Gen Con has secured sponsorship for the next three years, ending with Gen Con Indy 2015 in a deal with Pazio Publishing. The Pathfinder publisher will boost their Gen Con presence by about 30% this year. This means growing from Booth #203 to supporting events hosted in the Sagamore Ballroom of the Indiana Covention Center. […]
Archives for January 2013
Behold the incredible giant squid adventure story cake!
This is a cake. This incredible cake is from SweetFix and shows a pile of classics like Moby Dick, The Odyssey, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea supporting a fifth book that’s been flung open with pages that look like waves. The tentacles of a giant squid, perhaps straight out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under […]
Steampunk DC cosplay
Hazel Chua of Fashionably Geek reblogged this collection of DC superheroes as steampunk girls. The pictures come via Women of Comicbook Cosplay. I recognise the bottom left as the Steampunk Huntress cosplay of Star Wars and Wine. Can anyone credit the other three cosplayers?
Evil Hat announce Dresden Files Accelerated RPG
Evil Hat Productions have announced a new Dresden Files RPG. The new game is set to launch in 2014 and will be called Dresden Files Accelerated. They initial projection is for a 160 to 240 paged, 6″ x9″ full colour softcover. It’s going to be a slimmer form factor factor than the original Dresden Files. […]
Doctor Who t-shirt battle
Popular flash sale t-shirt site Teefury have two Doctor Who designs in a head to head battle. Bad Landing by Adams Pinto shows the Tardis surrounded by too many enemies to count and Time Fiction by zerbriant is a mashup of Doctor Who and Pulp Fiction. Who’s winning? Currently Time Fiction has the lead. Bad […]
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm opening cinematic
The StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion lands in March. The pack follows on from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and leads into StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void. As the name suggests the expansion keeps the focus on the Zerg. It adds new units, tweaks multiplayer and covers about 20 missions. Will you […]
Gas Powered Games ask a million for Wildman
The current record asking price for a successful Kickstarter is Elite: Dangerous. Frontier Developments asked for £1,250,000 to fund that computer game. That’s just shy of $2m US. Gas Powered Games are asking $1.1m US for the Wildman RPG. They describe Wildman RPG as an “action RPG”. That’s a term that’s become to be used […]
Official Dungeons & Dragons Classics site launches
Wizards of the Coast and DriveThruRPG have today launched DnDClassics.com. This is a new online store for D&D material. There are 80 titles available today, for launch, and it is expected that additional batches of titles will be added to the store starting in February. Dungeons and Dragons PDF downloads have been made available previously […]
Gaming geeks up for Shorty Awards
The Shorty Awards are a big thing and seem to be getting bigger. Their strapline says; “Honoring the Best in Social Media” but that seems to translate as the interwebs. Their homepage is full of American TV stars. There are geeks up for prizes. Have a poke around and find a fellow native geek worth […]
T-shirt: Revenge of the Cuccos
Available for just one week from Gimmick Tees is a shirt appropriate for any roleplayer who’s had a character kick a chicken or two. Fable? Skyrim? A certain Legend of Zelda series? Perhaps.
