One of America’s top youth Scrabble players has been caught cheating and has been expelled from the national championship tournament being held in Flordia. A player on a nearby table noticed the un-named player dropping some blank tiles and hiding them. Blank tiles can be used as wildcards in Scrabble so hiding them, storing them […]
Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Chess Set
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 […]
Vampire: the Masquerade inventor has a new game
Mark Rein•Hagen may be best known for creating the World of Darkness and the flagship RPG from the series – Vampire: the Masquerade. He’s created other games to, including the card game Long Live the King. He’s not done anything that’s hit Geek Native’s radar in a while though. In fact, the Facebook page of […]
Gamers win in the Fantasy Flight and Stronghold “Merchant of Venus” showdown
Back in October 2011, Geek Native posted about game companies battling over Merchant of Venus. It was an awkward situation. Stronghold games signed a deal with the game’s designer and announced a new edition of Merchant of Venus. At the same time, Fantasy Flight Games announced a new edition of Merchant of Venus after signing […]
Rio Grande lose or give up on Carcassonne
Hans im Glück is the German publisher who own the very popular board game Carcassonne. Carcassonne is also available as a computer game via Xbox Live – which goes some way to show just how global it has become. Up until this month Rio Grande Games had the rights to publish the English version of […]
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 […]
EN World looking for Space Fight game designer
Russell Morrissey, who owns EN World, is ready to return to a game design project called Space Fight. The first round of progress came to a halt when his co-designer passed away. Now in an EN World forum Morrus is asking for a wargame or boardgame designer to step up to the mark and help […]
Chronicles of Skin: A doodle game of sympathy and hatred
Cobweb Games, an indie RPG and board game studio based in London, have a new product to tempt us with. It’s called Chronicles of Skin and uses doodles as a mechanism, explores cultures at war and is about tragedy, sympathy and hatred. The game takes about three hours to play and is suitable for 3 […]
Help build an Elder God
Here’s an interesting use for Kickstarter – help build an Elder God. Imagine the scenario. You’re out of your mind and want to summon an Elder God. What do you do? You turn to your friends for help! Of course. Here’s the catch. What if your friends then betray you and push on ahead to […]
WizKids’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Journey to the Lonely Mountain board game
WizKids Games announced this month that they would expand their Lord of the Rings range. The HeroClix publisher already has Lord of the Rings: Nazgul as an offering. The new board game, expected out in the States in October, is designed by Eric Lang and will echo the first Peter Jackson Hobbit film. The deluxe […]
