A look back at a week of geeky news, with a new development on how tabletop games are funded, lots of enjoyable new RPGs, Kickstarters and a new season of anime to discuss.

A week of geeky news summed up in a 10-minute podcast. Audio EXP has recommended free TTRPG downloads, Kickstarters, an interview with Legendary Games and not to mention the 2020 Origins Awards winners.

The HeroQuest news breaks, and with a twist, meanwhile, Amazon launches their gaming system, Microsoft spends $7.5 billion on a gaming company, and Batman is getting a tabletop RPG.

Is D&D about to be more mature? Or perhaps it should try and be more child friendly, as some people suggest Mind Flayers are too scary. In any case, the latest free download from Monte Cook Games contains some helpful insight on mental health in games.

Who owns the right to make HeroQuest games? Well, Chaosium is making a HeroQuest game and have done for years. So what happens when an old HeroQuest tries to make a return? We chat about this and other news from the week in the latest Geek Native podcast.

We start off by chatting about Harley Quinn. Is she better off without The Joker or not? And from that chaotic agent of change, we go on to talk about the future of tabletop games, and the big money bets on that being a digital tabletop future.

The latest news from Wizards of the Coast, CMON lose their Game Director and free games discovered for download this week. The theme? Assassins and apocalypses.

Welcome home. This is Audio EXP for the 22nd of August 2020, and the title of this episode is ‘The beginning of RPGs’. [The following is a transcript of Audio EXP: #58] [Also on Stitcher | Spotify | Apple | Google] Was Dungeons & Dragons the first-ever roleplaying game? It’s not a trick question, not […]

Has the lockdown made streaming anime into a billion-dollar business? It looks like it. This episode of Audio EXP looks at geeky stories from the week that’s just gone including the regular dose of tabletop and RPG headlines.

Recent stats from Roll20 show that D&D dominates the RPG scene, but in this podcast, we’ll talk about a few other options that made the news this week.