The conclusion? Don’t narrow your sights too much. In dungeon-crawling terms, remember to look up.
Archives for April 2022
Audio EXP: #142 – RPG licenses
Hollywood actors plugging RPG technology, RPG creators digging into the legal text of licenses and news of new games on the way. Oh, and dozens of brilliant new anime titles lining up to compete for the attention of fans. It’s been a busy week squeezed into the usual short podcast.
Galdr and chrome, Vikings and cyberpunk: The Shield Maidens RPG funds in a day
You are a daughter of Freya, blessed by the divine. It is your task to free Yggdrasil from the tyrannical forces that control the greatest source of power: Ymir’s Blood.
March 2022 streaming charts again show British money left on the table
JustWatch is a streaming search engine for movies and shows. You use it to find whether and where you watch what you want. As a result, the platform can produce charts of what the most popular shows are.
Forgotten Fables – Wolves on the Westwind: Ulisses Spiele’s VTT team have been working on a Dark Eye computer game
The first computer game release from Ulisses Spiele and Owned by Gravity will be the visual novel set in Aventuria, the setting for the RPG The Dark Eye.
Ancient alien Earth: Spriggan gets a Netflix premiere date
The reboot of Spriggan is coming, and it’s a few months away. News from AnimeJapan is that Netflix’s ancient civilisation anime is due out on the 18th of June.
War is peace in Netflix’s Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 season 2 trailer
One of the many big titles to get a new trailer in last week’s AnimeJapan 2022 was Netflix’s Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. We’re on to season 2 and picking up from that ending.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #146
I’ve tried my best not to include any pranks in this news summary. I am stupid, though, and may have been tricked. I don’t think so…
Scarlet Republics TTRPG: Outland acquires the rights to a failed computer game
Scarlet Republics is a failed computer roleplaying game. A post from Audacity Interactive, the developer, last year began with “We have failed…” and detailed the end of the project.
No joke: Roleplayers crowdfunded D&D 5e-powered Disaster Hamsters
Deep in the Feywild, nefarious scientist Jaer’i Heliot has finally perfected the art of crafting sentient animals.