Making the announcement on BBC Radio 2 on Monday night Peter Capaldi has confirmed his run as the 12th Doctor is over. He’ll leave the show at the end of the 10th series. When does Doctor Who return to TV? The 10th series has been confirmed as starting on Saturday, 15th of April. Capaldi told […]
Archives for January 2017
Due 2017: The Princess Bride RPG
Designed by Steffan O’Sullivan The Princess Bride RPG will be published by Toy Vault this year. The game will huge FUDGE. O’Sullivan designed the FUDGE roleplaying game system and worked on projects like GURPS Swashbucklers and GURPS Bunnies & Burrows. This is an area he knows well. Toy Vault has had a license for the […]
Burning Games tease their 3-strong line up
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 […]
Diversity in comic books: Heroes of Homeroom C turns to Kickstarter
Heroes of Homeroom C is the first effort from the independently owned and operated Aristocrats Comics. It follows Nicola and Albert Hathaway after the 12-year-old twins lose their super powers and end up back in school. Can they manage to have a normal life? Nope. More details are on the official campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aristocratscomics/heroes-of-homeroom-c-an-all-ages-graphic-novel [Back […]
PETA complains about Games Workshop characters ‘wearing’ fur
PETA is an animal rights activist charity with a penchant for PR stunts. Today, they’ve written to the UK’s Games Workshop to ask them to ban ‘fur’ from gaming miniatures. Not real fur. The depiction of fur on the models. You can read a copy of the letter on PETAuk [PDF] but here’s a sample; […]
Imps to mechs: the art of Riyahd Cassiem
Riyahd Cassiem is a freelance concept artist who teaches at 3D World Magazine. His art ranges from stoic sci-fi to scary fantasy. Great model sculpts? Sure. He does those too! There are a few places to check out his work online. He’s generous on Facebook, shares often to DeviantArt and publishes themed bundles to Behance.
Glorantha’s Khan of Khans conquers Kickstarter
The nature of the beast means there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Kickstarter’ but Khan of Khans is complete, just waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to finish before going to the printers, it has more than 300% of target in funds and is being managed by Chaosium. Check out the campaign page here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/khan-of-khans-family-game […]
Would you donate to charity via a videogame?
Research by the Charities Aid Foundation suggests 58% of computer gamers would be interested in donating to charity while they’re playing. This includes in-game purchases. As many gamers, 59%, said they’d be more likely to pay to remove ads if some of that cost went to charities. The research was done in conjunction with Gamestatix […]
Alexa, should I take Audible’s free trial?
Audible is an audio book company owned by Amazon. I’ve been stalking it for a while as a few author friends always seem to be so happy when they’ve a new credit to spend on a book there. Audible’s business model is neither purely a retailer like Amazon nor a subscription model like Spotify. It’s […]
Good Omens comes to TV
Amazon has greenlit the comedic apocalyptic series Good Omens based on Neil Gaiman’s and Terry Prachett’s book. Good Omens will only be available through Amazon Prime Video for most of the world. In the UK the BBC will broadcast the series after the premiere on Prime Video. The show will be set in 2018 when […]
