Tabletop Forge is a Kickstarter project to build a Google Hangout app. It’s a very good sign that the campaign has exploded on Google+ with the interest. As adland says; “It’s gone viral”. At the time of posting this blog post Google+ comments about Tabletop Forge. It’s interesting to note that only a small percentage […]
Archives for June 2012
Never seen before: Return of the Jedi footage
On the 6th of June, 2012, never seen before footage from behind the scenes of Return of the Jedi was uploaded to YouTube. It’s from Super 8mm film and is about 7 minutes long. The footage is from a documentary by Jeff Broz. He was out in Buttercup Valley in 1982 as they filmed the […]
Can you date the toys?
Intel, the chip people, have Project Monument going over at MSN at the minute. It’s a campaign that lets people reminisce over their favourite stuff. Think of the Facebook timeline – but in the traditional horizontal and focused on things that you remember fondly. Monuments, perhaps, momentos certainly. I’ve had fun trying to guess the […]
Collider #2 and an interview with Mike Garley
Mike Garley is a writer and editor who lectures, professionally, on writing for comics as well as the use of comics in transmedia campaigns. He runs the comic anthology Dead Roots based on a zombie plague. It is no surprise that Mike is the lead author for the comics in the transmedia franchise Collider. Alongside […]
The Humble Indie Bundle V Just Got Awesomer!
The Humble Indie Bundle V is packed full of indie games brilliance!
Free to play: Pirate Storm multiplayer online game
Pirate Storm is a free to play online game from BigPoint. It’s a browser game which allows both PvP and PvE battles – battles against other pirates and monsters. The game isn’t all about straight ship battles, though. There are some 100 quests and players can customise both their chip and their character. Pirate Storm […]
Rio Grande lose or give up on Carcassonne
Hans im Glück is the German publisher who own the very popular board game Carcassonne. Carcassonne is also available as a computer game via Xbox Live – which goes some way to show just how global it has become. Up until this month Rio Grande Games had the rights to publish the English version of […]
Konami release Yu-Go-Oh! BAM for Facebook
Konami have taken the still popular collectible card game Yu-Go-Oh! and ported it to Facebook. Yu-Gi-Oh! Bam includes over 300 specially adapted, virtual, cards, rewards and the ability to battle opponents of differing skill levels. The game also supports solo-play, allowing players to progress through levels and explore carefully designed backdrop art. Newbies benefit from tutorials and […]
Who won the 2012 Origin Awards?
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 […]
How much would you pay for chocolate? What about £350 for chocolate skulls?
These chocolate skulls from Firebox look incredible. They look realistic and they’re the right size. As Firebox shows; you could use these for a Shakespeare play. I imagine you could use them for a LARP too. The danger would be the same; they’d be eaten. There’s another catch too. These 2.5kg chocolate skulls weigh in […]
