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Welcome to Geek Native's command centre for all things gaming. This is your primary hub for the latest news, reviews, and discoveries from the vibrant worlds of tabletop gaming. We delve deep into immersive tabletop roleplaying games, strategise over the latest board games, and shuffle up for compelling card games. Our passion is for the analogue experience, the roll of the dice, and the community around the table.

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Jenga master

April 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not often this blog posts videos of actual gameplay – especially when we’re talking about a classic game like Jenga rather than a wargame or something similar. This video shows a bunch of friends playing Jenga as one of them attempts an impossible move. Question: was that move legal?

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Jenga

Does the new, free, Mass Effect 3 DLC tease at new game?

April 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This blogger hasn’t yet got to the end of Mass Effect. No spoilers. No worry. What is known that many – not all, but many – gamers were not happy with the ending of the game. Others are less than happy that the ‘best’ ending can only be achieved with substantial multiplayer commitment. BioWare have […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: bioware, free to download, mass effect, Mass Effect 3

Dark Blood promises sexy, adult and free RPG

April 5, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Outspark have announced that they’ll be bringing the Korean PvP fighting RPG Dark Blood to North America and Europe. The free-to-play game is described as; Fast-paced, Hack ‘n’ Slash, PvP Fighting with Mature Content for Core Gamers in the announcement. Philip Yun, the CEO of Outspark, added; ““No question it’s a very sexy game with […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: Free to play, mmorpg

Support gamer art: The Prismatic Art Collection

April 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Yes, I know… another Kicktstarter project. There’s a twist with this one though; this is a project to produce gamer art for you. The project from Tracy Hurley and Daniel Solis will be released under Creative Commons License. That means you can use the pictures they hope to generate in your own RPG. You could […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs

The big gaming names at The Gadget Show Live

April 3, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The co-creator of Fighting Fantasy Steve Jackson will be at The Gadget Show Live. Ian Livingstone, co-creator, of Fighting Fantasy, will also be there. Both of them. Wow. In fact, the life president of Eidos and gaming god Jackson are not the only huge gaming names coming to the April 2012 show. Here’s the full […]

Filed Under: Mobile, Tabletop & RPGs

Dragons Vs Unicorns – can there be a winner?

April 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last month Geek Native directed you to a Kickstarter for Zombies Vs Werewolves and asked which side you would back. Turns out that not many of you back either side; the campaign only raised $3,400 of the $7,500 goal. Step forward another challenger – and this time they need to raise an incredible $45,000 in […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, browser, dragons, ios, kickstarters, unicorns, werewolves, zombies

Tales from Wilderland: Dangerous Business

April 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cubicle 7 have released a video trailer for their forthcoming The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild collection. Tales from Wilderland is an anthology with a set of linked adventures. Penned by Gareth Hanrahan, Tales from Wilderland is a 160-paged softback due out in May or June and available for pre-order already.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, Gareth Hanrahan, lord of the rings, the hobbit, The One Ring

Existential Crisis D&D is not DnD Next

April 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to say that this blogger’s gaming groups have always talked through any change of game mechanics or change of game before the gamers turn up. In this video, I think that’s Jon’s biggest mistake. Shouldn’t ambush the players like this. This video has been out for a few days. Thankfully, in that time […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, humour

Mistborn’s Brandon Sanderson is Author Guest of Honour at Gen Con 2012

March 31, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s lots of Mistborn RPG news this week. Mistborn is a fantasy series written by Brandon Sanderson. Crafty Games have the license for the tabletop Misborn Adventure Game where players learn to master allomancy, feruchemy and hemalurgy while they battle aginst Lord Ruler’s Inquisitors. This week Little Orbit announced that not only would they produce […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, crafty games, gen con, Mistborn

Free to Download: Argyle & Crew – Adventure in the Land of Skcos

March 31, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Over at DriveThru RPG, Troll in the Corner’s Argyle & Crew – Adventure in the Land of Skcos is currently available for free. This is a limited time offer and valid up until the end of the weekend. If it’s the after the 1st of April 2012 when you’re reading this then, sorry, you’ve missed […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download

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