In-game ads for tabletop adventures? Someone will invent them. Surely, sadly! < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > We interrupt your cartoon for this brief special announcement – Now with the new “Space Saver Backpack”, you can store 500, 1000, 10000 gold coins! We interrupt your weekly episode of Wizards without Coats to bring […]
Archives for May 2013
Black Crown: Two billion dollar publisher moves into gaming
Random House describe Black Crown as their first move into gaming. It is a move that reflects the publisher recognising digital trends and looking for new platforms to share stories on. According to Wikipedia, Random House had revenues last year of €2.142 billion. That’s about US $2.7 billion and it means a significant new publisher […]
Call of Cthulhu takes the 7th edition to Kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] The video above isn’t the Kickstarter pitch video for the project. There’s no such video. There’s an image header instead which you can see below. The video was actually quite important though. It helped convince me that this wasn’t a fake Kickstarter project. There’s no mention of the pitch on Chaosium’s homepage […]
A hands on review of the Acer Iconia A1
The first way the Iconia A1 impressed me was with the battery life. The Android tablet had a sliver of power in it when I wrestled it out of its wrapper and out of its box. I was in a busy hotel bar, totally unable to get near a power point, but that sliver of […]
Short film: From the Future with Love
Imagine a Robocop-like future where the police have become privatised. You’ll have well equipped officers prowling the streets looking to protect their insurance paying clients. It might be sold a bit like car insurance and breakdown cover; with ads telling you how quickly the police can get to you. In director K-Michel Parandi’s vision you’ll […]
How to serve scary drinks during your horror RPG – the ice scream
The Death Star ice cubes are a popular discovery on Geek Native. They ideal for drinks with any Star Wars game or while watching the movie. That’s great… unless you’re watching horror or playing a Cthulhu RPG. If you’re playing a horror game then is there a way you can add some spook factor to […]
Fantastic Doctor Who companions poster
This image from Morgane Parisi, a French freelancer living in Greece, charts all of the Doctor’s companions from 1963 to 2013. I think Parisi has done a great job but she humbly concedes she missed off character’s like Rose’s father, Stormageddon, Nefertiti and John Ridell as well as a few from 11. I’m sure they […]
An X-Wing Fighter is the largest LEGO ever built
The unveiling a life sized X-Wing Fighter in New York this week made the news and drew huge crowds. Joe Meno, editor-in-chief of BrickJournal was lucky enough to get a secret and personal tour ahead of the big day. His write up appears on Brothers Brick. The model uses more than 5 million bricks, was […]
Curiosity – what the grand winner saw
Here’s an update from the Curiosity has finished post which shared what all the players at the last minute saw. Now we can see what the grand winner saw. This Edinburgh gamer didn’t win – but a gamer down the road did; congratulatuions to Bryan Henderson. Bryan now becomes god. That is to say Bryan […]
A look inside Sojourner’s Quest, is it an AD&D retro-clone?
Sojourner’s Quest is an RPG by Randall C Ellis. The 168-paged PDF, illustrated by Agnieszka Miroslaw-Kalinowska, is on sale at DriveThru RPG for $4.95. The game, along with the free to download character sheets, was the first upload to Sojourner Games’ home in the electronic retailer and has been followed by Module SQ1: Wynold Forest, […]
