The iconic Mayfair Games has been sold to Asmodee North America. The company said; As of today, the management team at Mayfair Games, Inc. announces we will wind down game publishing. After 36 years, this was not an easy decision or one we took lightly, but it was necessary. Once we had come to this […]
Archives for February 2018
18 reasons Drow might leave the Underdark
This feels like a common problem for gamers and DMs to solve; why would the Drow be outside? Dark elves are a fun race to include as an enemy or as a quirky character (if you can avoid the cliches) but why would they be above ground for any length of time? Here’s some quick […]
Introducing the Irregular Reconnaissance Scout
Geek Native’s Irregular Reconnaissance column takes a peek at anime and comic books. It serves up batches of mini-reviews, discussing episodic geekery to share whether or not we think a title is worth sticking with or dropping. Today we can reveal Scout. She’s a cyber-tech mascot for the column and will start to feature in […]
The evolution of Black Panther [infographic]
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee both say Black Panther was their idea and it was time to do a black superhero. Back in 1965 the character was prototyped as ‘Coal Tiger’ and wore yellow. 37 years later Kasper Cole became the White Tiger and ‘Cole and Tiger’ was born. No surprise that HalloweenCostumes is talking […]
Mad World is far darker than expected…
Last Halloween we took a peek at a preview for Mad World. Another MMO? Yawn! Not so. One of the reasons why Mad World is interesting is because it just uses HTML 5 to run. There’s no downloads needed. You can run it any modern browser. We now have a mood trailer and Jandisoft’s game […]
Pew-pew-pew! TIE Fighter lamp
[I need this!] You can’t buy this TIE Fighter poseable lamp yet but you can pre-order it from Merchoid. The magic date is somewhere in July. As you’d expect this is officially licensed Star Wars merch and will set you back about 50 squids. Merchoid does free worldwide shipping. Tempted?
The real monsters gamers face
Artist Toby Allen has done a great thing. He’s created a series of monster cards that depict mental illnesses as monsters. These are the real horrors that so many gamers and members of the geek community face every day. These brilliant illustrations are also available on Society6 so you can buy these as mugs, stationary […]
Here’s a dumb wargame about mechanized fighting potatoes!
Imgur user Mitchael Cthulhu has created Kartoffelkrieg. It’s a game in which mechanized potatoes fight each other. Writing on the image sharing site, Mitchael Cthulhu notes; Sometimes a joke gets out of hand you know? The full rules and temples are free to download from Imgur. If you wanted to actually play this thing you […]
Five circles of hell demons by Call of Cthulhu designer Sandy Petersen
Sandy Petersen may still be best known as the designer of Call of Cthulhu but this iconic demon-master has done plenty since. A focus has been Petersen Games and Kickstarter. The latest project is Planet Apocalypse, a co-op board games in which post-apocalyptic heroes struggle against hordes from Hell. The Kickstarter needs US$100,000 to fund […]
A game designer’s perspective: Storytelling from computers to RPGs
Based on data from the US statista homepage the sales figures for computer and videogames in 2015 was staggering 16.5 billion US dollars, whereas a similar sales figure for tabletop RPGs in 2015, according to ICv2 correspondence letter #90, was a solid 35 million US dollars. From sales figures alone, the computer game industry is […]
