After The Walking Dead aired on AMC last night, Electronic Arts ran a TV ad for Mass Effect 3. It was called “Take Earth Back” and seems to have been designed to appeal to gamers as well as non-gamers. If you’ve played the demo then you know you have three options at the start which […]
Archives for February 2012
TERA’s Regal Frostlion
It’s fairly common for games to award pre-order customers with a few bonus items. The forthcoming MMORPG TERA (due out May) is no exception. If you pre-order the Collector’s Edition from Play.com – and there may be other shops with similar deals – then not only do you qualify for head start access to the […]
The future of tabletop RPG? The Galaxy Beam
Traditional tabletop roleplaying isn’t ignoring technology and is not simply surrendering to the MMORPGs. For example, Pathfinder is being developed for the online world by Goblinworks and they’re not using the traditional MMORPG model (a hybrid, in fact) for this, D&D have a new virtual tabletop and mobile sites like iPlay4e have shown some gamers […]
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 trailer
This is the second trailer for Space Battleship Yamato 2199. It’s a whopper; weighing in at just shy of 4 minutes long. Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is a remake of the 1974 series (which was known as Star Blazers to some Western audiences) and looks like it’ll be following pretty much the same cast and […]
LEGO Pokemon
It’s not common to see skeleton constructs out of LEGO. That’s because it’s hard. Mike Nieves scores double points with these LEGO builds because not only does he manage the skeleton build we get a Pokemon mashup too. Via Brothers Brick.
Mario Games – The Lana Del Rey Princess Peach parody
It was slightly weird watching the parody before I had heard the original and this blog contains both; paradoy first and Lana Del Rey second. Imagine Princess Peach marries the wrong Mario brother? I couldn’t but help notice all the weird duck face looks the Princess was giving us in the video. In all credit […]
Popular computer games in LEGO
This LEGO animation was created for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards” where Red Dead Redemption won Action Game of the Year, LIMBO won Adventure Game of the Year, Dance Central won Family Game of the Year, Super Street Fighter IV won Fighting Game of the Year, Mass Effect 2 won Game of the Year […]
Cumberbatch as The Master for Dr Who’s 50th anniversary?
Geek Native has written about Benedict Cumberbatch playing the Master before. We’ve even speculated he might appear as or Omega – another powerful Time Lord. Last night The Express, a British tabloid, kicked off speculation again by citing unnamed sources and suggesting that he’ll be The Master for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary. Cumberbatch and previously […]
Forbeck’s Shotguns & Sorcery novels kickstarts
Matt Forbeck is a well established RPG author. He co-founed Pinnacle Entertainment Group, worked for Human Head Studios and now successfully freelances full-time. Game and author credits include the designer on Brave New World: The Roleplaying Game, Designer on Marvel Heroes Battle Dice, Co-Designer on Genestealer and on Mutant Chronicles: Second Edition RPG and he’s […]
Buy the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game
It was back in August of 2011 that we covered news of Margaret Weis Productions landing the Marvel RPG license. At the time we were told there would be some 16 books in total, the first coming out in February as the basic game. It’s now February and Margaret Weis Productions are as good as […]
