BioWare has announced a series of new features for their massively multiplayer online role-playing game and Star Wars franchise – The Old Republic. The level cap will be going up and with comes Makeb, a new planet, that is the centre of attention for the Hutt Cartel. There’s a new Warzone in the form of […]
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Nintendo’s GamePad announced ahead of E3
Nintendo have held a significant press event ahead of E3. In it the company put the spotlight on the Wii U’s control pad. The control pad is a screen and a console in itself. Now it has a name; GamePad. The device has a gyroscope/accelerometer, a NFC reader/writer as well as a pressure-sensitive touchscreen, d-pad […]
Traveller 5 will Kickstart
Traveller 5 has, at the time of this post, a full 27 days to go to collect its goal of $24,000 on Kickstarter. No surprises here – but Traveller 5 will become another runaway RPG success on the crowdsourcing platform. As I write this introduction, the game has 305 backers and is fast approaching $41,000 […]
Skyrim: Dawnguard – the first trailer for the first DLC
Bethesda have released the trailer video for Skyrim: Dawnguard. Rather than waiting for E3, Bethesda are teasing us today for the first piece of DLC for Skyrim – due out on Xbox Live this summer. It’ll cost 1600 Microsoft points. Our hero is tempted by the dark side… the very dark side. From what I’ve […]
Cyberpunk tabletop RPG to become computer game
The Polish games company behind the very popular The Witcher computer RPG announced yesterday that it would be making a new computer game based on the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG from Mike Pondsmith. Pondsmith founded R. Talsorian Games in 1985 and published Cyberpunk 2013 in 1988. Cyberpunk 2020 came in 1990 and Cyberpunk V3 was published […]
The UK Games Expo 2012 Award Winners
The gaming convention UK Games Expo came again to Birmingham this year, running over the the weekend of the 25th to 27th of May. Hosted at the Clarendon the event covers miniature games, card games, board games and RPGs with news, a large trade fair, tournaments and championships. In addition it’s a chance to meet […]
Standards body rules against Activision
In the United Kingdom the ASA is celebrating 50 years of helping to enforce legal, decent, honest and truthful advertising. Today they ruled against Activision and adverts for Call of Duty Elite. The Call of Duty Elite site was designed as an online community for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and offered both a free […]
The DnD Next playtest collections
Wizards of the Coast have reached an important stage in the production of the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. The project, known as DnD Next, is being widely playtested by registered gamers across the world. There are some restrictions as to what these tabletop roleplayers can say – don’t expect to see many posts […]
It will happen: The Doom That Came To Atlantic City
The last time Geek Native reported on a Kickstarter that featured tentacles and girls – it was to report that the crowd funding king had cancelled Tentacle Bento. Why? The hentai was too strong. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the icon for The Doom That Came to Atlantic City. Ah […]
DDO: Werewolf dungeons and dryads
The Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion, the first premium one, Menance of the Underdark is out in June. As the release date gets closer the PR company teases us with more and more art from the free to play MMO. The most recent set of art returns, once again, to Eveningstar. This time we’ve two […]
