In August I wrote about Asmodee, a French group, landing in America by buying Days of Wonder. We can now safely say that was just the beginning of the plan. Yesterday it was announced that Fantasy Flight Games would be merging into Asmodee. “Merging into” is a fan-friendly way of saying that Asmodee has bought […]
Fantasy Flight Games begin The End of the World
Fantasy Flight Games have announced a new tabletop RPG series called “The End of the World”. There will be four books in the series and each one is about horror, survival and the last days of mankind. They are Zombie Apocalypse Wrath of the Gods Alien Invasion Revolt of the Machines Fantasy Flight Games suggest […]
Fantasy art gallery from Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon is a freelance illustrator operating out of California and working for games like Fantasy Flight Games, Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Tor Books and Penguin Books. She’s been a nominee for the likes of Best Professional Art in the Hugo Awards and Best Artist in the World Fantasy Awards. You can check […]
The art of Jake Murray
Jake Murray is an illustrator from Columbus, Ohio who specialises in sci-fi. Jake creates for publishing and advertising markets as well as doing plenty of work in gaming. In particular, gamers might know his work for Fantasy Flight Games. Alternatively, his work for AEG, Dark Horse, Solaris or Mongoose Publishing might well have him on […]
Top selling RPGs this winter: D&D slips even lower
Industry watchers ICv2 have released their research on which RPGs sold best in the Winter of 2013. This data is based on interviews with retailers, distributors and manufacturers. It’ll be US-centric too. The result? These charts aren’t bulletproof but still a pretty good indicator. You can see the chart for Summer 2013 here which had […]
Sleeping giant: Mutant Chronicles relaunches
There’s been games, miniatures and even movies but Mutant Chronicles faded. Now, Modiphius has teamed up with Paradox Entertainment to use Kickstarter to fund a return. There’s nearly £65,000 pledged, six times the funding goal and still three weeks on the clock. [Back this Campaign] Geek Native caught up with Chris Birch, publisher at Modiphius […]
Renowned planet killer and artist: Adam Burn
Based in the UK Adam Burn is an artist with oodles of gaming experience. He’s worked for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games as well as bands, other game developers and authors. He’s produced art for the multiplayer Novus Aeterno, likes sci-fi, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect and Borderlands.
Top RPGs this summer: Pathfinder top, D&D third and Fate Core new in fifth
ICv2 have released their 2013 summer research into the best-selling RPGs. This list is put together from interviews with retailers, distributors and manufactures. In other words they’ve not examined the bags of gamers leaving stores and some key players like large online book stores and second hand markets may not be included but this research […]
Who’s leading the Ennies 2013 pack?
The nominations for the 2013 ENnies are out. These are a big set of awards in the roleplaying publishing world. Counting by hand, I reach 57 publishers nominated and that’s up from just shy of 40 from 2012. Paizo Publishing and Pelgrane Press lead the pack with 7 nominations each, with Cubicle 7 in third […]
A review of Fantasy Flight’s a Game of Thrones card game
The first thing that Fantasy Flight does which makes sense and is yet disappointing is that it keeps the focus on Houses Stark and Lannister. This is only disappointing because the lands of George R. R. Martin’s world are fantastic and I relish every chance to explore them. Sanity check. This is a two player […]
