Find out when you can play the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy alpha and learn more about Rogue Trader’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 debut.
Owlcat releases free Dark Heresy wallpapers to dress your tech in grimdark style
New art for the upcoming tactical RPG Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has been released, showcasing the grim and gothic style of the Inquisition.
Humble regular, Warhammer 40K returns with Dark Hersey, Black Crusade and Only War
It’s not the Black Library releasing 40K content into Humble Bundle this month; it’s the RPG publisher Cubicle 7, and they’ve plenty of Dark Hersey, Black Crusade and Only War to offer.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #9
This week we’ve seen Shadowrun 6e edge closer to release, more material for Vampire 5e, new rules for The Witcher and Wizards of the Coast open a small scale playtest for D&D as it introduces new subclassses for Monk and Barbarian.
Dark Heresy, a Warhammer 40K RPG, hits Humble Bundle
The core set is Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook, Dark Heresy: Edge of Darkness, Dark Heresy: Tattered Fates Haarlock’s Legacy I and Dark Heresy: Purge the Unclean.
Genre Police: Down And Dirty With Grimdark
Welcome to back Genre police, a new series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. This column we are going to take a look at Grimdark, the new weird kid that moved into town. […]
Grimmest and Darkest: A Review of Dark Heresy, 2nd Edition
Make no mistake about it: the 41st Millenium, as described in the second edition of Dark Heresy, the flagship roleplaying game of the Warhammer 40k franchise, is one of the darkest, grimmest, most brutal settings ever in a role-playing game. A slowly-dying Imperium fights a losing war against countless, limitless enemies across different planes of existence, thousands […]
The best selling RPGs of the winter; Pathfinder rules and D&D slips to third (2012)
ICV2 has released their figures for hobby game sales in the US for the winter of 2012. It’s good news for the year wrap-up with hobby store growth being at 15%, that follows from 20% the year before and in wonderful contrast to the 5% decline we saw in 2008. In fact, 2012 is the […]
The best selling RPGs of the summmer (2012)
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their count of the top five selling roleplaying games this summer. Tallies will always differ but ICv2 run interviews with manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The top five are; Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing) Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch (Fantasy Flight Games) Dragon Age (Green Ronin Publishing) Dungeon […]
Pathfinder tops summer RPG sales
ICv2’s quarterly chart of the best selling RPGs is out and, as expected, Pathfinder tops the chart. There’s a different publisher on each of the top five positions with old favourites and newer entries like Green Ronin’s Dragon Age making the cut. IVc2 reports that games had a great summer – with CCGs and especially […]
