[Support this Campaign] When I say “The Ars Magica computer game could happen” I bet your mind is already turning to Kickstarter. You’d be right. Black Chicken Studios, already responsible for the ages 9 and up Academagia and equally targeted Scheherazadegane 2D sim style roleplaying games, are looking for a tasty $290,000 to get going. […]
Archives for October 2012
The melting skull candle of doom
You can pick up this rather impressive skull candle from Think Geek (while stocks last) for less than $15. The skull is 4″ x 3.5″ x 4.5″ and the longer the wick burns, the more “blood” oozes out from the eye socket. Clearly, gamers will need to put this skull on something sensible before lighting […]
Competition: Win Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Kim Newman’s Dracula Cha Cha Cha is an alternative history in which vampires are common place and accepted in Europe. Throw in some Cold War tensions in Rome, Dracula’s wedding and Bond and you’ve a book worthy of any Anno Dracula fan! Kirkus Reviews said; Newman’s rich novel rises above genre… a superior sequel to […]
Rebuilding Settlers of Catan: An interview with Bill Trammel
A few days ago Geek Native covered the Kickstarter project to produce carefully designed Settlers of Catan gaming boards. In that time the project has raised many more thousands of dollars and hundreds of backers. At the time of writing Bill and Nate’s project is worth more than $150,000. We’re very pleased to say that […]
Are these the best horror RPGs of all time?
Halloween is sneaking ever closer and around the world gamers will be wondering what to do. Some gaming groups will have especially spooky encounters and others will play one off horror games. It’s little surprise that horror RPGs have a spike of sales around about now. Geek Native asked the kindly souls at OneBookShelf (RPGNow […]
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #5 Darth Vader voice changer
We feture an all-time classic now as Geek Native’s Halloween countdown reaches number 5: Darth Vader. As you would hope from a Vader mask this model includes a voice mode that transforms your own voice into Vader’s. The mask also includes the chestplace which helps balance the mighty dome. [Buy it] The 12 Masks of […]
Wolf Children review
Wolf Children is an anime by Mamoru Hosoda who is responsible for Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I watched Summer Wars at the Scotland Loves Anime film festival of 2011 and really enjoyed it – I went into Wolf Children with my expectations high. This is always dangerous. Wolf Children is […]
Blood-C: The Last Dark review
Technically Blood-C: The Last Dark is a sequel but the creative team re-jigs things slightly and the film stands on its own two feet. I didn’t notice or mind that I hadn’t seen any of the previous anime. Action kicks off in a train. A vampire looses control and goes on a face eating rampage. […]
Berserk: Movie 2 – The Battle for Doldrey
The Battle for Doldrey, the second Berserk movie, ensures that anime lives up to its 18-certification with plenty of blood, sweat and tears – blood from a torture scene and some deadly combat and the sweat and tears from all the other physical activities people tend to get up to. The hybrid form of animation […]
Vampire: The Requiem Halloween Sale
White Wolf have kicked off the Halloween season with a sale at DriveThruRPG for Vampire: The Requiem. The sale includes Blood Sorcery by Benjamin Baugh, David Brookshadow, David A Hill Jr and Travis Stout. The book includes a flexible new system for blood sorcery, letting you build and enact your own rituals, Threnodies as sacrificial […]
