Beyond the Gates of Antares had raised more than £100,000 on Kickstarter but today the news come the project has been cancelled. The war game was the work of Warlord Studios and Rick Priestley’s Dark Space Corp. Priestley is the co-author of Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Ancient Battles and Warhammer Fantasy Battle. You can never count […]
Terrain: Lizardmen Pillar ruins
These fantastic terrain enhancements were built for a Warhammer game. The designer, William90, is interested in Nerf and robotics, so he’s clearly quite a creative chap. Instructions for building your own lizardman pillar can be found at Instructables if you fancy having a go. The moss-slicked standing stone, shaped like a gargantuan question mark, stood […]
Warlord Games expands to America, teams up with Warhammer 40K creator
Warlord Games, founded by gamers made redundant from Games Workshop, have entered into a partnership with Rick Priestley and are expanded to Arizona in the USA. Based in the Lenton Business Centre, just a mile from their old employees, Warlord Games is run and was founded by John Stallard and Paul Sawyer. The company does […]
Heavy Gear Blitz! Forged in Fire – Southern Field Guide
Dream Pod 9’s Forged in Fire – Southern Field Guide for Heavy Gear Blitz! was uploaded to DriveThru RPG on Christmas Eve. The supplement contains the complete army lists for the Southern Republic Army, MILICIA, the Humanist Alliance Protectorate Force, Mekong Peacekeepers and Eastern Sun Emirate Retines. The standard price is listed as $59.99 but […]
Mongoose Publishing report “miserable RPG market”; print never to recover
Mongoose Publishing is a British RPG publisher. They grew quickly and cleverly during the d20 and OGL era and has been wise with license deals since. I get the feeling unpleasant staffing decisions are taken bravely as and when they’re needed. Despite all this savvy, Matthew Sprange, the owner, has reported a pretty bleak picture […]
Mongoose Publishing crowdfund Judge Dredd: Block War
Mongoose Publishing have the license to the Judge Dredd RPG and the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. The Judge Dredd Miniatures Game as been taking off, with a community buillding around it and additional model sets being produced. Today, Matthew Sprange, the owner of Mongoose, turned to Kickstarter to attempt to crowdfund the Block War supplement […]
Reaper Miniatures’ Bones becomes the 10th $1,000,000+ Kickstarter
The gaming companies are doing so well at Kickstarter. Successes are coming from places that, I safely predict, mainstream press would not have expected and show the size of the RPG community. Reaper Miniatures have just become the 10th company to hit $1,000,000 on Kickstarter. Their campaign, to fun a range of Bones minis has […]
Guest post: Tabletop Nation finds its Captial
This is a guest post from Ivor Whitten of Wee Gamers. The Geek Native guest post series seeks out established bloggers from the geek community who can bring a fresh perspective to this blog’s news feed. Ivor and Wee Gamers are particularly good at covering tabletop games news. Tabletop Nation has just announced further plans […]
EA admit to using GW’s tank design – except not
Yesterday the question was asked is EA stealing Games Workshop tank design?. It was a fair question to ask because the Games Workshop designed Baneblade looked an awful lot like a tank that later appeared in EA’s free-to-play Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. The catch? The tank was never used by EA. GameSpot managed to […]
Mantic opens pre-orders for the Veer-Myn with picture teasers
Mantic Games are taking pre-orders for the Veer-Myn armies. The Veer-Myn (pronounced vermin) are a Warpath race. They are the descendants of rats from cargo ships, mutating over time, that eventually became the Veer-Myn and started to explore other planets or other people’s ships.
