Megavoid Studios has plans to bring new technology into play with fully interactive 2D and 3D tabletop projected maps.
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This steampunk skull by Stacy Epley has a hidden purpose
Who could smash such a charismatic and cigar-chomping skull?
Short film: Star Wars – First Day
First Day was made entirely in Unreal Engine 5, that’s generally used for computer games but, as you see here, perfectly adaptable for animation.
Pokemon and Secretlab: Game gaming chairs
As the streamers show us, though, you can look good while looking after your posture. You can look like a fashionable geek, and I suspect that’s what gaming chair maker Secretlab is going for with their official Pokemon chairs.
Audio EXP: #130 – D&D will get a new boss; $500m for trading cards
One estimate suggests 8 complete RPGs were published every day last year. What’s worth looking forward to this year?
These are the D&D monsters created by AI
The goal of the project was to get more monsters.
Imagining creative video game patents as concept art
As a result of rummaging around the patent archives, Crucial has been able to commission concept art of the more interesting ideas they surfaced.
Free Demo: 3d visualisation for online TTRPG play – The RPG Engine
The RPG Engine isn’t a virtual tabletop, and it’s a tool to help better show your online RPGs to bring them to life.
Randomisers within dice! Milo’s Amazing Dice launch on Kickstarter
On offer in a Kickstarter project are dice-within-dice or, more usefully, other randomisers within dice. In other words, you could have a D1000 in the space of a clunky D12.
The return of Second Games Galore: Geek Native talks to Angus Abranson as this 80s classic relaunches
It is very early days, incredibly early as we’ll discover in the interview with Angus, but Second Games Galore is back.
