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 […]
Star Trek Catan is coming
The Settlers of Catan are bolding expanding where no settler has dared expand to before. There will be a Star Trek Catan game from Klaus Teuber and Kosmos. Settlers of Catan in space. We’re expecting the game to be, basically, Settlers of Catan but with Star Trek terminology used on top.
Skyrim Monopoly
Fame for deviant artist Oddeh as their rather good Skyrim Monopoly mockup does the rounds among gamer and geek blogs. Does it make you want to play Monopoly or Skyrim though? Either way you might like to check out Tommy Filth’s Mass Effect Monopoly too. What about the BioShock Monopoly? A bit too late, I’m […]
Fantasy Flight’s Petersen apologies for Mansions of Madness ballsup
It takes guts to step forward and say sorry. It takes twice as much guts to do so when you’re embarrassed about your mistake. So kudos to Christian Petersen the CEO of Fantasy Flight Games. Mansions of Madness is an expansion for Forbidden Alchemy and it had serious playability issues. In other words it snuck […]
Free to Download: Dark Eon Assassin comic
Mongoose Publishing have a new game on the way. It’ll be a solo boardgame and called Dark Eon Assassin: Tyrant of Acheron. A solo boardgame is an interesting idea. Something to do while you’re waiting for gamers to arrive or when you can’t sleep at night. In the game you’re a genetically bred assassin – […]
Star Wars: R2-D2 Operation game
Remember playing Operation? It’s one of those games we played as kids. It’s one of those games we mixed alcohol with as adults and found it was twice as fun. It seems Hasbro might be trying to up the game even further. ToyWiz will be doing brisk trade this week after the interwebs noticed they […]
Wizards announce Dungeons & Dragons: Conquest of Nerath
Wizards of the Coast have shared more information about the forthcoming Conquest of Nerath. If link doesn’t work for you – it’ll be because you’re being redirected to the Amazon UK site which doesn’t yet have the game. I hope this doesn’t point towards distributive issues for WoTC. This is a big issue for Wizards […]
