Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry have nominated March 30th to be International Tabletop Day and are asking gamers to support it. Not sure? Here’s 10 reasons why it’s a good idea. 1. You’ll be supporting local businesses This is a great chance for local businesses to attract gaming geeks into the store. This a chance […]
Did Kickstarter cut roleplayers out of their gamer thank you?
It’s good of Kickstarter to recognise the roll of gaming in that too. Here’s how important gaming is to them; these stats come from Kickstarter, noting how games leap from 8th to 1st. 1. Games — $50 million 2. Film — $42 million 3. Design — $40 million 4. Music — $25 million 5. Technology […]
Who’s leading the Ennies 2012 pack?
The nominees for the 2012 Ennies have be announced ahead of Gen-Con. There’s just shy of 40 different publishers, excluding blogs, who have a nomination this year which proves what a diverse and well balanced industry RPG publishing is. Looking at the publishers with the most nominations we discover that the top five all have […]
Superhero Week: 10 superhero RPGs battle it out
We’re halfway through superhero week for 2012 and it’s about time we dug out the roleplaying games. RPGs have given superhero genre plenty of attention over the years. We’ve had some fantastic games. Which is your all time favourite superhero RPG? Check out the list below. Is your favourite game included? Leave a note in […]
Interview with RPG designer James Desborough
James Desborough runs Postmortem Studios and is a self-employed games designer. This month Desborough finds himself in a whirlwind of attention when a petition against him urged Mongoose Publishing to drop his work. That petition used to be available here but now redirects here and has transformed into a petition to Steve Jackson Games to […]
Steve Jackson Games release five classic GURPS Conan titles in PDF
The original GURPS Conan titles were published for GURPS Third Edition and have not been available for nearly 20 years. Today, Steve Jackson Games re-release GURPS Classic: Conan Beyond Thunder River, GURPS Classic: Conan – Moon of Blood, GURPS Classic: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast, GURPS Classic: Conan the Wyrmslayer and GURPS […]
Munchkin Axe Cop trailer video
You read the title right. There is a Munchkin Axe Cop mashup coming. There is a trailer video for it. How’s this for a concept? There are monsters. Lots of them. Axe Cop has an axe. He cuts the heads off these monsters. I know. It’s a challenge to get your head around. It may […]
Samsung supports unboxing movement with extreme unboxing
You’ll know all about unboxing. It’s when people film the act of taking their latest shiny thing out of the box. Here’s a simple example with the unboxing of Steve Jackson Games’ Zombie Dice. In recent months there’s been a bit of a backlash against unboxing. People suggest it is naff. People hint that unboxing […]
Steve Jackson Games with a Zombie Dice unboxing
Geek Native’s already blogged about SJ Games’ Zombie Dice because it looks like a fun game and has a clever online demo. This unboxing video (sort of an unboxing of the boxes video) takes us even closer to the game’s official release.
Secret Death Touch Ninja Burger unbox video
Steve Jackson Games will, now and then, produce a video showing an unboxing of one of their latest games. Now, unboxing videos tend to be popular in the tech world where their might be an honest to goodness fight to show how the latest mobile phone is boxed up, what you get with it and […]
