigious Doctor Who license. In other words; you need to have a copy of Adventures in Time and Space before you can play this supplement. That said; I think […]
Hasbro, owner of Wizards of the Coast and Transformers, is forced to deny sale
Hasbro issued a press release to deny market rumours that it was for sale. However, the games company admitted it had been approached by a private equity firm about a possible deal – and that the Board of Directors had turned them down. This is interesting as a private equity company might well decide there […]
Hero Games buys Indie Press Revolution
DOJ Inc – the company most people know as Hero Games – has bought the majority share of Indie Press Revolution. Darren Watts, President of DOJ Inc, said: “I’m delighted to be taking over a sales organization with the brand strength and reputation for quality that IPR has built over the last several years,” “IPR […]
Free to Download: Signs and Portents 81
Mongoose have published their latest issue of Signs and Portents. This is a free to download ezine which highlights news from world Mongoose (from moon Mongoose?), reviews, insights and blurbs from new releases. The Google Viewer below contains the entire issue or you can download from their sites. After the viewer is a couple of […]
HELLAS: Princes of the Universe free preview and clever tactics
I want to see more of this sort of thing. Here’s the background. Hellas is an RPG from Khepera Publishing. Princes of the Universe is the second in book in the HELLAS series (five are planned) and Khepera Publishing and Jerry D. Grayson are asking you to pay towards the development of the book. Why? […]
Eclipse Phase RPG wallpaper (via @EclipsePhase)
Just a quick post – but a good post. These sci-fi horror wallpapers come via @EclipsePhase on Twitter. That’s a reason to follow them (oh, and @GeekNative. I think one of the wisest things an RPG publisher can do is to give away wallpaper. If you can get a gamer to install your game as […]
