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Here’s a dumb wargame about mechanized fighting potatoes!

February 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imgur user Mitchael Cthulhu has created Kartoffelkrieg. It’s a game in which mechanized potatoes fight each other. Writing on the image sharing site, Mitchael Cthulhu notes; Sometimes a joke gets out of hand you know? The full rules and temples are free to download from Imgur. If you wanted to actually play this thing you […]

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Three days left: Albino Dragon’s Ghostbusters and your exclusive coin

January 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Up until January 24th if you spend $50 or more (excluding shipping) at Albino Dragon you’ll be able to secure one of 100 exclusive coins. Why are they doing this? To raise $5,000 by next week. It seems they have a chance to create a new Ghostbusters game based on the mechanics on their Ink […]

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Only 100 available – IWOOT’s Game of Thrones Monopoly

October 22, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last week Geek Native noticed that Hawkin’s was running out of Pokemon Monopoly. We joked about how many different types of Monopoly there are now and suggested Rule 231. If there’s a franchise that’s still going and older than 5 years then there’s probably a Monopoly version. Step up Game of Thrones Monopoly. UK retailer, […]

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Sold out before Christmas? Pokemon Monopoly

October 17, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An eagle-eyed reader (or perhaps a sly dog from a marketing team) got in touch to point out Hawkin’s, one of the largest specialist chains in the UK, was down to just 6 copies of Pokemon Monopoly already. I didn’t even know there was such a thing – but I’m not surprised. There must be […]

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Star Wars: Legion – Miniatures skirmish game

August 19, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Flight Games have big news in the form of Star Wars: Legion an infantry miniatures game. X-Wing has become a hugely popular space fight game, with dogfights, build strategy and collecting. It’s easy to see why the goal of Legion is to bring that to the skirmish tabletop. However, unlike X-Wing, Legion’s miniatures are […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, darth vader, fantasy flight games, Luke Skywalker, minis, star wars, war games

The Fallout board game will be out for Christmas

August 12, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Flight Games and Bethesda’s Fallout board game has been announced for Q4 2017. That means you can put it on your Christmas wishlist. The game is for 1 to 4 players who must decide whether they work together or not. The game is based on the landscape of Fallout 3 and 4. Wilds and […]

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Andrew Gaia launches board game Kickstater

June 11, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Andrew Gaia is an illustrator who has worked with the likes of AEG and Fantasy Flight Games. He and his brothers have founded Gaia Games and put together a Kickstarter for Bio-logic a board game where you’re a virus trying to take over a body. You can read the full pitch on the campaign page. […]

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Burning Games tease their 3-strong line up

January 30, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spanish publisher Burning Games caught attention with the Kickstarter for their sci-fi Faith. Now fans have even more reason to be watching the radar. There are three games due out in 2017. Faith: Core Book This Kickstarter with fire up a new Core Book and expand the mythos of the Faith RPG. We’ll get the […]

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Beware! The DOOM board game is here

December 21, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[I need this!] The DOOM board game is here and if you want to buy it in the UK then you need to be rich. It’s currently worth £200 if you want to order it on Amazon. One reseller is asking £600. The official price is $75.95 from Fantasy Flight Games. The tactical combat board […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, demons, doom, fantasy flight games, sales

Massive Darkness rakes in massive mega bucks

June 27, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cool Mini or Not’s latest Kickstarter has two weeks left to run and is well over the $2,000,000 mark! Check out the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/massive-darkness [Back this Campaign] The pledge tiers are simple. The early bird has sold out. That leaves you with the ‘Lightbringer Pledge’ level for $120. You’ll get the Massive Darkness core […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters

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