To mark the 25th anniversary of the computer game Street Fighter Capcom will be setting a limited edition chess set. Only 5,000 will be made. It’s a 18″x18″ sandblasted glass chess board and pieces are made silver and pewter-colored resin. The chess figures themselves include Ryu and M. Bison as Kings, Chun-Li and Juri as […]
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It’s Christmas in July! Geek shopping frenzy!
The OneBookShelf team – known for DriveThru RPG, DriveThru Comics and DriveThru Fiction are having a Christmas sale. Yes. It’s July. Yes. It’s a Christmas sale. It’s a huge sale with hundreds of publishers in. Here are just a few random highlights! RPG: Chaosium and Beyond the Mountains of Madness Beyond the Mountains of […]
Female armour in RPGs
This comic strip from Dorkly tackles the thorny issue (or should that be thongy issue) of armour design for female characters in RPGs. They call it “Lady Armor” which isn’t a title I could quite… bare. The question is; do you think this comic strip also solves the contentious issue?
Incredible Warhammer 40k bolt pistol made entirely from Lego!
Jarek is an incredible lego builder. On his YouTube channel he explains that the reason the bolter doesn’t actually fire the bolts was tht he wanted a realistic way to seperate the bullet from the shell during shooting. He could easily build a gun that launched lego blocks – but didn’t think that would interest […]
Achtung! Cthulhu summons Chaosium licence
Chris Birch’s London imprint for RPGs MODIPHIUS has signed a deal with Chaosium to bring the Achtung! Cthulhu campaign series to Call of Cthulhu. The Achtung! Cthulhu setting, which Geek Native wrote about first in March, is Cthulhu among the horror of the Second World War. Zero Point Part 1 “Three Kings” is available at RPG […]
Infinite X Studio posts Quantum RPG teasers
The Quantum RPG was a successful Kickstarter RPG from Infinite X Studios. Joshua Frost asked for $13,000 to bring his ENnie winning talent to a new RPG series and raised an impressive $42,747 from 580 backers. Since then the timing has slipped a little. The version of the game was due out a few weeks […]
The Unquiet Graves in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Warner have released a host more pictures for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menance of the Underdark. This is the expansion that came out at the back of June this year. The Unquiet Graves are the result of Drow necromancers taking over the graveyard in the King’s Forest. This is the dungeon area that introduce players […]
Shadowrun Online Kickstarter to influence tabletop RPG world
There is a Shadowrun computer game in the works that will allow players to influence what happens in the Shadowrun tabletop RPG. Perhaps. Shadowrun Online is a Kickstarter project from Cliffhanger Productions. It’s a bold one and I suspect it’ll be a close call. They’re asking for $500,000 for success. At the time of posting […]
Ian Livingstone writes new Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies
This blogger, like many other geeks, grew up on Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy series of choose your own adventure series. This month, the first Fighting Fantasy book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain turns 30. Speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton, Ian Livingstone said; “When the 30th anniversary was coming along I […]
The Realm of Thyilia – to hell with profits, let’s make a good game
Another day. Another Kickstarter gamer pitch. This time let’s look at The Realm of Thyilia. At the current rate they’re not going to make their goal of $20,000. They’ve raised just $1,035 at the time of posting and have 20 days left to go. It’ll take a big blog to give them some coverage. The […]
